r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/PanJawel 8h ago

Absolutely wild. Went to a big metal festiwal this year in Czechia (Brutal Assault), and everybody cleaned afterwards. I haven’t seen a single abandoned tent. This is insanity.

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u/AppalachianMusic 8h ago

I feel like healthy festival culture is only something I see in rock/metal communities. The festivals I've been to that look like landfills afterward were always the non-metal ones.

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u/botask 7h ago

Nah... Almost everyone cleaned their mess on dnb festivals here (slovakia, country neigbouring czech republic, it was one country few decades ago). Was going at least to one every year for like ten years. There was ocassionaly someone who left some junk or tent there, but it was really rare... But at one of them was older lady, who was cleaning toilets talking about how terrible it was when there was some rock festival few years ago.

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u/BloodAwaits 6h ago

Yup. Liquicity even hires the PsyClean crew and the difference they make is extraordinary. Seeing beautiful hippies floating across the dancefloor picking up the slightest bit of trash with a smile plastered on their faces creates a genuine paradigm shift in people's attitudes towards casual littering.

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u/Dressedcrab 1h ago

was delighted to see how clean and respectful people were leaving the Pohoda festival site. Larger UK events are just an embarrassment compared to so many in Europe. Reading is traditionally a younger skewing crowd, but it's a shock to see how little people give a shit.