LATE NEWS - A friend of mine has a spare weekend ticket available for Reading. I'm sure price is negotiable. You would probably need to pick it up in central London tomorrow from him. email me on psmith (at) spendmatters.com urgently if you're interested.
Continuing our preview of Reading Festival today with the Saturday line-up (Sunday at Leeds). If you look at the schedule you will see that I can’t possibly see all of the sets from all of these, but this is my working list. I often change stages mid set just to catch a couple of tracks of another band I like. Bands from the Introducing stage not included here either – some were featured last Saturday here though.
So, on to the Saturday line-up. I like Kasabian but not sure they’re a headline act. We’re treating Florence as the highlight and will probably push off soon after that. And I’m looking forward to seeing how Grimes works live in front of 8,000 largely drunk kids. It’s going to be amazing or a disaster...!
| SATURDAY |
STAGE |
COMMENTS |
| Los Campesinos | Main | Welsh, wordy, angst ridden but life-affirming indie |
| Pure Love | NME | Ex-lead singer of Gallows back with a lighter rock sound |
| Blood Red Shoes | Main | Rock duo, new album, one of 2012’s best |
| Citizens | FR | Dance tinged indie-pop, clever and fun |
| Twin Atlantic | NME | Scottish Biffy Clyro influenced rockers |
| Mystery Jets | Main | One of the decades best indie-pop bands. Good live too |
| Dry the River | NME | Folk-rock, harmony vocals but with a rock edge, could be one of the festival’s highlights |
| Grimes | Dance | Canadian girl, hard to describe electronic pop hip hop, she’s probably a genius |
| The Shins | Main | Veteran US rock – clever, tuneful stuff |
| Jake Bugg | FR | Young Nottingham lad, 60s influenced acoustic rock |
| Dog is Dead | FR | Young band, smart indie sound |
| We Are The Crowd | FR | Female-fronted US pop-rock band |
| The Vaccines | Main | Getting huge – Ramones influenced sing-along rock anthems! |
| Lower Than Atlantis | FR | Young British hardcore (rock) band - loads of energy |
| Young Guns | FR | Young British hardcore (rock) band – as above! |
| Florence & the Machine | Main | You know – Florence. Shake It Out gets me all emotional |
| Katy B | Dance | Credible pop-dance lass |
| Metronomy | Dance | Electronic pop with a off-beat, interesting edge |
And here’s the very original and talented Jake Bugg.
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