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.

I really like the smell of garlic, so I always enjoy road trips when we drive by Gilroy… I love garlicky food, so maybe it would be a fun place to eat!

It seems like a fun shop, and what could be cooler than pirates? Plus, it’s not too far from me… I should just walk over there some day.

She actually said I’ve been to the Conservatory of Flowers many times, so be it… this one’s done!

But I think that counts still, I saw the architecture of the building. I’m not too interested in seeing the interior. I can imagine that no one I’m interested performs there.

Restless Sinner
Ain’t No Easy Way
Shuffle Your Feet
Howl
Love Burns
Awake
In Like The Rose
Six Barrel Shotgun
Punk Song
Stop
Weight Of The World
Promise
Sympathetic Noose
Gospel
High / Low
Red Eyes And Tears
Spread Your Love

Mercy
The Line
Rifles
Heart + Soul

The Morning After Girls were good spacey droney psychedelic rock. Totally cool and they sounded a but like the Dandy Warhols and even a bit like Spiritualized. They played rocking and spaced out songs equally well.

Elefant were a bit of a one trick pony. All their songs sounded kind of the same. Diego, the singer, was funny because he seemed cocky scoping out the audience for cute girls. He was entertaining when he fell off the stage and made some guy sing. Then, near the end of their set, he held a girl in the front row’s hand for awhile. As attractive as he is, the way he went about strutting and kneeling on stage was quite silly. Still, it was entertaining!

B.R.M.C. were announced as a sold out show being broadcasted on a local radio station. The announcement made about the Grammys awarding the worst music was too true. The show began with just Peter playing “Restless Sinner” and later joined by Spike, Robert, and Nick. Peter had his hair slicked back, but still curly. The rest of the set flowed well with “Shuffle Your Feet” getting the audience to clap and sing along. “Ain’t No Easy Way” showed off Peter and Robert’s ever improving slide guitar playing and moved the crowd even more.

“Howl” slowed things down a bit with Robert’s emotive vocals and Peter’s falsetto chorus. “Love Burns” picked up the momentum again with more people recognizing the song. Highlights for me included “Awake,” “In Like The Rose,” and “Six Barrel Shotgun,” which were all amazing to see live. “Whatever Happened to My Rock n’ Roll?” was great as usual with Robert and Peter switching microphones and finishing on the opposite of their usual sides.

In between one song, Peter introduced his guitar tech Dave, who came out in a bear costume during the next song! This really made Robert smile more than Peter, who barely reacted to it. Next, Robert sang a block of songs “Stop,” “Weight of the World,” “Promise,” “Sympathetic Noose,” “Gospel Song,” and “High/Low,” which made me excited since I had never seen it done live before. I love the distortion that Peter does with his guitar and Robert’s vocals on that song.

“Red Eyes and Tears” is always a treat to hear and “Spread Your Love” was great despite a false start. For the encore, Robert came out alone and announced that Peter wasn’t feeling well and proceeded to play “Mercy” on Peter’s acoustic guitar. It was a beautiful version of the song. They ended the show with “The Line” which Robert had to restart after forgetting some lyrics, “Rifles” which is always a crowd pleaser, and “Heart and Soul” which was a cool as I thought it would be to see and ended in plenty of noise and distortion.

After the show, Elefant had a pizza and beer after party/DJ set. I met Michael Been who recognized me from the Tour Archive! He was nice and told me about how he grew up in Chicago. After that, I spoke briefly with Robert not getting my camera into the show despite it being somewhat crappy. Outside the venue, Robert got into a snowball fight with the Morning After Girls. That was pretty funny!

Me and my brother are planning to drive back down there today. I am happy to be able to see my sister, nephew, brother-in-law, mom, and cat today. My dad is already down there to visit my grandma. It’ll be nice to be home again, even if for a short while.

There was a Vegetarian Bistro Crawl for my Alumni Association, it was okay. I think I ordered the wrong dish, next time I’ll have to try something else. It’s not far from where I live, so I hope to be back soon.