12 Non-Headline Bands You Should See At Reading & Leeds

3. Jungle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsfftwLUf0 Where/When: NME/Radio 1 Stage, Reading: Sunday, Leeds: Friday Jungle have proven to be a mini-sensation in the music world this year. Opinion-dividing talk on their background and contextual placing, opinion-uniting talk on their brilliant videos, and utterly great songs that are destined to soundtrack this summer, as well as many more. It all started in secrecy; they were unseen for a long, long time, and their names went unspoken for much of their early press. Rare interviews proclaimed that hidden identities were not what it was all about, rather just to let the music do the talking itself. And talk it did, as each video the band released amassed hundreds of thousands of views in no time, and many a blogger went crazy over the London duo. Their sweet, seductive brand of '70s soul-funk is enough to catch anyone's ear, and certainly more than enough to get a few feet tapping around the country. While the hype machine may have gone into overdrive (at which point many people seem to switch off), Jungle look set to ward off the naysayers and keep their reign atop British modern soul music; their self-titled debut record reached the top 10 in the UK, with little promotion, no identity, and not a massive hit single in sight. But it's no surprise that Jungle are doing as well as they are; any group that describes themselves as having "tropical percussion, wildlife noises, falsetto yelps, psychedelic washes and badoinking bass" is destined to succeed, in all honesty.