Don Broco play their biggest ever show at Reading/Leeds this year
For the final part of our Reading previews, we’re taking a look at the Sunday line up with beady eyes, getting us even more excited about the festival kick off on Friday! Check out a playlist of 20 songs of bands playing the day to the right of this article!
Biffy Clyro
Whether you love them or you think they’ve sold their soul down the river, we genuinely can’t think of a bigger crowd pleaser to end Reading 2013 with. The sing-alongs are going to be huge and expect to see a nod to the band and their more experimental days with an old song or two. This is going to be a real coming of age moment for Biffy Clyro and you’d be an idiot to miss out.
Nine Inch Nails
Their set back in 2007 has gone down in Reading Festival folk-lore as one of the best sets ever to grace Richfield Avenue. You can expect the band to hit Reading Festival 2013 with a renewed sense of vigour and intensity.
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy’s return to the UK since their reformation has remained fairly low key in the form of one very small and sweaty show in London back in February. The band are ready to announce their return properly to British shores with a high profile set on what promises to be a glorious Sunday evening.
Don Broco
Don Broco have had an absolutely meteoric rise to fame over the last two years. The band themselves might look back to their career exploding appearance on the BBC Introducing stage two years ago as they prepare to take on their biggest show to date on the main stage at Reading Festival. These boys are going to get an absolutely huge crowd in what will probably be one of the highlights of Reading 2013.
City and Colour
A rather surprising inclusion in the ma-hoo-sive Radio 1/NME tent, Dallas Green will take it all in his stride while belting out his emotive blend of folk rock. The crowd won’t be the biggest here but rest assured that City & Colour will be a nice respite from the usual manic Sunday.
Funeral For A Friend
Funeral For A Friend are a band who’ve released some of their most underrated material over the past few years. It’ll be a welcome return to Reading Festival for the boys from South Wales as they prepare to take the audience on a big old hardcore infused ride, expect some old classics to be thrown in for the fun of it too.
And So I Watch You From Afar
ASIWYFA are sure to blow the cobwebs away with their own brand of instrumental electronic brilliance, prepare to be taken on a retrospective look through their career so far while having a bloody good time while you’re at it.
Arcane Roots
The stock in Arcane Roots has been steadily rising over the last month, their brand of hard and hitting rock is definitely going to give a bunch of punks with a hangover the wake up they need on a Sunday afternoon. Expect big things from this band and make sure you’re around to see the wheels in motion.
Haim
Kind of left field for most Punktastic readers, but this band won the BBC Sound of 2013 and bands don’t just do that for no good reason. These three sisters from LA constantly put on a fucking excellent show and will certainly fill out the Radio1/NME stage with ease. Expect to see them dotted around the festival too, perhaps with an impromptu performance or two, they’re just that kind of band.
CHRIS MARSHMAN