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Here we go the second part of my Reading Festival Review.

Day One - Friday.

It rained last night, great! I managed to get disturbed sleep and it was very quite from around 3am. I think this was due to the rain.

This rain has made the campsite worse, much worse.

This morning we went into Reading for brekkie at Wetherspoons - no bloody veggie option! Me and Kat were not pleased. I had a coke, I really needed something, the rest had breakfast.

Since there was no veggie food me and Kat went to Pret for a sarnie and a cup of tea, nice :-)

Katherine's shoes are completely wrecked and she is wearing plastic bags to protect her feet - can not be comfortable, a woman at Boots even commented on this. Luckily Alex brought in some wellies for her. Her are her plastic bag shoes:

I got some long socks as my wellies were rubbing - they aren't now! The woman in the shop looked at my funny! We went to the toilet and like last year there was a huge queue for the mens in the Oracle centre.

We met Alex and we all went back to the camp site. It seemed like a very long back, I am shattered already. We went into the arena and went straight to the main stage to see GLC (Goldie Lookin' Chain - fun website (need flash for most of the fun stuff), there was a huge crowd for the opener - much larger than last year. GLC's Welsh rap went down well. They are quite funny as they are not taking themselves serious and are just taking the piss. They have titles of songs such as "your mothers got a penis" and "guns don't kill people rappers do".

Next we saw The Open in the Radio 1 tent, they were ok, nothing spectacular. Kat then went off to change into the Wellies, I think it is time to throw her shoes in the bin! We watched Ikara Colt, again in the Radio 1 tent, they were not good! Kat go back to se her last minutes, thus qualifying as seeing a band for our band count! (we are not rushing to see loads but if you see 10mins we reckon you get a feel for the set).

The arena is so muddy, it isn't no where near as bad as the campsite but at times the stickiness means you nearly lose your wellies!

We headed back to the main stage to see Hundred Reasons. They were ok, not my thing particular. I stayed with Alex whilst the rest went closer.

Then it was off to see Modest Mouse. The rest came along to have a rest outside. Me and Kat got about halfway into the tent (it was on in the Radio One tent). Lets just say that Modest Mouse are going to be added to my Soul Seek download list and I may even buy an album of theirs - shocking! As you may of guessed I was impressed, they even had two drummers at times!

Off to see the Distillers next on the main stage. They were ok but they remind me too much like Hole (their lead singer is not bad looking though - the Distillers not Hole). Then came The Hives, what can be said? They ROCK. They put on such a great show, they are wonderful showmen. There set was great, I am very pleased as I was really looking forward to seeing them. Everyone seemed to enjoy watching them.