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A daredevil had the best view in the house during Eminem’s performance at Reading Festival on Saturday night.

There were gasps from the crowd when music fans spotted the man standing at the top of one of the speaker towers at the Main Stage during the rapper’s set on August 26.

Waving around a lighter, and then a light from a mobile phone, the brave raver danced before lying down and swinging his legs around.

Members of the security staff at the festival gathered at the bottom of the tower while the audience wondered how he would get down.

A spokesman from Whitley Wood fire station in Reading, where the aerial rescue unit is based, confirmed that a team from Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service was called out to the scene as a precaution but was not needed to help the reveller down.

It is not yet clear how the man managed to get back down to ground.

(Image: Staff)

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