{"id":88,"date":"2006-08-30T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2006\/08\/30\/reading_rocks\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T23:55:10","slug":"reading_rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2006\/08\/30\/reading_rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/muse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"muse.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/muse-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" border=0 \/><\/a>Just had a top weekend at the Reading Festival!  Hundreds of bands come to one of the biggest indie\/alternative festivals in the world to ply their wares, and I found myself not disappointed with what was on offer.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been to the festival for most of the last 15 years or so, and this year was definitely one of the more memorable ones.  Top performances for me this year were:<br \/>\nMuse<br \/>\nYeah Yeah Yeahs<br \/>\nPearl Jam<br \/>\nTV on the Radio<br \/>\nBroken Social Scene<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMuse and Pearl Jam particularly knew how to play the huge audience that constitutes the headline crowd at the festival.  Their sets were an interesting contrast; Muse used some really interesting video screens and incredible pyrotechnics, whilst Pearl Jam put on a more traditional, but very effective, light show.  Both were musically brilliant.  I left to go home at the end of each evening a very happy punter.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/rdg06.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/rdg06.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/rdg06-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" border=0 \/><\/a>Shirley was with me for the whole festival, and my brother and a couple of his mates joined us on Sunday.  We just about managed to be on good behaviour  \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAnother of the towns regular appearances each festival is the FAITH tea bar, serving free breakfast and drinks to the festival goers from the Greyfriars Church car park.  Shirley and I popped down on Saturday morning to help out, and its great to just show a bit of Jesus&#8217; love and compassion to tired festival campers.<br \/>\nAll in all, a great weekend of festivalling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just had a top weekend at the Reading Festival! Hundreds of bands come to one of the biggest indie\/alternative festivals in the world to ply their wares, and I found myself not disappointed with what was on offer. I&#8217;ve been to the festival for most of the last 15 years or so, and this year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2006\/08\/30\/reading_rocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading Rocks!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}