Reading and Leeds festival 2007

We Are Scientists' Chris Cain reckons their wit was lost on the Reading crowd

Chris Salmon revisits the highs and lows of Reading and Leeds courtesy of BBC online.

A festival that looks to the past - Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails - but also to the future, whose name is Patrick Wolf.

Stage: Leeds NME Tent

Stage: Leeds Dance Tent

Stage: Leeds Main

8.5 out of 10: Reading, Sunday, 10.35pm. They were never supposed to last this long, but they're doing better than ever. But is that glo-stick goo toxic?

6 out of 10: Leeds, Sunday, 8.50pm. They know how to rock, how to dance and how to loop atonal guitar riffs. Not the ideal festival fodder.

7 out of 10: Reading, Sunday, 5:35pm. Despite being emo, they know how to have a good time. It involves Michael Jackson and Huey Lewis and the News.

6 out of 10: Reading, Sunday, 4.05pm. Are they genuinely loved by this overflowing crowd, or are they just the only alternative to Funeral for a Friend and the Cancer Bats?

8 out of 10: Leeds, Sunday, 4.50pm. Matt Bowman has swagger and charm and hurls himself around the stage like a slimmer Ricky Wilson.

7 out of 10: Leeds, Sunday, 3.40pm. Better than many contemporaries, but not as good as they think.