Reading & Leeds Festival have revealed that tickets for Reading are gone, all of them, even the ones out the back and under the counter! I repeat, weekend tickets are sold out! However you can still grab tickets to Leeds Festival, so sort it out.

In the mean time here are 5 bands that (if you’re smart enough to have a ticket already) we reckon you should give a goosey gander over the weekend.

Let’s Eat Grandma

Like many a taboo subject before it, cannibalism, specifically the incestuous kind, has come to the forefront of what is hip and cool in music these days. However, don’t expect any of that black metal ritualistic nonsense when these two hit the stage. A great blend of being too young to give a shit what people thought now mixed with whatever maturity you gain from the age of 16 to 18, has propelled these two young women into the perpetually crowded abyss that is female fronted alt-pop, but still they seem to shine the brightest, must be all the carrots in granny’s pie.

Nothing, Nowhere

Sad rap has been a staple in our hip hop diets for a while now, but somebody, somewhere has been chugging along under all the hype machine, that’s where Nothing, Nowhere comes in. A place where distorted and rasping emotional vocals blend with electric guitars and mellow beats, not to mention the out of the box samples, (who’d have thought prospecting in the sadmine that is Dear John would come up trumps). A real emo stalwart that has, in our opinion, never released a bad song, you would be foolish to not go do a sad for half an hour.

Normandie

The embarrassingly underrated Normandie burst onto the scene way back in 2013, and it’s taken a lot of hard work and persistence to get to where they are today. A band that had the know withal and talent to change their sound and be flexible in order to break past the basic barriers of genericism, Normandies unique blend of rock, pop and hardcore has been maturing in a well-rounded barrel for 5 years, and they’re here to pop their corks all over your ear holes.

Man With A mission

It’s Japanese rock music, but they’re wearing giant wolf heads. Do we need say more?

Petrol Girls

TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I’LL Fucking Kill YOU! TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU! TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU! TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU! TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU! TOUCH ME AGAIN AND I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU!

Go see Petrol Girls and let your rage be unrelenting, let this brilliant four piece take your anger and release it in the words you’ve wanted to scream every god damn day of your life. A band for the current social climate, that won’t take the high road if they know it’s going to leave them low. They’re a fight band, but one who are always fighting the good fight.

So these are our picks over what is going to be one of the best Reading & Leeds festivals in recent memory, an abundance of rock, pop, hardcore and hip hop, not to mention comedy and all the other random bits that come along every year.

Reading & Leeds Festival takes place 24-26 August 2018. Tickets for Leeds Festival can be found here.