Arriving at Reading Festival 2009 with £20 spending money, I quickly learned my lesson.
The following year, in 2010, I had the far more impressive sum of £50 in my pocket. Surely that would last me the whole weekend?!But what was behind the sudden increase of budget?
Well, it’s because I knew that at the earliest opportunity I’d head to the merch stand and instantly halve my weekend cash to “invest” in an Arcade Fire T-shirt.
They were headlining the Saturday night and had just released the best album that I had ever heard.The follow-up to 2007’s grand and gothic ‘Neon Bible’, ‘The Suburbs’ is a broader, warmer, more nostalgic affair.
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