Reading 2000 Music Festival in general

This opinion isn't about the 2000 festival but Reading Festival in general: Reading Rocks!! I was a relative late-comer to festivals, other than one-dayers such as Doningtons' Monsters of Rock, so my first trip to Reading for the full festival including camping several years ago was something of an adventure and I loved it!! 1999 was a particular favourite for me because Blur headlined!! However if the main headliner isn't your cup of tea there are generally three or four different stages available with different bands playing so there is usually something for everyone at any one given time (all in the rock/pop genre mainly). The days' ...

WOW.... The Carling Optra Weekend Reading 2000, was out of this world. This was my first festival and as a festival virgin i was not too sure what to expect, the line up looked amazing in the press and it did not disappoint. The opening band on the Friday were a band called ooberman, they had recently lost there record label and from their performance I could not see why, when I got home from the festival I went out and brought there album. The Friday then proceeded into an array of amazing music from bands like the Bluetones, Limp Bizkit and the Headliners the most amazing OASIS back to there brilliant best on stage at Reading. The Saturday was not quite as good. But ...

Reading Festival 2000 What a great festival. With the best line up at a festival I have ever seen I think the slogan used on Reading merchandise “The Best Festival…Ever?” was justified. The line up included: A, Beck, Blink 182, Ian Brown, The Graham Coxon Band, Daphne and Celeste (!), Embrace, Foo Fighters, Gomez, JJ72, Limp Bizkit, Muse, Oasis, Placebo, RATM, Stereophonics, Slipknot, Super Furry animals and many, many more. The music was great. I think about 80,000 other would agree with me as well. The festival at Reading started on Friday 25th of August and went on to Sunday 27th of August. For future advice go on the Thursday, as ...