What do you do when the world’s oldest contemporary music festival can no longer sustain the amount of music-hungry festival-goers who want to join the party? The answer is to create an identical twin: if you can’t get to the Reading Festival, get Leeds Festival tickets instead!
From relatively humble beginnings the Reading Festival has grown exponentially with demand for tickets frequently outstripping supply. Consequently the organisers, Festival Republic, had the brainwave of staging the same concert, with the same line-up, over the same bank holiday weekend in Leeds as well as Reading. Thus, in 1999 the Leeds Festival was born.
Actually situated at Braham Park, the grounds of a stately home between Wetherby and Leeds, the Leeds Festival provides all of the camping facilities offered by its older twin and can accommodate a capacity crowd of 75,000 festival fans.
Sharing its line-up with Reading (the same bands migrate between the two festivals over the course of the same three days over each August bank holiday weekend), the Leeds Festival has played host to some of the greatest rock, pop, indie and alternative acts in modern music. Over the last decade Oasis, Pulp, Slipknot, Muse, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Morrissey, Ash and just about every other big name act in modern music have graced Leeds’ stages.
And just like Reading, the Leeds Festival continues to grow in popularity, getting bigger and better every year, so if you want to avoid disappointment you’d better get your Leeds Festival tickets whilst they’re still around.
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