Leeds Festival 2008 - tickets, line up, rumours

Mean Fiddler have last night revealed the following additions to the Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival line-up:
Jimmy Eat World, The Long Blondes, Little Man Tate, The Pipettes, The Shins, Eagles Of Death Metal, Dead 60s, The Used, Hellogoodbye and Gym Class Heroes will play the Main Stage.
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Enemy, The Horrors, Dinosaur [...]

The Futuresound Competition 2007 is now in full swing. The unsigned event is now in its seventh year. It was a success last year with the likes of Breaking the Illusion, Dead Disco and the Hair snapping up the top prizes and organisers are hoping that this year will be even better.
The competition will take [...]

Some details for playing the Unsigned Stage at Leeds Festival 2007 have been revealed. As we previously wrote, there are a number of routes to getting your band on the line up at Leeds, and this is one of them.
Sandman Magazine have announced in their April 2007 print edition that they are now accepting submissions [...]

Mean Fiddler have posed a Remember This? So here’s a selection of highlights from previous festivals (some are Reading-related, rather than Leeds).
Were you there at any of these festivals? What were your Leeds Festival highlights?

Kurt Cobain enters the Main Stage in a wheelchair.
NME readers most memorable Nirvana moment, one of the defining festival moments in [...]

If you’ve been lucky enough to get your hands on a Weekend Ticket for Leeds Festival 2007, which includes camping, then you’ll need a tent.
We’ve been having a look online and Amazon.co.uk has a number of summer tents starting at just £6 !!

All Festival Tents At Amazon.co.uk

The one we’d most recommend is the Aztec 2 [...]

Although online ticket outlets appear to have now sold their allocation of Weekend Tickets for Leeds Festival 2007, there are still tickets available as part of Travel Packages.
These packages allow you to travel to the festival by coach and take the hassle out of your journey to Leeds Festival - with a return trip from [...]

Mean Fiddler have today officially announced the line up for the Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival 2007.
The Main Stage headliners have been revealed as being Smashing Pumpkins (Friday), Razorlight (Saturday) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (Sunday).
Other bands performing on the Main Stage include Nine Inch Nails, Lostprophets, Fall Out Boy, Funeral For A Friend and +44 [...]

Single per-day tickets will be £62.50 (+ booking fee).
A full weekend ticket will cost £145 (+ booking fee), an increase of £10 on 2006 prices.
As in previous years, an early entrance permit will cost an additional £10 on the full weekend price.
Full details of how to buy your tickets will be revealed on Monday, [...]

Crash Records (Headrow, Leeds) have revealed that they will be selling their allocation of tickets for Leeds Festival 2007 from 9.30am on Tuesday 20th March.
You must attend in person, and it’s a maximum of 2 tickets per person!
If any tickets remain by the end of Tuesday then they will put the remainder on sale [...]

Well… what do you know, the official Leeds Festival website has had its first update in years and in so doing Mean Fiddler appear to have brought forward the launch for the event by one week (based on their announcement only last Friday).
The announcement will now be made on Monday, 19th March at 6.45pm.
Tickets will [...]