Reading, ENG @ Reading & Leeds Festival - August 24th, 2024

[partymonster 4,722]

she's finally coming to leeds omg  

leeds fest doe 

[Pedriko 1,820]

5 hours ago, daphnedinkley said:

from what i’ve gleaned, Reading is a tad more easygoing than it’s Leeds counterpart!

 

i’ll try to elaborate just so it makes a lil more sense why i’m dreading it so much hahah! honestly, i don’t want to sound like i’m being super mean about leeds fest; i quite enjoyed it when i was much much younger, but going back as an adult i absolutely hated it. my friends are all massive lana fans and we went down to london and spent a bunch of money to see her at hyde park so they’re the kind to follow lana to the gates of hell, but even they’re all refusing to come with me to leeds fest so we can see her and it’s only down the road from us leeds fest is very much a young persons festival; it’s the end of gcses / end-of-college-year tradition for many 15-18 year olds up north. as such, it’s about 90% filled with underage teens who aren’t used to that sort of environment getting absolutely off their head - as they should! bc partying is fun and drugs and booze and live music and festivals are all the most fun at that age! i’d never slate them for that! but being there as an adult was very very jarring for me. last time i went i took my nephew and bc it was a birthday gift for him, we spent a lot of time in the hip hop tent bc that’s where most of his fave artists were and i believe i was the oldest person in the entire tent - i was 24 at the time  so because it’s full of young and inexperienced partygoers, a lot of them don’t know how to act, they don’t have concert etiquette and it can just feel like a giant expensive sweaty freshers fair at points.

 

for example, just anecdotes from my personal experience but my nephew and i were there for a day, and in that one day: a 16 year old tried chatting me up and would not leave me alone so when i finally raised my voice at him because i’d been politely asking him to back off for 20 minutes (not least of all because he was an actual child!) he ragged my hair and pushed me over into a bunch of unsuspecting girls and they all went toppling over (lol he he wasn’t used to rejection i guess? idk); my 15 year old nephew got punched in a face by a random 19 year old lad because he asked my nephew if he sold cocaine (like WHAT he’s FIFTEEN LOL), my nephew laughed and said no, and the 19 year old got lairy bc my nephew was “taking the piss out of him” and a big fight ensued - there was no security around so it took 5ft3 me tearing this 6ft4 wasted roidhead off my nephew to get the fight to stop; i got a giant bruise on my forehead because someone launched a glass wine bottle across the crowd and of course it would hit me!! right in the forehead!! lmao; i managed to catch a gnarly sunburn that lasted for months after (even w plenty of sunscreen!) because there are barely any tented or shaded areas AT ALL, lots of people were passing out from sunstroke etc (which is common for festivals but leeds fest is particularly egregious with its poor design); my nephew got injured because he was backing away from a mosh pit that was forming in the crowd (he just wanted to hear the music and nod his head a little, he didn’t wanna go crazy or nothing) but a bunch of kids decided to push him so hard into the middle of it that they actually knocked him over and he got kicked a load of times and injured his ankle by going down on it funny (one kid actually pulled him by his shirt to throw him directly into the middle of the mosh pit, mind you we were towards the back of the crowd so we weren’t even in the middle or at the front or anything like that, so why they thought it was okay to do that is absolutely beyond me); i spent about £250 just to feed and hydrate me and my nephew for the day, but that being said i did have a few alcoholic drinks which are of course more expensive, but still! i also remember it being about £15 just to use any of the phone charging ports; there was a literal used needle in the bathroom stall i used at one point which baffled me cause like…. kids are doing heroin now? is that hip now? is that what they’re doing? the mind boggles!; a kid actually died the day we were there from an overdose, bless his poor little soul.

 

all in all, the crowd that leeds fest seems to attract is usually quite awful. a lot of random fires, often they’ll set fire to tents in the camping areas at night time, lots of violence, lots of uncomfortable situations involving young kids being absolutely out of it. i don’t think that it being a young persons festival is a bad thing at all, and i don’t even think it’s inherently bad to have an obnoxious crowd at a festival like this - i just think that if you’re an adult or if situations like that can make you anxious/uncomfortable, it can be unpleasant.

 

reading attracts a similar age bracket, but i believe the levels of obnoxiousness and chaos are a little lower than leeds! like i say, i don’t intend to actually slate the festival or the people that go to it - i think young people need a place where they can get to grips with substances and partying and crowd etiquette and things like that! i think that’s a good thing! but it is also my idea of hell

 

but for lana…. i’m willing to do it  i’m sorry this was so long but i hope that shed a little light on it for you!! <3

 

i am so glad it’s not just me being mean about leeds fest in this thread i was starting to sound  like a bitter old lady omfg

imagine these younger people at this festival now that lana is famous on tiktok 

[kela 2]

6 hours ago, The Sun Also Rises said:

 

Is it that bad  Can you elaborate? Is Reading Festival any better? What do we think are the chances of getting some solo dates in London or the NW-NE? 

tbh its like an end of gcse festival 😭😭 so pretty much all 16 year olds but depends if you camp or not - r&l are both pretty much the same

[American Bore 818]

She's doing Saturday Reading, Sunday Leeds 

https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/reading-and-leeds-festival

 

The way I've got to age 23 without having to brave either of these festivals I fear it might be the end of me

[Rico25 7,956]

I love Leeds but I'm too broke, waiting for another French concert or sth

[Elle 122,851]

36 minutes ago, American Bore said:

She's doing Saturday Reading, Sunday Leeds 

https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/reading-and-leeds-festival

 

Thank you for the info! Now that we know what days she’s playing where, I went ahead and created another thread so we can have separate discussion for each show, which will make things easier for updates especially once we get closer to showtime (seems long from now, but time goes by fast!)

I’ve left this thread for the first show in Reading, and created a new one for the second in Leeds here x

[daphnedinkley 13,773]

53 minutes ago, American Bore said:

She's doing Saturday Reading, Sunday Leeds 

https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/reading-and-leeds-festival

 

The way I've got to age 23 without having to brave either of these festivals I fear it might be the end of me

 

i was really hoping she was playing the same day as liam gallagher or blink 182 but of course that would be too good to be true 💔 oh well! maybe fred again will be a fun way to close out the night!

 

also interesting how lana is seemingly headlining main stage west and not main stage east. for those not familiar, R+L fest have two main stages and a separate headliner for each of those stages, but main stage east is basically the “true” headliner and the final act of the night. i’m pretty surprised lana agreed to not be doing that! i know fred again is huge atm but i still feel like lana is a bigger act and more worthy of true headliner status.

 

cool that we get lana and raye on the same day tho  

[LustForcocc 768]

I love this woman to death but there’s absolutely no way I’m paying for travel, tickets, and accommodation to go to a sweaty festival where I’ll be miserable 

 

fingers crossed she announces London dates or anything solo in the UK, even something like Hyde park again would be amazinggggg

[American Bore 818]

55 minutes ago, daphnedinkley said:

 

i was really hoping she was playing the same day as liam gallagher or blink 182 but of course that would be too good to be true 💔 oh well! maybe fred again will be a fun way to close out the night!

 

also interesting how lana is seemingly headlining main stage west and not main stage east. for those not familiar, R+L fest have two main stages and a separate headliner for each of those stages, but main stage east is basically the “true” headliner and the final act of the night. i’m pretty surprised lana agreed to not be doing that! i know fred again is huge atm but i still feel like lana is a bigger act and more worthy of true headliner status.

 

cool that we get lana and raye on the same day tho  

Tbf her doing west isn't a massive loss as she wont have curfew issues; the wait wont be as long; and hopefully most of the kids will be waiting at the other stage for fred again

 

Though they might cut her off if she goes over her slot as the two main stages are quite close to each other and they deliberately don't overlap the artists iirc

[partymonster 4,722]

2 hours ago, American Bore said:

She's doing Saturday Reading, Sunday Leeds 

https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/reading-and-leeds-festival

 

The way I've got to age 23 without having to brave either of these festivals I fear it might be the end of me

Fred again and Lana on the same day 

[The Sun Also Rises 5,863]

15 hours ago, daphnedinkley said:

from what i’ve gleaned, Reading is a tad more easygoing than it’s Leeds counterpart!

 

i’ll try to elaborate just so it makes a lil more sense why i’m dreading it so much hahah! honestly, i don’t want to sound like i’m being super mean about leeds fest; i quite enjoyed it when i was much much younger, but going back as an adult i absolutely hated it. my friends are all massive lana fans and we went down to london and spent a bunch of money to see her at hyde park so they’re the kind to follow lana to the gates of hell, but even they’re all refusing to come with me to leeds fest so we can see her and it’s only down the road from us leeds fest is very much a young persons festival; it’s the end of gcses / end-of-college-year tradition for many 15-18 year olds up north. as such, it’s about 90% filled with underage teens who aren’t used to that sort of environment getting absolutely off their head - as they should! bc partying is fun and drugs and booze and live music and festivals are all the most fun at that age! i’d never slate them for that! but being there as an adult was very very jarring for me. last time i went i took my nephew and bc it was a birthday gift for him, we spent a lot of time in the hip hop tent bc that’s where most of his fave artists were and i believe i was the oldest person in the entire tent - i was 24 at the time  so because it’s full of young and inexperienced partygoers, a lot of them don’t know how to act, they don’t have concert etiquette and it can just feel like a giant expensive sweaty freshers fair at points.

 

for example, just anecdotes from my personal experience but my nephew and i were there for a day, and in that one day: a 16 year old tried chatting me up and would not leave me alone so when i finally raised my voice at him because i’d been politely asking him to back off for 20 minutes (not least of all because he was an actual child!) he ragged my hair and pushed me over into a bunch of unsuspecting girls and they all went toppling over (lol he he wasn’t used to rejection i guess? idk); my 15 year old nephew got punched in a face by a random 19 year old lad because he asked my nephew if he sold cocaine (like WHAT he’s FIFTEEN LOL), my nephew laughed and said no, and the 19 year old got lairy bc my nephew was “taking the piss out of him” and a big fight ensued - there was no security around so it took 5ft3 me tearing this 6ft4 wasted roidhead off my nephew to get the fight to stop; i got a giant bruise on my forehead because someone launched a glass wine bottle across the crowd and of course it would hit me!! right in the forehead!! lmao; i managed to catch a gnarly sunburn that lasted for months after (even w plenty of sunscreen!) because there are barely any tented or shaded areas AT ALL, lots of people were passing out from sunstroke etc (which is common for festivals but leeds fest is particularly egregious with its poor design); my nephew got injured because he was backing away from a mosh pit that was forming in the crowd (he just wanted to hear the music and nod his head a little, he didn’t wanna go crazy or nothing) but a bunch of kids decided to push him so hard into the middle of it that they actually knocked him over and he got kicked a load of times and injured his ankle by going down on it funny (one kid actually pulled him by his shirt to throw him directly into the middle of the mosh pit, mind you we were towards the back of the crowd so we weren’t even in the middle or at the front or anything like that, so why they thought it was okay to do that is absolutely beyond me); i spent about £250 just to feed and hydrate me and my nephew for the day, but that being said i did have a few alcoholic drinks which are of course more expensive, but still! i also remember it being about £15 just to use any of the phone charging ports; there was a literal used needle in the bathroom stall i used at one point which baffled me cause like…. kids are doing heroin now? is that hip now? is that what they’re doing? the mind boggles!; a kid actually died the day we were there from an overdose, bless his poor little soul.

 

all in all, the crowd that leeds fest seems to attract is usually quite awful. a lot of random fires, often they’ll set fire to tents in the camping areas at night time, lots of violence, lots of uncomfortable situations involving young kids being absolutely out of it. i don’t think that it being a young persons festival is a bad thing at all, and i don’t even think it’s inherently bad to have an obnoxious crowd at a festival like this - i just think that if you’re an adult or if situations like that can make you anxious/uncomfortable, it can be unpleasant.

 

reading attracts a similar age bracket, but i believe the levels of obnoxiousness and chaos are a little lower than leeds! like i say, i don’t intend to actually slate the festival or the people that go to it - i think young people need a place where they can get to grips with substances and partying and crowd etiquette and things like that! i think that’s a good thing! but it is also my idea of hell

 

but for lana…. i’m willing to do it  i’m sorry this was so long but i hope that shed a little light on it for you!! <3

 

i am so glad it’s not just me being mean about leeds fest in this thread i was starting to sound  like a bitter old lady omfg

 

Ohhh thank you so much for such a detailed reply, I really appreciate it! What a surreal experience and how terrible for you and your nephew! That would probably put me off for life honestly, you are one brave woman 

 

The first festival I ever went to was Hyde Park this year. Honestly it was great, but I suspect because it's not a camping festival (so not really a festival in that sense), also because 100% of the people were there for Lana and probably over 90% were female, the fans were overall so cordial and nice. No fights, just good vibes! I'm in my mid-twenties and I don't know if I can handle putting up with rowdy drunk British teenagers ... sounds like a nightmare fever dream tbh

 

It's also on my partners birthday weekend and since he's not a Lana fan there's no way ... I don't have any friends who are into Lana and with mild social anxiety, there's no way I'm going alone after your description 

I'm convincing myself to hold out hope for the fact that she might do a show in London and then maybe Manchester (or Liverpool). That would make sense with her being in the U.K! As we know nothing Lana & team ever do makes sense ... but you never know 

 

 

1 hour ago, LustForcocc said:

I love this woman to death but there’s absolutely no way I’m paying for travel, tickets, and accommodation to go to a sweaty festival where I’ll be miserable 

 

fingers crossed she announces London dates or anything solo in the UK, even something like Hyde park again would be amazinggggg

 

Yes please for solo dates! I could see one in London and then one in Leeds, Manchester, or Liverpool. Hyde Park would be great but the "exclusive headliner" on the L/R poster and the fact that Hyde Park don't tend to repeat headlines two years in a row makes me think no 

[The Sun Also Rises 5,863]

9 hours ago, kela said:

tbh its like an end of gcse festival 😭😭 so pretty much all 16 year olds but depends if you camp or not - r&l are both pretty much the same

 

Thank you, this tells me all I need to know 

[LustForcocc 768]

27 minutes ago, The Sun Also Rises said:

 

Ohhh thank you so much for such a detailed reply, I really appreciate it! What a surreal experience and how terrible for you and your nephew! That would probably put me off for life honestly, you are one brave woman 

 

The first festival I ever went to was Hyde Park this year. Honestly it was great, but I suspect because it's not a camping festival (so not really a festival in that sense), also because 100% of the people were there for Lana and probably over 90% were female, the fans were overall so cordial and nice. No fights, just good vibes! I'm in my mid-twenties and I don't know if I can handle putting up with rowdy drunk British teenagers ... sounds like a nightmare fever dream tbh

 

It's also on my partners birthday weekend and since he's not a Lana fan there's no way ... I don't have any friends who are into Lana and with mild social anxiety, there's no way I'm going alone after your description 

I'm convincing myself to hold out hope for the fact that she might do a show in London and then maybe Manchester (or Liverpool). That would make sense with her being in the U.K! As we know nothing Lana & team ever do makes sense ... but you never know 

 

 

 

Yes please for solo dates! I could see one in London and then one in Leeds, Manchester, or Liverpool. Hyde Park would be great but the "exclusive headliner" on the L/R poster and the fact that Hyde Park don't tend to repeat headlines two years in a row makes me think no 

I’m holding out on not buying the festival tickets because I just KNOW she’ll announce a London date right after I buy them, but I’m worrying incase she does just do the festival headliners and then leaves

[The Sun Also Rises 5,863]

12 minutes ago, LustForcocc said:

I’m holding out on not buying the festival tickets because I just KNOW she’ll announce a London date right after I buy them, but I’m worrying incase she does just do the festival headliners and then leaves

 

I don't know why she WOULDN'T do it but ... we know Lana  

It's literally giving me anxiety not knowing, I'm in the same camp as you 

[J03 561]

How do we on own shell be the Saturday and not Friday/Sunday vice versa? Trying to find out if Raye’s playing the same day but I haven’t seen a confirmed day specific lineup yet

[too fast too young 956]

The only problem with Leeds fest is that it’s full of school leavers (16 year olds) I don’t think I can cope being in that screaming crowd 

[Thats why they call me Dita 10,279]

7 minutes ago, too fast too young said:

The only problem with Leeds fest is that it’s full of school leavers (16 year olds) I don’t think I can cope being in that screaming crowd 

If she’s playing at same time as that Fred again I’m holding hope that they’ll all flock to watch him with his music being all over radio lol

1 hour ago, J03 said:

How do we on own shell be the Saturday and not Friday/Sunday vice versa? Trying to find out if Raye’s playing the same day but I haven’t seen a confirmed day specific lineup yet

I want to know too.. where have these confirmed days come from as when I click the ticket master link it doesn’t show me the lineup 

[Elle 122,851]

24 minutes ago, Thats why they call me Dita said:

I want to know too.. where have these confirmed days come from as when I click the ticket master link it doesn’t show me the lineup 

They must have accidentally posted the details too early and have since fixed what appears when you visit that page. Earlier today, it did list certain acts that were playing on each day x

[Thats why they call me Dita 10,279]

1 minute ago, Elle said:

They must have accidentally posted the details too early and have since fixed what appears when you visit that page. Earlier today, it did list certain acts that were playing on each day x

Ah that explains it! Thought I was going mad I was looking everywhere! 

[American Bore 818]

13 hours ago, J03 said:

How do we on own shell be the Saturday and not Friday/Sunday vice versa? Trying to find out if Raye’s playing the same day but I haven’t seen a confirmed day specific lineup yet

Iirc Raye was on the same day as Lana when the link showed the day splits. Hopefully they'll post the poster in the next few days