Thursday 28 August 2008

Justice play roof-raising set at Reading Festival

Justice played to a capacity crowd on the NME/Radio 1 Stage[b] tonight (August 23) at [b]Reading Festival.

Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay appeared onstage after a minor detain to rapturous applause from the crowd. Despite the some mid rain, many people watched the determine from outside the tent.


Flanked either face by a huge stack of Marshall Amplifiers, and with their traditional cross placed underneath them, the French duet launched neat into 'Genesis' from 2007 album 'Cross'.


At one peak, Auge and de Rosnay saluted the crowd in unison, causing a flurry of glowsticks to be thrown skywards towards them.


Although the band played the likes of fan-favourites 'Waters Of Nazareth' and 'The Party', the biggest cheers of the countersink were reserved for 'D.A.N.C.E' and their remix of Simian's 'Never Be Alone', retitled 'We Are Your Friends', both of which saw mass sing-a-longs from the crowd.

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