I had to give up my tickets to reading 2012 due to having surgery, but my son went and none of his friends were much interested the cure and he mentions it all felt a bit flat as a result of a setlist that the crowd didn't really take to and being surrounded by friends who clearly wanted a better time someone else.
It definitely feels like there was a turning point for them live (Hyde park, as mentioned) and now they have transcended to a higher level as a live act.
I’ve also been thinking about this from Ken this weekend. In my head, a top 4 of Iggy Pop > Fontaines DC > Deftones > LP is definitely more than acceptable for any festival, but is it plausible they’re still looking for acts to strengthen the sold out days to improve combi sales? Would be a very big day if they had a sub sized act to slot in here and move things around in my opinion
From what I remember, flooding on the Catton Park side of the river is pretty rare/unlikely. Not least because there's enough places for the water to go on the other side that they'd take the first / worst of it.
I think it was something like more than a typical months worth of rain had fallen in 24 hours, mostly on the Wednesday of the festival. The then River peaked on the Thursday night at something like a metre and a half higher than the top of the "normal" range. So yeah, it took some pretty extreme rain to be a legitimate threat to the festival.
Another example of a festival getting close to cancellation because of rain has occurred to me - Blue Dot 2023, they didn't actually call off the festival but did officially close entry and asked Sunday Day Ticket holders to stay at home (though I suspect any that turned up would have been let in). From what I was told they had constant rain all weekend and the site itself was a boggy disaster.
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