{"id":753379,"date":"2026-08-29T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753379\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:26:09","slug":"reading-festival-goer-says-solo-experience-is-a-lot-nicer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753379\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Festival goer says solo experience is &#8216;a lot nicer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62kr8kjjr0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">welcome about 100,000 people this year<\/a>, with headliners such as Charli XCX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tilly is most excited for Sunday, when Florence and the Machine and Chase &amp; Status will take to the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just get out of your comfort zone, it&#8217;s not as scary as you think,&#8221; she said when asked about her solo visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s scary getting there by yourself at first but, once you&#8217;re there, it&#8217;s so easy to make friends and you&#8217;re going to have a great time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said a few people were &#8220;surprised&#8221; at her decision but she had enjoyed last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My friends couldn&#8217;t get tickets last year, and I just had such a great time, being able to just go and watch whoever I wanted and not have to think about who everyone else wanted to go and watch, so I thought I&#8217;d do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event is expected to welcome about 100,000 people this year, with headliners such as Charli XCX. Tilly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}