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- A Private Eye
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Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
My sister worked as a steward at Leeds festival this weekened. I spoke to her last night when she got back. She said that while she didn't see the show as she had to patrol one of the campsites the comments for GNR were very positive after the show. Now she hates GNR and Axl so she'd take great pleasure in telling me if people were slating them.
Regarding the setlist I actually think this is one of the occasions they should have just done an 06 setlist. At a festival of this size the majority of people aren't there to hear TIL or SOD, they want to hear the old stuff, the classics are the reason GNR get to headline such a festival in the first place and that's what 95% of the crowd want to hear. For these two shows I'd have gone back to opening with Jungle and maybe open the encore with CD (curfew issues aside for a moment). In terms of CD songs, I think CD, Better, IRS and maybe ITW would have been fine filling the rest of the set with oldies. I wouldn't normally champion such a setlist but given the circumstances I think that may have been the best plan.
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
why do some of you use the crowd at Leeds as a measure of Gn´R´s ability to draw a crowd or as a measure of how successful the show was. It´s a massive fucking music festival for christ´s sake. the crowd is there regardless of Gn´R or not. 
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
why do some of you use the crowd at Leeds as a measure of Gn´R´s ability to draw a crowd or as a measure of how successful the show was. It´s a massive fucking music festival for christ´s sake. the crowd is there regardless of Gn´R or not.
To a certain extent, but in the videos there seems to be a lot of singing along and excitement rather than a lacklustre involvement as one might expect
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
Bono wrote:why do some of you use the crowd at Leeds as a measure of Gn´R´s ability to draw a crowd or as a measure of how successful the show was. It´s a massive fucking music festival for christ´s sake. the crowd is there regardless of Gn´R or not.
To a certain extent, but in the videos there seems to be a lot of singing along and excitement rather than a lacklustre involvement as one might expect
Oh no doubt but let´s be honest only losers and snobby music poseurs would leave if Gn´R was slated to headline. I mean only a fake fucking person says they don´t enojoy a good chunk of the old material. It´s just people seem to use the crowd in attendence as a measure of Gn´R´s ability to sell. No way. Those music festivals are jam packed before the lineup is even announced so......
- mickronson
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Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
^ true.. a crowd exists well before hand.. and by the end are mostly smashed/shitfaced/doped and as a consequence, up for anything. GNR win regardless
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
There will always be value in a crowd to hear Axl Rose sing GNR's biggest hits.
Just 'cause Don Henley is performing solo, doesn't mean the crowd needs The Eagles to get excited for Hotel Cali. Just the way it goes...
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
^^ Yeah your right. The crowd at a festival can never really be a reflection of any one band. I think that's why there can be more trouble at festivals than at normal shows. If you got a group of big group of indy kids up front who would never go to a GNR show and are spurring each other on shit gets thrown at band members and walk offs happen.
That's what happened at download last time I'm guessing but not indy kids obviously
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
why do some of you use the crowd at Leeds as a measure of Gn´R´s ability to draw a crowd or as a measure of how successful the show was. It´s a massive fucking music festival for christ´s sake. the crowd is there regardless of Gn´R or not.
I don't think anyone is bragging that they had a large crowd. It's just people were claiming that half the crowd had left by the time they went on, they were booed mercilessly, they were sitting on their hands in silence. Things like that. The VIDEO evidence doesn't seem to suggest those things.
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
Bono wrote:why do some of you use the crowd at Leeds as a measure of Gn´R´s ability to draw a crowd or as a measure of how successful the show was. It´s a massive fucking music festival for christ´s sake. the crowd is there regardless of Gn´R or not.
I don't think anyone is bragging that they had a large crowd. It's just people were claiming that half the crowd had left by the time they went on, they were booed mercilessly, they were sitting on their hands in silence. Things like that. The VIDEO evidence doesn't seem to suggest those things.
Exactly what I was going to say. 
