Leeds Festival 2008 - tickets, line up, rumours

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 [...]

The official Leeds festival website has had a makeover.
And it would seem Mean Fiddler intend to update it again next Friday, 16th March at 10am. Looks positive, but as yet I have no idea what to expect although I would hope it is a little more interactive than the last one. I would expect [...]

Leeds Festival organisers Mean Fiddler have today revealed that tickets for the Carling Weekend: Leeds 2007 will go on sale on the evening of Monday, March 26th. There isn’t any pricing information to go with the announcement, as this is usually revealed on the night.
Expect tickets to go on sale shortly after 7pm when it [...]

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.