Fans attending next year’s Reading Festival could be set to face yet more legislation appeals from a local MP.
Reading and Leeds grow from strength to strength each year. Already one of the biggest live music events in Europe, this year organisers bagged headline performances from Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon and Radiohead.
A stunning success, this year’s event saw thousands of fans indulge in music across the twin sites. However fans attending next year’s event could face new legislation regarding the lighting of campfires.
Reading West MP Martin Salter called for camp fires to be banned at all festivals recently, arguing that they are difficult to police and are potentially dangerous.
Speaking to BBC 6Music the politician claimed that Reading festival simply didn’t possess sufficient security measures to control all the problems caused by camp fires.
The politician described “angry mobs running around, stealing other people’s tents and possessions and throwing them on the bonfires to keep the fires burning. It’s a lethal cocktail, drunken young people, fires and insufficient security to deal with the situation.”
Martin Salter did reveal that he was a fan of the event itself. “I am a supporter of the festival, I want it to be a great success,” he said, “but I want it to be a safe event for young people as it always used to be.”
The politician was due to meet Reading festival boss Melvin Benn in a meeting on Saturday (September 26th).
