Reading and Leeds festivals - wikipedia Reading and Leeds festivals `` Leeds Festival '' redirects here. For the 1858 - 1985 festivals, see Leeds Festival ( classical music ). Reading and Leeds Festivals Reading Main Stage in 2007 ( Top ) Leeds Main Stage in 2006 ( Bottom ) Genre Rock, Alternative, Metal, Hip - Hop, Dance Dates August bank holiday Location ( s ) Reading and Leeds, England Beaulieu Jazz Festival ( 1955 -- 1961 ) Various as National Jazz Festival ( 1961 -- 1970 ) Reading ( since 1971 ) Also at Leeds ( since 1999 ) Years active 1955 -- present Attendance 90,000 Website http://www.readingfestival.com The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, sharing the same bill. The Reading Festival is held at Little John 's Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near the Caversham Bridge ( 51 ° 27 ′ 52 '' N 0 ° 59 ′ 30 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.46444 ° N 0.99167 ° W ﻿ / 51.46444 ; - 0.99167 ). The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of a historic house ( 53 ° 52 ′ 04 '' N 1 ° 23 ′ 17 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 53.86778 ° N 1.38806 ° W ﻿ / 53.86778 ; - 1.38806 ). Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping. Day tickets are also sold. The Reading Festival, the older of the two festivals, is the world 's oldest popular music festival still in existence. Many of the UK 's most successful rock and pop bands have played at the festival, including The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, The Who, Cream, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Genesis, Iron Maiden, The Jam, The Police, Status Quo, The Pogues, Blur, Pulp, Muse, The Cure, Radiohead, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro and Oasis. The festival has also hosted prominent international bands such as Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, AC / DC, Metallica, Guns n ' Roses, Eminem, Nirvana, Hole, Foo Fighters, blink - 182, The Strokes, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers. The festival has had various musical phases over the years, but since the current two - site format was adopted in 1999, rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal have been the main genres featured in the line - up. The festivals are run by Festival Republic, which was divested from Mean Fiddler Music Group. From 1998 -- 2007 the festivals were known as the Carling Weekend : Reading and the Carling Weekend : Leeds for promotional purposes. In November 2007 the sponsored title was abolished after nine years and the Reading Festival reclaimed its original name. In 2011, the capacity of the Reading site was 87,000, and the Leeds site was 75,000, an increase of several thousand on previous years. Contents 1 History 1.1 1960s 1.2 1970s 1.3 1980s 1.3. 1 Council ban 1.3. 2 Late 80s / early 90s slump 1.4 1990s 1.4. 1 Festival expansion 1.5 2000s 1.5. 1 Banning of flags and banners 1.6 2010s 2 Stages 3 List of headliners 4 Bottling incidents 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links History Main article : National Jazz and Blues Festival The Reading Festival was originally known as the National Jazz Festival, which was conceived by Harold Pendleton ( founder of the Marquee Club in London in 1958 ) and first held at Richmond Athletic Ground in 1961. Throughout the 1960s the festival moved between several London and Home Counties sites, being held at Windsor Racecourse, Kempton Park, Sunbury and Plumpton, before reaching its permanent home at Reading in 1971. Since 1964, when the festival added a Friday evening session to the original Saturday and Sunday format, it has been staged over three days, with the sole exception of 1970 when a fourth day was added, running from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 August. 1960s The National Jazz Federation ( NJF ) Festival was established at the height of the Trad Jazz boom, as a successor to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival, initially as a two - day event held at Richmond Athletic Ground. The line - up for the first two years was made up exclusively of jazz performers, but in 1963 several rhythm & blues acts were added to the bill, including the Rolling Stones, Georgie Fame and Long John Baldry, and by 1965 such acts were in the majority, with jazz sessions reduced to Saturday and Sunday afternoons only. This format continued until 1967 when jazz was limited to just the Saturday afternoon session. By 1969 jazz had disappeared entirely from the line - up. In 1964 a Friday evening session was added to the existing weekend format. In 1966 the NJF Festival moved to the larger Windsor Racecourse. The following year a second stage ( the Marquee Stage ) was added, but when the festival was moved to Sunbury in 1968 it reverted to a single - stage format. The festival was held at Plumpton Racecourse in 1969 and 1970. 1970s Reading Festival 1975 After moving to Reading the festival 's line - up became primarily composed of progressive rock, blues and hard rock during the early and mid 1970s, and then became the first music festival to incorporate punk rock and new wave in the late 1970s, when The Jam, Sham 69 and The Stranglers were among the headline acts. The festival 's attempts to cater for both traditional rock acts and punk and new wave bands occasionally led to clashes between the two sets of fans at the end of the 1970s, though the festival gradually became known for focusing on heavy metal and rock acts. 1980s During the 1980s, the festival followed a similar format to that established in the late 1970s, with leading rock and heavy metal acts performing on the last two days, and a more varied line - up including punk and new wave bands on the opening day. Council ban In 1984 and 1985, the Conservative - run local council effectively banned the festival by designating the festival site for development and refusing to grant licences for any alternative sites in the Reading area. In 1984, many acts were already booked and tickets were on sale, with Marillion due to headline. The promoters tried in vain to find a new site but a proposed move to Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire failed. The proposed line - up was published in Soundcheck free music paper issue 12 as : Friday 24 August -- Hawkwind, Boomtown Rats, Snowy White, The Playn Jayn, Dumpy 's Rusty Nuts, Wildfire, Chelsea Eloy, Tracy Lamb, New Torpedoes ; Saturday 25th -- Jethro Tull, Hanoi Rocks, Steve Hackett, Club Karlsson, Nazareth, Twelfth Night, Thor, Silent Running, New Model Army, IQ, The Roaring Boys, She ; Sunday 26th -- Marillion, Grand Slam, The Bluebells, Helix, Clannad, The Opposition, The Enid, Young Blood, Scorched Earth, Terraplane ). After Labour regained control of the council in 1986, permission was given for fields adjacent to the original festival site to be used, and a line - up was put together at three months ' notice. The following year saw a record attendance, headlined by The Mission, Alice Cooper and Status Quo. Late 80s / early 90s slump 1988 saw an attempt to take the festival in a mainstream commercial pop direction, featuring acts including Starship, Squeeze, Hothouse Flowers, Bonnie Tyler and Meat Loaf ( who was bottled off stage ), and the subsequent disputes led to the ousting of original festival promoter Harold Pendleton by the Mean Fiddler Music Group organisation. Pendleton attempted to relocate the festival to a new site near Newbury using the name `` Redding Festival '', but threats of legal action by the new promoters of the original festival, as well as a reluctance by Newbury District Council to issue a licence for the proposed Newbury Showground venue blocked Pendleton 's plans. Meanwhile, the official Reading Festival, now managed by Mean Fiddler, continued at the Thames - side site in Reading, with a predominantly goth and indie music policy that alienated much of the traditional fan base and saw attendances plummet. Attendances continued to fall between 1989 and 1991, but began to recover from 1992, when new organisers took over from the Mean Fiddler group, broadening the festival 's musical policy. 1990s In 1991, Nirvana made the first of their two appearances at Reading, midway down the bill. The following year they played what would be their last UK concert, which was released as a live album / DVD Live at Reading in November 2009. The band 's singer Kurt Cobain came onstage in a wheelchair pushed by music journalist Everett True and wearing a medical gown, parodying speculations about his mental health. Festival expansion By the mid-1990s the festival had begun to regain its former status as the popularity of UK outdoor festivals increased. Britpop and indie began to appear on the bill alongside the traditional rock and metal acts, and rap acts such as Ice Cube began to appear regularly on the main stage, to mixed receptions. Public Enemy headlined the second day of the 1992 festival. Beastie Boys were about halfway down the bill for day three. In 1996, the remnants of The Stone Roses played their disastrous final gig at the festival. In 1998, the Reading Festival absorbed the failed Phoenix Festival, resulting in an on - stage dispute between Beastie Boys and The Prodigy over the song `` Smack My Bitch Up ''. In 1999 the festival added a second venue at Temple Newsam in Leeds, the site of V Festival in 1997 and 1998, due to increasing demand. In the first year all bands performed at the Leeds site the day after they played Reading, with the Reading Festival running from Friday to Sunday and the Leeds Festival running from Saturday to Monday. However in 2001 the festival moved to the current format, wherein the Reading line - up plays at Leeds the following day, with the opening day line - up from Leeds playing the final day in Reading ( with the exceptions of 2009 and 2010 when the bands playing Leeds played Reading the following day, and the bands on the opening day of Reading closed Leeds ). 2000s The main stage of the 2000 Reading Festival After a successful first year in Leeds, the increasing popularity of outdoor music festivals led to the Reading Festival selling out quicker every year. However, the Leeds Festival was plagued by riots and violence, which led to problems in retaining its licence. The worst incidents occurred in 2002, following which the festival was moved to Bramham Park north - east of Leeds. Since then, security at both sites has increased and problems have been reduced. The early 2000s saw a varied but predominantly rock line - up, though as the decade progressed the Main Stage and Radio 1 Stage featured many indie bands. Despite being predominantly a rock festival, several hip - hop artists have appeared at the festival over the years, including Cypress Hill, Ice Cube, Beastie Boys, Eminem, Xzibit, Jay - Z, 50 Cent, Dizzee Rascal and The Streets. In 2005, the main stages at both Reading and Leeds were made larger, featuring cantilevered video screens. The same year the Reading Fringe Festival was established in Reading, with venues in the town hosting acts hoping to draw crowds and industry figures from the larger festival. The Reading Fringe has run annually since then. Banning of flags and banners Flags were banned from both festival sites in 2009, with the organisers citing health and safety concerns. Flags and banners had been a traditional part of the Reading Festival since the early 1970s, originally used to enable motorcycle groups and others to identify themselves and find each other inside the main arena. 2010s Campsite Aftermath, 2016 Reading Festival continued to expand through the early 2010s, with a new record capacity of 90,000 recorded in 2016. Stages 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. Dance tent -- dance music acts, previously sharing a day with the Lock Up stage, now a stand - alone 3 - day stage. Lock Up Stage ( Can be known as Pit 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. Festival Republic stage ( formerly known as the Carling stage ) -- acts with less popular appeal and breakthrough acts. 1Xtra Stage -- new stage for 2013 that stages Hip - Hop, RnB and Rap artists. 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 ). A panorama of the Reading Festival 2007 arena List of headliners This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2018 ) 2018 : Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar / Panic ! at the Disco, Kings of Leon 2017 : Eminem, Muse, Kasabian 2016 : Foals / Disclosure ( Co-headline ), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro / Fall Out Boy ( Co-headline ) 2015 : Mumford & Sons, Metallica, The Libertines 2014 : Queens of the Stone Age / Paramore ( Co-headline ), Arctic Monkeys, Blink - 182 2013 : Green Day, Eminem, Biffy Clyro 2012 : The Cure, Kasabian, Foo Fighters 2011 : My Chemical Romance, The Strokes / Pulp ( Co-headline ), Muse 2010 : Guns N ' Roses, Arcade Fire, Blink - 182 2009 : Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead 2008 : Rage Against The Machine, The Killers, Metallica 2007 : Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins 2006 : Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Pearl Jam 2005 : Pixies, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden 2004 : The Darkness, The White Stripes, Green Day 2003 : Linkin Park, Blur, Metallica 2002 : The Strokes, Foo Fighters, Guns N ' Roses ( Leeds ), The Prodigy 2001 : Travis, Manic Street Preachers, Eminem 2000 : Oasis, Pulp, Stereophonics 1999 : The Charlatans, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers 1998 : Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Beastie Boys, Garbage 1997 : Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Metallica 1996 : The Prodigy, Black Grape, The Stone Roses 1995 : Smashing Pumpkins, Björk, Neil Young 1994 : Cypress Hill, Primal Scream, Red Hot Chili Peppers 1993 : Porno For Pyros, The The, New Order 1992 : Nirvana, The Wonder Stuff, Public Enemy 1991 : Iggy Pop, James, The Sisters of Mercy 1990 : The Cramps, Inspiral Carpets, Pixies 1989 : New Order, The Pogues, The Mission 1988 : Ramones, Starship, Squeeze 1987 : The Mission, Status Quo, Alice Cooper 1986 : Killing Joke, Saxon ( `` It was during a period where the band was a bit fucked up, '' admitted Biff Byford. `` We had some different members and the chemistry was n't quite right, but I recall that it was a good one. '' ), Hawkwind 1985 : No festival held 1984 ( cancelled ) : Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, Marillion 1983 : The Stranglers, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy 1982 : Budgie, Iron Maiden, The Michael Schenker Group 1981 : Girlschool, Gillan, The Kinks 1980 : Rory Gallagher, UFO, Whitesnake 1979 : The Police, Scorpions ( replacing Thin Lizzy. `` I was drying my hair by wind -- by headbanging, '' recalled Rudolf Schenker. `` I turn around still shaking my head and I put my head into a fucking wall. So at Reading I had a bandage on my head ). '' ), Peter Gabriel 1978 : The Jam, Status Quo, Patti Smith 1977 : Golden Earring, Thin Lizzy, Alex Harvey 1976 : Gong, Rory Gallagher, Osibisa 1975 : Hawkwind, Yes, Wishbone Ash 1974 : The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Traffic, Focus 1973 : Rory Gallagher, The Faces, Genesis 1972 : Curved Air, The Faces, Quintessence 1971 : Arthur Brown, East of Eden, Colosseum 1970 : Jellybread, Family, Taste, Deep Purple 1969 : Pink Floyd, The Who, The Nice 1968 : The Herd, The Nice, Traffic 1967 : Small Faces, The Nice, Cream 1966 : Small Faces, The Who, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames 1965 : The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, The Animals 1964 : The Rolling Stones, Chris Barber Band, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen 1963 : Chris Barber 's Jazz Band, Acker Bilk 's Paramount Jazz Band 1962 : Chris Barber 's Jazz Band, Kenny Ball 's Jazzmen 1961 : Chris Barber 's Jazz Band, Ken Colyer 's Jazzmen Bottling incidents Bottling acts offstage ( being forced off stage by a barrage of audience - thrown bottles and cans ) is a frequent occurrence at the festival. During the 1970s and 1980s there were often mass - participation can and bottle fights, and unpopular bands have been bottled offstage throughout the festival 's history since the first large - scale `` cannings '' of 1973 and 1974. Examples include : Punk band The Hellions, featuring ex-Damned guitarist Brian James, were booked on an otherwise 100 % heavy metal line - up on the Friday of the 1980 Festival and left the stage in less than a minute following an assault of cans, bottles and pork pies. `` I Canned The Hellions at Reading '' T - shirts were on sale at souvenir stands within the hour. In 1983, reggae act Steel Pulse left within moments of arriving on stage under an avalanche of missiles launched by punks and rockers waiting to see The Stranglers. John Waite and the No Brakes Band quit the stage on the Saturday of the 1986 festival when their drummer was hit in the head by a 12 '' vinyl disc. In 1988 Bonnie Tyler completed her set despite being pelted with bottles and turf. The same day 's headliner Meat Loaf left 20 minutes into his set after being hit by a full two - litre cider bottle. After an initially positive reception Meat Loaf angered the audience by berating them for their treatment of his friend Bonnie Tyler earlier in the day, then stormed off stage when met with a volley of burgers and bottles. He eventually returned shouting `` Do you wan na rock ' n ' roll or do you wan na throw stuff ? '' Ten seconds later the cider bottle struck him in the face, at which point he left the stage permanently. In 2000, Daphne and Celeste were scheduled on the main stage, but were bottled off after two songs. In 2003, Good Charlotte stopped their set 20 minutes short and encouraged the crowd to throw bottles all at the same time after a count of three after being pelted by bottles throughout their set. In 2004, 50 Cent was pelted with bottles, mud and an inflatable paddling pool during his set. 50 Cent was on stage for just under 20 minutes before throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off after one song. In 2006 at Reading, Panic ! at the Disco lead singer Brendon Urie was struck in the face with a plastic bottle and fell unconscious, forcing the rest of the band to stop mid-song as he lay on the floor. Urie received medical treatment from his road crew for several minutes before regaining consciousness, and the band subsequently continued the song from the point at which it was interrupted. The same year, My Chemical Romance were heckled by a small group of angry audience members. Lead singer Gerard Way encouraged the crowd to throw bottles at them instead, and the band were pelted with golf balls and bottles of urine, among other items. 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Question: where does the reading and leeds festival take place
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