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As high winds batter the beleaguered Leeds leg, a refreshing wind of change is blowing through Reading Festival 2024. Gone, by and large, is the post-pandemic two-main-stage concept that allowed bands just 30-minute sets for most of the day, and made running relentlessly between the two far more worthy of an Olympic sport than breakdancing. Now, that second venue has been transformed into the Chevron Stage, fronted by a canopy of dot-matrix lights that becomes, at nightfall, possibly the world’s biggest rave cage.
