The 1975, Reading Festival review: anger, sincerity and Greta Thunberg brought together by the UK´s ...
(WorldNews Music)

Over the last six years, The 1975 have become our foremost musical experts on a particular strain of social media age ennui, both celebrating and condemning the youth of today. `People`, the noisy glam-punk single the band debuted earlier this week, calls on a generation to `wake up`, throw away our lazier impulses (`We are appalling and we need to stop just watching s*** in bed,` the track urges) and take notice of the fact that the Earth around us is dying. And kicking off their Reading Festival headline set with it is a thrilling move, with frontman Matt Healy arriving on stage like Marilyn Manson if he were pretty, passionately screaming against backdrops of fire and brimstone, rotten...