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

Day Three - Sunday.

Today was probably the day I was looking forward to the least. This is because of two reasons there were not as many bands that I wanted to see playing today and the fact that this evening the camp site will be awful.

Again we started the day with a beer and the obligatory toilet run when you feel very very ill! The mess by our tents (mostly not from us) is getting bigger,

Me and Kat started the day by seeing, Eastern Lane in the Radio 1 stage, they were quite good - well worth another listen. Then it was the Futureheads - a band I had been looking forward to seeing and they didn't disappoint. They came across a little shouty though - I think they need less harmonies live or maybe turn down the microphones a little. Even the Radio 1 tent roof hasn't escaped the mud:

We spent most of the afternoon in the Radio 1 tent. As next was the Fiery Frunaces, they were interesting. Then the big one of the afternoon really - Dogs Die In Hot Cars. Katherine introduced these to me a while back and I have been looking forward to seeing them for a while. Alex came along and seemed to enjoy it as well. I have to say they were one of my highlights of the day.

Now Alex has been wearing a hat all weekend, you may have already seen me wearing it in my previous post:

Well periodically I have been stealing this and putting it on, normally to the side or backwards. This time i decided (with some protest off alex) that this was the festival hat and so I should put a picture off everyone wearing it online (everyone a part from Kat - i did take one but she will only protest that it is online!)

We watched some of the Drop Kick Murphys but they were on early due to the Rasmus being bottled off stage. I think this was harsh as they are a rock band - just not very good. I have a different opinion over 50 Cent and will come to that later. Kat and Alex went off to watch some other bands while I waited to see the Streets. They were awful after about 15mins I got annoyed and left. Me, Melissa and Gareth had a quick look around the stalls and then went back to see the Lostprophets. I like the Lostprophets but their set was not very good. Apart from a few songs they didn't seem to play well. They also got the crowd to split into half and charge at each other! As Placebo played, not a bad set bit non descript though, the Sunset was beautiful.

Since Alex didn't want to see anyone after Placebo she went home. We are all looking forward to seeing Greenday at the this point. One thing to get out of the way a rapper called 50 Cent, "Mr. i got shot nine times". Kat decided she didn't want to see him get bottled off stage. I did though and didn't have anyone I particularly wanted to see. Him and his boys "g-unit" came out to a barrage of bottles (some i believe with piss in - now that's too far). I don't like his music, he annoys me lots, he is a muppet. To be fair they stood up to it for a while, he managed about 20mins and chucked bottles back at the crowd. We were not to close to the front (didn't want to get piss on us!). I still was able to shout. I can shout louder than expected, I got a "bollocks" shout going all the way to the front, which was brilliant. I then tried to get a "you're mother's got a penis" chant going but everyone started laughing! I lost my voice from shouting. Everyone around the place were shouting and no one I saw wanted him on stage. He eventually left the stage after a camping chair got chucked on to stage - I think it hit him. "mr. I got shot nine times" can't take some bottles and a chair!

Now onto Greenday, the final band of the reading festival. All I can say is wow! They put on an excellent show - nearly 2hours due to the shorter sets done by both 50 Cent and the Rasmus. They got some people on stage to play which was cool. They did a few good covers including "we are the champions" by Queen. They stated the set with "american idiot". I like this song. I have never been a big Greenday fan, but am gonna give them a bit more of a listen to when I am back in Birmingham. They finished the gig well.

We headed back to the tents and saw some tents go up in smoke. I still managed to sleep well after doing some packing. Now time to get ready for the journey home.