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Reading festival 2012 kicks off

Hirsute, heavy and homegrown, Reading festival gets underway with Deaf Havana, Future of the Left and Hadouken!And so to Reading and Leeds, the no-frills Big Gig in a Field that acts as the solo-squealing encore for the UK festival season. It sneers at Bestival's firework finale as it casually sets fire to its toilet blocks. It snorts at the piss bottles thrown at Cher Lloyd at V as it lobs whole deckchairs at 50 Cent. Here there are no Patagonian poetry grottos, no naked swimming, fancy dress p...

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15:33 on August 24 2012

Reading festival 2012 kicks off

Guardian Music — Hirsute, heavy and homegrown, Reading festival gets underway with Deaf Havana, Future of the Left and Hadouken!And so to Reading and Leeds, the no-frills Big Gig in a Fie... more info