Welcome to Carlingfesty.com!
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!
There’s been a new lineup update, with a few stages announced.
The updated lineup is as follows
| Reading Friday |
Reading Saturday |
Reading Sunday |
| Leeds Saturday |
Leeds Sunday |
Leeds Friday |
Rage Against The Machine
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Fratellis
The Enemy
Biffy Clyro
Serj Tankian
Dizzee Rascal
Taking Back Sunday
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Anti-Flag
|
The Killers
Bloc Party
The Raconteurs
Editors
We Are Scientists
Dirty Pretty Things
The Subways
British Sea Power
The Automatic
|
Metallica
Tenacious D
Slipknot
Feeder
Avenged Sevenfold
Dropkick Murphys
Special Guests
Alexisonfire
|
Radio 1/NME Stage
| Reading Friday |
Reading Saturday |
Reading Sunday |
| Leeds Saturday |
Leeds Sunday |
Leeds Friday |
Babyshambles
The Wombats
Vampire Weekend
MGMT
Jack Penate
One Night Only
The Duke Spirit
Be Your Own Pet
Blood Red Shoes
Make Model
|
Manic Street Preachers
Bullet For My Valentine
Justice
Foals
Seasick Steve
The Ting Tangs
The Mystery Jets
Santogold
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Kids in Glass Houses
Bombay Bicycle Club
|
The Cribs
Conor Oberst
Pendulum
The Music
Hadouken
Lightspeed Champion
Cajun Dance Party
Adam Green
Yeasayer
The Metros
|
Lockup Stage / Dance Stage
| Reading Friday (Lockup) |
Reading Saturday (Lockup) |
Reading Sunday (Dance) |
| Leeds Saturday (Lockup) |
Leeds Sunday (Dance) |
Leeds Friday (Lockup) |
Less Than Jake
Pennywise
Special Guests
Goldfinger
The Unseen
H20
Frank Turner
The Loved Ones
Hexes
|
Gallows
Alkaline Trio
Thrice
Flogging Molly
MXPX
Cancer Bats
Set Your Goals
King Blues
Fucked Up
The Gaslight Anthem
Random Hand
|
CSS
Digitalism
Simian Mobile Disco
Chromed
Crystal Castles
Lethal Bizzle
Holy Fuck
The Whip
Robots In Disguise
The Death Set
The Shoes
|
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/
Posted by Pandy as Everything at 6:26 PM PDT
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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!
Posted by Pandy as Confirmations, Everything, News at 11:40 AM PDT
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