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Noah & The Whale's best festival experience: "The one that stands out are Lollapalooza which was really cool two years ago and Latitude on our second record, four or five years ago. I remember seeing Dirty Three and Wilko back to back at Green Man - that was really cool."
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(Pete Wentz) Fall Out Boy's worst festival experience: "When we last played Reading and Leeds, we were backstage and couldn't find the bathroom, I think I was with Patrick [Stump], and we were by Nine Inch Nails and I was like, 'oh, I gotta go to the bathroom,' and Trent Reznor's like, 'Let the kid go to the bathroom'. He was really nice..."
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Pigeon Detectives best festival experience: "Getting on to the main stage at Reading and Leeds, 2011, with The Strokes, Pulp and everything, that was a really achievement for us. We started out going as punters and we've played every stage now. We started out on the really small stages and worked our way up so we feel like we've really conquered that festival now."
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Bring Me The Horizon's worst festival experience: "There was one incident a couple of years ago when we went to America and were playing in Salt Lake City. There was a 'crew' who were a bunch of 15-year-old kids just on a power trip and literally beating little girls up and punching them in the face. I stopped the music and called them out and they all ran on stage, attacked me, nearly kicked the f**k out of me. That was the worst thing I have ever seen. People had just turned up to the show just to beat up little kids. Someone even lost an eye."
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The Other Tribe's best festival experience: "The Bestival slot in 2012 was incredible. That really took us by surprise. We arrived and got a phone call from one of the organisers. They were like, 'Azealia Banks has pulled out, can you replace her?' Obviously we went absolutely nuts and it was so much fun."
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Pigeon Detectives worst festival experience: "We p**sed off the promoters at Oxygen by asking people to throw mud on the stage, we got into a mud fight with the crowd. They were just launching piles of mud at us and the promoters and stage managers just went mental. They threw mud at us and we threw some back but the mud on their side of the barriers seemed to be a lot more plentiful than it was on the stage. As we were walking off the whole backdrop was covered - the stage, all the equipment. They just chucked all our equipment off stage and were like 'we won't see you again'."
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Crystal Fighters best festival experience: "The first festival show we ever played at Secret Garden Party was pretty fun. It was the first festival we'd played and we got a really good slot, 7pm on a Friday night, which was quite unlikely for a band at our level. The house was excited and it was really good. There were members of the band that hadn't even been to a whole festival before and the first is often the best. "
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The Other Tribe's worst festival experience: "The summer before last we had a pretty shoddy van and we got stuck in the mud at a few festivals. One of the festival guide people sent us the wrong way over these two massive hills and we ended up getting stuck in a massive patch of mud which we couldn't get the van out of. We made our slot by a matter of minutes. I think the stress of having been caught in the mud put us into an angry but speedy unpacking vibe."
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Noah & The Whale's worst festival experience: "There's one festival in Germany that stands out which was pretty nuts. It was basically on an industrial wasteland. It felt like we were playing in a bomb crater. I remember the catering had these chickens walking around everywhere even though they were serving chicken. It was like a lobster tank but for chicken. There were electrical wires dangling down everywhere as well and I was worried if I touched them it would be the end."
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Charli XCX's best festival experience: "Probably at Secret Garden Party two years ago. I went with my boyfriend. I don't think I saw any music at all. I don't even know who was playing, maybe Blondie? It was just really fun and wild. Loads of weird sh*t happened. Secret Garden is like the inside of a mental patient's brain."
