Leeds Festival 2008 - tickets, line up, rumours

NME are running a competition to win a pair of tickets for either the Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival or the Carling Weekend: Reading Festival.
To be in with a shout of taking a mate free of charge to the only place worth being on the August Bank Holiday weekend 2007, visit the NME competition page.
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The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals were voted Channel 4 Festival of the Year 2006 at The Vodafone Live Music Awards.
Find out the full list of winners at the Vodafone Live Music Awards site.

So, it’s October 2006 and we haven’t heard any rumours yet? Have you… ?
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For those that missed out, were at a different stage or just want to relive the whole experience again, you can catch Carling Weekend:Reading and Leeds Festival highlights on BBC2 this Saturday, 2nd September at 11.25pm until 1.25am. Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe present the best of the Festival including: Pearl Jam, Franz Ferdinand, [...]

Mean Fiddler are have today announced the addition of The Vines to the Radio One/NME stage line-up. The band will play third from headline on Saturday.

Paramore have had to cancel their appearances on the Lock-up Stage at Leeds Festival 2006 in the UK this weekend.  Vocalist Hayley Williams has experienced some minor irritation on her vocal chords this week, and she has been told that the only way to recuperate fully, is by resting her voice completely.
“I was really hoping [...]

With the fabulous setting of Bramham Park as its backdrop, the Leeds Festival sees the exclusive headline trio of Franz Ferdinand, Muse and Pearl Jam take to the Main Stage over the weekend whilst the festival has a special local significance as Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs fly the local flag on the Main Stage.
The [...]

Mean Fiddler, promoters of Leeds Festival 2006, have today announced that all tickets are now completely sold out.
From the extra allocation of tickets announced on Friday 16th June, 2,000 remained after those who had pre-ordered in the hope of tickets took up their respective allocations. These were sold in minutes of phone lines opening to [...]

Weekend tickets for this year’s Leeds Festivals have sold out in record time. Weekend tickets for both sites sold out within one hour of going on sale through internet outlets yesterday evening whilst tickets at HMV stores sold out within minutes of the doors opening this morning with some stores reporting queues from 2am this [...]