Wild Beasts added to Leeds Festival 2010 line up

At the end of March we brought you the official line up announcement for the Leeds 2010festival. Leeds Festival organisers Festival Republic have since revealed another dozen or so bands that will appear at the festival in August, including Leeds band Wild Beasts who will appear on the NME / Radio 1 Stage on Saturday, 28th August. Joining the headliners - Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink 182 - on the Main Stage are A Day To Remember, Mystery Jets, Thrice, Young Guns, The Futureheads, Motion City Soundtrack and The Walkmen. Added to the NME / Radio 1 Stage with Wild Beasts will be: Girls, Serj Tankian, New Young Pony Club, Surfer Blood and Frankie & The Heartstrings.

More bands will be announced for these stages over the next few weeks, along with the full announcements for the Lock-Up Stage, Dance Stage, Festival Republic Stage, BBC Introducing Stage and the Alternative Stage

Reading And Leeds Festival organiser re-issues fake ticket warning

Organisers for the Reading and Leeds festivals have re-issued a warning about counterfeit tickets for this year's bash.

The news comes after the company behind the events, Festival Republic, took down two fake fan pages who claimed to have free tickets to this year's Reading festival.

"It has been widely reported that there are many fake sites for all this summer's festivals," Festival Republic said in a statement "This particular scam involves people registering for free tickets and is essentially a third party phishing personal information such as email addresses."

Urging fans to only buy tickets from authorised websites, outlets and partners, this year's event will take place between August 27-29.

Featuring the headliners Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182, the festival will also see The Libertines reunite for their first full gigs since they split in 2004.

Music festival organisers warn punters about dodgy tickets

The warnings follows a spate of fake sites that have sprung up purporting to sell tickets for the Reading and Leeds festivals.

Festival Republic has reportedly had two dodgy phishing fan pages - presumably on Facebook - shut down after each claimed to offer free Reading tickets to anyone who gave away their email address and other personal details.

The company said: "Please do not register with any third party claiming to represent Reading and Leeds Festival, if you are unsure please call the information line 0207 009 3001."

Meanwhile, Glastonbury organisers, who have recently insisted that festival goers bring, not just their ticket, but plenty of ID with them to the event too, confirmed this morning that She Wolf Shakira would be playing at this year's show.

Glasto tickets, that were exclusively handled by See Tickets, have now sold out.

"Any other company or individual claiming to sell Glastonbury Festival tickets is bogus," said Glastonbury organisers on the firm's website.

Reading And Leeds Festival Organisers Warn Over Fake Ticket Sites

The organisers of Reading Festival andLeeds Festival are urging music fans hoping to attend either event to only buy tickets from authorised outlets listed on their websites. The company behind both bashes, Festival Republic, said it closed down two bogus fan pages that claimed to offer free Reading tickets last week. Apparently, both fake sites were 'phishing' operations designed to gain personal information from users, such as email addresses. official ticket agents, partners and web pages are listed under the Tickets section. The organisers also keeping people up to date with the latest news on potential fraudsters. They have listed a vast number of unauthorised sites and agents, but warn others are constantly being set up. In a statement released April 21, the organisers said, "Please do not register with any third party claiming to represent Reading and Leeds Festival, if you are unsure please call the information line 0207 009 3001."

READING AND LEEDS FESTIVAL TO EXPAND TO FOREIGN SOIL

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THE Reading and Leeds festivals, this year featuring stars like Axl Rose are set to expand to a third site – on foreign soil. Their promoter Melvin Benn told me: “We may well develop a site but probably not in the UK.  “It’s more than a dream but I can’t say where it will be. I’d like maybe to set it up for next year.”  However, Melvin admits: “There’s no point in taking Reading and Leeds to an exotic location. It needs to be somewhere appropriate and exotic wouldn’t be appropriate

Reading & Leeds Festivals have warned fans that a ream of fake ticket

The organisers of the Reading & Leeds Festivals have warned fans that a ream of fake ticket sites have popped up on the internet. The festival has had trouble with fake websites in the past, and this year they have already taken down two website that were offering tickets under the guise of being official outlets, but were actually just websites stealing people’s information. "It has been widely reported that there are many fake sites for all this summer's festivals," Festival Republic said in a statement "This particular scam involves people registering for free tickets and is essentially a third party phishing personal information such as email addresses." Organisers are urging people searching for tickets to only use official outlets and not to try to find tickets in potentially damaging places. The festivals are due to be headlined byGuns N Roses, Blink 182 and Arcade Fireand take place on the weekend of 27-29 August.

Leeds festival tickets

The organizers of Reading Festival and Leeds Festival are urging music fans hoping to attend either event to only buy Leeds festival tickets from authorized outlets listed on their websites. The organizers of Leeds Festival also keeping people up to date with the latest news on potential fraudsters. Leeds Festival listed a vast number of unauthorized sites and agents, but warn others are constantly being set up.
More acts have been added to The Reading and Leeds festival line ups, including Mystery Jets, New Young Pony Club and System Of a Down singer Serj Tankian.
THE line up for this year's Leeds Festival is announced. Guns n' Roses have been confirmed as the Sunday night headliner. Blink-182 will take the Saturday slot and like fellow US rock behemoths Limp Bizkit both will be making their first UK appearances, at the three-day Braham Park festival, since re-forming.