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CarlingFesty.com is a website dedicated to both the Carling Festivals, Leeds Festival and Reading Festival. Here all the latest news and updates will be posted about Leeds Festival 2008 and Reading Festival 2008. We first launched in 2005 where we kept everyone updated about Carling Festival 2006 and then 2007, this year we hope to improve the site a lot! We will be keeping you up to date with news, rumours, tips, tricks and news about the Leeds and Reading festival lineups as soon as we hear it!

March 31st, 2008

NME confirm The Killers as Headline slot

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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August 2nd, 2007

Reading Festival will take place, despite flooding

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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May 22nd, 2007

Carling Stage Lineup Announced

The Carling Stage line up was announced today, the bands playing are as follows

Carling Stage

Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday
Albert Hammond Jr
Patrick Wolf
Jack Penate
Cajun Dance Party
Reverend and the Makers
1990s
Alberta Cross
Frank Turner
Blood Red Shoes
Manchester Orchestra
Turbofruits
Ripchord
Bombay Bicycle Club
Hot Hot Heat
The Academy Is…
Battles
Silversun Pickups
Shiny Toy Guns
Tokyo Police Club
Cobra Starship
Foals
Director
Mute Math
Kids in Glass Houses
Lostalone
Eisley
Pete and the Pirates
The Hold Steady
Peter, Bjorn and John
Seasick Steve
Charlotte Hatherley
Kate Nash
Little Ones
Kubichek!
Operator Please
Republic of Loose
I Was A Cub Scout
Stalkers

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, News, Rumours at 12:23 PM PDT

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May 18th, 2007

Carling stage announcement Next Week

It has been confirmed by the press representative for the Carling Weekend that the line up for the Carling Stage will be announced next week. They drop no hints, merely stating that “the Carling Stage will yet again host the best collection of up and coming talent at the best live music weekend in the UK

Keep your eyes peeled our subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know when this announcement is made!

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, Rumours at 5:22 PM PDT

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May 2nd, 2007

More Bands Added to Lineup

Sorry for the delay in this post, but at least it’s good news! Mean Fiddler have added more bands to the Leeds Festival and Reading Festival lineup and they are as follows:

Jimmy Eat World, The Long Blondes, Little Man Tate, The Pipettes, The Shins, Eagles Of Death Metal, Dead 60s, The Used, Hellogoodbye and Gym Class Heroes will play the Main Stage.

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Enemy, The Horrors, Dinosaur Jr, The Pigeon Detectives, The Young Knives, Nine Black Alps, Good Shoes, Noisettes, Jamie T, Cold War Kids, The Maccabees, The Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony, Hadouken! and Late Of The Pier all join the Radio 1/NME Stage.

I am updating our line up page as you read this.

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News, Rumours at 5:27 PM PDT

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March 16th, 2007

Two Lineup “Confirmations”

There are two fairly solid confirmations for Leeds and Reading this year. Arcade Fire have selfconfirmed themselves and various news sites have confirmed that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers will be headling one night at the festivals this year.

Obviously nothing is one hundred percent untill the lineup is announced this Monday, but you can read about this here.

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, News, Rumours at 6:43 PM PDT

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March 9th, 2007

Tickets on sale 19th March 7 PM

Disregard the previous post, it has been officially announced that tickets will be on sale on the 19th of March (Monday) at 7 P.M. 2007. The lineup will be revealed on the website (and here) at 6.45 P.M.

These dates are 100% official unlike the previous dates which we were unsure on. We’ll have links for tickets up soon.

If you really want to know the lineup then I reccomend checking this website regularly as we will probably get the lineup before anyone else including the official site (we did last year!).

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, News, Rumours at 9:33 AM PST

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March 4th, 2007

Tickets on sale 26th of March

Update: This is incorrect. Tickets go on sale on the 19th of March 7 P.M.

There is a strong rumour that Leeds and Reading festival tickets will go on sale at 7 p.m. on the 26th of March. This is after the lineup is announced on Radio 1. This isn’t 100% as it hasn’t been confirmed by the official site but it is from a valuable source. If you want to be alerted (among other things) when tickets go on sale then sign up to our Mailing List. Also, be sure to check out our ticket guide for advice on ordering tickets.

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, News, Rumours at 9:29 PM PST

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February 25th, 2007

Parking tickets available?

It would seem that it is possible to buy parking tickets for Reading already. It should be pointed out that this hasn’t been officially announced so it’s unclear if you will be buying last years parking tickets or similar. Either way, if you’ve got the money to spare it may worth buying them know before they sell out.

Buy parking tickets for Reading here: http://www.seetickets.com/mean_multi/price.asp?code=206308

Please note that this is for Reading Festival only, parking at Leeds Festival is free. Also there are no other tickets on sale.

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, News, Rumours at 3:03 PM PST

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February 22nd, 2007

Bloc party self confirm for Reading and Leeds

According the NME Bloc party have announced that they will be playing Reading and Leeds, obviously nothing is %100 until it’s on the official site but this looks pretty promising.

More info here: http://www.nme.com/news/bloc-party/26616

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, News, Rumours at 6:01 PM PST

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