The opening night of music at Leeds Festival fell victim to the weather on Thursday, with Dutch Uncles forced to cancel their set on the Dance To The Radio Stage by torrential rain.
The band were due to headline the stage - set up for early arrivals - following sets by the Crookes, Menace Beach, Black Moth and Hookworms, but the elements had other ideas. They tweeted:
Words can not describe how gutted we are to have been cancelled tonight @OfficialRandL. Except the word 'gutted' of course...
The band’s guitarist, Daniel Spedding, later told NME:
"It was just swampy and rain was relentless. No one got shocked or anything. But, I assume, had we gone on, it would only have got worse and the water would have got into the desk, the cables and the generator."
The festival’s first night proper will be headlined by Biffy Clyro, with industrial titans Nine Inch Nails, Fall Out Boy, the Lumineers and Editors also taking to the main stage.
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