 The Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the Reading Festival |
The Reading Festival will go ahead despite parts of the site being hit by floods, organisers have said. Some camping fields were still waterlogged a week after part of the River Thames burst its banks next to the site.
Festival boss Melvin Benn told the BBC: "We're literally pumping water off by the thousands of gallons an hour."
Razorlight, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Smashing Pumpkins will headline the event from 24-26 August.
Drying out
"There are vast areas of it that you can actually walk on now," Mr Benn told BBC 6 Music on Wednesday. "It's still waterlogged, but the water's going down."
"I've got a whole team of people doing no more then moving pumps around. I've got two eight inch pumps pumping water directly off the land 24 hours a day at the moment."
Mr Benn also told the NME magazine that 25% of the campsite was under water.
Bad weather has also caused the Fflam and Truck festivals to be cancelled in recent weeks.
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