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No sleep, meltdowns and Billie Eilish: my first music festival as an autistic person

I took the plunge at this year’s Reading festival, where sensory overload and mobility issues posed problems. Could I make it to the headline acts?

The Guardian - UK

Reading Festival 2023 showed that when Matty Healy tones down his nonsense, The 1975 remain a top tier live band

Low on controversy and high on great songs, this is the kind of 1975 set we need in our lives

Louder

Reading and Leeds festival review – Billie Eilish and the Killers thrill at bucket-hatted blowout

The post-GCSE audience is suitably boisterous at a festival that is keeping its remit admirably broad, from Foals’ intense rock to Bicep’s beautiful techno

The Guardian - UK

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Reading Festival review, day three: Queen of alt-pop Billie Eilish closes the weekend in sublime but subdued fashion

Meanwhile, Imagine Dragons come up short compared to fellow Las Vegans, The Killers, who performed the night before

The Independent UK

The 1975’s Matty Healy pays tribute to Lewis Capaldi at Reading Festival

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy paid tribute to Lewis Capaldi during the band’s headline set at Reading Festival on Saturday.

The National (Scotland)

Reading Festival review, day two: The Killers deliver one of the great Reading headline sets

Despite a guest drummer who struggles to keep up, The Killers are back to full bombastic pelt and slaying harder by the minute

The Independent UK

Showers set to hit Reading & Leeds Festival and Notting Hill Carnival

There is also potential for thunder and lightning in Leeds on Saturday afternoon.

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Train strikes this bank holiday weekend to hit Notting Hill Carnival and Reading Festival

Warning train strikes could cause ‘chaos’ for revellers flocking to Notting Hill Carnival and Reading Festival

Evening Standard

Reading Festival 2023: Set times and how to watch acts on TV

Reading Festival 2023 will see the likes of Billie Eilish, Foals and The 1975 take to the main stage

Evening Standard

Bank Holiday to cap best summer since 2019 for London tourism

Major events attracting tourists this weekend include the Notting Hill carnival and the Reading and All Points East music festivals

Evening Standard

Officers injured as police van flips in crash with ambulance

Footage of aftermath shows overturned police van and smashed glass littering road after blue-light collision

The Independent UK

Emergency workers in hospital after police van and ambulance crash in Reading

The police van was flipped onto its roof, and the ambulance car left a crumpled wreck

Evening Standard

Moment man arrested for ‘brazen’ sexual assault on Elizabeth line train

Edgar Junior sexually assaulted lone female Elizabeth line passenger on train from Paddington to Reading

Evening Standard

"If you haven’t been ripped off, you haven’t been in the music business”: How personal tragedy, the demands of touring and the pressure to make money destroyed Alex Harvey

In 1977, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band played the Reading Festival. Harvey was being acclaimed as a punk pioneer and the future looked bright. But it was to be their last ever gig…

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Evening Standard

Major disruption to rail services and Elizabeth line to and from London Paddington

Services between Reading and Heathrow Airport are affected due to a signalling failure

Evening Standard

The 1975 to replace ‘friend’ Lewis Capaldi at Reading and Leeds festivals

The Scottish superstar was originally scheduled to appear at Reading on Saturday August 26 and Leeds the following day

Wales Online

The 1975 announced as Lewis Capaldi's replacement headline act at Reading and Leeds Festival 2023

The band will take to the stage in August to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their self-titled debut album ‘The 1975’

Daily Mirror

Lewis Capaldi pulls out of Reading and Leeds as HUGE new headliner announced

Lewis Capaldi has withdrawn from the Reading and Leeds line-up after announcing he would be taking time away from work after struggling with his Tourettes

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Manchester Evening News

The 1975 fill in for Lewis Capaldi at Leeds and Reading Festival

The Wilmslow lads will be subbing for the Glasgow icon after he cancelled his forthcoming shows

The Independent UK

The 1975 to replace Lewis Capaldi at Reading and Leeds Festival

Singer Matty Healy said band would replace their ‘good friend’ Capaldi

Daily Mirror

School run by headteacher who took her own life after Ofsted report now rated as good

Caversham Primary School in Reading, Berkshire, was rated as inadequate in leadership and management earlier this year, but a new inspection found it to be good

Metal Hammer

Remembering the crazy time 50 Cent got bottled off stage in 20 minutes at Reading Festival

That moment 50 Cent and G Unit were sent packing thanks to an onslaught of bottles, cups and...er...camping chairs

Evening Standard

John Lewis submits plans for London rental homes in west and south east London

It marks the next stage in the John Lewis Partnership’s plans to build around 1,000 ‘build-to-rent’ homes in West Ealing, Bromley, and Reading

The Independent UK

‘Kind and curious’ schoolboy, 10, dies after choking during lunch break

Oscar Roome died on Saturday after a ‘choking incident’ at his school in Caversham, near Reading

The Independent UK

Woman has all her teeth removed after rare vomiting condition causes them to fall out

Louise, a hairdresser, from Reading, Berkshire, said: ‘Life is alright now, everything has gone back to normal’

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