Reading Festival 2008
Reading Festival is an English open air Music festival, that takes place on the August Bank Holiday Weekend every year. The festival is partnered with Leeds festival, and is run by an organisation called Festival Republic.
Reading itself runs for three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, sharing the same bill as Leeds Festival but in a different order.
common genres of music that you will find at Reading include indie, rock, dance, punk and pop. They appear across these stages:
- Main stage – major rock, indie and alternative acts
- Radio 1 stage – less well-known acts, building up to an alternative headline act
- Carling stage – the Carling stage will no longer exist at Reading.
- Radio 1 Lock Up Stage – underground punk and hardcore acts. Due to demand, from 2006 this stage took up two days rather than previous years where it was only one day.
- Dance tent – dance music acts, on the day that the above stage does not run
- Alternative tent – comedy and cabaret acts plus DJs.
this year also sees the introduction of the BBC unsigned stage.
currently Readings capacity lies at 80 000 people.
Reading Line-up
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Friday 22nd August 2008 |
Saturday 23 August 2008 |
Sunday 24th August 2008 |
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Main Stage NME tent Lock up Stage |
Main Stage NME Tent Lock Up |
Main Stage NME Tent Dance stage |
