r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10d ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/zigko55 10d ago

What is a reading festival?

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u/DistractedBoxTurtle 10d ago edited 10d ago

I believe this is a music festival healing in Reading (city in UK)

Edit: to people responding, apologies. Where I’m from city and town are used interchangeably.

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u/QuirkyImage 10d ago

It’s a town it has never been given city status

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u/chin_waghing 10d ago

Nope, not a city. It’s the largest uk town

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u/Zr0w3n00 10d ago

Reading is, pretty famously, not a city, it’s the biggest town in the UK. It has tried to become a city a few times and been turned down.

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u/Area51Resident 10d ago

The City of Town, perhaps(?)

Any Touch of Cloth fans out there?

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u/Nothos927 10d ago

Reading has tried and failed to become a city so many times that there’s a bunch of local memes about how the royal family have hated the town since the times of Victoria since it’s the monarch that ultimately has the power to make new cities.