Reading Festival in pictures

By BBC Monitoring's Martin Vennard

The first two days at Reading Festival saw headline performances from groups like Oasis, Primal Scream, Beck and Pulp as well as summer showers and sunshine.

Oasis's Liam Gallagher lit up Friday night

Fans take a rain check following the storms

Sheffield's man of the people

Primal Scream's frontman Bobby Gillespie

Drying out on Saturday night

Love under the covers

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