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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.
The festival's origins date to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival (1956–1961) which became the National Jazz Festival in 1961 (The National Jazz and Blues Festival in 1963) and settled in Reading in 1971. In 1999 a second leg was added at Leeds.
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band played at the 2008 Reading and Leeds Festivals. In addition, they also performed at Connect Festival in Scotland and the Electric Picnic in Ireland in August 2008, the Austin City Limits festival in September and also at the Great Escape Festival in Sydney, Australia in early October 2008.
Download Festival is a rock festival created by Andy ... owing to headlining that year's Reading and Leeds Festivals. ... The 2008 festival took place on 13–15 June
They played at "The Pyramid Stage" at the Glastonbury Festival 2008 on June 28, the Montreux Jazz festival on July 7, at Lollapalooza on August 1, and on the main stage of Reading and Leeds Festival 2008 on August 23 and 24, as well as at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on September 26–28, 2008. They played "The Eden Sessions" at the ...
August 22, 2008 Leeds: England Reading and Leeds Festivals: August 24, 2008 Reading: August 26, 2008 Paris: France Le Trabendo (Virgin 17 showcase) August 27, 2008 Hamburg: Germany Grosse Freiheit 36 (MTV showcase) August 29, 2008 Wiesen: Austria Ewean Festival: August 31, 2008 Lüdinghausen: Germany Area 4 Festival
The UK’s Reading and Leeds festivals sold out quickly for their August 27-29 dates, but festival organizer Melvin Benn told the BBC that concertgoers will "almost certainly" need to prove that ...
Late of the Pier opened 2007's Reading and Leeds Festivals on the NME/Radio One stage, while appearing on the festival's Republic stage the following year. [4] The band have performed in support slots for Hadouken!, [5] Soulwax, [6] Justice [7] and U.N.K.L.E., as well as supporting Kaiser Chiefs on their 2008 UK tour.