About
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.
About us
We are dedicated to providing all the latest and most interesting information about Reading Festival, as soon as it happens.
We gather our information from resources that have been tried and tested for over a year, and we now feel that we are using the some of the most reliable out there.
The types of Information include, line-up rumours, news, ticket information and news and line-up confirmations. We also post camping tips and festival guides to help you make the most out of your Reading experience.
A brief History
Reading Festival developed from The National Jazz Festival, which was first held in 1961. The festival changed locations almost every year before finally settling at its current place, just outside reading in 1971.
During the 1970’s Readings line-up began to change to suit the times. Prog rock, blues and heavy metal all started to become prominent genres. In the later part of the decade, the festival also began to dabble with punk rock. Artists sucks as The Jam and Sham 69 were all included in the line-up in 1978. The introduction of such act created trouble though. Rock followers clashed with punks at the festival, and organisers were forced to go back to the roots of rock and blues.
During the 1980’s Reading continued in the same way as it did in the early parts of the 70’s; attracting large crowds to its rock and metal based headliners.
However, in 1984 and 1985, the “Conservative Party-led local council effectively banned the festival by reclaiming the festival site for ‘development’ and refusing to grant licenses for any alternative sites in the Reading area” [1] In 1984 many
acts had already been confirmed but despite the efforts of the organisers, it had to be canceled.
For Reading this was a huge blow, and as a result that summer Glastonbury Festival went from being a Hippy/cult festival to a festival with huge corporate status.
Reading Finally returned in 1986, with a line-up that was compiled only three months before the event took place.
Our Aims
For next year we plan to become the number one website for Reading Festival information. We want to expand our community by introducing a forum and by encouraging people to post on the blog.
We also aim to provide news faster and more affectively.
References
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_and_Leeds_Festivals
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