One of the best things about Reading Festival is how eclectic the line up is year after year. While The 1975 headline the Main Stage, South London’s finest Dave brought his distinctly British hip hop to the BBC Radio 1 tent.
With the tent rammed before the rapper even took the stage, Dave’s position as a second-stage headliner is clearly justified. At only 21 years old, he is also the youngest stage headliner by a considerable amount, and one of the most versatile performers in his genre.
To pull a crowd as large as he did with only one full-length album under his belt, 2019’s ‘Psychodrama’, is a further testament to Dave’s enormous talent. Humble as ever, the rapper asks the crowd to carry the melody of ‘Voices’, but its Dave’s dulcet tones that shine through.
Picking up the energy with more upbeat cuts from ‘Psychodrama’, Dave proves himself one to watch as a future main stage headliner, proving definitively that hip hop will always have a place at Reading Festival.
