Reading Festival Reading, Berkshire
My first gig with nme.com 1, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them). I helped out on some of the webchats, including Moby and Terrorvision and I remember and American band I wasn't familiar with. And there would have been others. We were working in an nme portacabin type thing.
Think I met up with some friends and stayed at one of their houses the first night, then got a train back on Saturday night, but came back again on the Sunday.
I was at this one, more from this year in Paul's gig history for 1996. I saw Super Furry Animals probably 18 times; Essential Festival @ Stanmer Park ('96), Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (1996), Phoenix Festival @ Avon Park Raceway (1996), Reading Festival ('96), Mean Fiddler (1996), Manic Street Preachers @ Brixton Academy ('96), London Astoria (1997), Glastonbury ('97), Shepherds Bush Empire ('98), London Astoria (1999), Glastonbury ('99), Brixton Academy ('99), Reading Festival ('00), Kentish Town Forum ('01), Ocean (2002), New Order @ Finsbury Park (2002), Stephen Malkmus @ Royal Festival Hall ('03), and Glastonbury (2003). Part of every gig I was at from '87 to 2025. It's an obvious step from my Best Gigs Ever blog post. Yeah I know it's very nerdy, let's let that go though, I'm enjoying reminiscing about this stuff.
Fri Aug 23 1996
⬅️ Paul Weller :: The Boo Radleys ➡️