There is a possibility that a new law will prevent Carling (or any other Alcohol company for that matter) from sponsoring the Carling Weekend in 2007. The law hasn’t been made yet but it’s being seriously considered and this could have some terrible knock on effects for Leeds, Reading, T in the Park and various other festivals and sporting events.

The government claims that festivals sponsored by beer companies are the cause for a recent increase in “irresponsible drinking”. The people behind Leeda and Reading have denied this claim.

Melvin Benn (the guy behind the Carling Weekend) has assured fans that Leeds and Reading are not reliant on Carling and the festivals will continue if this law is created.

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News, Rumours at 3:14 PM PDT

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The Leeds and Reading Festivals are over, and it’s farily save to say that they were enjoyed by all. Personally I visited Leeds and really enjoyed myself, the changes this year really went to help. The new football pitch was good fun for a few days until the surroundings were torn up by around day 2 and their remains scattered around the campsites (the “ROCKS” sign being attached to a pole near to our site). The late night music went down really well and was good fun for those on their second or third wind. The bands were good and the second barrier didn’t negatively affect anything (however, I personally didn’t see much of an improvement). At Leeds Sunday was unusually riot free largely due to the “Love not Riots” campaign and also the late night entertainment. All in all, two fantastic festivals!

Anyway, what’s going on here? Regular visitors may well notice that the site looks very different and appears to be .. one site. Well, in the interest of our own sanity we’ve decided to condense the two “Leeds Festival 2006″ and “Reading Festival 2006″ websites in to one “Carling Festival 2007″ website. This may or may not appeal to you, but I assure you that we will be still reporting both Leeds and Reading specific news as well as news relevant to both the festivals, it will just all be going on the same page. This means a lot to us, because it means we only have to post news once, also we only have to change pages once. Managing a site like this is quite a lot of work, having two of these sites doubles the amount of work that needs to be done, this is why (for those wondering) lately updates have been sparse. We will be updating this site even more and working on it harder than ever, thanks for your continued support! There are some exciting changes coming soon..

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News, Website at 3:08 PM PDT

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