FESTIVAL DIARIES
Hosting the main stage
By Huw Stephens
Radio 1 DJ Huw is hosting the Main stage at Reading this year. Watch his video diary to find out what he gets up to.
A nice cup of tea and a Young Knife
12.30pm SaturdayDay 2 and just time for a quick cuppa backstage before the madness begins. There's loads of bands I want to see, but I've already missed Pete and The Pirates. Gutted.
Whose undergarments?
2.45pm SaturdayHaving a nose around on the mainstage, I find an unusually decorated drum-kit set up for later today. Who is responsible for such male chauvanist behaviour? Surely not Arcade Fire or Bloc Party?
Where are all the fans?
4.00pm SaturdayIt's boiling hot at Reading but there's no fans to be had for love nor money. Where are they all?
Chilis changeover
9.15pm SaturdayAfter an amazing Arcade Fire performance, the crew frantically reset the stage for the 'Chili Peppers.
Chilis changeover
12.15 SundayAfter an amazing Arcade Fire performance, the crew frantically reset the stage for the 'Chili Peppers.
More from Huw Stephens' video diary
More Diaries
- Huw Stephens on the main stage
- Access All Areas
- Visit to the artist toilets
- Where are Gossip?
- Bands and boos
- Uncomfirmed rumours
- A nice cup of tea
- Whose undergarments?
- Where are all the fans?
- Chilis changeover
- Late start
- That's magic!
- The Good Life
- Buggy ride
- Bethan's joke
- A tribute to Tony Wilson
- Backstage gossip
- Gallows and Goodbye
- Linda Serck in Reading
- Back again
- Haircuts
- Interference
- Kings of Leon
- Albert Hammond Jr
- It's hot
- Pete and the Pirates
- The Shins
- Swollen Toes
- Filming gig reviews
- Calm before the storm
- Crazy Campers
- Cold War Kids
- Day Trippers
- Katy Noone at Leeds
- Unsigned Stage at Leeds
- The lucky few
- Sunny Sunday
