Reading festival 2012 gets an A* in Having It

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Graham Coxon cranked it up, and Kasabian set their phasers to enjoyable, as Studying syndrome set in en masse. Maybe the Remedy's punishing set had something to do with that

"They're either celebrating their good outcomes, or they've deserted life due to their dangerous results," says Jack Steadman from Bombay Bicycle Club, taking refuge from Reading 2012's torrent of teenage kicks within the press tent on Friday afternoon. "Both method, they're gonna be wild."

Reading is certainly getting an A* in Having It. When Serge Pizzorno from Kasabian demands everybody "from the front to the again" jumps in the air during Vlad the Impaler, he rattling properly gets it. The buzzing flood of teens racing from a frenzied Azealia Banks set to Florence and the Machine's important stage wailathon on Saturday afternoon is terrifying to be caught up in, and Florence herself admires the daredevil nature of her audience. "What a tremendous crowd!" she coos, as one other human pyramid throws its uppermost individual into the air in a bout of Cirque du Soleil mate-flinging. "You are filled with acrobats!"

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