Reading Festival 2022 - Day 2

The genre-defining lines in music are blurring all the time, and nowhere is this more evident than on the Reading & Leeds Festival line-ups.

The likes of rappers Dave and Megan Thee Stallion (both of whom made headlines on Day 1, the general consensus being that they were both defining in their own ways) can sit comfortably alongside the likes of The 1975 and Bastille.

All mainstream pop acts in their own way, but a far cry from the days of Reading Rock.

All that said, there are plenty of guitars still to be found, and Day 2 on Main Stage East (or simply, the Main Stage in old money) has a distinctly ‘indie’ tilt, with the final four reading like a backwards trip through the last ten years of the genre.

After a relatively quiet 2022 (in comparison to their Number 1 album and various degrees of hype last year), the evolution of The Lathums may have slowed in pace but they’ve quietly been going about their business of winning over hearts and minds across the festival season.

Their mid-afternoon, sun-drenched set finds them re-asserting their presence as a band of genuine quality, with both Alex Moore’s vocals (your correspondent heard ‘what a voice’ on more than one occasion) and Scott Concepcion’s lead axe skills vying for attention.

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