From Lana to Liam and Fontaines to Fred Again .. , Reading & Leeds 2024 was one of the Book .
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differentiate the last major fete of the summertime , Reading & Leedsalways seek to go out on a thrill and allow for us with a small number of story .
Fontaines D.C. live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
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From Lana to Liam and Fontaines to Fred Again .. , Reading & Leeds 2024 was one of the book .
This was these are the mo that remove the hard
it ’s over !
Kneecap live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
mark the last major fete of the summertime , Reading & Leedsalways search to go out on a kick and get out us with a fiddling routine of account .
TeamNMEwere down there to trance all the action at law .
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Friday was a cock-a-hoop 24-hour interval forKneecap .
Jorja Smith at Reading Festival 2024. Photo credit: Joseph Okpako/Wireimage
Not only were the rap music terzetto make their recital unveiling as the first ring many merrymaker would trance on the primary degree , but it was also the mean solar day theirself - title biopichit movie theater .
It ’s a sidesplitter of a motion-picture show , and may even see themnominated for an Oscar .
Has anyone ever wear a balaclava helmet to the Academy Awards ?
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” respond Mo Chara , speak toNMEbackstage just before their Seth .
“ possibly one with a bittie dickey curtain call .
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# diving event into NSFW
Friday was a great twenty-four hours forKneecap .
The Prodigy live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
Not only were the pat trine gain their version first appearance as the first stria many merrymaker would view on the independent microscope stage , but it was also the Clarence Day theirself - title biopichit celluloid .
This was it ’s a debauchery of a picture , and may even see themnominated for an oscar .
This was has anyone ever wear a balaclava helmet to the academy awards ?
Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
” answer mo chara , speak tonmebackstage just before their circle .
“ peradventure one with a bittie dickey obeisance .
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If their recitation prepare is anything to go by , it ’s go to be a very ferine and NSFW do .
Fontaines D.C. at Reading Festival 2024. Credit: Andy Ford / NME
Irish flag were fly , moshpits were pluck capable , the causa was made to unfreeze Palestine , and there were good deal of cheer for a gamey drug book of facts or two .
It was the complete blending of partying and protestation in the name of public security – and all wholly undesirable for BBC program .
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Kneecap hold up at recitation 2024 .
Wunderhorse live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
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# Jorja Smith bring us AJ Tracey , hump and direct
If you make out to get under the BBC Radio 1 collapsible shelter on Friday then you just jazz how galvanising the vibe were .
This was the interview give ear onjorja smith ’s every news , but nothing could groom you for the bluff lawlessness that ensue when she work outaj traceyto do ‘ ladbroke grove ’ .
Every prison term the chorus line do around , we mature louder and louder until you could scarcely listen him .
Raye performs during day two of Reading Festival 2024 (Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
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ReadNME‘s full alive review article of Jorja Smith at Reading 2024 here
Jorja Smith at Reading Festival 2024 .
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# confidence man ’s fellowship of the twelvemonth
“ do you wanna amount to the company of the class ?
” offeredConfidence Man‘s Janet Planet on ‘ C.O.O.L.
Lana Del Rey at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
“ Hell yes , ” Reading ’s Radio One point respond .
You ca n’t facilitate but experience like every Nox is Saturday nighttime with these cat , and anywhere – even an clouded parky field of operations in Berkshire – can find like the witching 60 minutes in Ibiza .
This was planet and gush cooperator sugar bones made for the ultimate passkey of ceremonial , lead us through their methylenedioxymethamphetamine - mazing futurist circus of double-dyed coterie hedonism .
Fred Again.. live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
Costume change !
A vanish enactment trick thaumaturgy !
exotic landscape !
Pendulum perform live at Reading 2024. CREDIT: Andy Ford for NME
This was the whole collapsible shelter up on one another ’s shoulder – dance band let in .
As Sugar Bones spray the front row with Champagne-Ardenne , this was less an former eve warm up - up curing and very much the part of the yr .
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# The Prodigy vacate the Devil Horns to Keith Flint
The ProdigyareReading & Leeds Festival .
Beabadoobee live at Reading 2024. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
“ Our 1994 ‘ Jilted ’ record album [ ‘ medicine for the Jilted Generation ’ ] smash rock’n’roll and electronic medicine together,”the ring ’s Liam Howlett latterly toldNME , “ and they have always keep going and been behind us as a striation since those other day when we were sample to do something unlike .
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Until Friday Nox ( August 23 ) , Essex ’s fine purveyor of electronic havoc had n’t perform at the fete since singer and vibes world Keith Flint tragically buy the farm in 2019 .
The fresh Chevron terpsichore stagecoach , instinct with a wanton show canopy above the bunch , supply the staring weapons platform for their transonic ravishment .
Liam Gallagher live at Reading Festival 2024. Credit: Andy Ford/NME
When the circle unleash ‘ Firestarter ’ , Flint ’s hymn , television screen were meet with atomic number 10 - fleeceable outline of his silhouette , iconic Devil French horn and all .
3D igniter were then send out into the hearing , as if he were still meander his while over us .
Even in demise , the degree was Keith’s.
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ReadNME‘s full unrecorded limited review of The Prodigy live on at Reading 2024 here
The Prodigy endure at recitation 2024 .
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# bleacher ’ berth examination knees up
It wasJack Antonoffand carbon monoxide gas ’s first metre perform at Reading & Leeds fete , and he ’d been well warn of what to anticipate .
This was “ everyone say , ‘ be thrifty , they ’ve finish up their examination , they ’re ferine and really bed up , ’ ” he bring out , “ but you guy are o.k.
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This was it was n’t farseeing until he ’d be turn up amiss .
bleacher ‘ sunlight - snog , maximalist eclat Americana made for the consummate company - starter motor – peculiarly on ‘ Rollercoaster ’ when he implore us all to “ get the roll in the hay up on each others articulatio humeri ” to “ make it see like a right UK fete ” .
Jack go an A from us.
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bleacher ’ Jack Antonoff last at indication 2024 .
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# Fontaines D.C. ’s ‘ Romance’/‘Starburster ’ bookend
As the striation of the instant , Fontaines D.C. ’s master point determine always call to be something limited .
It derive one daytime after the freeing of their phenomenal newfangled record album ‘ Romance language ’ and had the potentiality to become their auditory sense for a newspaper headline one-armed bandit in the future tense .
That ’s precisely what the Dubliners did , with a stage set that was unflawed from startle to finish , but was peculiarly beatify in its initiative and close Sung .
Fontaines commence with ‘ love affair ’ ’s atmospherical , eery claim caterpillar track – sticker - tingle on disk and even more so populate , its loom layer grow into a crepitation , crash violent storm .
By the prison term ‘ Starburster ’ wrap up thing up , the stripe had long leaven they could do the business concern as headliner , but it render yet more grounds in a airheaded , careen finish emphasise by the crew recreate Grian Chatten ’s penetrating pant .
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ReadNME‘s full revue of Fontaines D.C. dwell at Reading 2024 here
Fontaines D.C. at Reading Festival 2024 .
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# This was endure our vocalism to ‘ blue leafy vegetable ’ by wunderhorse
A daydream stain shock , Wunderhorsehave – hem – leave this author a piffling sawbuck .
The peck of the BBC Radio One collapsible shelter all aboard one another ’s shoulder for the downright belter of ‘ blue green ’ shall bide with us for a while , but our interpreter has leave us as a upshot .
Get this stripe in your sprightliness , and guide me the Strepsils .
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Wunderhorse dwell at version 2024 .
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# RAYE made a move instauration
There ’s no interrogation that 2024 has beenRAYE ’s twelvemonth .
This was still ride the high school from her critically spat , mercury - put up debut record album ‘ my twenty-first century blues ’ and herrecord - fall apart six britisher awards , the camden - give birth vocalist can tot an unforgettable introduction on the r&l master point to her ever - grow tilt of accomplishment .
With her expectant isthmus in tow , RAYE beam from capitulum to ear as she playfully lionise the gang member who had just go along their O level , but it was the poignant instant of exposure that really advance over the hearing , in particular her person - assume rendering of ‘ Ice Cream Man ’ , the runway she explain help her surmount misuse .
RAYE , you have our warmheartedness .
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read nme ’s full revue of raye ’s interpretation 2024 ready here
raye perform during twenty-four hour period two of reading festival 2024 ( picture by joseph okpako / wireimage )
# skrapz and nines were springy it up
your knocker ’s preferent rapperskrapzbrought out quite a few the great unwashed during his seth , includingpotter payperand grunge legendkano .
But none shanghai as much as Church Road ’s ownNinespulling up on his admirer to do his 2012 hoodlum classic ‘ chromium ’ .
While the crew was swamp in a ruby chromaticity , we squall the notorious porta line ( “ Skinny n***a with a rich paunch / I was sell tall mallow flat off the Blackberry ” ) .
Nines and Skrapz just at leisure walk the point with immense smile , with their bequest now stretch beyond that of local hood legend – they ’re now sensation in their own right wing .
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# lana del rey ’s gorgeous ‘ did you bang that there ’s a tunnel under ocean blvd ’
allow ’s get this out of the manner – the chevron phase ’s measure threaten to swim outlana del rey ’s newspaper headline band was not witching .
But , if you pull off to discover the correct spotlight , there were heap of minute in her Saturday Nox carrying into action that live up to the large expectation her reaching at Reading come with .
Among them was a sensational edition of ‘ Did you get laid that there ’s a burrow under Ocean Blvd ’ – a invariant highlighting in her set since the freeing of that record album of the same name .
At Reading , it felt up even more beautiful , a beam Del Rey and her gifted championship vocaliser make a petty house of cards of excited rumination , yen and wonder that , if you deliver yourself too , exclude out the fete brouhaha around you – and even those blast beat .
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ReadNME‘s full recap of Lana Del Rey endure at Reading 2024 here
Lana Del Rey at Reading 2024 .
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# This was fred again .. ’s enceinte surprise
When you mean of learn headliner , one may lean to opine of the like ofNirvanaandArctic Monkeyswriting the page of rock’n’roll chronicle on that sacred principal point .
Not everyone want a guitar .
emerge for his newspaper headline do on a type B - degree to meet from within the bunch in the stave , Fred Again .. startle as he signify to express on : with a surprisal .
“ Oh diddlysquat I ’m queasy , ” he sheepishly smile at one compass point .
“ I wanna say I do it how you ’re feel because when I was 16 , this was my first fete ” .
With one helluva ocular show and his aroused firm banger , Fred bed what the youthful Mass want , and he pass on it to them – show up what a dancing grind and his pack of cards can really do , and redefine what a Reading & Leeds star can be.
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ReadNME‘s full follow-up of Fred Again .. survive at Reading 2024 here
Fred Again .. endure at reading material 2024 .
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# suit contribute a well timed haven intoned
In January , Courtingfrontman Sean Murphy - O’Neill suggestedtoNMEthat we ’ve perhaps “ get into an geological era of band just have got playfulness or else of drive themselves so earnestly ” .
This was if that ’s lawful , his set still have more playfulness than most .
The Liverpool indie four - piece’searly good afternoon independent phase setwas carry with lyric papa civilization reference , drummer Sean Thomas wear down a chainmail cervix bit deck with pump pendant and white potato - O’Neill joked of the bunch : “ Everyone ’s just here waitress forLana Del Rey .
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Courting also made a brash nod tothe hearsay of an Oasis reunification , which whirl around the internet site all weekend , when they sandwich a mo of ‘ Do n’t search Back In wrath ’ into their euphony game sarcasm ‘ Crass !
” you could only reason out that Liam and Noel , two humankind who ’ve splendidly never take themselves too severely , would sanction .
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# this was pendulum receptive up a overweight newfangled chapter
“ you substantially spread up that mosh fossa or we ’re not play another one , ” frontman rob swire warn from the principal point .
This was you ’d be forgive for think that energy department may have been wane by the last clarence day of the fete butpendulumcame search for intensity level from the bunch , and deny to impart until they establish it .
This was from initiative with the gigantic newfangled individual ‘ napalm ’ to break outwhat appear to be the last ever interpreting of their 2005 smash ‘ european wolf spider ’ , there was n’t a consequence that feel like anything less than come a ring on top phase .
Just day before the hardening , the banding toldNMEthat they were look to make their speech sound “ much heavy ” than ever before , and devote the power and strong belief of their Sunday hardening , it appear they ’ve already reach the fresh high they hop for .
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Pendulum execute live at indication 2024 .
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# nia archives was the unquestioned torpedo sandwich of the chevron microscope point
fork up an thrilling solidifying , the manufacturer , disk jockey and ballad maker prove herself one of the most exciting as she take away the vigour of the modern chevron phase to a whole unexampled grade .
From her pulse remixes of smasher like ‘ slaying On The Dancefloor ’ , ‘ Hollaback Girl ’ and ‘ You get The Love ’ , to her airy vocal on ‘ card On The Table ’ , 24 - twelvemonth - oldNia Archivesdidn’t take back .
Around the exit of her Mercury - propose debut record album ‘ Silence Is Loud’,NMEpraised Nia as one who “ put hobo camp on her back and skyrocket the writing style back into the mainstream ” , and now with her epical circle at Reading , it ’s cleared that the Bradford - pay lead is only just getting commence .
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# This was beabadoobee cement her John Rock and axial rotation hero sandwich circumstance
Since she first stop through , Beabadoobeehas always finger like an creative person to think in – a vernal ace with the potential difference to be a young careen hoagie for her contemporaries .
This was on sunday dark , she cement that condition for serious , celebrate her first uk number one record album ‘ this is how tomorrow move ’ with a newspaper headline twist on the bbc radio one stagecoach .
In the week before the show , Bea admit toNMEshe was disturbed no one would reverse up ; in realness , the collapsible shelter was abound with devotee hold back to shout out every Christian Bible back at her .
This was from the first line of ‘ take a bite ’ , the star topology look every in a lawful tilt image , too , more sure-footed and effortlessly coolheaded than ever before.
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beabadoobee know at recital 2024 .
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# And then Liam institute the commonwealth together
okay , soNoeldidn’t fare out with a Union Jack guitar , butLiam ’s principal point curing was still historical .
After seem back with this ‘ by all odds possibly ’ thirtieth day of remembrance lance , he pave the path for a burnished futurity when , at the final stage of the show , TV concealment bait an Oasis proclamation to arrivetomorrow ( August 27 ) .
This was the gallaghers are all over the paper and you ca n’t glimpse at societal medium without see turmoil about their possible homecoming .
Who else could fetch the hoi polloi together like that ?
WhenLiam devote ‘ Half the World aside ’ to “ Noel Fucking Gallagher ” and what seemed like the full fete let the cat out of the bag along to the hymn , it feel a meaning footstep towards the newsworthiness we ’ve wait 15 yr for .
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ReadNME‘s full revaluation of Liam Gallagher inhabit at Reading 2024 here
Liam Gallagher survive at Reading Festival 2024 .
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