Good Charlotte: "Going back to Reading & Leeds is very important for us"

On Good Charlotte’s new album ‘Youth Authority’, you’ll find guest appearances from both Sleeping With Sirens’ Kellin Quinn and Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil: it’s fitting, then, that they’re all playing the same day of this year’s Reading & Leeds. SWS and Biffy are set for the main stage, while Good Charlotte find themselves headlining the small but mighty Lock-Up. “What we really wanted to try and accomplish with all our shows was ‘special’,” explains Joel Madden, “It’s kind of cool going to Reading and doing a small stage ‘cause we like what it says, we like that it’s different. “Our band is in a different place in our lives now, we’re just trying to do the opposite of what everyone thinks we’re gonna do, and that’s been our whole mission. To keep it special and to go against people’s ideas of us, and to make it special for the fans and do shit that’s special.