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General Discussion => The Buzz => Topic started by: sam on April 07, 2006, 13:01
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... I got tickets due to my legend of a girlfriend! :-)
READING SELLS OUT
IN RECORD TIME
Following the annoucement of this year's stellar line-up, the
Carling Weekend: Reading Festival immediately sold out of all weekend tickets.
Tickets purchased online and over the telephone sold out within one hour of the festival line-up announcement yesterday evening (3rd April), breaking all previous sales records.
HMV stores across the country also reported customers queuing from 2am to be first in line for the retailer's limited allocation of weekend tickets.
A limited number of day tickets remain on sale for the event, which takes place over the August Bank Holiday - 25th-27th August.
At time of going to press, an equally limited number of coach/ticket packages also remained on sale for the Leeds leg of the festival in addition to a small allocation of day tickets.
Oh and the lineup... Pearl Jam, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Maximo Park, Primal Scream, Placebo, Feeder, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, Audioslave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the streets, the futureheads, fall out boy, the subways, my chemical romance...... and many more...
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Does your girlfriend know you refer to her as a leg end?
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:lol:
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lol, yes, indeed!
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It'll be worth the price of the ticket just to see Audioslave. (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv300%2FMothballs%2FSmileys%2Frave.gif&hash=232a382bce8eedec5fec32bf7d1cd87cbfe3953d)
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...yes indeed!!!
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umm i see a trend in my comments today... indeed i do.
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Drives a Honda Leg-end too?
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With a nice shiny bell
:mrgreen:
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Joined the Clan-gers?
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Someone will have to explain that one to me. :dunno:
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I quite liked Kaiser Chiefs until I found out that they are Leeds United fans.
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They were knitted creatures that lived on the moon, in a 70s children's series, Rod, accompanied by an iron chicken, and lived on blue string pudding, and green soup. They also tended to hoot a lot.
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They were knitted creatures that lived on the moon, in a 70s children's series, Rod, accompanied by an iron chicken, and lived on blue string pudding, and green soup. They also tended to whistle a lot.
Damn! I thought the Kaiser Chiefs were an indie band. :blush:
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Wasnt there a soup dragon with them too Simon, or was that from a part of my life when I wasnt only smoking cigarettes :?
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Yes, the Soup Dragon used to bring the soup from the wells. There were Frogletts too! :D As it happens, I used to hate the bloody Clangers - give me wholesome entertainment such as Pogle's Wood any day.
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I imagine I'd be knocking back a beer while watching 'Debbie Does Dallas' around that time. Good job you were tucked up safely in bed by then, eh? :wink:
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A box in the cupboard under the stairs actually, Rod, but at least I had the rats to cuddle up to. :cry:
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You had Rats? Luxury!
We had to use mice - and that were only on't Sunday. Rest o't week it were next door's Preying Mantis. Right glad of it we were, too.
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Sounds like the dinner lady at school Sandra.
Who plays the iron chicken, Mrs. Thatcher?
Anyway it is good to see that you are all well informed.
What do you read at this festival?
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You had Rats? Luxury!
We had to use mice - and that were only on't Sunday. Rest o't week it were next door's Preying Mantis. Right glad of it we were, too.
You had next door? You were lucky!
Our next door was bombed, and they never replaced our front room wall. Aye, it were chilly in that tin bath some nights, but if we were lucky, we'd get fresh water once a week, from t' broken sewer pipe down the street.
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A tin bath? By 'eck, what we'd have given for a tin bath!
We all had to bathe in a soggy cardboard box in't garden - and that were only when it rained. Otherwise we'd just have to roll around in't wet nettles before going to school.
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The excuses you English come up with for not bathing. :laugh:
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That sounds like the voice of experience. :shock:
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Garden?? You had a garden? You were blessed! We had a six square foot yard, and that was only for t' lavvy, which incidentally had no roof or rear wall after next door's chinmey fell on it in the bombing. We never found Grandpa after that.
We were evironmentally friendly even in those days, as we had to use t' water from t' tin bath to flush t' lav - that's what tha call recycling!
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Ah yes, I do remember a certain 'froglette'.
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Garden?? You had a garden? You were blessed! We had a six square foot yard, and that was only for t' lavvy, which incidentally had no roof or rear wall after next door's chinmey fell on it in the bombing. We never found Grandpa after that.
We were evironmentally friendly even in those days, as we had to use t' water from t' tin bath to flush t' lav - that's what tha call recycling!
Of course, when I say 'garden' it were more a small heap of builder's rubble, but it were good honest rubble - not like t' rubbish they try and fob you off with nowadays. Every week, we'd borrow a toothbrush from't workhouse and polish each lump of brick until it gleamed. We didn't have a front door, so we scribbled t' house number on't ear of a stray dog. There were hell to pay when it wandered off one day and t' parish relief officer couldn't find us to deliver t' weekly gruel ration.
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That sounds like the voice of experience. :shock:
Yes it is, I was over there in 1987 and saw it for myself. :laugh:
Mind you I wasn't that keen on bathing in the water that came out of the taps in London.
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Not when the water has been re-cycled seven times. Ugh!
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We keep the best water for us northerners Misty, after we have washed in it and done other unspeakable stuff with it we send it down to London :D
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When I first arrived in London I was very unimpressed by the lack of friendliness and by some out right rudeness of the hotel staff.
We went to Hyde Park and met a really nice Scottish guy, who informed me that the natives get a lot friendlier the further north went.
And he was so right.
And the water didn't smell. :wink:
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Dont be telling everyone Misty or all those soft southerners will be emigrating to the north and they will make us as overcrowded as they are down south :shock:
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Heathens!
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Ok Sandra lets just keep it between the two of us. :wink:
I think the clean water would scare them off anyway. :wink:
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Heathens!
I quite like heather.
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Of course, when I say 'garden' it were more a small heap of builder's rubble, but it were good honest rubble - not like t' rubbish they try and fob you off with nowadays. Every week, we'd borrow a toothbrush from't workhouse and polish each lump of brick until it gleamed. We didn't have a front door, so we scribbled t' house number on't ear of a stray dog. There were hell to pay when it wandered off one day and t' parish relief officer couldn't find us to deliver t' weekly gruel ration.
WEEKLY?? You were lucky to get gruel that fresh! Ours was at least a month old, and we had to scrape t' mould off, which we kept for pudding. We only got what the dog didn't eat, and that had to be shared between me and 12 brothers and sisters. I was so lucky to be the 13th child, and that luck has followed me all my life. I hardly miss t' leg at all now, and t' house fire was a blessing, as Great Aunt Maud was getting forgetful any road. At least we found her teeth in the rubble, and she al'ys said she wanted a cremation.
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...and I though I was coming back to a nice long discussion on the reading lineup - indie bands (such as the Kaiser cheifs... yep it is a shame they are leeds fans and didnt they get thier name because Leeds brought a guy from the south african team called the "Kasier Cheifs")
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WEEKLY?? You were lucky to get gruel that fresh! Ours was at least a month old, and we had to scrape t' mould off, which we kept for pudding. We only got what the dog didn't eat, and that had to be shared between me and 12 brothers and sisters. I was so lucky to be the 13th child, and that luck has followed me all my life. I hardly miss t' leg at all now, and t' house fire was a blessing, as Great Aunt Maud was getting forgetful any road. At least we found her teeth in the rubble, and she al'ys said she wanted a cremation.
Pudding? Luxury! We only had t' scrapings from't bottom o't gruel tin to feed t' entire family of 37. If it weren't for t' contents of us noses we wouldn't eat from one week t' next. And as for a house-fire... How we prayed for a house-fire to warm us up. We tried setting light t' cat but it wouldn't stay in t' room. So we burned lumps of moss peeled from t' walls. Aye, it were smokey, but saved grandma a fortune on pipe baccy. And I'll tell you another thing: anyone with a leg was a rare sight round our way -- t' hospital was constantly full of no-legged folk with chaffed buttocks from playing Hopscotch. But we were happy.
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You've noticed then?
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Between you and me, sunshine, I think probably everyone's noticed. (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv300%2FMothballs%2FSmileys%2Fjerkit.gif&hash=e1c806c896b2f7f00a61607c898c88c264fd737a)
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:shock:
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Between you and me, sunshine, I think probably everyone's noticed. (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv300%2FMothballs%2FSmileys%2Fjerkit.gif&hash=e1c806c896b2f7f00a61607c898c88c264fd737a)
Blimey! I thought that they had all gone blind! 8)
Where's that ruddy dog?
Time to move to the IOW?
(Don't forget the Marmalade!)
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What do you read at this festival?
Mind reading?
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Between you and me, sunshine, I think probably everyone's noticed. (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv300%2FMothballs%2FSmileys%2Fjerkit.gif&hash=e1c806c896b2f7f00a61607c898c88c264fd737a)
His real name is Harold.
Our Father Wishart in heaven, Harold be thy name...
Thy 'kingdom' come...
I think that's the right spelling.
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What do you read at this festival?
its not a reading festival, well apart from the band listings :-) lol. I always get funny looks when I walk around with my tshirt that just says "Reading" in gothic style font on it! lol
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So how's the ham in Birming?
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Dogs, dog collars and dogma, bacon and ham, and if 'pigs' could fly.
Apparently we are just pig-dogs where the cats cohabit with the rats.
Not a very professional approach to things, in my considered opinion.
Who shall they beatify next I wonder?
To many bugs, bugs bunny and buggery for my liking.
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we are the people of Beorma