By Del Crookes at Reading and Steve Holden at Leeds Newsbeat reporters Kasabian repeated their headline performance at Reading to bring Sunday night to a close at Leeds.
Reading and Leeds organiser Melvin Benn told Newsbeat the Leicester band were a "commanding headliner".
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters headlined Reading Festival for the first time since 2005.
I would say this year's Reading and Leeds have been the calmest and easiest we've produced in a long long time
Melvin Benn Reading and Leeds organiser
The US band played for more than two-and-a-half hours and dedicated These Days to former Nirvana band mates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic.
Front man Dave Grohl also revealed the 26-song set would be the final gig in support of their seventh studio album Wasting Light.
Speaking on stage he said it would be "the last show of the tour and the last show for a long time".
During a busy set, Grohl got the crowd to sing happy birthday to his mother and dedicated one track each to his daughters Violet and Harper.
He also dedicated the entire set to retiring BBC sound engineer Miti Adhikari, who has recorded shows including Nirvana's appearance at Reading Festival in 1992.
Meanwhile before Kasabian at Leeds Festival, Florence + The Machine played a set on the main stage which included Dog Days Are Over, her recent number one single, Spectrum (Say My Name), and Shake It Out.
The weather, which was dry as the sun set opposite the stage, was in stark contrast to the downpour which accompanied her performance in Reading.
The Foo Fighters closed out the main stage at Reading
With the festival coming to a close Florence cheekily told the crowd: "It's your last chance to do something you regret."
At the Drive-In headlined the NME/Radio 1 Stage.
Other acts who played across Sunday at Leeds included Odd Future, Metronomy and Azealia Banks, who delivered a short 20-minute set.
The US star, who came third in the Sound of 2012 poll, ended her performance with a raucous version of her hit 212.
Assessing 2012's festival, Melvin Benn said events had gone "extremely smoothly".
"I would say this year's Reading and Leeds have been the calmest and easiest we've produced in a long long time," he said.
Speaking about Sunday's acts, Melvin Benn said Florence + the Machine was "clearly going to be a headliner in the future".
'Anything possible'
Another band tipped by Benn were The Black Keys, who played before Foo Fighters on the main stage at Reading.
Front man Dan Auerbach told Newsbeat he could see his band topping the bill one day.
Ne avevamo parlato la settimana scorsa. La notizia riguarda principalmente i Green Day circa le dichiarazioni di Billie Joe Armstrong al programma BBC Breakfast: nuovo tour nel 2013 (una serie di date tutte inglesi a partire dal 1° Giugno 2013 all’Emirates Stadium di Londra) ed un secret show atteso a Parigi questa sera, al teatro Trianon. Ma non solo questo. Vi avevamo poi dato conto del fatto che i Green Day avrebbero eseguito per intero l’album Dookie (1994): testate giornalistiche di mezzo mondo hanno riportato questa notizia che in pratica si è rivelata non veritiera. Un bel colpo sferzato dall’animo punk di Armstrong&co. Cambio di scaletta all’ultimo minuto ed una chicca per i fan che anticipa il nuo album “¡Uno!”, in uscita il prossimo 15 Settembre 2012 cui seguiranno ”¡Dos!” e “¡Tré!2 attesi il prossimo 15 Novembre 2012 e 15 Gennaio 2013.
Circa due ore di concerto, tra grandi hit come “Welcome to Paradise”, “Holiday” e “St. Jimmy” il singolo “Oh Love” ed il nuovo estratto “Stay the Night”. Una scelta ponderata quella dei Green Day in linea con le nuove politiche, ma con una differenza: anzichè in streaming, la band americana li esegue dal vivo e cerca così consensi dal pubblico che sembra entusiasta di questo nuovo capitolo (3 ad onor del vero!). Però, c’è ancora da decifrare bene cosa avesse voluto dire Armstrong circa il sound “a metà tra gli AC/DC e i primi Beatles”.
E dai Green Day passiamo ai Foo Fighters. La band capitanata da Dave Grohl si esibisce al Reading Festival edizione 2012 ma lascia un pò di tristezza nell’animo dei fan: “questa è l’ultima apparizione della band. Ci fermeramo per tanto, tanto tempo!”. Queste le parole di Dave Grohl che lascia il palco per un pò e si getta a capofitto nei suoi nuovi progetti, da un nuovo album all’esperimento come cineasta che lo vede impegnato nella registrazione di un documentario sui Sound City Studios di Los Angeles. C’è da dire, però, che iera sera Dave Grohl era in vena di dediche: la prima è spettata alla madre che proprio ieri festeggiava il compleanno, mentre la seconda (con tanto di canzone “These Days”) la dedica ai suoi comapgni di avventura Krist Novoselic e Kurt Cobain. Nel 1992 si esibì per la prima volta su questo palco: allora era batterista dei Nirvana. “Mi piacerebbe dedicare questa canzone a due persone che non sono presenti questa sera: questa è per Krist e per Kurt”.
Oltre alla registrazione di alcuni demo per i Foo Fighters, Grohl è alle prese con un nuovo cd i cui prodromi si possono apprezzare nel 2004, anno in cui Dave Grohl pubblico un cd dalle sonorità metal cui parteciparono anche Lemmy dei Motorhead e Max Cavalera. Forte del fatto che Grohl ha pubblicato tempo fa alcune foto che lo ritraggono in compagnia del produttore Butch Vig voci di corridoio si susseguono e si fanno da spalla, e già qualcuno dice che questo sia un album ricco di collaborazioni per Dave Grohl. Non ci resta che augurare buon riposo a Dave ed attendere che ci regali un altro pezzo di musica.
Jason Merritt, Getty ImagesHere’s a look at the top stories of the day on Loudwire and around the Web:
- Have you caught the Foo Fighters on their current touring cycle? Dave Grohl has some words of warning for those who haven’t. [Loudwire]
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- They may not be as high profile as the frontman, but drummers for successful rock bands do carve out a nice living. See which are the 30 richest skin beaters in world. [Loudwire]
- Superheroes – they’re not just for films anymore! Check out the list of the 10 Best Superhero Songs. [Diffuser.fm]
- The Hives understand what it’s like to be sweltering. Take a look at the sweaty new clip for ‘Wait a Minute.’ [Rock Music Report]
Foo Fighters puso fin a una larga seguidilla de shows en el cierre del Reading Festival en la noche del domingo, con un recital de 26 temas que el mismísimo Dave Grohl definió como "el último por un largo tiempo".
"Bueno, bueno, bueno. El fucking Reading Festival. Se darán cuenta de que tenemos muchas canciones para tocar. Este es el último show de la gira y también es el último show por un largo tiempo", fueron más o menos las palabras de Grhol antes de arrancar con Learn to fly (mirá el momento en el video que está arriba).
Más adelante se refirió a la noche del domingo como "especial", y además dedicó These days a sus ex compañeros en Nirvana, Kurt Cobain y Krist Novoselic. "Quisiera dedicar esta canción a un par de personas que no pudieron estar acá esta noche. Va para Krist, y para Kurt".
El hecho de tocar en el Reading tenía además una carga especial para Dave y para la banda más importante del grunge de la década de 1990. "En 1992 cuando Nirvana tocó aquí, en este festival, fue el último show que dimos en Inglaterra, y ustedes cantaron el feliz cumpleaños a mi mamá", recordó el frontman.
Foo Fighters declaró que la agrupación se siente orgullasa de ayudar en un evento como este. Foto: Getty Images
Ciudad de México.- La música de Foo Fighters, The Black Keys y Neil Young estremecerá el Central Park de Nueva York, el próximo mes de septiembre, con la realización de un concierto para apoyar el combate a la pobreza en el mundo.
Según informa la edición en línea de la revista Rolling Stone México, los gastos de producción del evento correrán a cargo de organizaciones como la UNICEF, Rotary International, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation y Sumner Redstone Charity Foundation.
Este concierto, que contará con la presencia de otras agrupaciones como Band Of Horses y K’Naan, se ecuentra programado para el 29 de septiembre y las entradas se regalarán a las personas que llevan a cabo actos caritativos.
Los Foo Fighters, declararon en una entrtevista que les complace formar parte de este concierto, que tiene como objetivo ayudar, de lo cual se sienten muy orgullosos.
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El músico norteamericano Chad Neidt sube desde hace un tiempo atrás una interesante saga de videos a Youtube titulada: One Minute Mashups.
La idea es tan simple como original, condensar un montón de canciones (tocadas generalmente a gran velocidad) en sólo 60 segundos.
Entre los videos que ha subido hasta el momento (y que podés ver en la solapa de videos) hay cosas bien interesantes y divertidas. Entre los compilados más destacados están el de las canciones del disco de Blink-182 en versión de un minuto y las "18 canciones de Foo Fighters en un minuto".
Pero hay para todos los gustos, también se puede ver "One hit wonders de los años 90 en un minuto" y el video "Disney Movie Soundtracks", con recordadas canciones de películas como Aladín o Rey León.
The British QuartetKasabian(composed of Tom Meighan, Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards and Ian Matthews) probably has the best arsenal of alternative rock hits that a band can have today to offer a direct demolition and incendiary, hits such as "L.S.F.", "Empire" or "Underdog" are pieces that have made this event one of the best live today and so be able to check their status in the upcoming planet Terra Lima Festival in Exhibition park on 13 October.
And it is that the international media have yielded to the energetic and class performance from Kasabian. Thus confirmed it the agency EFE some weeks ago when the band played as headliners of the Low Cost Festival Benidorm in Spain with Suede and Placebo. "The British triad has signed an outstanding participation, which tonight has underpinned the Tom Meighan group probably best concert of all", the news agency concerned.
"Perfectly assembled at maximum power and driving almost the sound of their four albums, including the recent Velociraptor!" "(2011) have become to the public in a stormy sea of arms high and jumping," read the criticism of the concert.
"Kasabian felt, for the first time in Spain, as in your home." "Noted in his attitude, noted in his reaction to the public and how were delivered to provide a show of that caliber", added another criticism of the action carried out on July 29.
In 2009 the Shockwaves NME Awards you granted to the authors of "Vlad The Impaler" the best live band award precisely when they carried out the promotional tour for his new "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum", an album that won them many awards and the absolute "stage band" category.
The legend of Kasabian gathers anecdotes always related with their powerful concerts already in September 2011 the New York City police came to call and complaints from residents of a skyscraper in the "Big Apple" when they appeared at the top of the building within the program of the New York Fashion Week shows.
Residents complained about the volume of the amplifiers of the English and why the police attended the call. Everything became anecdote but serves to graficarnos the power of a pool that is located at the top of the podium in the brit rock.
What awaits us on 13 October in planet Terra Festival Lima?, well probably a strong wall of sound and one of the best concerts of rock by a British band today.
Planet Terra Festival Lima be held on Saturday, October 13 at the Exposition Park with the presentation of Garbage, Kasabian, TV On The Radio, Illya Kuriaky And The Valderramas, Jamie Jones, Lee Foss and the Quartet of us.For the festival tickets are now on sale at Teleticket Wong and meter modules. S /. 240.00 is the normal price, but if you have the Continental BBVA credit card gives you access to a discount of 25% until September 02, with which your ticket will cost S /. 180.00
This year’s Reading bill looks over-familiar from top to bottom, faithfully reflecting a rock scene desperately waiting for new heroes. Foo Fighters, Kasabian and The Cure aren’t headliners to quicken the blood; the latter first played here in 1979. But Reading’s importance in comparison to upstart, upmarket boutique affairs still feels strong. It remains the muddy field where young people first get off the leash and off their faces to music.
“Hi, honey, I’m home,” the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl leers on Sunday, at the festival that fits him best. His most infamous Reading appearance remains Nirvana’s swansong 20 years ago, with Kurt Cobain in a wheelchair. This three-hour blow-out is more wholesome hard rock with every edge smoothed off, like being bludgeoned with a toy hammer. Stuttering, contemplative passages in songs such as “Breakout” barely slow their relentless, quickly redundant stride.
Midwest blues-rockers The Black Keys, preceding the Foos, could at their most ordinary have played Reading in 1972. “Nova Baby”’s staccato soul swing is among the recent songs giving them saving, danceable grace.
Kasabian are received as a triumph on Saturday, but singer Tom Meighan comes across as an ageing Oasis fan, not a rock star. Their hollow empire is doomed to fall. Before them, Florence + the Machine are inspired by wild weather, singer Florence, in a fishnet body-suit, finishing rain-streaked and happy. Friday’s headliners The Cure take up 150 minutes, and Robert Smith is in wonderful voice. But “In Between Days”’s delicacy of feeling doesn’t last, during a set whose length smashes holes in the crowd.
Green Day’s surprise gig at 11am on Saturday, as many festival-goers slumber, is the nearest thing to an event. Equivalent punk power, though, is available in the Lock Up tent throughout the weekend. This is where Reading’s rock heart beats, indifferent to trends and headliners. Pittsburgh’s Anti-Flag dedicate The Clash’s “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” to Pussy Riot and Joe Strummer. They’re followed by California’s Social Distortion, Green Day grandfathers who began in 1978. Only singer Mike Ness remains from then, a soft-spoken elder statesman, his anger now worn and restrained. Their cow-punk version of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” is one festival peak.
Graham Coxon, back to his solo day job after Blur’s big day out at Hyde Park, finds the most creative response to rock’s history, gently bending and pulling apart The Who’s hard R’n’B on “Feel Alright”, and finishing with “I Don’t Wanna Go On”’s strange, bucking take on country-blues.
In a festival mostly geared to music’s passive consumption, Anti-Flag suggest the punk gig experience is an ideal of responsible yet fiercely individual living. Peckham’s Katy B offers a similar philosophy for dance music, and post-rave and pop sounds which would once have been urine-bottled off here are now part of Reading. Look no further than Lady Lykez’s hilarious paen to the weave, “Not My Hair”.
Edinburgh’s Django Django, too, combine wistful vocals, tribal drums and techno synths to become a sort of rave Franz Ferdinand, capable of constant surprise. Swedish-American freaks Miike Snow, meanwhile, deploy ecstatic dance music clichés with cosmic intent, on “The Devil’s Work” recalling Mercury Rev.
The Vaccines are part of the current British rock scene’s problem, all defeatist, ironic disaffection. The lie to that can still be found on the outer stages at night, where The Cribs offer advice to live by at Reading. “Get piercings, set fire to your tent,” orders singer Ryan Jarman. Then he adds, with faith defying current facts: “This is the best festival.”
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They sold 30,000 tickets but ended up entertaining around 700,000 people.
Despite Belfast City Council receiving scores of complaints about the volume of a Foo Fighters gig heard up to 14 miles away — the message was still ‘rock on'.
The US rockers’ Northern Ireland debut went down a storm with the tens of thousands of fans packed into Boucher Playing Fields in south Belfast.
But most of the greater Belfast area also got a free performance from the band when its sound travelled clearly for miles on Tuesday night.
One of the biggest outdoor gigs ever staged in Belfast, residents for several miles around the stage reported being able to hear every note and word clearly.
While some enjoyed the songs of one of the world's biggest bands, others complained saying the noise was too loud and preventing children from sleeping.
Belfast City Council received around 120 calls from residents some describing “terrorised by the hellishly loud noise”.
Around half were complaints and the other half queries about what the noise was.
Despite unhappy householders, the council remained defiant ahead of last night's Stone Roses gig at the same site.
An average of 40 to 50 complaints are usually received about gigs. It is also believed the police received 20 calls.
The council said that the second and final night of the Tennent's Vital festival, also featuring Florence and the Machine, would go ahead with no fresh restrictions.
Ahead of the gig a spokeswoman for the council said that in light of the complaints they were working with organisers to “establish guideline levels” for the event.
Guidelines in place at the Boucher Playing Fields ruled that the decibel count should not exceed 100.
At one point on Tuesday evening the level rose to 104, before it was reduced to 101.5.
Residents in the Lisburn Road and Cadogan Park area experienced a decibel level of 70.
A Belfast City Council spokeswoman explained there is no legislation surrounding music levels at concerts, so agreements between the council and promoters are for guidance only.
“Upper and lower guidance music levels for the Tennant’s Vital Concert were agreed with the aim of striking a balance between the success of the event and minimising significant disturbance from it,” she said.
“Climate, topography and the nature of the music are likely to have contributed to the sound from the event being heard at locations situated a considerable distance from it.
“Upon receiving complaints we noted that the upper limit had been exceeded and at the request of council officers this was reduced by event organisers to within agreed limits. There is nothing unusual in this a breach of guideline levels often happens at such events and are dealt with in the same manner.”
Chair of Belfast City Council’s environmental health committee SDLP councillor, Pat McCarthy said it was important to be “positive” about the event.
“There was 32,000 people of all ages at the venue enjoying themselves,” he said.
“There were no arrrests, there were no reports of trouble. Hotels were fully booked and restaurants and bars all got a turn out of it.
Mr McCarthy added: “They did get a little loud at one point.
“They were asked to turn it down and they did. It is not a hanging offence.Justin Green from MCD Productions said: ‘We have worked closely with both Belfast City Council and PSNI to ensure that Tennent’s Vital causes limited disruption to local residents who we have also liaised closely with in the run up to the event.
MCD is one of the most experienced and professional music promoters in Europe and every event is planned and managed to an extremely tight schedule including ensuring adequate sound measures and controls. Tennent’s Vital has had an extremely positive impact on the city, with not a hotel room to be had in Belfast.
“People travelled from far and wide, Wexford, Donegal, Manchester, London and a report of someone flying in from Texas.
“Bringing such a popular attraction to the city means there will always be some level of disruption but all in all it was a fantastic night.”
Radio presenter Ralph McLean said the event should be looked at a “major step forward”, adding: “Kids have been kept awake with very different kinds of explosions at night so the explosion of bass, guitar and drums is a definite step forward, I think.
“If you want Belfast to be a major player among European cities you have to have the gigs and with that is noise.”
He understood it can be hard for people close to festivals but said things have to “move on”.
Stuart Bailie of the Oh Yeah Music Centre, said: “You don’t want to inconvience a resident forever over a bit of rock and roll, but surely for a few hours it is a price to pay for people expressing themselves and being excited and happy?
“I’d just ask people to remember how awful it used to be.”
By Ursula Walsh
The geography of Belfast has a lot to do with what happened. It’s a basin, surrounded by hills, so there is a valley effect.
It’s its own natural auditorium, as such, like the old Greek amphitheatres. The speakers and concert were facing toward the Boucher Road and the east, rather than north.
Therefore there was a combination of factors that made it sound louder than usual. Sound is a pressure wave. Molecules in the air compress together and that pressure wave travels through the air.
Decibels are a pressure measurement.
It’s not just the strength of the wave that’s the volume. The loudness is how strong the pressure wave is. Human perception is to do with pitch. Bass notes are low frequency. People are more annoyed by higher frequencies.
The low frequency, bass notes travel better through air. That’s how you hear planes and thunder.
People further away would have heard the low frequency because they travel better. I heard it from Newtownbreda and enjoyed it. It’s great to hear the city so alive.
Ursula Walsh is Environmental Health course director at the University of Ulster’s School of the Built Environment.
Today wrapped up a weekend of big-ticket performances at the concurrent Reading and Leeds music festivals in the U.K., with some particularly newsworthy highlights over the three-day run coming courtesy of a trio of American acts: Green Day, the Foo Fighters and notorious L.A. rap collective Odd Future.
- Billie Joe Armstrong and co. hit the Reading Festival with a "surprise" appearance on Saturday, though rumors that the pop-punk act would be performing their breakthrough album "Dookie" in its entirety proved to be unfounded. Nevertheless, the rockers did manage to play five tracks from the 1994 LP, with favorites including "Welcome to Paradise," "Basket Case" and "She" included in the set. The wide-ranging performance featured tracks spanning the entirety of their (major-label) career, in addition to highlighting two tunes from "Uno!," the first part of the group's forthcoming three-album trilogy. One of these was a never-before-heard track titled "Stay the Night," and you can check out their performance of the song at the bottom of the page.
- The Foo Fighters, meanwhile, wowed the Reading Festival audience this evening with a whopping two-and-a-half-hour, 26-song performance that saw a reflective Dave Grohl commemorating both the conclusion of the band's "Wasting Light" tour ("It's the last show of the tour and it's the last show for a long time," he stated as they took the stage) and the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's headlining slot at the 1992 incarnation of the festival. Though rumors that Grohl would be covering one of the band's tunes proved to be unfounded, he did dedicate a performance of recent Foo Fighters single "These Days" to his former bandmates, stating: "I'd like to dedicate this song to a couple of people who couldn't be here tonight. This one's for Krist and this one's for Kurt.''
- The vibe was radically different over at Odd Future's closing-night Leeds Festival performance, which saw the group once again courting controversy by dragging a bound-and-gagged blow up doll named "Kimberly" on stage and proceeding to beat the tar out of it whilst hurling some choice invectives "her" way. The spectacle - which followed Tyler, the Creator and Left Brain's tussle with security guards during the group's Reading performance the previous night - climaxed with Jasper Dolphin busting the doll's head open with his foot while proclaiming: "Sh** I just killed Kimberly." The group also performed some songs.
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