There’s been a new lineup update, with a few stages announced.

The updated lineup is as follows

Radio 1/NME Stage

Lockup Stage / Dance Stage

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, News at 7:10 PM PDT

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Every year festival republic host a focus group where they attempt to take feedback from patrons to the Leeds and Reading festivals in an attempt to improve them. Someone on another forum has kindly typed up these questions, as there are so many we won’t publish them all in this article but will attempt to summarise them and make the full list of questions and answers available here: http://carlingfesty.com/2008-focus-group-qa/

• Improved competitions
• Improved publicity of webcasts and more coverage by the BBC
• Two sets of pre-sale tickets for 2009, one directly after the festival and another in October/Christmas. Each batch will be 15,000
• Will look in to free velcro wrist bands
• No increase on programme prices (no higher than £8)
• Improved sign posting
• No more Friday to Saturday tickets due to massive confusion caused
• No more tickets will go on sale
• No wednesday night entertainment, potential thursday night entertainment
• More tap water points
• No more carling but Tubourg, Carlsberg and Gaymers
• Might bring back cold beer swap but they know about the Tesco Value Lager trick
• More urinals
• May open showers 24 hours a day

This isn’t all just the best summary I could do, if you want more information read the page here: http://carlingfesty.com/2008-focus-group-qa/

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Well that was hectic, I think every Leeds and Reading site on the internet went down at about 6.30 with so many people hitting them. We had ten times our usual traffic and hopefully we got through to as many people as possible. If you visited us yesterday you will have noticed it looking a bit different, this was an attempt to keep the site up, it probably meant we lasted longer than others but we did lose it eventually.

As for tickets it seems a lot of people we’re able to get through, Leeds Festival and Reading Festival weekend tickets have now officially “sold out” but if you didn’t get one keep checking. More tickets get put on sale, credit cards get declined and lots of other things happen that mean there could still be some available. Don’t hit eBay yet, there’s no point in panic buying, if you must buy your ticket off an eBay tout then wait a few weeks when you will be able to get them much cheaper. Basically, don’t panic, you’ve got until August to find a ticket and if you’re determined you will!

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As we only post rumours/confirmations from credible sources this year hasn’t seen much. But the NME has confirmed that The Killers will be playing at Leeds and Reading this year. Playing Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds.

Link: http://www.nme.com/news/readingleeds-festival/35533

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, News, Rumours at 12:55 PM PDT

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It has just been announced that tickets will also be available from HMV on the 1st of April (Tuesday, the day after they go on sale online). So if you’re unable to get hold of tickets on the Monday then you have a second chance by going to HMV at opening. It is important to note that you will have to bring photo I.D. with you and it is a maximum of 2 tickets per person.

Update:The tickets will be available only at HMVs in the following places: Bath, Basingstoke, Bracknell,
Bristol, Broadmead, Guildford, High Wycombe, Kingston, Newbury, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading Friar St, Reading Oracle, Slough, Southampton, Staines, Swindon, Winchester, Windsor, Woking

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I can confirm tickets will be on sale at 6.45pm, not 7.00pm but will still be on sale on the 31st of March

Prices will be as follows:

• Weekend Ticket with Camping: £155
• Early Entry: £10
• Day Ticket: £65
• Locker: £15
• Campervan: £10

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It has been announced that Carling are no longer the official sponsors of the Leeds and Reading festivals. Carling have dropped their sponsorship after 9 years with the two festivals. Little more detail is gone in to by Festival Republic (who used to be known as Mean Fiddler) other than that it was a mutual agreement.

It’s unclear what affect this will have on the festivals, obviously there will no longer be no longer be a “Beer Amnsety” tent/stage and all the other things that bore the Carling name will have to find other sponsorship or be removed all together. It will be interesting to see the affects this has on the festival.

In other news I just want to assure you that we’re still running this site and you can expect more and more updates as we get closer to the lineup. As for the name of this site? We’re going to have to wait and see to see what’s going to change regarding that.

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If you lost anything at Leeds Festival 2007 then Mean Fiddler are encouraging you to e-mail or phone them: leedsfest07@gmail.com or 07908 600506

And if you lost anything at Reading Festival 2007 then you can e-mail lostproperty@wavesltd.org or write to:

Waves,
Carling Weekend: Reading 2007,
PO Box 150,
Droitwich Spa,
WORCS
WR9 0WX

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News at 9:21 PM PDT

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No sign of this news on the official website but this has come straight from their PR company so it’s almost certainly true. This year they’re calling the Comedy Tent the “Alternative Stage” and as well as comedy there will be visual displays etc. shown there.

The lineup is as follows:

The Alternative Stage Leeds

The Alternative Stage Reading

Posted by Pandy as Everything at 1:24 PM PDT

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Mean Fiddler have announced today that Reading Festival will definitely take place even though the venue has been flooded in recent storms. Part of the areas used for camping flooded after prolonged rain caused part of the River Thames, close to the site, to burst its banks. However, with the weather warming up and river levels receding, organisers insist everything looks good for the event.

Good news for anyone worried about the flooding, as for Leeds Festival the venue hasn’t been flooded so there is no doubt as to whether it will take place.

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News, Rumours at 3:30 PM PDT

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