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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!

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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February 20th, 2007

Reading Declared Nirvana’s Greatest Moment by Fans

A poll of NME Readers has declared Nirvana’s performance at the Reading Festival in 1992 to be their best. This even even topped Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” session.

You can read more about this on NME’s site here: http://www.nme.com/news/nirvana/26553

Or you can watch a (low quality) video of the performance on Youtube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Posted by Pandy as Everything, News at 6:57 PM PST

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February 13th, 2007

Win Tickets to Leeds

More opportunities to win some tickets over at Virtual Festivals. It should be pointed out that you only win “oxfam tickets”, which mean you’re part of the volunteering squad. It’s possible to sign up and get free tickets through oxfam anyway, but with this package it’s all sorted out for you and you get a free camera and some money.

Anyway, it’s worth a look. Enter here http://www.virtualfestivals.com/festivals/article.cfm?articleid=3173

Posted by Pandy as News at 6:09 PM PST

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February 11th, 2007

Teenager faces jail time for dealing at Leeds Festival

Here’s a reminder to everyone that the Leeds and Reading Festivals aren’t lawless and anything *ahem* illegitimate should not be done in open public. This guy apparently had agreed to buy weed from a dealer at Leeds Festival but when it came to it he didn’t have enough money so the dealer demanded he sell ecstasy for him (229 pills) or face a beating.

You can read more about this here: http://thisisleeds.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2040927&sectionid=39

Posted by Pandy as News at 12:28 AM PST

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February 5th, 2007

Work at the Carling Weekend, Get A Free Ticket

In total Mean Fiddler are looking for 410 people to work as CAT members at the Leeds and Reading festivals this year. If you’ve been to past festivals then you will have probably met this guys, if not then allow me to explain. A CAT is a member of the “Campsite Assistance Teams”, these people aren’t security what they do is basically wander around the campsite and make sure everything is fine. You have to be 18 and you work three 8 hour shifts across the weekend, you pay for the ticket but if you turn up for all your shifts you get the money back.

Anyway, to conclude, if you want a free ticket for Leeds or Reading and don’t mind potentially missing some bands or working then you should definitely visit (and apply, quickly!) this site: http://www.dcsiteservices.com/cats/

Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, News at 4:53 PM PST

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