Summer is officially over. How can we be so sure? Reading and Leeds finished yesterday.
So, how should we welcome autumn? Spend the season watching Reading and Leeds highlights (and of course buy tickets to next years festival).
We have a lot of favourite sets from this year's festival which we've decided to accumulate in one final post about this year's huge weekend.
Put together in no particular order, we start off our (long) list of favourite sets with the one and only Kasabian.
For many people, this was one of the biggest sets of the weekend. The set list was everything we could have ever asked for, bringing together the bands biggest tracks and new material off their latest album 'For Crying Out Loud' which was released earlier this year.
'III Ray (The King)' and 'Bumblebee' led the way to 'Eez-eh', 'Underdog', 'Shoot The Runner', 'You're In Love With A Psycho', 'Club Foot', 'Bless This Acid House', 'Stevie', 'L.S.F', a cover of Nirvana's 'All Apologies', 'Vlad The Impaler' with the customary feature of Noel Feilding and a quick nod to Sir Bruce Forsyth with the line "Bruce Forsyth, I’ll see you on the other side", before finishing their set with 'Fire'.
Moving from one mainstage act to another, our favourites in Bastille took center stage over the weekend delivering two huge sets. Combining their debut and second albums (Bad Blood and Wild World) into one huge setlist, the band started off with the conveniently named 'Send Them Off!' and ended on one of their biggest tracks (if not their biggest track) 'Pompeii'.
Both Bastille albums go so well together, meaning the bands weaves from older to newer tracks were flawless. Having a set list with the pattern old-new-old-new is more difficult to pull off than it seems, but Bastille manages it every time with ease. Just take the first four songs - 'Send Them Off!', 'Laura Palmer', 'Warmth' and 'Flaws' (old-new-old-new).
Both Bastille albums go so well together, meaning the bands weaves from older to newer tracks were flawless. Having a set list with the pattern old-new-old-new is more difficult to pull off than it seems, but Bastille manages it every time with ease. Just take the first four songs - 'Send Them Off!', 'Laura Palmer', 'Warmth' and 'Flaws' (old-new-old-new).
Watching Bastille graduate to stages of such size is pretty special, especially when we were just as excited as them when their debut 7" was being pressed.
There was one main stage set in particular we couldn't wait for - Rat Boy. After going to a few Rat Boy gigs ourselves, we know personally what was about to kick off the moment Jordan Cardy (aka Rat Boy) walked on stage.
This Reading and Leeds set comes at the start of a new chapter for the "young, dumb, living off mum" Essex's boy, 21 year old Jordan Cardy. With his debut album 'Scum' being released less than two weeks ago, a recent run of sold out gigs and Kendrick Lamar sampling his tracks, this weekend of mainstage sets may be what Cardy sees as normality now.
All hell did break loose but then it settled for the track Cardy released last before the album, 'Laidback'. An almost acoustic love song which brings any Rat Boy crowd down from their almost rioting state.
Jumping stage and from one heartlfelt track to another, You Me At Six returned to Reading and Leeds. Their set on the BBC Radio 1/NME stage nearly had us in tears with "that moment" at the start of 'Take On The World'. We say "that moment" because everyone who has saw the set knows what we're talking about. The moment the crowd take over singing the chorus with all of their lighters and phone lights out in the air. This band mean alot to us. Everytime we see them they just get better and better, so to see a crowd be like this with such a song off the bands newest album, Night People, is pretty special.
Another band making a huge Reading and Leeds come back was the one and only Marmozets. It was only two years ago the band brought us their huge set (that we still haven't gotten over) but it feels like a lifetime ago. It was the bands first R&L appearance post-deubt album and this year they have returned once again to Richfield Avenue with brand new music.
With a brand new album turning just one week old, it was no surprise to see Neck Deep returning to Reading and Leeds this year, headlining the Pit stage. Announced on the opening night of Slam Dunk festival, the band have a huge tour in October with support from As It Is, Woes and Real Friends.
Neck Deep weren't the only band to release an album a week before Reading and Leeds (18th of August). The Sherlocks christened their debut album 'Live For The Moment' on the Radio1/NME stage.
Also, Everything Everything returned with their brand new album 'A Fever Dream', the follow up to their huge 2015 album 'Get To Heaven'.
Onto two bands who released two huge albums at this start of this year, Sundara Karma and Circa Waves.
Sundara Karma came to Reading and Leeds with their debut album, 'Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect', firm 'one of the best albums of 2017' of ours.
Returning, not with a debut but with a heavier second album, Circa Wave's 'Different Creatures' is an album that just belongs at this festival.
Taking us back to their huge new album 'Bad Decisions' and their even bigger tour earlier this year following its release, Two Door Cinema Club played on the festivals main stage.
BBC Introducing turns 10 later this year and its stage at this years festival was as big as ever, with huge sets from Fickle Friends, Cassia and even The Hunna.
Although Fickle Friends did play on the Radio One/NME stage, the band returned to the smaller BBC Introducing stage for a secret set, staying loyal to the stage and platform they grew on.
We love Cassia. Possibly one of our favourite acts from the whole festival, our hearts were in our mouths when they reached the last song and hadn't played '100 Times Over' yet. Thankfully, it was the track the band were ending their set with.
The Hunna also returned to the BBC Introducing stage for a secret set, playing some of the biggest tracks off their debut album '100'.
We could talk about this festival forever but we need to stop (for everyones sake), so we'll end on a high curtosy of Declan McKenna.
We are all too aware of BBC Iplayers 'content no longer available' message so if you want to watch any of the full sets from the weekend you only have 4 weeks to watch (until the 24th of September).