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Reading and Leeds Festivals, officially called the Carling Weekend, are
a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in
England. The events both happen on the bank holiday weekend in August (on
Friday, Saturday, Sunday), and share the same bill (usually with one or
two exceptions.) The festivals are run by Mean Fiddler Music Group and are
currently sponsored by Carling. For promotional purposes they are known
as the Carling Weekend Reading and the Carling Weekend Leeds. In 2005 the
capacity of the Reading site was 66,500 and the Leeds site was 57,500 but
last year both sites had increases in capacity with Reading now being at
80,000 and Leeds at 67,500. 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, the grounds of a historic house.
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READING CARLING WEEKEND
FESTIVAL LINE UP :
Main Stage : Friday 22nd August.....Rage Against The Machine, Queens
of the Stone Age, The Fratellis, The Enemy, Biffy Clyro, Serj Tankian,
Dizzee Rascal, Taking Back Sunday, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Anti-flag.
Saturday 23rd August.....The Killers, Bloc Party, The Raconteurs,
Editors, We Are Scientists, Dirty Pretty Things, The Subways.
Sunday 24th August....Metallica, Tenacious D, Slipknot, Feeder,
Avenged Sevenfold, Dropkick Murphys.
Radio 1/NME Stage
: Friday 22nd August.....Vampire Weekend, MGMT.
Saturday 23rd August.....Manic Street Preachers, Bullet For My
Valentine, Justice, Foals.
Sunday 24th August.....The Cribs, Conor Oberst, Pendulum with many
more to be confirmed.
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