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ff of glass coughs and eiffel two of the years most beautiful songs 2 shizune le voyageur imprudent when you see the words italian screamo you know you re in for a treat and this record certainly is a treat it starts with a bang and caries on being intensely brilliant until the very end if you think you may be bored of this kinda thing then shizune will reaffirm your faith let me tell ya very highly recommended 1 sleater kinney no cities to love indigo loves this record this record and this band has really defined this year for me i cannot begin to tell you how excited i was that they were releasing a new record after 10 years on hiatus their last record the woods is one of my favourite of all time they left me sorely wanting more and no cities to love was worth the wait they have said in interviews that they would only release something new if they were up to producing something of quality this is definitely the case here again it shows a shift in direction this is a much more straight up rock record but still a sound that is unmistakably sleater kinney we have sleater kinney on heavy rotation on our car stereo on family days out the kids each have their favourite songs thurston loves price tag indigo is a big fan of oh from one beat and so on i can t pick a favourite from this near perfect album here s hoping there s not another 10 year wait for their next one this has been fun thanks for reading maybe see you more in 2016 tagged albums of the year beach slang blog blur carson wells emo foxing hop along indie review rock screamo shizune sleater kinney spraynard title fight waxahatchee aug 30 2015 leave a comment comment grunge live metal music music review punk happy 20th birthday reading 95 this blog post is dedicated to anyone who has ever had an asthma attack at a festival i know that it s easy to over exaggerate the importance of past events when writing blog posts about days gone by but bare with me because i feel that what happened 20 years ago this august bank holiday weekend can easily be classed as a milestone event in my own personal musical history and with that justifies having a whole blog post dedicated to its memory it seems weird to say as if it can t quite possibly be true that this weekend marks exactly 20 years since i first attended the reading festival reading 95 was the first time i had ever been to a proper gig where big and famous bands were playing so as of this weekend i can say that i ve been going to see live bands for 20 years now an incredible amount of mind blowing things have happened in the decades since and it all started with that one life changing weekend i imagine that most people get misty eyed about the decade they lived their teenage years through and i m no different for me the 90 s was amazing time the last decade before the internet and mobile phones took over a time when high streets were still packed with shops that were open kids could play in the streets and you would watch tv shows when the tv scheduler s dictated you should watch them it was also a time when bands and music really mattered for example a whole week in the summer of 1995 the news focussed on whether it would be oasis or blur who would score the number 1 position in the singles chart that week i couldn t even tell you if there is a singles chart anymore let alone name the pop combo who sits on top of it at the moment in the july of 1995 i turned 15 at the time i had long greasy hair played guitar in a band called toothpaste and had a group of friends at school who everyone else there referred to as the grunge club music was all that really mattered to me at the time i hated school for the most part but i had a cool group of like minded friends there for whom music was everything we wore doc marten s had band names scrawled across our school bags and spent our lunch times practicing nirvana pearl jam stiltskin covers that year had already been a turning point our bands had started to try to play gigs in public and not just at school and we were allowed out in the evenings more and more we would spend these at shows where slightly older teenagers would play slightly better covers than we could my favourite local band flannel could do a near perfect version of mayonnaise that would blow my teenage socks off or drinking sickening amounts of white lightning cider at the beach as part of our work experience fortnight our school had paid for us to spend a day at a recording studio to record songs we had written to form part of our music gcse coursework that day cemented our obsession with playing music we felt like rock stars to walk away with a cassette with our songs on it we repaid this privilege that the school had bestowed on us by playing a cover of rage against the machine s killing in the name at the end of year school music competition which ended with a group of us being suspended from school for the last couple of days of the summer term despite the amount of trouble i had gotten in at home for this misdemeanour and to my great surprise my parents agreed to allow me to go with a small group of friends to the 1995 reading festival i had been going on about going since my best friend at the time had been to the festival in 1994 and when i had seen the line up announcement in kerrang a few months before it was due to take place i quadrupled my efforts i repeatedly emphasised how this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see all my favourite bands in one place and in the end they said yes and gave me the money and permission to go this will tell you how different things were back then to obtain my ticket my parents had given me the cash i caught the bus in to canterbury and walked hurriedly to richards records believing everyone would know i was carrying more money than i ever had before i entered the shop asked for one weekend camping ticket for the reading festival and put my 65 on the counter the man produced a book of tickets tore one out and handed it over i carefully put this in my wallet and headed straight to get the bus home the thought of being able to go in to a record shop and buy a ticket over the counter a few weeks before the event seems so alien now there was a group of 5 of us that were lucky enough to go that year all of us 15 and for me at least it was the first time i was allowed to travel away from home unaccompanied overnight the sense of freedom was both liberating and maybe a bit overwhelming i d gotten the train to london plenty of times before that point so everything seemed pretty normal until the point when we boarded the 2nd train to take us to reading i started to realise that pretty much everyone in the carriage was going to the same place then on exiting the train station at reading and seeing the mass of people who were all heading in the same direction and for the same reason it hit me that this was really happening the first sight of the main stage in the distance as you head along the road to the festival site got me really excited i think it s safe to say that night i got a little carried away the thursday night at the reading festival gives you no option but to go crazy the bands don t start until the next day you ve set up your tent had a walk in to town for supplies and something to eat played bollocks a fair amount so then you re there in a massive field with thousands of young people all wanting to party so that s what we did my memory of that night is pretty vague i remember sitting in my tent with one of my friends and starting off a 2 litre bottle of cider but from then on it gets hazy i have a vague memory of being in some strangers tent laughing but apart from that the only thing i can really remember was stumbling into my own tent throwing up on my sleeping bag turning it over and then getting in it and going to sleep it must ve been quite an eventful night because in the morning i had a massive headache and as i sat outside my tent to eat some cereal i d bought with me all these people whom i have no idea who they were kept saying hi to me and knew my name absolutely ruined in my tent there wasn t a lot of time to wallow in a hangover as there were bands to go and see being allowed in to the arena for the first time of the weekend is always a fun feeling you re finally allowed to see the stages up close with the promise of bands about to come out plus there are cleaner toilets here at opening time than there are in the campsite and usually better food options although by the saturday i was usually relying on the salvation army to supply the rest of my weekend s sustenance soup and a roll for a quid is all you need to survive that friday in 1995 i made my way straight to the front row centre to take up my place for the day being naïve i thought i d stay here all day not realising that pretty soon the weight of thousands of people pushing up against you is pretty hard to take it worked out ok for a good while that afternoon though and at one point when i felt really sick after the first band had played i seemed to be in the best place as the barrier provided a nice buffer between the vomit and the rest of the crowd and i plus a nice security guard was on hand to give me many cups of cold water to try to hydrate the main stage lineup on the friday is something etched in my mind and will probably stay with me forever even though i was mainly there for the bands playing later in the day i really enjoyed every band that played that day which is rare with festival lineups china drum isn t a band i would ever go on to buy any albums of but they ll always be the first proper band i ever saw live they did a great job of kicking the festival off with their inflatable newky brown bottles and kate bush covers i pretty much fell in love with juliana hatfield from the time she took to the stage back home i would go on to buy her records and only everything still gets regular plays to this day and evoking memories of that summer every time deus were good fun it s always enjoyable when you re watching a band you barely know at a festival and they play a song you both recognise and like too suds and soda was definite highlight and i can still picture them playing it in the sunshine that day i was a bit disappointed with beck not because he wasn t good he was the opposite in fact but because when i d seen him perform loser on top of the pops a few months earlier his backing band had all been really old people i thought they just must be his band and was a bit gutted when these young guys in backwards baseball caps walked onstage and started playing not that it put me off though i really like beck and he was great that afternoon playing all the hits from mellow gold it was during the next band teenage fanclub though that being in the front row had become unsustainable the crowd had swelled in size and the pressure felt by being squashed against the barrier coupled with being at the point where all the crowd surfers landed meant i could stay there no longer i had desperately wanted to be in the front row for hole but i couldn t hack it and shouted for a security guard to pull me out of the crowd i felt comforted by the fact that i must ve got some pretty decent photo s that day from my front row vantage point but even more frustratingly my camera jammed later on that day i made the rookie error of opening the back which exposed the film and with it wiped every photo i had taken there was no bringing them back they were all lost and i feel annoyed to this day just thinking about it the next 3 days formed the main basis of why it was that i was so desperate to go that year just the mere thought of watching hole green day and smashing pumpkins all in the same evening sent me into hysterics i was besotted with all 3 of those bands at the time spending many hours in my bedroom at home playing my guitar along to their cds whilst staring at their posters on my wall fantasising that one day they would ask me to join them onstage by the time hole had taken to the stage i was in the much more appropriate place in the crowd of towards the front but to the left it is still my go to place to stand during shows and it worked out well then too not only did i have a great view of the band i also narrowly missed a section of the crowd that seemed to just fall to the ground whilst pogo ing to violet i was blown away by seeing courtney love in the flesh i was used to seeing her all the time on mtv and in magazines but here she was screaming in to a microphone just a few feet away my love for her at the time had been impacted partly by how much my dad hated her not to sound too much like a stereotypical teenager but when hole were on top of the pops to play doll parts my dad spent the entirety of the song spewing forth anti love vitriol based on how talentless he thought she was for some reason this made him really angry and this hardened my pro love stance to be fair he may have had a point and my opinion of courtney love has certainly changed over time but back then i couldn t disagree more and seeing hole play live that day was one of the most exciting times i had as a teenager as a 15 year old i think i was the perfect audience for green day s set not only was it packed with all the hits from dookie but sandwiched in between this was loads of jokes swearing and audience interaction being told by billie joe armstrong to as part of thousands of people watching yell fuck off you yankee cunts at the band felt like the coolest thing ever the energy didn t let up for the whole time they were onstage and they even treated us to a new song geek stink breath which makes me feel really old to say now talking of new songs most bands headlining festivals would limit the amount of new material in their sets to appease the crowd but then most bands aren t smashing pumpkins and considering those new songs happened to be some of the best songs on mellon collie you can understand why they wanted to play them it was amazing to hear songs like zero and bullet with butterfly wings for the first time in this setting especially as i would never see smashing pumpkins play again having gone off them by the time adore was released plus they played my favourite sp song geek usa just after i d bumped into my friends in the crowd one of whom let me watch from upon his shoulders that moment really topped off an incredible day my hangover had gone billy corgan had a full head of hair and all was good in the world the next day though things went downhill having been asthmatic since i was 6 years old i had done the sensible thing by packing my inhaler however no one had warned me how dusty it would be at the festival site and what an adverse reaction i would have to this in those days the emergency inhaler i carried around with me was really old fashioned it required a caplet to be inserted into the bottom of the inhaler which you would then twist back and forth before breathing it all in the case i took had the s...