News
Reading & Leeds Festival 2016 Tickets On Sale
Reading and Leeds 2015 saw over 150,000 festival fans revel in an unforgettable weekend of music, including headline acts Mumford & Sons, Metallica and The Libertines, plus hundreds of performances from artists, bands, comedians and DJs.
Representing the home grown UK talent on offer at this year’s Reading and Leeds, Royal Blood stormed the main stage with ‘Little Monsters’ and ‘Out of the Black’ drawing in a huge crowd. The Wombats packed out the Festival Republic Stage, along with R&L favourite Frank Turner.
Yorkshire heroes Bring Me The Horizon drew in a huge crowd Sunday at Leeds and Saturday at Reading with a career defining set. Japanese teen trio, Babymetal brought a metal choreographed spectacle to the Main Stage for their debut Reading and Leeds performance.
The weekend was filled with whispers of secret sets and fans were certainly not left disappointed. Foals snuck into the festival to set the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage ablaze with cuts from their newly released album ‘What Went Down’. Both Wolf Alice and Jack Garratt treated fans to an intimate set on the BBC Introducing Stage in addition to their scheduled performances.
Festival Republic’s Melvin Benn reflects on the weekend: “This year has been an incredible highlight for Reading and Leeds. Metallica brought us the largest production in the history of the festivals, whilst Mumford & Sons and The Libertines proved themselves worthy of their headline name. I would like to thank our sponsors and media partners for their ongoing support. I know it will be difficult to beat, but I can already promise 2016 is going to be worth the wait.”
Weekend and Instalment tickets for Reading & Leeds Festivals 2016 will be on sale Tuesday 1st September at 9am for a limited time at this year’s price of £205.00.
The dual site event will take place on 26th, 27th, 28th August 2016.
Photo: Jen O’Neill