It can be quite the trip scrolling through old Reading line-up posters. Where else would you be able to envisage Sleater-Kinney sharing a stage with Toploader (1998), or Coldplay playing before Toploader (1999) or, well, just Toploader. Then there’s quirks like seeing Queens Of The Stone Age playing before The Wanndies (2000), or Biffy Clyro first on the bill.
That’s not the half of it though. If you dig through some of the posters over at Reading’s official website, there’s a very strange recurring theme from the late 90s and over the next decade. It’s that most years, a Chelsea player crops up on the bill.
