Basically I mean from everything I'd heard about it, I thought it was going to be this year's emo shit and pop rock concert collective, which in retrospect was a poor judgement and I probably wouldn't have minded going. The people I heard about Reading from tended to be those who like their rock less arthritic than ACDC and less flexible than prog, which only added to my myopic bias. I heard there was almost no atmosphere at Arctic Monkeys. I like your judgement more though, because if they played R U Mine? and I was in the crowd, I would have gone full Napoleon Dynamite. My flailing epilepsy nearly broke the TV listening to it on Jools. I'll have to check out Gogol later. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I don't have the benefit of perspective.What exactly do you mean by slanted?
Arctic Monkeys,
Also woo Cambridge! It's so fucking boring here. I can't wait to leave in two weeks. I was at university in Brighton (Sussex) for the last three years and it really does not compare.
That was my initial impression, honestly I initially just went along for a laugh and didn't know much about the bands. Which was a pretty stupid thing to do, given how much the tickets cost. I'm glad it worked out OK :P R U Mine? was played at the very end, in an extended form. It was the shit. People were pretty bummed that they didn't play 505 though.