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The
Reading Festival, the original and
senior leg of the two simultaneous
weekend music festivals at Reading
and Leeds, is the world's oldest
popular music festival still in
existence. It has had various
musical phases over the years, as
detailed below. In the twin-site
era, rock, alternative, indie, punk
and metal have tended to dominate.
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.
The
festival typically has the following
stages:
Main
stage – major rock, indie, Metal and
alternative acts.
NME/Radio 1 stage – less well-known
acts, building up to an alternative
headline act
Festival Republic stage (formerly
known as the Carling stage) – acts
with less popular appeal and
breakthrough acts
Lock Up Stage – underground punk and
hardcore acts. Due to demand, from
2006 this stage took up two days
rather than previous years where it
was only one day.
Dance tent – dance music acts, on
the day that the above stage does
not run
Alternative tent – comedy and
cabaret acts plus DJs.
BBC Introducing Stage – Typically
unsigned/not well known acts.
(Formerly known as the Topman
Unsigned Stage at the Leeds site).
After
a successful first year in Leeds, a
continued resurgence in the
popularity of outdoor music
festivals led to the Reading
festival selling out more and more
quickly every year. The Leeds leg,
however, was plagued by riots and
violence which led to problems in
retaining its licence. The worst of
these was in 2002, after which Mean
Fiddler moved the festival to
Bramham Park, near Bramham
north-east of Leeds in 2003. Since
then, security at both sites has
increased and problems have been
reduced. In 2005, the Festival
spawned the Reading Fringe Festival
in the town. Much like the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, this sees venues in
the town hosting fringe acts hoping
to draw crowds and industry figures
from the larger festival. The
Reading Fringe has run annually
since then.
Line up for :
Friday 24 August
THE CURE
PARAMORE
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
YOU ME AT SIX
CRYSTAL CASTLES
ANGELS AND AIRWAVES
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
CANCER BATS
DEAF HAVANA
THE MACCABEES
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
THE COURTEENERS
GRAHAM COXON
PASSION PIT
THE BLACKOUT
THE HIVES
SPECTOR
FRIENDS
HADOUKEN!
FUTURE OF THE LEFT
SOCIAL DISTORTION
ANTI-FLAG
EVERY TIME I DIE
BOUNCING SOULS
SAVES THE DAY
TOUCHE AMORE
A WILHELM SCREAM
CEREMONY
RANDOM HAND
DEAD TO ME
PETTYBONE
SLEIGH BELLS
THE SUBWAYS
VERONICA FALLS
BASTILLENIKI & THE DOVE
ALT-J
LUCY ROSE
WE ARE AUGUSTINES
JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD
SAVAGES
FIDLAR
PALMA VIOLETS
O’BROTHER
FUNERAL SUITS
MIKILL PANE
PROXIES
SAMOANS
LADY LYKEZ
WET NUNS
ATTENTION THIEVES
FISH TANK
PARK BENCH SOCIETY
DANICA HUNTER
FAMILY OF THE YEAR
WE WERE FRONTIERS
MARSICANS
LEE NELSON’S WELL GOOD PARTY
featuring THE PETEBOX
SCROOBIUS PIP
NATHAN CATON
LATE NIGHT GIMP FIGHT
GLENN WOOL
CHRIS RAMSEY
Saturday 25 August
KASABIAN
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
THE VACCINES
ENTER SHIKARI
THE SHINS
OFWGKTA
MYSTERY JETS
BLOOD RED SHOES
LOS CAMPESINOS!
AT THE DRIVE-IN
THE CRIBS
MASTODON
BILLY TALENT
MIIKE SNOW
SANTIGOLD
DRY THE RIVER
TWIN ATLANTIC
PURE LOVE
POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS
METRONOMY
KATY B
ZINC (DJ set)
AZEALIA BANKS
JAGUAR SKILLS
MODESTEP
FEED ME
GRIMES
THE JAPANESE POPSTARS
CLEMENT MARFO & THE FRONTLINE
JAGGA (live set)
FEEDER
YOUNG GUNS
LOWER THAN ATLANTIS
WE ARE THE IN CROWD
DOG IS DEAD
JAKE BUGG
DON BROCO
OBERHOFER
THE KNUX
CITIZENS!
THEME PARK
THE MINUTES
BLOOD OR WHISKEY
BASSNECTAR (DJ set)
HAWK EYES
SARAH WILLIAMS WHITE
CUT RIBBONS
ESCAPISTS
ESCAPE TO NEW YORK
MAX RAPTOR
HILDAMAY
RIO
DEAR PRUDENCE
BLACK MOTH
BACKYARDS
VENGEANCE AND THE PANTHER QUEEN
BEARFOOT BEWARE
KID KOALA
DOC BROWN
REGINALD D HUNTER
JIMMY MCGHIE
CHRIS COX
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
Sunday 26 August
FOO FIGHTERS
THE BLACK KEYS
KAISER CHIEFS
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
ALL TIME LOW
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
BAND OF SKULLS
PULLED APART BY HORSES
JUSTICE
TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
THE HORRORS
SBTRKT
MARK LANEGAN BAND
THE JOY FORMIDABLE
TRIBES
DJANGO DJANGO
HOWLER
OF MONSTERS AND MEN
LESS THAN JAKE
ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES
GALLOWS
TURBONEGRO
TRASH TALK
GOOD RIDDANCE
THE SKINTS
POLAR BEAR CLUB
THIS IS HELL
MöNGöL HöRDE
THE FLATLINERS
APOLOGIES, I HAVE NONE
CROWNS
THE VIEW
THE FUTUREHEADS (A capella &
acoustic)
BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH
KING CHARLES
2.54
ZULU WINTER
S.C.U.M.
ALBERTA CROSS
ICEAGE
DZ DEATHRAYS
TOY
DEAP VALLY
THE CAST OF CHEERS
L.A.
TALL SHIPS
IFAN DAFYDD
DEAF CLUB
WE WALK ON ICE
MARMOZETS
DINGUS KHAN
EMPROR AND DUPPY BEATZ
RACHEL SERMANNI
SEASFIRE
THE ESTABLISHMENT
CROOKED TONGUES
GLASSBODY
JASON BYRNE
JEFF LEACH
KATHERINE RYAN
STEPHEN K AMOS
HOLLY WALSH
SEANN WALSH
DAMO CLARK
POPCORN COMEDY
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