Reading and Leeds festival
Pretty Vicious and Let’s Eat Grandma – what it’s like playing a festival in your teens
For most school-age kids, they’re a chance to escape the constraints of home to watch your heroes. But, for a select few, it’s a chance to play in front of thousands
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Foals and Disclosure announced as Reading and Leeds headliners
The two acts reach the headline slot for the first time and will share top billing
Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline Reading and Leeds festival 2016
The first headliner of this year’s festival has been announced - with the 1975, Slaves, the Courteeners and Hinds also confirmed at the August event
How Arctic Monkeys’ debut single changed the music industry and ‘killed the NME’
Exactly 10 years ago, the Sheffield teenagers mined their giant online following to send I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor to No 1 and revolutionised the way music was sold in the UK for ever
Evian Christ hits back after claims he was held at Leeds festival for being drunk
The DJ/producer says he was unable to prove who he was because security confiscated his pass, and that Reading/Leeds boss Melvyn Benn is a ‘top-class dickhead’
Leeds festival review – Metallica reign in the sun and Foals play a storming secret set
Evian Christ was 'not in a very good state' when he was detained at Leeds festival
'All right Reading!' – test your knowledge of the Reading and Leeds festivals with our fiendish quiz
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Bring me more Blood! How Reading/Leeds would look if they'd been scheduled by Spotify
The cost of staging a music festival: 'We spent £30,000 on the waste'
What are the economics of organising a festival? From artists, to catering and waste management, sometimes the costs are so high they’ll leave organisers crying in the portable loos
Glastonbury, Reading or Creamfields: which 2015 festival has the fewest female artists?
Festivals 2015
From Uptown Funk to Girls On Film: this summer's ultimate festival playlist
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The boss of Reading and Leeds festivals says women are not marginalised. So why are so few on his bill?Mumford & Sons return as Reading and Leeds 2015 headliners
Metallica to headline Reading and Leeds 2015
Metal giants return to the festival for their fourth headline slot after winning over Glastonbury 2014, writes Harriet Gibsone
Reading and Leeds festival roundup – in pictures
Leeds festival review – guitar bands triumph at youthful rite of passage
Music festivals guide 2014
Paramore's Hayley Williams: 'I at least want people to say, 'Hey, that wasn't too bad'Festivals guide 2014: The singer on co-headlining Reading & Leeds, commemorative festival tattoos and cruising the ocean rave
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