page_title: Reading and Leeds Festivals
section_title: 2010s
hierarchical_section_title: Reading and Leeds Festivals / History / 2010s
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context_page_description: The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual 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. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of a historic house. 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 biggest bands in the UK and internationally have played at the festival over five decades. 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. More recently hip hop has comprised an increasing proportion of the lineup, including headline sets by artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.
context_section_description: Reading Festival continued to expand through the early 2010s, with a new record capacity of 105,000 recorded in 2019. In the same year, 200 artists played at both festivals.
  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).
caption: A panorama of the Reading Festival 2007 arena
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