Lana Del Rey’s set at Reading Festival may have been cut short due to technical difficulties, but she played a full show at Leeds on Sunday – check out the songs that were cut from Reading below.
On Saturday night at Reading, the singer was the penultimate headliner on the main stage and saw her show “accidentally” cut short, for which the festival organisers later “apologised unreservedly”.
She had taken to the stage 15 minutes late, and accordingly her end time was extended, but the festival cut off her sound and visuals sooner than intended.
Her set the following night at Leeds, however, went off without a hitch, and it is now clear what songs Lana was unable to play at Reading. As she returned for her encore at Leeds’ Bramham Park site, she played ‘A&W’ and ‘Young And Beautiful’, two songs that did not make an appearance at Reading.
Check out footage of the tracks below:
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Lana Del Rey played at Leeds Festival:
‘Without You’
‘West Coast’
‘Summertime Sadness’
‘Cherry’
‘Pretty When You Cry’
‘Ride’
‘Bartender’
‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’
‘Normal Fucking Rockwell’
‘Arcadia’
‘Video Games’
‘A&W’
‘Young And Beautiful’
NME awarded the Reading set four stars and said: “There are some beautiful moments here – if you can shut out the bass. ‘Summertime Sadness’ finds the star and her backing dancers holding up art deco-style mirror boards, turning Del Rey into a 1920s statue. ‘Ride’ is as exquisite as ever: scenes from its music video, interspersed with shots of Lana in real time, fill the screens and pull you into her gorgeous visual world.”
Addressing the technical issues, the review added: “It’s a disappointing end to a set that had the potential to go down as a classic and, following Glastonbury 2023, a second big UK festival moment in just over 12 months that could have been something much more glorious. We’ll just have to wait for Lana Del Rey’s return to truly experience paradise with her.”
Check out NME’s rundown of the most magical moments of Reading Festival 2024 here.
