Where do I start…
…Well I guess thursday would be the best place.

~*~Thursday~*~

So after spending forever saying goodbye to everyone I left for Reading where I would be meeting up with some friends to camp during the course of the weekend. The ride there went without a hitch but was painstakingly slow once we were closer to the festival due to the vast amount of traffic. After then spending even longer trying to find the boat for green camp and several phone calls I eventually made it to the camp. Be it alot later then I had first hoped.

Rigth after reaching the camp though, I had a major problem, I couldn’t phone anyone… so with my phone not working prperly my chances of finding the people I was suposed to meet where next to none. So I ended up wondering around Green camp in hope of the off chance that I may see them, though that never did happen that night. Just when I started to think all hope was lost though, three guys I’d never met before decided to take pity on me any told me there was a spot left next to their tent in Yellow camp. So after the short walkfrom green to yellow, we arrived at their tents. Where we talked and drank for a while formaly intrducing ourselves to each other.
Their names being; Dave, Dan and Matt.
After trying to put my tent up in the dark it was decided that it would be easier to do so in the morning, and I would sleep in Matt’s tent for the night. so after putting all my stuff in his tent we went wondeing around the camps sites in search of people to talk to.
After talking to some people we returned back to the tents at about 2 or 3am and dozed off for the night.

~*~Friday~*~

When friday morning came, after a very cold nights sleep. I found that my phone was working again, so I called home as I arranged I would. And wondered around for a bit to find the people I was suppossed to meet the previous night. Again no luck, however on my way back I found someone else who I had planned to meet up with waiting for the main arean to open. So I decided to hang around for a while chatting to him and the people he was with before heading off back to where I was camped to sort out the tent.
When I got back I was introduced by Matt to Kay and Nicola of whom had joined us in the morning. Trying to put up their tent proved to b to much hassle so I offered them mine as it was alot easier to put up. After putting their tent away again, I got mine out of Matt’s and proceeded to put it up. Whilst doing so, Blake ended up coming to look for me in yellow finding me within a short time considering where we were camped. and helped with the final bit of putting up the tent.

So with the tent put up and sleeping arrangements sorted, both Blake and I headed off in the direction of where he was camped bidding farewell to Kay and Nicola for the time.
After a quick walk from where we were camped, Blake had lead me to his camp in green. We both ended up sitting around here ignoreing the fact that the arena had been opened up  and the first bands had began, but that was because we didn’t really care about who was playing first.
So after finally getting round to going into the arena halfway through yourcodenameis:milo’s set we checked out the nokia tent where I entered a compition to win a gibson guitar.

After this and a quick look in a shop next to it I headed off to the Radio 1 stage where I caught the end of yourcodenameis:milo’s set, and from what I could see from that, they pull on hell of a live show. After Milo had finished I decided that I’d have another quick look at the official merch store where I ended up picking up an Official Reading 2005 T-shirt, of which I put on over the t-shirt I was already wearing before heading back to the Radio 1 Stage to see the rest of the bands.
The first band who’s set I saw properly was The Blood Brothers, now this is a band that when I first saw on a music channel months beforehand thought sucked. However whenI saw them live they did anything but.  After Blood Brothers I ended talking to a couple of guys who turned out to be from sailsbury, sorry that I can’t remember your names guys, we slowly moved towards the front.
Next up on the bill was the The Dead 60’s, now not really knowing anything of what they sounded like made it a new experience for me. One of which I enjoyed.
Next Death From Above 1979, now this is a band I’d heard nothing but good things about and had listened to an album,Your a Women, I’m aMachine. Live however is a different matter, they sound so much incredibly better, it’s as if they had been unleashed from the constrats of the CD. During the set and after it still making my way ever so slowly towards the front, almost there at this point.
The Subways played next, one of the bands everyone wanted to see. They played an amazing set that really got the crowd going, with the added benifit that the bassist was wearing a miniskirt as per usual…. they ended their set with Rock’n Roll Queen, which during the guitarist/singer climbed the stack of speakers to the left of the stage and played from the top of them.
Finally made it to the front after The Subways just and in time for Fightstar to come on
Despite alot of hate towards them due to Charlies old band, Busted, they played a great set, playing all the hits such as Piant Your Target, Palahniuks Laughter, Hazy Eyes and Speak Up.

My Chemical Romance followed Fightstar, plenty of low quality pics of them on link too. Though we noticed something odd during the set up for them, both the drummer and lead guitarist were setting up for themselves instead of having roadies do it for them.
When they allhit the stage though the reaction fromt he crowd was something that can only truely be exaplained by being shown it. It was that great. Hitting straight off into I’m not Okay, they had the crowd singing along to every song, and doing as Gerrard commanded.
After MCR had finished thier set almost everyone left the Stage to go other places, me and the two guys from sailsbury, there was a picture of the three of us. We headed off to see The Queens of the Stone Age, who had already started by this point and were well into their set, however they played Little Sister after we’d got there.
When they’d finished we split up arranging to meet at the smae point when The Killers started, I wondered off to have a look around the shops, when I thought why don’t I get Steph something, after looking around for a few minutes I decided to call her, something she wasn’t expecting. I spent what must have been quarter of an hour on the phone, in which we discussed all sorts of things. Eventually the call ended Taking a small chunk of my credit being a cross network call. During the call The Killers started thier set, but I didn’t really think to much of them.  Straight after the call I went over to where I was meant to meet the two guys from sailsbury, however I couldn’t find them so ended up going back to the Radio 1 Stage to watch Black Rebel Motocycle Club.
What can I say about them besides what a great act, they played both of my favourite songs by them, Spread Your Love and Whatever Happened to my Rock’n Roll, which made things even better for me.