It looks like this year's Reading Festival will be well remembered for the big Oasis announcement.

Liam Gallagher conquered the main stage with a set celebrating the 30th anniversary of Oasis’s Definitely Maybe debut album, then as he left, the date August 27 appeared in the Oasis logo style, as well as the time 8am, on the big screen.

The big reunion announcement is expected with brother Noel rejoining his brother for a set of live shows.

On the bank holiday weekend it was my first time back at Reading Festival since the early 2000s and I’m so happy to say it is still as magical as when I used to visit every year.

Ok Reading was always my festival of choice back in the 1990s so I have a nostalgic attachment to it. I love Glastonbury and Phoenix was amazing back in the day. But the first cut is the deepest as they say, my first festival was Reading and I remain protective, I am a bit biased about it.

Reading still has a real edge to it.

Big names can fall there. Be it bad luck or maybe complacency at times, I’m not sure.

I was there when the mighty Stone Roses were deemed to have been off the boil ( I still thought they were great). Rock giants Kings of Leon fell flat on the big stage.

But I genuinely think that adds to the occasion. Anything can happen.

It’s not a big love in. You need to work for it and be on form. Give it the love it deserves or you might come a cropper.

For example, probably my highlight of the weekend, Raye, clearly loved it. She said she too, like many in the crowd, had been there as a 16-year-old after finishing her GCSEs and was so happy to be there singing to a huge audience. That love bounced back and forth from her to the crowd and back. I could probably say the same about Jorja Smith in the BBC Radio One tent, she was sensational and the kids loved it. In fact add to that Beabadoobee, Crawlers and The Last Dinner Party, all these girls rocked Reading back to its, well, rock roots.

Raye at Reading Feestival (Image: M Hendy)

I would not say anybody fell flat.

But some can just be unlucky at unpredictable Reading. Like Renee Rapp on Sunday.

The star of the film Mean Girls, with a huge fanbase down the front, was performing for what felt like an eternity in her first song with no sound to her microphone.

The message finally got to her and went off, returned and started again. All seemed fine when a big gust of wind sent a huge puddle of water from the stage roof over the edge and all over her and the stage.

‘Drenched’, as she described it, off she went again. The crew swept the deluge from the stage.

She returned, to her great credit. She said “if I slip and fall it's not my insurance”. You could see the wet symbols glistening in the sunshine. Most of the stage must’ve been hit.

Just when all seemed fine again an even bigger sheet of water poured over the edge, on top of her again, just when she had returned to that corner of the stage.

It looked for a moment like she might hang around to try and continue then she was gone.

Minutes later the screen told that she would not return due to technical difficulties caused by Storm Lilian.

Ok back to the triumphs that I saw; Two Door Cinema club brought the feelgood factor and the groove, Bleachers brought the feel amazing factor with huge New Jersey passion. They might just be my new favourite band.

Fontaines DC are the real deal. These boys mean business. A serious band with a huge effect. Shame they weren’t on stage later I’d say, and for longer. They no doubt will return to a later slot.

There were some excellent dance acts at the impressive Chevron stage, which had a huge net-like ceiling of lights above the crowd, providing a bright new, very impressive effect to the experience.

The Chevron stage at Reading Festival (Image: M Hendy)

Midlands rapper Bru-C brought the patriotism and the happy atmosphere too. The youngsters were out in force for him and the American rapper 21 Savage. Both had their huge audiences under their spell.

And that big young audience deserve the last word.

They crowded past each other to get to the front but seemed to be looking after eachother like the safety messages on the big screens told them to.

They were all “sorry” and “thanks” all weekend. As an old festival veteran I was well impressed. I go to other festivals these days where the “grown-ups” act like angry babies when someone treads on the corner of their picnic blanket that they have stupidly placed 20 metres from the main stage.

The kids are alright. They know how to have fun and they were having it in a big way at the weekend.