This weekend, we’re ‘on the ground’ at Reading 2022. Featuring some of the biggest and most exciting bands and artists on the planet, alongside the buzziest new acts, we’ll be bringing you coverage of everything you need to know. That includes photos of all the key sets, including these snaps of Glass Animals, who took to the Main Stage West on Friday (26th August).
Perfect time. Perfect festival. Perfect band. It’s a rarity when all three come together, but as the sun sets over the Main Stage at Reading – Glass Animals tick all those boxes and more. With grandstand production, tonight feels like a dress rehearsal for their increasingly inevitable headline era and a curtain call for an album that catapulted them into the stratosphere. A big screen celebration that doesn’t just rest on the hits, but celebrates the in-betweens – it’s pure, unfiltered joy. ‘Life Itself’, ‘Tangerine’ and ‘I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)’ spin Reading into a disco ball of genre-smashing delights – ‘Tokyo Drifting’ a prime example of a band flourishing in their moment. As Dave Bayley tells the story of how he and drummer Joe were brought together by a spare ticket to Reading years back, their set is filled with emotion as they flex their muscles like never before. As the inevitable closing blast of ‘Heat Waves’ rings out, Glass Animals bid farewell to ‘Dreamland’ by claiming Reading as their own star-studded playground. They’ll be back for that next perfect festival moment in no time.
