Metallica return to Reading Festival

The Great British summer shone on Bramham Park – for the most part anyway – giving festival-goers three days of sunshine and music. The dance tent was always busy, and you could experience horn-drenched folk (Bear’s Den), intricate guitartronica (alt-J) and triumphantly returning indie evergreens (Ash).

Reading-based band The Amazons captured a gathering in the BBC Introducing stage.

Barât expressed his excitement for the upcoming performance and explained that the band’s previous reunion show at the festival in 2010 was a motivating factor in them touring and writing together again.

Opening their set to scenes of – and the musical piece from – Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the band proceeded to tear into a number of hits ranging from across their nearly 35-year career.

“I saw Metallica at Reading last night and it was vast”.

When asked how he and his team will top 2015, Mr Benn told The Yorkshire Post: “I just don’t know”.

“We have been coming for all of those years then when we finished school we volunteered for Oxfam because we couldn’t afford the tickets”. Japanese teen trio, Babymetal brought a metal choreographed spectacle to the Main Stage for their debut Reading and Leeds performance. “We were clearing up one night on the main stage and we stopped and looked out and thought how unbelievable it would be and made a decision to go for it with the band”, drummer Matt Donnelly said.

Elsewhere, English two-piece Royal Blood handed in what can only be described as an application form to headline the 2016 event with a rapturously received set in front of a enormous crowd.

Here they are doing what they do best.

Keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton told the crowd: “It’s great to be home”.