Reading Festival Drinker's Guide
The alternative Reading Festival - complete with flushing toilets
A guide on how not to see any bands by sitting in the local pubs all day
And some other stuff as well
Optimised for nothing at all
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What's all this about then?
This site is dedicated to all those people who would rather not queue for several hours to obtain a pint from a bar with a huge range of two beers. Beers which are conveniently served in a semi-waterproof origami cardboard pint-pot thing which can't quite balance itself on those tufts of grass in the main arena whilst you're trying to find the band listings stuck in between 400 pages of adverts for various "generous sponsors". Read on for how to get inebriated for considerable less cash, the only drawback being that you can't actually watch or hear any bands, and you may as well not go to the festival. Every festival-goer ends up in nearby Caversham at some point, however, so read on, this could be the most important site you ever discover........
This page is a bit of everything else about the festival which doesn't involve pubs (so is pretty limited, really)
This site is not intended to
be one of those dewy-eyed nostalgic sort of things, if you want histories of
bands who played, crap weather years and so on, check out some of the links
below. I know nobody cares about what someone else did at the festival, but for
anyone who gives a toss there's a gallery of us lot getting pissed here. Alright, as a concession, there's also a
page of previous crap occurences here
. There might
be another site for Phoenix pubs this year (if it actually goes ahead), off the
top of my head the "Froth and Elbow" and the "Crosskeys"
are pretty cool. The first is right next to where the festival bus service
stops and the second is a bit out of the way but worth finding for the cheap
curry and chips.
Other sites which might be of interest, but aren't as good as this one.......(that's LINKS)
Last Updated: 24th June, 657 B.C.
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if it's changed or I was too pissed to remember properly then I guess I'm
really, really sorry. Note: as at 22nd September 2004, I know it has
changed but I can’t be bothered to update it.
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