Reading Festival 2024: G Flip chats one year of ‘Drummer’ and getting Taylor Swift’s approval

nme.com:

G Flip exclaims, widening their eyes. “There are heaps of people. I just went out, and even the little stages are going off.

But I feel like, in the UK in general, everyone’s rowdy.”The Aussie multi-instrumentalist’s first-ever Reading Festival is an eye-opener in more ways than one.

When they catch up with NME backstage after their performance on the BBC Radio 1 Stage, they’re still recovering from how many people turned out to see them. “I always come over to places I don’t live, and I’m always so surprised,” G Flip – aka Georgia Flipo – says. “I’m like, ‘I don’t think anyone knows who I am here’, and then I rock up, and there’s thousands of people.

I’m like, ‘What the fuck? How did these people find me?!’”NME caught up with G Flip about their first Reading, the first anniversary of their album ‘Drummer’, and their mum starting a petition to get them on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.G Flip: “I didn’t expect it to be so huge!