UK (Berkshire), August 22, 2008 Review

Strolling around the Reading site, the return of Rage Against The Machine to the main stage for the first time since 2000 is the only real talking point.

Sound:	10
Perfomance:	10
Impression:	10
Overall rating:	10
Users rating:	10
Comments:	3

overall: 10

Reviewed by: Steve_Qbass, on august 27, 2008

Sound: The sound qualiy was great, the levels were perfect from where I was at the front left. Even some of my mates who were right at the back said the sound was great. The band consist of Zach de la Rocha on vocals, Tom Morello on Guitar, Tim Commerford on Bass and Brad wilk on drums. The vocals were very shouty as that is part of zach's rap style. Tome morello pulled off many of his blillianly original sounding scratchy solos that only he can seem to play // 10

Perfomance: The band came on with black bags on their head and played the first track dressed like that. The set was as follows:

Bombtrack
Testify
Bulls On Parade
People Of The Sun
Bullet In The Head
Know Your Enemy
Born Of A Broken Man
Guerilla Radio
Ashes In The Fall
Calm Like A Bomb
Sleep Now In The Fire
Wake Up

Encore:
Freedom/Township Rebellion
Killing In The Name

During Wake Up Zach gave a long speech ridiculing Bush and Blair and during Snitf there was a break down section where he did some improv. The suprise best song was ashes in the fall which has a great bass line which got the crowd going and the band seemed to get really into it aswell. // 10

Impression: The show was played on friday 22nd August, the first day of reading festival. Overall it was the best Live show I've ever seen with rage putting on a superb performance with the crowd jumping like crazy to every song. There were loads of of other bands playing as it was a festival, the best being Queens Of The Stone Age and Biffy Clyro Who did a great job in warming up the crowd for rage. I would recommend seeing rage live to anyone they are fantastic live!! // 10

Comments

[chrisfishlock]

My life is now complete now i have seen rage, best gig i have ever seen and i very very doubt i will ever see better.

[CrowLord]

My only disappointment with their gig, is that their Reading T-Shirt had sold out. I really wanted the Battle Of Reading T-Shirt

But their performance was excellent. Tom Morello is so inspirational

[stooge247]

Rage are awesome live but they were better in 2000. I saw them at Leeds in 2000 and on saturday just gone. What the hell was up with the sound though. It was like listening to them underwater or something. There is no way you should be able to hear the drunk guys getting the words wrong next to you at a Rage gig.