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‘We’re not trying to rival the Prodigy’: how podcasters took over music festivals
Famous for unhinged debauchery, this weekend Reading and Leeds festivals will see the debut of the Aux, a stage dedicated solely to podcasts. So is chatting the new rock’n’roll?
Later this year, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart are bringing their wildly popular The Rest Is Politics chatshow to the O2 arena – the very same venue that recently hosted mega-selling runs by pop stars including Madonna, SZA and Doja Cat. This weekend’s Reading and Leeds festivals – events best known for riotous crowds, landmark bands and unhinged A-Level celebrations – just announced that this year will debut the Aux, a stage exclusively featuring gen Z-oriented content creators and podcasters such as TikToker Ayamé Ponder and comedy duo Chunkz and Filly. Ponder will debut the live version of her podcast In Ayamé We Trust at Reading and Leeds, and says she doesn’t consider herself a main draw of the event as much as a zone where a punter can get away from festival chaos.
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