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

Day Two - Saturday.

I again slept quite well, in fact only woke up when carl shouted me to ask for train tickets. Yes him and his sister were heading back to Birmingham as she was not at all well.

We all had a beer - we need to get through our stock. We arsed around a little and headed to the arena. After a huge wait we finally got into the arena. Me and Kat then went straight to the Carling stage to see Mohair. Neither of us knew anything about them, but they turned out to be fantastic. Think I will try and buy a CD of their's. They also gave out stickers!

I then headed to see the 5, 6, 7, 8's on the main stage, they were good. They played that annoying Carling advert song. I quickly headed to the Carling tent and caught the end of Tat which was ok, though they seemed very similar (maybe too much) like Hole.

Now onto Bloc Party on the Radio 1 stage, they were ok - chance to have a sit down as I am shattered already.

Back to the Carling Stage to watch Agent Blue. Kat said she thought she knew them, well it turned out she didn't. they were a punk band. It was a great show which included the lead signer jumping into the crowd and singeing right next to me and Kat and them him crowd surfing with him finishing in the mosh pit, it was a great show. (I have some videos of this - I will put them online later)

Onto someone we knew, Razorlight. They did a cracking set getting the crowd well into it, they even threw flowers into the crowd.

Off to the Carling Stage for the 45's. I needed to sit down, so I did!

They were ok, again not who kat thought they were but she protests that there must be more than one 45's. We then met up with, Alex, Melissa and Gareth. We headed to see the New York Doll's who weren't anything fantastic.

I then had a 'great' experience with the toilets. As I waited in the queue they were cleaned so it took ages, plus they moved! I think the toilet was actually sinking in the mud!

We now saw the Ordinary Boys. They had a huge crowd in the Radio 1 tent, it was great. They played most of their album and started off with "Over the counter culture".

Now back to the main stage for Franz Ferdinand - they kicked ass. Great set and some cracking new material.

The mess here is getting worse:

Alex is wearing her hat again, so I stole it and put it on:

The Libertines were not as good as I hoped, but they were missing Pete Doherty - they don't have him for most of their gigs it seems due to his drugs problems.

Morrissey was great! Well he was like a CD, he sang and his band played perfectly. This has its downside though - no real emotion. He did seem overwhelmed though, back on top again. He had his name in flashing lights. He did play some Smiths songs.

Finally, 12 months late, the White Stripes! By this point my feet were killing me. They rocked. It wasn't as good as I had hoped though. They made a hash of a few songs and didn't work the crowd well. It was still fantastic and i was very pleased to see them.

I came back and slept.It is now Sunday morning and I have slept well yet again.