Leeds Festival Special
Festival Republic have knockedup a reassuring combination of the brave, the brilliant and the baffling to ensure the upcoming Leeds Festival should comfortably hold its own against previous years. Even if the music isn’t your thing (and there really should be something here for even the most esoteric of tastes) there should be enough tabloid sub-plots of a combustible nature to keep the casual observer enthralled.
with drugs, crime and casual violence, but in an unusual nod to its less salubrious past, the organisers have decided to recapture these elements symbolically in their choice of bands. Jailbirds? Check. Drug casualties? Check. Notoriously temperamental rock auteur previously threatened with extreme and highly imaginative levels of violence by very same festival boss during last appearance in Leeds? Check.
It’s been a thankfully long time since the festival was associated
Thus we have more superficially patched-up acrimonies than one
could reasonably expect from a mainstream festival bill. Which can only be entertaining for the neutral, if perhaps not for the backstage security staff. I don’t know whether there are odds being offered on a major act not making it through their full set before flouncing off in a rock-star hissy fit (possibly with instrument involuntarily modelled as hat), but with the impressive selection of egos on offer, it has to be worth a fiver. Either way, Melvin Benn, we salute you. You sir, have balls.
vibrations 8