Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is

Bramham Park, Leeds Charli xcx and Fontaines DC are spellbinding and there’s an awesome array of genres, but the biggest turnouts are for tech house names like Kettama and Josh Baker • Charli xcx, Reading festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit.

But Nietzsche would have loved it Reading and Leeds festival will probably always be a post-GCSE rite of passage: a gleefully riotous taste of freedom before having to make actual life decisions. But the sibling events have been struggling for a sense of identity beyond…