Here is a selection of photographs from this years Leeds Festival.  

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Highlights

• Smashing Pumpkins playing an acoustic version of 1979
• Nine Inch Nails ending their set with a version of Hurt which borrowed from both their own and the Johnny Cash version.
• Simon Amstell and Ed Byrne at the Alternative Tent
• Hypnodog
• The weather - brilliantly sunny most days with no rain!
• The milkshake stalls in the main arena - the chocolate hobnob milkshake was great
• After we'd packed our tent away on the monday, finding a couple of abandoned unopened cases of beer nearby
• Being allowed campfires - they were banned last time I went, in 2005. It was good to sit around the fire at night, chatting with our neighbours and enjoying a beer or two
• Gogol Bordello on the main stage. Described as Gypsy Punk, they were good festival material
• The start of the Red Hot Chili Peppers act when it looked like they were going to be good

Disappointments

• The end of the Chilis when the singer walked off and the rest of the band jammed an instrumental for ages before leaving. There was no big finale, the concert just fizzled out, leaving people feeling disappointed with a sense of anticlimax.
• The cost of drink in the main arena - no way were we going to pay £3.20 for a tasteless pint of Carling. Thankfully the 'Wine Bar' had 500ml bottles for £6.50, which wasn't cheap but was more acceptable.
• The Enemy coming on stage to the tune of Too Much Too Young, pretending they are the new Specials, but the lead singer came across as some sort of moron knob-head who insists on using f**k as every other word.

There were also the now obligatory trouble-makers on the sunday night. Thankfully there was little violence and no actual rioting, but a lot of peoples tents got burned. We acquired a few refugees as neighbours, who managed to salvage a couple of their tents and carried them halfway across the site to safety.