Rock fans who started queueing from 8pm yesterday outside HMV, in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, to snap up tickets for this year’s Reading Festival when they went on sale at 7pm today.
By 3pm, an 80-strong queue snaked up to the store, one of only 10 venues in the country where people could pick up the tickets in person.
Josie, 17, from Islip Road, Summertown, Oxford, began queueing at 5am.
She said: “Reading is awesome. I have been there two years running and it was so worth it.”
Chris, also 17, said: “I went last year and it was amazing. There has been a really good atmosphere in the queue. Everyone is friendly.”
Radiohead have been confirmed as a headliner for the August Bank Holiday festival, along with American act Kings of Leon and Arctic Monkeys. Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party and The Prodigy will also play.
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