The Pit has always been the best place to discover the best in new rock music at Reading & Leeds Festival, but it’s also a place you can indulge your nostalgia and embrace your inner emo (straightened fringe optional.)
The Used are the perfect band for this and their set this evening was a great reminder of what made us all want to squeeze into skinny jeans in the first place. The band draw heavily from 2004’s ‘In Love And Death,’ an album filled with anthemic classics, interspersed with a cover of Sixpence None The Richer’s ‘Kiss Me.’
Frontman Bert McCracken throws himself round the stage with incredible energy and the crowd love the passion.
There’s also a first for Reading; a mosh pit during a Shakespeare soliloquy. It is absolutely unique.
The biggest singalong of the evening is reserved for ‘Taste of Ink’ which the crowd screams along to. Joined for a final hurrah by a The Fever 333, and covering ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ The Used have pulled out a truly memorable set from the hat and thrilled this evening’s crowd.
