|
The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, sharing the same bill. The Reading Festival is held at Little John's Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near the Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of an historic house. Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping. Day tickets are also sold. The Reading Festival, the original and senior of the two, is the world's oldest popular music festival still in existence. It has had various musical phases over the years, as detailed below. In the twin-site era, rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal have tended to dominate. The festivals are run by Festival Republic, which was divested from Mean Fiddler Music Group. For promotional purposes during 1998–2007 they were known as the ''Carling Weekend: Reading'' and the ''Carling Weekend: Leeds''. These titles were seldom used when not required, although ''NME'' were contractually obliged to do so as part of its involvement. In November 2007, the organisers welcomed "Reading Festival reclaiming its prestigious name" when the sponsored title was abolished after 9 years. In 2011, the capacity of the Reading site was 87,000 and the Leeds site was 75,000. This was an increase of several thousand on previous years.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 An extra 5,000 tickets are granted for the Leeds Festival ) 〕 ==Stages== The festival typically has the following stages:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carling festival main page )〕 *Main stage – major rock, indie, metal and alternative acts. *''NME''/Radio 1 stage – less well-known acts, building up to an alternative headline act. *Dance tent – dance music acts, previously sharing a day with the Lock Up stage, now a stand-alone 3-day stage. *Lock Up Stage – underground punk and hardcore acts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Stages Announced ) 〕 Due to demand, from 2006 this stage took up two days rather than previous years where it was only one day. *Festival Republic stage (formerly known as the Carling stage) – acts with less popular appeal and breakthrough acts. *1Xtra Stage – new stage for 2013 that stages Hip-Hop, RnB and Rap artists. *Alternative tent – comedy and cabaret acts plus DJs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Alternative stage ) 〕 *BBC Introducing Stage – Typically unsigned/not well known acts. (Formerly known as the Topman Unsigned Stage at the Leeds site). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reading and Leeds Festivals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|