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Leeds Festival: Day 2

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27/Aug/2005

One of the things the festival organisers do in an attempt to keep the litter to a minimum is to allow people to exchange bags of rubbish for beer vouchers. This morning, we collected one of the giant red bin bags they use, filled it with rubbish, and exchanged it for a voucher.

We went to the arena to watch the Drop Kick Murphys. We saw them last year as well and I'm sure the field in front of the main stage was a lot emptier then. The whole festival site seemed much busier this time around. Next on was Graham Coxon. Unfortunately the sound quality was terrible. After him, we went to the Comedy Tent to catch some of Marcus Brigstock (a regular on TV programmes such as Have I got news for you). On the way, we caught some of We Are Scientists (who were quite good). Anyway, after Marcus we stayed in the comedy tent for the Lemon Jelly Satanic Bingo. Like normal bingo but with the numbers being called by an animated demon!

Tonights main acts were The Killers, and The Pixies. Both were very good. The Pixies were quite a brave choice for a headline act. Despite being very influential, their music was almost certainly less well known than some of the other bands. Despite that, they seemed to go down well with the crowd.