Reading Festival: Silent Disco....

over two thousand peeps going nuts to big cheesy dancing tunes...vampire weekend, pulp, hot chip, house of pain, queen, nirvana, jerry lee lewis...smoke machines, crazy dutch comperes, jumping up and down, thousands of hands in air...big time party...





























...BIG TIME!!!

Reading Festival 2008: Saturday, 7:06pm

And so far, it's been a helluva day! Kids In Glass Houses, Santogold, Mystery Jets...Jemma Vendetta sure was happy happy happy to see Lady Santogold, who was truly ace. Los Campesinos cracked an amazing set on The Festival Republic stage, with dancing & singing galore.

As The Foals warm up The Radio One stage right now, may I present to you photographic evidence of the day so far...















the line up...



















beth & jemma DJ'ing....















Los Campesinos!

reading 2008: the preparations...

shunning the M4 east for the comforts of first great western (first class no less!), three of the fearless vendettas (accompanied by an assortment of really rather useful sound engineers) set off to reading 2008 - their fourth as the musical puppeteers of the radio one/nme stage...

with thanks to snoozy bands who took their eyes of the champagne on their rider at last weeks V festival, the ladies watched the world whizz by in a blitz of bubbles and badge-bagging (see photo below).

thursday night pre-reading festival means reconiciliations with old friends (the gals from my ex-boyfriends records, steve lamacq, neil pengilly - the man who decides who you see at reading) at various pubs & bars across the river of reading.

friday morning means arriving on site before the bars open, to check out the stage set up, check in with the stage managers, and spread records out across the decks in order to kick off what we know is going to be yet another brilliant reading festival weekend....

READING FESTIVAL: 2008 .... HELLO READING!!!

yep, the five ladies from the vinyl vendettas return to the reading festival to keep you entertained for the fourth year running. the crew take the floor in between bands on the radio one/nme stage over the course of the entire weekend, keeping the tent humming with tunes as well as anticipation.

come check us out maintaining the good vibes in between such stellar acts as vampire weekend, blood red shoes, the duke spirit, the cribs, manic street preachers, justice, foals, coner oberst, adam green, yeasayer, santogold and more...

the ladies are on fire at the moment, having warmed up their dancing hands and shoes all over the damn country, including a blazing set at latitude festival.

AND DON"T FORGET SILENT DISCO!
check your head (phones)...once more, hands will be the the air, and the neighbours will only hear the sound of joy, as thousands of folks dance along the the vendettas selection of twisted anthems and twisting dancing madness in your headphones...

we'll be updating our blog over the course of the weekend with photos and stories galore, as well as short crazy films appearing on our myspace...
www.myspace.com/thevinylvendettas.

YOU GOTTA FIGHT! FOR YOUR RIGHT! TO PARTY....

what we gots...

as always, the ladies have been keeping busy as busy can be...Jem, Laura & Beth once more had Latitude Festival thrilled to the core, Fi & Beth hit the road to North Wales to DJ alongside some amazing performance art from friends of Vivienne Westwood, Catrin has been keeping them geeky cool local-side.

oh - and we had a photo shoot yesterday. hell yeah! look out for the russian prossie pix coming to page three near you soon! Check out the post-photoshoot sass....






THINGS WE GOT COMING UP...

Saturday 16th August
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th August
READING FESTIVAL...all weekend @ Radio One/NME Stage
+ special appearances at Silent Disco and some swanky VIP bar

Saturday 30th August
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

We also have a TBC show or two in London, and plans for a party in New York in October!