The Guardian - 27.08.2019

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overcrowded boat?

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B

e wild, be weird, be

wonderful, and take

the feeling of love and

community here and

spread it far and wide,”

Rou Reynolds of Enter

Shikari tells Leeds festival, having a

Woodstock moment.

The twin-site former rock festival

that has become an annual post-

GCSE blowout hasn’t turned into

a hippy happening but it does feel

markedly more environmentally,

socially and politically conscious.

Recycling bins are everywhere now.

The scorching heat underlines the

with a knowingly raised eyebrow,

all the hits and blistering hard

rock. Grohl’s duet with his teenage

daughter Violet on My Hero is truly

lovely. The frontman’s wildest rock

fantasies couldn’t have scripted

a man buzzing the crowd on a

gyroscope during Learning to Fly

or performing Queen and David

Bowie’s Under Pressure with a

Freddie Mercury lookalike plucked

spontaneously from the audience.

It’s obviously a kind of magic.

But the 1975 are the fi rst headline

act to grab the zeitgeist. Their angry

new single People issues a punky

rallying call to apathetic youth

before the set settles into trademark

INXS-style pop-funk. Lead singer

Matty Healy explains why he fl outed

Dubai’s strict laws to kiss a male fan –

“It’s not me that needs to change, it’s

the world” – and stands respectfully

as his band accompany a Greta

Thunberg speech to huge applause.

The story of the weekend though

is the 17-year-old singer Billie Eilish.

Booked to play the Radio 1 tent,

her booming popularity brought

a hurried shift to the main stage,

and her late-afternoon slot draws a

vast crowd. With her green hair and

graffi tied clothes, the US songwriter

looks more climate protest er than

mainstream pop star, but clearly

has the voice and talent to be

anything she wants. The 13 songs

in her 40-minute set cover subjects

from sexuality to self-loathing and

careers from sub-bass rap to jazzy

piano ballads. She leaves the fi eld a

superstar and headline act in every

way, except her position on the bill.

▲ The 1975’s Matty Healy issued a

rallying cry on Reading’s main stage

▲ Billie Eilish’s triumphant set on the

main stage was the talk of the festival

PHOTOGRAPH: KATJA OGRIN/REDFERNS

Music review

Post-GCSE bacchanal

fi nds its conscience

Reading and Leeds festival

Bramham Park, Leeds

Richfi eld Avenue, Reading

★★★★☆

messages in the Extinction Rebellion

fi lms screened from the stage. Frank

Carter & the Rattlesnakes create a

safe space for female crowd surfers

and “celebrate” Boris Johnson with

their track I Hate You.

Seven stages host every genre

from metal to dance to grime,

although the Skepta -championed

newcomer Bakar wins over the

Festival Republic tent by packing

indie, punk, doo-wop and more

into songs that are indefi nably

soulful. Women make up half of the

audience, but are still chronically

under-represented on stage,

especially on the main stage,

although Charli XCX ’s catchy, biting

pop gets the whole fi eld bouncing.

Dave Grohl conquered Reading

with Nirvana in 1992, and his Foo

Fighters certainly know how to

headline the festival. This is their

fourth time. Normally creaky

stadium rock indulgences work

brilliantly because they’re delivered

‘Be wild, be weird, be

wonderful, and take

the feeling of love and

community you fi nd

here and spread it

far and wide’

Rou Reynolds

Enter Shikari

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