{"id":599137,"date":"2026-08-29T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:18:14","slug":"charli-xcx-electrifies-reading-festival-with-era-spanning-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599137\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX electrifies Reading Festival with era-spanning set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rock energy continued on the main stage as Fontaines DC followed Charli, with both acts billed as headliners for the opening night of Reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans had to wait about half an hour longer due to a delay, but the Irish rock band from Dublin soon won them back around as they launched into hits like Favourite and I Love You.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They closed out the set with their Grammy-nominated track Starbuster from their fourth album, Romance, with the crowd responding by chanting the lyrics back to them.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of Charli&#8217;s set, grime artist Skepta also channelled some Brat energy when he took to the main stage in a lime green waterproof jacket as he powered through the downpours to hype up the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rapper belting out &#8220;it rains, it pours&#8221; from his hit collaboration track, Praise the Lord (Da Shine), with A$AP Rocky was particularly fitting, and he ended the set on a high as the crowd jumped along to Victory Lap, his collaboration with Fred Again.. and PlaqueBoyMax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rainstorms drew more festival-goers into the new Gallery tent, but US rock band Geese had already pulled in a huge crowd who jumped and head-banged along to guitar-heavy tracks like Half Real and 100 Horses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the afternoon, BBC Radio 1&#8217;s Sound of 2026 winner Skye Newman&#8217;s powerful, husky vocals reverberated through the same tent as she performed hit songs like FU &amp; UF and Family Matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rock energy continued on the main stage as Fontaines DC followed Charli, with both acts billed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-599137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}