Festival-goers have been flocking to Reading with baking temperatures this year for the five-day music event.
Large scale crowds are slowly returning following the pandemic and Reading, a key date on the festival calendar, is one of the first to reopen its doors.
Revellers will be able to catch the sun while listening to bands with Stormzy, Post Malone and Liam Gallagher headlining.
The mercury is set to rise up to 21C after a miserable month of showers and floods have made way for sunshine around the country.
Leeds festival will also be getting underway with similar temperatures and so there is less of a chance of the muddy scenes from recent years.
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When it was announced last February that the Reading festival was going ahead, its website crashed as music lovers tried to book their place.
Last month restrictions on outdoor gatherings were lifted and it has seen crowds return to events including football matches with the new season underway.
It will be another test for Covid safety, though, as the UK gingerly gets back towards normal life and the infection rates will be watched closely around the festivals.
Reading holds around 87,000 revellers while Leeds slightly less with 75,000 permitted.
Anyone going will have to show proof of being double jabbed. Alternatively they would have to have a negative Lateral Flow test taken on the day of arrival or a positive PCR test within 180 days of the festival.
Reading and Leeds will look to avoid the problems at Boardmasters this month where there was traffic congestion, along with problems over supplies of food and water, and there were huge queues for toilets.
Boardmaster organisers admitted that they failed to meet the “high standards” that festival-goers had come to expect.
A spokesperson said: “On Thursday morning we were let down by a significant number of toilet cleaning staff who became unavailable to work at very short notice which, alongside a faulty tanker, caused a delay to the cleaning schedule.
"The staffing issue was not related to Covid-19."
