Video: Los Campesinos! – Reading 2008
After scouring Youtube for a while and not finding anything, eventually I stumbled across this delightful little video of part of Los Campesinos! set at Reading. While the quality is kind of crappy, you get to experience the joy of the “fuck you Ting Tings” chant that Gareth accidentally started, a brief cover of Pavement’s Frontwards* before the almighty sing-along that was You! Me! Dancing!. I was located somewhere down at the front, somehow taken aback by just how boisterous it all got.
* Correction: I’m a dumbass, it’s actually Box Elder.
That Pavement number is “Box Elder.” That chant is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.
Oh my, so it is. That’s a terrible mistake to make given Box Elder is just about my favourite Pavement song. I’m so used to them doing the Frontwards cover now that my mind went straight to that.