EPTLast weekend I went to the Reading Festival, which was inevitably a kick-ass 5 days of sleepless getting drunk, high, seeing the Smashing Pumpkins, RHCP and so much more. However the utter highlight for me was this one magical moment where during the final night Nine Inch Nails (who stole the show) were the penultimate act, before the Smashing Pumpkins. For their encore they played the anthemic Hurt, during which I sensed it was time to bomb myself in front of the crowd to catch the Pumpkins from front row. From the previous night when I caught the Chili's I saw a Korean flag right in the middle of the crowd, and thought "wow". The same flag was there for the final night too and as I was making my way to the front I thought I should check out whoever is waving the taeguk flag of my proud nation. It happened to be an eclectic group of three Koreans, who were surprised to see my hand clasp their shoulder and hear "sugohasehyo" ("keep it up") and as the entire crowd sang their hearts out with NiN, I stood there with the Korean flag, which is clearly visible during the second half of the video when they show the crowd. I welled up and shed a few tears. Sheer magic.
