porcupiny / Liane Chan

I’m planning on seeing Bjork, Interpol, Jarvis Cocker, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Arctic Monkeys, Silversun Pickups, Of Montreal, Tilly and the Wall, Tokyo Police Club, and Noisettes. Maybe also Faithless.

Full journal on my Leeds Festival experience here:

http://homepage.mac.com/porcupiny/Personal20.html

Friday to Sunday
Leeds Festival lineup

Aug. 23:

Main Stage: Guns ‘N Roses, Prodigy, Puddle of Mudd

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage: Spiritualized, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead, Cornershop, Haven, Six by Seven, The Shining

Carling Stage: Biffy Clyro

Aug. 24:

Main Stage: The Strokes, Pulp, The White Stripes, Dandy Warhols

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage: Feeder, The Electric Soft Parade, Guided By Voices

The Boutique Stage: Ladytron

Carling Stage: British Sea Power

Aug. 25:

Main Stage: Foo Fighters, Muse, Ash, The Hives, A, Less Than Jake, Andrew WK

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Cooper Temple Clause

Best and Worst Moments of Leeds Festival 2002
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(as seen in the Reading/Leeds Program 2003)

Here are my memorable moments from Leeds 2002:

Worst: wheeling a large suitcase for miles, realizing I’d forgotten to pack my tent poles, being subject to a random ass grabbing

Best: meeting two girls (Marnie and Pip) who let me camp on their site, great performances, spotting Robert Turner of BRMC and getting his autograph while grinning uncontrollably.

In case you’re wondering, he wrote “One is better than nuthin’” on my festival program.

I wanted to go to the Reading Festival in 2002, but it was sold out so I ended up going to Leeds instead. I had quite an interesting experience at Leeds, so I wrote a little bit about it for my best and worst moments. It was published in the festival program the next year, but they told me that the week of the festival that I could go to Reading for free. There was no time to plan a flight without spending at least $1000 on a airfare. I asked them if I could use my free pass to Reading the next year, but I ended up not going that year either. Anyways, I have cousins in London I can stay with if I do decide to go to Reading some day. I just need to decide sooner since tickets tend to sell out and airfare is also pretty expensive.