Reading Festival – Funeral Party

Funeral Party self confirmed that they will be playing at Reading and Leeds by mistake on last night’s ‘In New Music We Trust’ on Radio 1.The band can be heard confirming themselves, by listening again(here). It’s just over 20 minutes in when the band are asked by Nick Grimshaw if they can talk about festivals yet for this summer, they reply “Reading and Leeds!”The twin festivals take place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Reading Festival is  an annual  music  festival  that  takes   place in Richfield Avenue,  Reading,  UK.    The Reading  and  Leeds    Festivals   are a  pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading  and  Leeds  in  the  United Kingdom  and  are  run  by  Festival Republic (itself owned by Live Nation and MCD). Reading Festival takes place on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend.Reading Festival is back for 2010 with extravaganza live music acts. You will find this melting pot of cultural and music festivities at Reading Festival which is located in Reading, United Kingdom.

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Reading Festival

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in the United Kingdom and are run by Festival Republic (itself owned by Live Nation and MCD). The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, sharing the same bill. Between 1998 and 2007 the dual festivals were known officially as the “Carling Weekend”, until parting ways with their sponsor Carling in November 2007.

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History of Reading Festival

The Reading Festival originates from the National Jazz Festival, which was conceived by Harold Pendleton (founder of the Marquee Club in London) and was first held at Richmond Athletic Ground in 1961. This festival, in turn, took inspiration from events held in America. Throughout its first decade the festival changed names and moved around sites several times, being held at Windsor Racecourse, Kempton Park and Plumpton, before reaching its permanent home at Reading in 1971. 

Every year the Reading Festival grows a little older and with this musically wiser. The festival has been going, in one shape or another since it’s conception as a Jazz event in 1961, a time when audio was in its ‘rock n roll infancy’; before the invention of music as we know it today and the time when the festival laid down its roots as the UK’s premier indie festival.

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Reading Festival Stages

The festival typically has the following stages:

o Main stage – major rock, indie and alternative acts.

o NME/Radio 1 stage – less well-known acts, building up to an alternative headline act

o Alternative tent – comedy and cabaret acts plus DJs.

o BBC Introducing Stage – Typically unsigned/not well known acts. (Formerly known as the Topman Unsigned Stage at the Leeds site).

o Festival Republic stage (formerly known as the Carling stage) – acts with less popular appeal and breakthrough acts

o 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.

o Dance tent – dance music acts, on the day that the above stage does not run.

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Reading Festival – The Salvation Army

At Reading Festival this year, organisers Festival Republic and The Salvation Army worked together to introduce a new food donation scheme. Festival goers were asked to donate any unwanted, non-perishable food at dedicated drop-off points around the site. Over a tonne of food was donated and collected by The Salvation Army which volunteers are using to make up and distribute over 500 food parcels to single people and families, nominated by local community groups, in time for Christmas. 

On Monday 7 December The Salvation Army are hosting a Food Parcel Packing day, with volunteers including Festival Republic staff who worked at the festival, including MD, Melvin Benn, and possibly a couple of festival goers for good measure. Reading Festival enjoys a long-standing relationship with The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army has been involved in every Reading Festival (except just one) since it moved to Reading in 1971. This year they were on hand to provide their usual 24-hour service to Reading Festival goers, many of whom are away from home for their first festival experience.

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News & Updates of Reading Festival

Reading Borough Council has agreed to an increase in both audience capacity and sound levels for this year’s event.At a meeting, the council agreed to increase capacity for this year’s event by 3,500 with a further 3,500 tickets for the 2010 event and a further increase of 3,000 in 2011.Surveys have already been carried out at this year’s event with festival goers and traders. Students from the University of Reading conducted over 2000 face to face surveys with festival goers which explored demographic profile, festival attendance and spending patterns. A face to face survey with traders, suppliers and promoters on site at the festival was also conducted by Baker Associates to understand business types, expenditure, staffing levels and supply chains. 

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