The bank holiday weekend and the Reading and Leeds festivals already feel like it was a million years ago. Sorry, we're exaggerating, it only feels like it was a thousand years ago.
The good news is that Reading and Leeds 2016 aren't all that far away! Tickets for the next year's festival have already gone on sale, but before we start packing our bandanas and selfie sticks aways, let's look back at five of the best things from Reading and Leeds 2015.
A few thousand people mourned a fish
Amazing up-and-coming punk band Slaves got thousands of fans in the NME/Radio 1 tent to chant "Gerald" after Laurie Vincent's goldfish sadly passed away. He said: "He died five years to young". #RIPGerald.
A DJ got locked in a cage
Evian Christ, who produced a track on Kanye West's smash-hit album* Yeezus, *got locked in a makeshift cage after playing at Leeds Festival. Melvyn Benn (the festival's big wig) claims the DJ was found "in a not very good state" and "without being able or willing to disclose who he was", which to be fair, sounds like most people who end up at a festival, DJs or not.
However, Evian (real name Joshua Leary) took to Facebook to explain security removed his pass that was supposed to identify him, then refused to give it back. He was then placed in a makeshift cage and threatened with arrest for knocking over a chair. He then cancelled his set at Reading in a bid to gain leverage, but he claims no one seemed to care. He finished by saying: "we have big issues with regulation of police and private security services in the uk, nobody should be detained in a cage by an employer because they can’t find their car".
Hunck
The winners of Relentless' Hear To Be Heard competition were down to play early in the day, but it was well worth peeling out of our tents for. The laid-back London-based band describe their sound as "slacker rock and dream pop", which seems like a perfect description.
The band have only been together a year and got the nod from Everything Everything who judged the comp, so that means they're pretty great, right? Or maybe they just share the EE's taste in garish jackets. Thankfully, we think it's the former. Listen out for their track So Far, So Deep.
Limp Bizkit rocket the set...
Despite the fact it's not the early noughties and it's been a long time since Limp Bizkit were relevant, or frankly, good, they headlined the NME/Radio 1 tent. And they were phenomenal. Maybe it was the atmosphere? Maybe it was the fact Fred Durst seemed over the moon to even be there? Or maybe it was the fact that no matter how old you get, everybody still loves doing the rolling dance and singing slightly nonsensical nu-metal rap lyrics.
At one stage it turned into an odd request show, as Durst and co played random songs and let fans shout out requests. They failed to quite nail the Sweet Child Of Mine riff and took a very long pause make sure a girl in the mosh pit was okay, and just played Rage Against The Machine because, well, everybody loves that, right?
Everyone wanted to see Kendrick Lamar
Huh? At a rock festival? The same festival that bottled off Daphne and Celeste and almost exploded in fury when 50 Cent played? Yeah, this isn't a pure 'rock' festival anymore. But that's fine by us.