Chromeo Day 5, Reading, UK
Today is the other biggest festival in the UK, Reading. It's a sister festival with Leeds and they keep the same lineup for each. The bands that play Reading on Friday play Leeds on Sunday kind of thing, and vice versa. We considered ourselves really lucky as we were on the Metallica bill, so today is our second chance to check them out.
Again, the show went well, much like Leeds. We packed up pretty quickly after so we could make sure we saw the start of Metallica. It was going pretty well until our tour manager locked the keys in the van. That was pretty amazing. We spent the next hour and a half looking around the festival site for things we could slide through a small crack in the window to pull the keys out. It took some time, but we made it happen. We also missed the start of Metallica, but I suppose worse things have happened...
We did get to watch about 8 songs before we had to leave though and it was great. They played loads of old stuff, only 1 new track. Awesome. It was with some regret that we packed up and headed out about halfway through the set. If we had waited any longer, we risked getting stuck in traffic with the other 70,000+ people about to leave.
On the way back, we did make one decent stop though. There's an amazing kebab place called Cafe Helen not far from our base. Just from the smell of the place we knew it would be amazing and it did not disappoint. We slept well.
Again, the show went well, much like Leeds. We packed up pretty quickly after so we could make sure we saw the start of Metallica. It was going pretty well until our tour manager locked the keys in the van. That was pretty amazing. We spent the next hour and a half looking around the festival site for things we could slide through a small crack in the window to pull the keys out. It took some time, but we made it happen. We also missed the start of Metallica, but I suppose worse things have happened...
We did get to watch about 8 songs before we had to leave though and it was great. They played loads of old stuff, only 1 new track. Awesome. It was with some regret that we packed up and headed out about halfway through the set. If we had waited any longer, we risked getting stuck in traffic with the other 70,000+ people about to leave.
On the way back, we did make one decent stop though. There's an amazing kebab place called Cafe Helen not far from our base. Just from the smell of the place we knew it would be amazing and it did not disappoint. We slept well.
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