This weekend's crowd might have told my 17-year-old self to 'get a haircut'
Veterans of early Leeds Festivals, and even older Reading Festivals, would be somewhat surprised to see the type of people attending the festival this weekend.
The idea of festival fashion was nonsensical. You wore what was practical for three days of roughing it as well as a t-shirt of your favourite band. Reading was all about the music and maybe the warm beer and drugs you could enjoy away from rightfully concerned parents. There were big names playing Reading '97 – Metallica, Manic Street Preachers, Suede and Marilyn Manson – but there was plenty of far-out stuff too. The 90s equivalent of Ed Sheeran would have been bottled off stage back then.
I sound like an old fart but looking through photos of punters, last year, at Leeds 2022, it felt light years from the Leeds and Reading Festivals I attended. Some of the crowd – the type you might today call 'normies' – would have likely called my 17-year-old self a 'mosher' and told him to 'get a haircut'. That is if it was 1997.
Young people are by and large, more accepting of difference these days. Perhaps the 'standard' festival goers of today would be less judgmental of my 17-year-old self – and he'd be less judgemental of them.
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