Just back from Rading festival, and feeling a bt brain fried! Highlights... The Smashing Pumpkins didn't let me down, they really were awesome, and a great finish to the whole thing! >:D< Also, just before them were Nine inch nails, and they were really impressive!!! The Gossip were great, she has an amazing voice, and quite a lovable lass she is too. One in a smaller tent was The Living End on the first night. They're an Aussie band that we saw at a festival in Melbourne last New Years Eve, they're good fun, and pretty mean guitarists! Apparently Razorlight were very good, but they're not really my bag, so I went elsewhere. There was some good comedy on, but I can't remember anyone's name. Biggest let down was The Chili Peppers... They were due on for a 2 hour set, and we were expecting all the big hits. However, they started well, then just got extreamly boring and started jamming. Anthony Kiedis seemed really pissed off about a technical hitch, and just didn't seem to want to be there (I suspect he was smacked out of his head). To be fair to them, it was the last gig of a very long tour, but he others all seemed to get in to it. Flea was amazing on the bass, but they were very quiet, and just not particularly good. This was just my opinion, and I heard a lot of people saying the same thing, but others seemed to think they were good, so there you go. However, playing a festival and leaving Under the Bridge out of your set, that's just wrong! Anyway, top weekend, and glad I booked the next 2 days off work, as I need to sleep!!! Think I'm getting to old for all this lark, and felt quite old there, as half the crowd were under 20, and seriously on heat! Follow link for BBCs footage (think it's only on line for a week)