THIS week’s Henley Festival marks the start of the summer season. Around the corner we’ve got Rewind, Marvellous, Ravertots, Englefield Live, Wokingham Festival and … well, that rather big one over the August bank holiday weekend.
Hundreds of thousands of people descend on Rivermead for the annual Reading Festival and it’s one of the biggest events in the music calendar.
Online firm Cazaar.co.uk looked into the most Instagrammable music festivals, utilising the number of posts each festival has accrued under its most relevant hashtag.
And unsurprisingly, Reading was the third best (we’re demanding a recount, but at least it didn’t lose out to Milton Keynes this time round).
Glastonbury was top with 1,014,770 Insta posts, Creamfields had 482,309, while Reading had 292,452. Tthis is 153,000 more posts than its partner festival, Leeds, in sixth place.
Cazaar.co.uk has three top tips for creating memorial festival photos:
1. A classic festival photo is taken in front of the big festival sign – why not mix it up and take the photo from a low angle to capture the scale of the sign?
2. Capture the sheer size of the event by attempting to gain a vantage point above the crowd – even if it means sitting on a friend’s shoulders to get the shot.
3. Tell the entire festival story by uploading 10 photos in one Instagram post – the more mud, laughter and fun the better.
