David Emery Online

Reading Festival iCals

21 August 2007

It’s that time of year again.

Oh yes!

Reading Festival time.

Reading – unlike that vast majority of people I know, seemingly – is a festival geared almost exactly to my music taste. I’m not referring of course to most of the the tripe they put on the Main Stage (Razorlight? Red Hot Chill Peppers? I don’t think so) but to the line-ups of the other, smaller stages, which always manage to have at least one band I’d like to see playing at any one time.

It doesn’t hurt that, being originally from the ode to concrete that is Reading, I don’t have to camp; to be honest after a rather inconvenient experience at Glastonbury where my tent was stolen (not something in my tent, but the whole thing – contents and all. Luckily it was 20m away with the thief inside, but that’s another story…) I’m really not into the idea of camping at a festival ever again.

Anyway, for all you fellow Reading go-ers I have a little treat; I’ve got a hold of the schedule for the weekend and – after a bout of thrilling data entry – I’ve turned into into .ics calendar files, which can be used by iCal on the Mac, split up by stage:

Main Stage ics
Radio 1 Stage ics
Carling Stage ics
Lockup / Dance Stage ics

Hopefully you might find these useful!

My picks for the weekend are Cajun Dance Party, who are going to be massive I think; Nine Inch Nails, who already are; UNKLE who should be interesting live and LCD Soundsystem who are simply the best live band currently touring. It should be a good one – lookout for far too many photos on my Flickr stream over the weekend.