4. Babes in ToylandFontanelle
One of the first festivals I went to was an early Reading in the early 90s, 92 I think maybe it was, it was one of the years Nirvana played anyway, I remember that. But I was briefly looked after by Babes In Toyland as my parents had to go and do something else. They agreed to look after me for a bit and I just thought these were some very charming women that I was falling hopelessly in love with as a 12-year-old or whatever, and they were super nice and really loving and looked after me. They handed me back and I saw them go on stage and I was like, ‘I wasn’t expecting this’. They were so wonderfully punk rock, and I remember watching them and thinking that they were the coolest people on earth. I hadn’t seen people making a noise like that before, and it shook me up, seeing that people could be completely wild and themselves on stage in that way. I didn’t know you could do that. I wasn’t expecting them to scream and smash stuff up. Oh, right. That was them. Wow, you guys are actually fricking terrifying! And I was smitten ever since, really. For a long time, they were my heroes.
