There certainly were! Soulwax blew it big time at Reading this year.

Picture the scene: It's Friday night at Reading 2002, Feeder have just finished a very moving set on the Evening Session Stage, their first back after the tragic events surrounding their late drummer, Jon Lee. The bulk of the crowd is off to see The Strokes on the main stage but those of us in the know are sticking around for Soulwax's "2 Many DJ's" show, having been tempted by a superb album and several great radio sets.

We await the wonder of mountains of bootlegs and scores of rare acappellas being expertly laid over funky instrumentals, interspersed with tasty beats, breaks and samples.

It wasn't to be.

Now, maybe they had technical problems, maybe someone stole their records, or maybe they were just fucked out of their minds. The fact still remains that it was a pretty poor DJ set from the Belgian duo who'd promised so much.

The mixes weren't always in time, there seemed to be an obsession with cutting the bass during crucial builds and drops and the tune selection, to be fair, wasn't what it should have been. No wonder the crowd that had stuck it out found better places to go, Aphex Twin in my case...

I'm really hoping this was due to techy problems. Maybe one of the Soulwax guys, or someone who knows them, could comment?

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