Reading Festival organisers have said that the quiet sound levels on the Main Stage throughout the weekend (August 22-24) were out of their control.
Fans and some bands receive complained to NME.COM during the festival that the volume on the dealer stage has been excessively quiet, fashioning it hard to connect with the large crowds it attracts.
The problem was particularly acute during headline acts Rage Against The Machine and The Killers.
However, speaking to NME.COM, festival chief Melvin Benn aforementioned that the volume had been verboten of his control this weekend.
"The levels on site are almost solely dictated by the levels offsite," he explained. "The [local] council set levels by which noise, sound can't be above a certain dB level on certain residential properties nearby [the situation].
"They've set up exactly the same level that they always
