England’s Reading and Leeds festivals aren’t the largest or most important festivals in the UK — that’s still Glastonbury — but they’re still massive institutions and enormously important career-makers for bands from around the world. And my one day at the 1997 Reading Festival (Manic Street Preachers headlining, the Orb second from the top, Republica [...]
Stereogum — England’s Reading and Leeds festivals aren’t the largest or most important festivals in the UK — that’s still Glastonbury — but they’re still massive institut... more info