Leeds Festival 2009 – tickets, line up, rumours

The Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals last night scooped the award for Best Live Event at the Shockwave NME Awards 2007 ceremony in London.
Picking up the award, Managing Director Melvin Benn said, “This is the second year on the trot that we have won it and I am delighted. It is the best festival, [...]

Hi everyone!
We’ve been getting a few requests from people after information about getting their (unsigned) band onto the Leeds Festival line up. So whilst it’s no big deal for me to continue sending personal responses, I think it’s much more useful if I posted a page up on here.
Basically, you have two options available to [...]

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.
The competition [...]

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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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]