Virtual Festivals are claiming that they have strong rumours that Franz Ferdinand will be headlining the festival this year. And Kaiser Chiefs will be somewhere high up on the bill. There is also a traditional rock act that is yet to be announced. The Arctic Monkeys will also be playing, probably headlining on a smaller stage. Also, The Strokes will, apparently, not be playing this year.

So, to reiterate:

Headline Rumours: Franz Ferdinand, Muse
Main Stage Rumours: Kaiser Chiefs
Non-Main Stage Headline Rumours: Arctic Monkeys
And The Strokes will not be playing.
For now this is all speculation and rumour, especially considering that other sites have confirmed The Strokes who have now denied playing. You can read more on this here: http://virtualfestivals.co.uk/

So far I’m disapointed in what appears to be a rather pop/indie orientated line up that I would certainly expect of V, but not Leeds or Reading. I have my fingers crossed for one hell of a rock act.

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, Rumours at 12:29 PM PST

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Not suprisingly, considering as there were only a few major music events last year, Leeds has been nominated as this years best event by NME. Along with Glastonbury, Live8 and T in the Park.

You can read more about his here: http://www.inthenews.co.uk/music/kaisers-scoop-seven-nme-nominations-$15140052.htm 

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Win a Pair of V.I.P. Tickets to Leeds and have your say in the Leeds 2006 Line up!

I’ve posted about this before, but Mean Fiddler have just udpated there website with the link again so maybe they’re offering more tickets!

Anyway, if you want a chance at winning a pair of V.I.P. tickets to the Leeds Festival then go here: http://www.meanfiddler.com/members/membership/Article59.aspx
Sign up, sign in and suggest some bands that you’d like to see.
PS: Please suggest System of a Down !

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News, Rumours at 3:51 PM PST

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Well, we’re getting a lot of questions on the forums about “When the lineup will be announced” and “When tickets will go on sale”. So after a bit of research I have the following dates from last year! Presumabely the times and dates will be similar if not the same to last year for this year’s schedule.

• 2nd February - NME announce Lineup
• 7th March - Weekend tickets go on sale
• 21st March - Mean Fiddler Confirm NME’s rumours
• 22nd March - Day tickets go on sale
• 30th March - Reading Weekend Tickets sell out
• 7th April - More tickets for Leeds and Reading
• 18th April - More acts announced
• 11th May - More acts announced
• 18th May - Lock up stage line up announced
• 24th May - Cartling Stage line up announced
• 1st June - More tickets for Reading and Leeds go on sale
• 10th June - Reading increases capacity
• 14th June - Dance Stage lineup announced
• 9th August - Comedy Stage lineup announced

So there you go! Personally I remember everything happening a lot sooner, but I checked various websites and this list seems to be accurate! Oh well, 2 weeks until NME leak the line up? I’ve got my fingers crossed!

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Members of Myspace should be pleased to know that this website has its very own MySpace account!
Please show your support for the site, the forum and the festival by adding us here: http://myspace.com/leedsandreading2006

Thanks alot!
And don’t worry, we’ll have plenty more festival news coming up soon..

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Thanks to Dan Norriss of Dirty Horses fame we now have a very pretty, custom made logo to go with our very pretty templated website!

Look out for more of Dan’s work cropping up on our other sites (Carling Festy, Carling Festy Forums, Reading 2006) in the near future.

Thanks Dan!

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Reading-festival.org.uk has confirmed Muse and The Strokes citing GetLive.co.uk as their source.
No actual link to this confirmation, but this site has always been trustworthy so it looks likely!

Remember, you can get your Rumor Discussion fix in our forums: http://forums.carlingfesty.com/viewforum.php?id=5

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Well, according to various sources and fan sites it looks likely that Muse and The Strokes will be playing at the Carling Weekend this year.

Muse are believed to be amongst the headliners this years Carling Weekend Festivals at Leeds and Reading over the weekend of August 25th – 27th. Fans site Mircocuts, report that The Strokes will also be making an appearance. Muse are currently nearing the completion of their fourth studio album which is being earmarked for a May 15th release date.

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Well, it would appear that the rumours for Leeds are already flying. The rumour discussion is our or forum is growing by the day.

Here’s a little summary of what we have so far:

“It would make sense” Rumours

The Strokes - New Album, Wikipedia AND Virtual Festivals are stating these guys as rumoured.
Muse - Touring this year

These two appear to be the most solid rumours about.

“It would be cool if..” Rumours

AC/DC - Touring, No Glastonbury, Iron Maiden last year, maybe want another oldy this year
System of a Down - Two new albums, rumoured to be touring, have played in the past
Smashing Pumpkins - Rumoured to be reforming this year

“Won’t, but wouldn’t it be great if..” Rumours

Pink Floyd - Gauranteed not too, but just imagine it
The Who - Well, you never know. But it doesn’t seem too likely.

That’s just a taster of the rumours, checkout the thread in our forums for more, live information!

Tags: leeds, rumours, leedsrumours, festivals, festivalrumours, carling, carlingfestival, lineup, tour, acddc, strokes, muse, pinkfloyd, systemofadown

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