Reading Festival Lock Up with Billy Talent, Rise Against, Bouncing Souls, Polar Bear Club

The Lock Up Stage at Reading Festival, run by Mike Davies, host of the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show has been announced for 2009. The Friday show will be headlined by Billy Talent and then Rise Against on Saturday.

The stage will also include:
Bouncing Souls, Mad Caddies, Polar Pear Club, Leftover Crack, The Bronx, A Wilhelm Scream, Chuck Regan, Alexisonfire and Anti-Flag. British acts set to appear include The Ghost of a Thousand, The Plight, The Computers and Snuff.

Reading Festival, this line-up rocks!

Wow! This year’s Reading Festival line-up is one of the best I’ve seen in years.

See below for the line-up so far

Nashville’s Kings of Leon have enjoyed a few penultimate headlining stints on the main stage in the past, but after winning two Brit awards this year the sons of Pentecostal evangelical preacher Leon are hitting the headlining slot.

Arctic Monkeys take their Sheffield social realism to Saturday’s headlining slot, starting life at Reading Festival back in 1995 on what was known as the Carling Stage. Already back then the small tent, reserved mainly for breaking bands, was rammed and spilling out from all sides. And, for once, Sunday’s main stage line-up is one I can’t resist.

Normally the home of the hard rock element to the festival, this year sees Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party and then the mighty Radiohead headline. Last playing in 1994, securing Radiohead highlights that organisers Festival Republic are really pulling out all the stops – perhaps in competition to Glastonbury, or perhaps to encourage punters to fork out £175 in this economic climate. It’s clearly worked, as weekend tickets are sold out.

It’s also good to see White Lies already confirmed on the bill. BBC Radio Berkshire has a bit of a connection with the band as Maggie Philbin’s daughter is dating the lead singer. Glasvegas used to play the tiny Rising Sun Arts Centre as part of Club Velocity, so it’s great to see the Scots billed on the Radio One/NME stage too. Of course the stage I’ll be most excited about is the BBC Introducing one, showcasing the best of the bands who are unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar.

The line-up so far

Main stage

Friday

• Kings Of Leon
• Kaiser Chiefs
• Placebo
• Fall Out Boy
• Deftones
• Funeral for a Friend

Saturday

• Arctic Monkeys
• The Prodigy
• Maximo Park
• Ian Brown
• The Courteeners
• Enter Shikari
• Eagles of Death Metal

Sunday

• Radiohead
• Bloc Party
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Vampire Weekend
• Brand New

BBC Coverage of Reading and Leeds Festivals

Festival organizers Festival Republic have today announced that there will be extensive coverage of the Reading and Leeds festivals on BBC TV, Radio, red button and online.

ONLINE – The BBC’s Reading and Leeds festivals website will have exclusive extended performance video (35 minutes highlights) of the major acts. Plus a wealth of massive photo galleries, acoustic performances and interviews.

TV – Join Zane Lowe and Edith Bowman on BBC Three from 7pm with coverage across the weekend and highlights shows in the week after the festivals.

Interactive TV / RED BUTTON – Watch extended performances across the weekend by pressing the red button from BBC Three.

Check out www.bbc.co.uk/readingandleeds for all the BBC coverage.

Buy the ticket that suits!!!

As more and more festivals crop up around the UK, its easy to forget the ones that matter. The Reading Festival, for example, matters. Many of the best bands in the last thirty years have played at Reading, like The Ramones, The Jam, Nirvana, The Prodigy and The Beastie Boys, plus more recent heroes like Artic Monkeys and Kings of Leon. Readings festival spirit is unlike any other and has seen many of the greatest moments in rock history. There are mainly two types of the reading festival tickets. Make sure you know how you can enjoy at max!!! have a blast …

Reading Festival Ticket

* Day Passes – Friday/Saturday/Sunday Pass – A day pass entitles you to enter the park for that day only. Times vary by festival, but will be somewhere between 10am and midnight that day.

* Weekend with Camping – This pass includes entry to the festival and camping for the weekend. Some festivals offer 3 or 4 days camping – if there are different options for a festival they will be clear in the listings.

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Reading Festival 2009 – Tickets on Sale!!!

Reading Festival is one of the biggest festival that takes place in Reading, UK and are run by Festival Republic. Tickets for Reading Festival 2009 (28,29,30 Aug) are going to be on sale on Official Reading Festival Tickets websites. Pre-book your ticket right now to confirm your Presence at the mega event this year. You can still get tickets online now through TheOnlineTicketShop. Day tickets and camping tickets to the Reading Festival are still available!…

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Reading Festival 2009 – The biggest Festival ever!

The dates for the 2009 Reading festival have already been confirmed, the event being held from 28th to 30th of August, during what is known as the Bank Holiday weekend. Teenagers and not only are expected to arrive in increased numbers, all looking to listen to some of the greatest tunes performed by the biggest names of the music industry.

The Reading festival is approximately 150 days away from starting and already an important number of tickets have been sold. Are people looking for something different or they have grown accustomed to the traditional side of Reading festival? Variety is respected like in other years, with rock, indie, heavy metal and punk being included on the list. The novelty comes from the many great names supposedly to arrive to Reading festival but also from exclusive acts. Organizers of the 2009 edition promise this to be the best festival ever, with music being taken to the level it deserves.

Alternative rock fans will be pleasantly surprised by the appearance of Fun Lovin’ Criminals at Reading festival 2009. They are rumored to sing during the festival, performing on the Radio 1 Lock up stage, best known for its punk and rock acts. Others bands rumored to take part in making this the most amazing Reading Festival include White Lies, Florence and The Machine. Friendly Fires, Radiohead and Weezer might also be present. Can you still hide your satisfaction, with such sacred monsters singing at Reading festival? Radiohead is simply amazing, as Weezer the delicious alternative rock band originating from the American continent.

Talking about sacred monsters, both Green Day and AC/DC are rumored to take part in Reading festival. Punk lovers wait with enthusiasm for Green Day to be present on stage, while rockers are craving for AC/DC classic songs. Talk about heavy metal! With AC/DC singing at Reading Festival 2009, it’s definitely going to be the best one ever!

Reading Festival 2009 – Tickets

Tickets for the 2009 Leeds Festival were released on 31 March at 6:45p.m. and sold out in record time. The tickets made available via HMV sold out after just one hour. But do not fret! I found a website for buying the events tickets. You can still get Reading Festival tickets online now through TheOnlineTicketShop. Day tickets and camping tickets to the Reading Festival are still available on this website.

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Reading Festival 2009 Line up

Rise Against, Anti-Flag and 36 Crazyfists have self-confirmed to be playing at the festivals.

Rise Against rose to fame with its first two major label releases, Siren Song of the Counter Culture (2004) and The Sufferer & the Witness (2006), with hits such as “Give It All”, “Swing Life Away”, “Prayer of the Refugee”, and “The Good Left Undone”. Their most recent studio album, Appeal to Reason, was released in North America on October 7, 2008, producing the singles “Re-Education (Through Labor)” and “Audience of One”.

Anti-Flag is an American punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 1996, the band released their first album, Die For the Government, on New Red Archives. Andy Flag left the band in the Summer of 1996 because of personal disputes between himself and Justin. In 1999, Anti-Flag released the album A New Kind of Army on Go-Kart Records/A-F Records.

36 Crazyfists are a four-piece metal band originating from Kenai, Alaska. They are now based in Portland, Oregon. The band’s name comes from a Jackie Chan movie, The 36 Crazy Fists. They have released five albums, In the Skin, Bitterness the Star, A Snow Capped Romance, Rest Inside the Flames, and their fifth The Tide And Its Takers was released on May 27, 2008.

Festival Line up buzz band also includes Rage Against the Machine, The Killers, Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, Bloc Party, Tenacious D, Slipknot, Feeder, Babyshambles, Dizzee Rascal and  many more all exclusive performances.

Reading Festival Gallery – 2008

Exclusive Memories from Reading Festival 2008

The First Reading Festival – 1970’s

The Reading Festival originates from the National Jazz Festival, which was conceived by Harold Pendleton 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.

The line-up settled into a pattern of progressive rock, blues and heavy metal during the 1970s. It did dabble with punk rock in 1978 when The Jam, Sham 69 and Penetration played. The festival attempted to provide both traditional rock acts and new punk bands, leading to clashes between the two sets of fans. Although The Ramones played the following year, the festival gradually became known for focusing on heavy metal and rock acts.