Crystal Castles Reading Chaos

Chip-tune terrorists Crystal Castles caused chaos during their appearance at Reading festival (August 30th) with singer Alice Glass having to be rescued from the crowd.

Crystal Castles are not known to be shy. In Alice Glass the group have a singer who is simply not intimidated by any crowd, no matter the size. At last year's Glastonbury the band had their set pulled after Glass began scaling the poles used to erect the tent they were playing in.

However it seems that the security at Reading festival had never seen anything like her before. Taking to the stage amid huge cheers from the crowd, Crystal Castles leaped into their set with 'Exoskeleton'.

However the ever energetic Alice Glass caused problems throughout, repeatedly hurling herself into the crowd. Crowd surfing during 'Air War' the singer ended up so far into the Radio 1 stage crowd that security were forced to come to her aid.

Returning to the stage Alice Glass picked up a flashing light and wrapped it round her neck. Later in Crystal Castles' set, Glass again went into the crowd to meet the audience.

A massive crowd had assembled to watch the group, after a summer of stunning festival performances. Crystal Castles had earlier played a set at T In The Park, opening proceedings with their remix come cover version of 'Atlantis To Interzone'.

Finishing with 'Intimate' the duo left to huge cheers from the assembled crowd. Astonishingly, Crystal Castles had enough energy to play a set at Leeds festival soon after, causing a similar amount of mayhem.

Crystal Castles played:

'Exoskeleton'
'Baptism'
'Courtship Dating'
'Reckless'
'Crimewave'
'Air War'
'Alice Practice'
'Black Panther'
'Yes No'
'Intimate'