Watch Halsey perform from the crowd, receive “MILF” chant at Reading Festival 2022

nme.com:

Halsey closed out the west-side main stage at this year’s Reading Festival last night (August 28), delivering a stack of hits from across their four-album catalogue, declaring the UK to be their favourite region to perform in, and eliciting a rather unique chant from the packed-out crowd.The show was particularly notable for riding on the heels of Halsey’s turbulent appearance at Leeds Festival on Friday (August 27); during that set, they were forced to stop performing midway through their rendition of ‘Honey’ due to illness.

They later revealed that they’d performed the set with “terrible food poisoning” and “felt like [they were] on Jupiter the whole time”.Halsey was in tip-top shape for their appearance at Reading, though.

Early in the set, they addressed Friday’s whirlwind and assured fans that they’d be in for something special. “Man, I was fucked up, and not in a good way,” they said of their Leeds situation. “So that means I’m coming here tonight with all of the energy that I had originally planned for two nights – I’m bringing it for one.“I’ve got all this pent-up energy in my body.

Now you guys in the first 50 rows or so, you did fucking absolutely amazing just then. But you guys all the way to the back, I can fucking see you too, it’s bright as hell up here!