History of LeedsFestival

The Reading Festival originates from the National Jazz Festival, which was conceived by Harold Pendleton (founder of the Marquee Club in London) and was first held at Richmond Athletic Ground in 1961. This festival, in turn, took inspiration from events held in America. Throughout its first decade the festival changed names and moved around sites several times, being held at Windsor Racecourse, Kempton Park and Plumpton, before reaching its permanent home at Reading in 1971

1970s

The line-up settled into a pattern of progressive rock, blues and heavy metal during the 1970s. It did dabble with punk rock in 1978 when The Jam, Sham 69 and Penetration played. The festival attempted to provide both traditional rock acts and new punk bands, leading to clashes between the two sets of fans. Although The Ramones played the following year, the festival gradually became known for focusing on heavy metal and rock acts

1980s

During this decade, the festival followed a similar format to that established in the late 1970s, with large crowds flocking to see the era's leading rock and heavy metal acts perform on the last two days, with a more varied lineup including punk and new wave bands on the opening day.

More Acts added leaded to Leeds Festival 2010 lineup

More acts have been officially added to the Leeds festival 2010 Line-up.

Main Stage
A day to Remember - Already confirmed here :)
Young Guns
Mystery Jets
The Futureheads
The Walkmen
Thrice
Motion City Soundtrack - Already confirmed here :)

NME/Radio 1 Tent 
Girls
New Young Pony Club
Surfer Blood
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Serj Tankian
Wild Beasts


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Leeds Festival Introduction

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and

Leeds in the United Kingdom and are run by Festival Republic.

The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday 

weekend, sharing the same bill.
The Reading Festival, the world's oldest popular music festival still in existence, has had various 

musical phases, as detailed below. In the twin-site era, rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal have 

tended to dominate.
The festivals are run by Festival Republic, which was divested from Mean Fiddler Music Group. For promotional purposes during 1998-2007 they were known as the Carling Weekend: Reading and the Carling Weekend: Leeds. Unsurprisingly, these titles were seldom used when not required, although NME did so as part of its involvement. In November 2007, the organisers welcomed "Reading Festival reclaiming its prestigious name" when the sponsored title was abolished after 9 years. In 2007, the capacity of the Reading site was 80,000 and the Leeds site was 70,000. This was an increase of several thousand on previous years. The Reading festival is held at Little John's Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near the Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of an historic house. Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping.