Almost 10 reasons why im over reading.

1. The PRICE! for like £180 or whatever ridiculously inflated price they are now you could buy:

-10 bottles of decent whiskey/vodka/rum or whatever takes your fancy this is equivalent to ten good nights out or in provided your not a whiskey guzzling machine. Compare this to the fact you get a maximum of 5 good nights at reading if you have an early pass, value for money?

-You could buy a ticket to both bestival & offset which are both amazing and have some change to spare for more whiskey/ketamine/weed or whatever's in your festival itinerary.

-A ticket to dinner with Matt le Tissier, im not sure why this struck me as something interesting but the mans a badass which is all the reasoning I need.

-Tickets for at least 9 bands you actually want to see, and if you go and see cheap bands you could probably manage 18 gigs, i defy anyone who says they saw 18 bands at reading.

2. The lineup is ALWAYS shit, with the exception of 2008 when rage headlined, it usually reads something like Kings of leon, some washed up old band, this years big thing, arctic monkeys kaiser chiefs or something equally as shit, although it has to be said i saw most things in the lockup tent or NME the two years i went this doesn't make it much better.

3. I'm only 19 but I'll be 20 when the next festival comes around, this is something of a problem to me as the average reading goer is 16 years old, freshly out of GSCE's and with £100 courtesy of mummy and daddy to spend on ket and MDMA. I'm not 16 years old thus i find these people pretty irritating, my view of reading is fast becoming some kind of lord of the flies situation with music.

4.Quite simply Glastonbury has better music,better people and is almost worth its price.

5.There really isn't much to do at reading, at every other festival I've been too they have more than a couple of stages and like 15 aids burger/pate vans which all close at like 12 when the music stops.

6. I've been twice and whilst 2007 & 2008 were pretty sweet, going to something your whole college went to which is only 10 miles away is completely different to going to something 180 miles away that no one from my uni goes to. This coupled with the fact twice is enough means my reading days are probably over.

7.I imagine if you took away the music reading represents something like Guantanamo bay or a fetid refugee camp, i often wonder why it is we pay for this?

8. Doing the no pants dance with a girl/boy at reading probably represents the easiest way to get some kind of yeast infection borne of not washing.


Having said all of this if someone offered me a reading ticket, i would probably go if i couldn't sell it.