Glasto 03. This year's line up is totally pathetic in comparison.

2006 • Collection Eté
Franz Ferdinand | Cat Power | Katerine | Mogwaï | Calexico | Belle & Sebastian | Island | Liars | The Spinto Band | Why? | Howling Bells | You Say Party! We Say Die! | Radio 4 | Chloé | Band of Horses | The Pipettes | TV on the Radio | Grizzly bear | Friends of Dean Martinez | Stuart A. Staples | Isobel Campbell | El Perro Del Mar | Port-Royal | Ulrich Schnauss | Dillinger Girl & Baby "Face" Nelson | Hauschka | Dimitri Play | Magnetic Friends

Bat For Lashes / CSS / Hot Chip / Mogwai / Regina Spektor / Beastie Boys / Primal Scream / Bjork /Aereogramme / Modest Mouse / Paul Hartnoll / Black Dog / The Twilight Sad / M.I.A. / The Go! Team / Jarvis / The Hold Steady

...TRAIL OF THE DEAD »
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BARDO POND »
CLINIC »
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GANGER »
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR »
GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI »
HOOD »
LABRADFORD _ PAN AMERICAN »
LAIKA »
LIGAMENT
MICE PARADE »
MOGWAI »
MOTOR LIFE CO »
PAN AMERICAN
PLAID »
PLONE »
PRAM »
RADAR BROTHERS »
SCOTT 4
SHELLAC »
SIGUR ROS »
SNOW PATROL »
SONIC YOUTH »
SOPHIA »
STEREOLAB »
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
TARWATER »
TEN BENSON »
THE DELGADOS »
THE FOR CARNATION »
THE HIGH LLAMAS »
TWO DOLLAR GUITAR »
WIRE »

The Shins, Dinosaur Jr, Sleater-Kinney, Clinic, Electrelane, Boredoms, Joanna Newsom, Decemberists, Teenage Fanclub, Broken Social Scence, Mission of Burma, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Lightning Bolt playing about four times.

Thurston Moore's ATP. It was so abstract. It felt surreal grabbing at 1pm whilst listening to full-on white noise. The Butlins staff said to me "how can you listen to this?!"

Sonic Youth
Gang Of Four (x2)
The Skaters
Comets On Fire
Awesome Color
Wolf Eyes
Magik Markers
Bardo Pond
Melvins
Deerhoof
eYe & Mats Gustaffson
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Iggy Pop/Stooges
MC5

Charalambides

Nothing will ever compare to it

Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday
Oasis
Primal Scream
Foo Fighters
The Bluetones
limpbizkit
Asian Dub Foundation
Doves
Boss Hog
Ooberman
Cotton Mather
Pulp
Beck
Gomez
Super Furry Animals
Elastica
Deftones
Idlewild
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Delgados
Kent
Stereophonics
Placebo
Slipknot
Rage Against the Machine
Blink 182
Daphne and Celeste
A
Supersuckers
Cay
My Vitriol

Muse
Shed Seven
Ween
Grandaddy
Royal Trux
Clinic
Brassy
King Adora
Orange Can
The Lapse
Embrace
The Wannadies
Badly Drawn Boy
Graham Coxon
Black Box Recorder
Dark Star
Terris
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
JJ72
The Get Up Kids
Crashland
Kustom Built
Ian Brown
Shack
Elliott Smith
Utah Saints
Les Rythmes Digitales
Lupine Howl
The Clint Boon Experience
Sleater-Kinney
The Animalhouse
Clearlake
The Crocketts
Action Spectacular
Laurent Garnier
Ken Ishii
Rinocersose
Alpine Stars
BT
Dope Smugglaz
Zan Lyons
Arkarna
Black Eyed Peas
Slum Village
Junkie XL
Saian Supa Crew
Thomas Rusiak
Runaways
Creators
Red Snapper
Fila Brazillia
Mint Royale
Hooverphonic
Jacknife Lee
Lowfinger
Manchild
Sonic Animation
Psychonauts
Calexico
The Dirty Three
Mojave 3
Queens of the Stone Age
Queen Adreena
Katastrophy Wife
Baby Bird
Bellatrix
Laika
Lauren Laverne

Connect last year or Mars Volta ATP

Blur, Television, The Fall, Curve, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, Carter USM, James, The Breeders, Billy Bragg, Van Morrison, Kitchens of Distinction, Spiritualized, The Shamen, The Orb, 808 State, RDF..

Being 17 and the fact that apart from Van the Man and Kitchens of Distinction these were most of my favourite bands at the time. I didn't know what to do with myself all weekend it was so good..

Arcwelder,
Blonde Redhead,
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy,
Brick Layer Cake,
Cheap Trick,
Consonant,
Danielson Famile,
David Lovering,
Dead Moon,
Dianogah,
Do Make Say Think/Godspeed You! Black Emperor (joint set),
Flour,
High Dependency Unit,
Lonesome Organist,
Low,
Mark Robinson,
Melt Banana,
Mission of Burma,
Nina Nastasia,
Oxes,
Plush,
PW Long,
Rachel's,
Robbie Fulks,
Shannon Wright,
Shellac,
Shipping News,
Silkworm,
Smog,
The Breeders,
The Ex Orkest,
The Fall,
The New Year,
The Upper Crust,
Three Second Kiss,
Threnody Ensemble,
Versus,
Wire,
Zeni Geva

Sadly, gy!be only played one weekend, and we weren't at that one. But that Melt Banana show - fuck me. I lasted about 15 minutes and hurt for a month.

Happy days.

But ATP vs the Fans last year. Fantastic line-up!

Ride, Rage Against the Machine, Saint Etienne, Nick Cave, The Levellers, Paul Weller, World Party, Spin Doctors, Elvis Costello,Tindersticks, Peter Gabriel and others, Beastie Boys, Boo Radleys, Manic Street Preachers (uttering their infamous call for a bypass thru the site), The Pretenders, Echobelly, Oasis, Chumbawamba, Pulp, Radiohead, Blur, Spiritualized, Transglobal Underground, Senser, Björk, Orbital, Madder Rose, The Lemonheads, Johnny Cash, Tool, Madder Rose

That said, Reading 1995 was AMAZING too:

Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Hole (Courtney read Kurt's suicide note out on stage, flashed us her flange and slagged off Billy Corgan's sexual technique), Teenage Fanclub, Beck, dEUS, Juliana Hatfield, China Drum, Stereolab, Guided By Voices, Bjork, The Boo Radleys, Tricky, Throwing Muses, Neil Young, Soundgarden, Pavement, Mudhoney, Buffalo Tom, Babes in Toyland, White Zombie, Blind Melon, NOFX (I think they pulled out though), Pennywise, Foo Fighters, Drugstore, My Life Story, Carter USM, Monster Magnet

Suffice to say that both events pissed all over the Reading and Glastonbury of 2008.

for Thurston's NBC.

Brand Nubian; El P; Boom Bip & Dose One; Buck 65; Fingathing; Luke Vibert; Mike Paradinas; Stingray; Edan; Blackalicious; Edan; Andrew Weatherall; Venetian Snares; Hellfish; Aesop Rock; Mike Ladd; Madlib; Ceephax; The Bug

but that's mainly because festivals are much more fun when you're younger, plus I swear there are so many more twats around now.

I'm actually pretty excited about Bestival this year musically....

My first ATP and still the best I've been to

ANGELBLOOD »
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BARDO POND »
BLACK DICE »
CARLA BOZULICH RED HEADED STRANGER SHOW »
CASS MCCOMBS »
CAT POWER »
CHARALAMBIDES »
DEERHOOF - THE SCALA »
DIZZEE RASCAL »
DOUBLE LEOPARDS »
DREAM/AKTION UNIT
ELLA GURU
ENON
ERASE ERRATA »
ESG »
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY »
FUCK »
FURSAXA »
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR »
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER »
JAMES YORKSTON »
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM »
LE TIGRE »
LIGHTNING BOLT »
LOVE »
MIIGHTY FLASHLIGHT »
MISSION OF BURMA »
MODEST MOUSE OLD (DO NOT USE) »
NINA NASTASIA
OOIOO »
POLMO POLPO/HANGED UP »
SACCHARINE TRUST »
SONIC YOUTH »
SOPHIA »
STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS - 3.15 - 4.00PM »
THE FIERY FURNACES
THE NOTWIST »
THE SHINS »
THE TINDERSTICKS »
THRENODY ENSEMBLE »
TRAD GRAS OCH STENAR »
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA »
VINCENT GALLO »
WHITE MAGIC »
WOLF EYES »

Coachella 2004 was pretty special too, Radiohead, Pixies and Kraftwerk in 1 night!

In no particular order:

Cypress Hill
Lemonheads
Frank Black
Pavement
Hole
Gang Starr
Trans-Global Underground
The Verve
The Flaming Lips
Primal Scream
Ice Cube
Manic Street Preachers
Radiohead
Pulp
Terrorvision
Senseless Things
Fun-Da-Mental
Kitchens Of Distinction
Rev. Horton Heat
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Soundgarden
Therapy?
Rollins Band
Senser
Afghan Whigs
The Wildhearts
Helmet
The Jesus Lizard
Stabbing Westward
Cop Shoot Cop
Wedding Present
Lush
Sebadoh
The Auteurs
Sleeper
Velocity Girl
Honky
Smudge
Drugstore
dEUS
The Tea Party
Madder Rose
Elastica
Compulsion
Shed Seven
Superchunk
Tiny Monroe
Gene
Lotion
Salad
Jale
Possum Dixon
Scarce
Shootyz Groove
Tindersticks
American Music Club
They Might Be Giants
Cud
Echobelly
Morphine
Jeff Buckley
Archers Of Loaf
Scrawl
Dig
Cellophane
Candlebox

But the Portishead ATP (my first) was by far my favourite. The atmosphere and the whole vibe was amazing.