Mirror Tickets Top Ten: Reading and Leeds Festival tickets have moved into second place

1.Captal FM's Summertime Ball tickets are on sale and this week's Mirror Tickets number 1 best seller. Capital FMs Summertime Ball is set to take place at Wembley Stadium on June 6thwith knock out acts JLS, Cheryl Cole, Usher, Rihanna, Ke$ha, Dizzee Rascal, Scouting for Girls, Pixie Lott, Chipmunk, Jason Derulo, Alexandra Burke, Tinie Tempah and Justin Bieber all been confirmed to perform. While Captal FM's Summertime Ball tickets have sold out from primary vendors, there are still a huge number of tickets available through trusted ticket exchanges such as Seatwave and Viagogo.

2. Reading and Leeds Festival tickets have moved into second place . Reading tickets and Leeds tickets are still in huge demand with weekend tickets still available for less than s250. This year's Reading and Leeds line-up is one of the festival's best ever, with huge acts such as Blink 182, Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire, The Libertines, Queens of the Stone Age, Paramore, Dizzee Rascal, Klaxons, Pendulum and LCD Soundsystem all set to appear across the weekend.

3. Rihanna tickets are this week's third top seller, as the American singer prepares to kick off her UK tour at the beginning of next month. Rihanna is due to begin the ten-date jaunt at the LG Arena in Birmingham on May 7th with Tinchy Stryder, Tine Tempah and Pixie Lott all confirmed as support acts. Tinchy Stryder opens for Rihanna at her two London dates on May 10th and 11th, with Tinie Tempah joining her on the second night, whilst Pixie Lott is set to support the singer on all twelve dates of the tour.

4. Michael Buble tickets are at fourth in this week's Mirror Ticket chart, and the Canadian singer will soon be arriving in the UK for the first UK leg of his Crazy Love tour, with shows at Sheffield Hallam FM Arena, Glasgow SECC and Manchester MEN and London O2 Arena to mention a few. If you miss out on the May gigs the second leg of the tour begins in October this year. 

5.Lady GaGa  recently announced shows at Dublin O2 Arena on October 26th and Belfast Odyssey Arena on November 1st became available. We've come to expect all things  outrageous and unpredictable from Lady Gaga and this tour will be no exception with her penchant for avant-garde fashion and shocking dance routines.

6.Leona Lewis tickets are this week's sixth best seller. The I Got You British pop and R&B singer rose to fame after winning the third series of the British television series The X Factor in 2006 and promises to put on a breathtaking show.

7.V Festival tickets are in seventh. place on Mirror Tickets, The dual festival, held at Hyland's Park in Essex and Weston Park in Staffordshire from August 21st - 22nd, boasts a stellar line-up including names such as The Kings of Leon, Kasabian, Faithless, The Prodigy, Calvin Harris, Jamie T and Paul Weller with acts The Magic Numbers and Eels added this week.

8.Westlife tickets are at eighth place this week. The Man band will thrill crowds with their greatest hits. The group is the only act in UK history to have their first seven singles go straight to Number 1, and they have gone on to sell over 44 million records worldwide. Tickets are available from s19.

9.JLS tickets at ninth place. Tickets are still available at Mirror Tickets for most of their UK gigs, with the band set to appear across Britain until well into 2011. There are over 18000 tickets available for JLS for you to compare now with tickets starting at s25.

10.Wireless Festival tickets make up this week's Mirror Tickets top ten. Wireless festival is due to take place at London's Hyde Park from the 2nd to the 4th July and boasts a fantastic line-up including P!NK, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, The Ting Tings, The Temper Trap, Gossip and Lily Allen.

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I Love West Leeds Festival 2010: Prepartions underway - Leeds Festival Tickets

Organisers of this year's I Love West Leeds festival have picked the mammoth river-dwelling creatures as their mascot for this year's event. And they are hoping to be swamped with volunteers to get hippo-happy and help create hundreds of plaster models of the animals. The models will then be distributed to schoolchildren across west Leeds to be painted and decorated. And they will also form part of a fun Armley Hippo Trail to be featured at the festival. 

I Love West Leeds organiser Jane Earnshaw – whose previous themes for the annual event have included a completely knitted woollen wonderland and decorated underpants – explained the reason behind this year's choice of mascot. "A prehistoric hippo was discovered in a quarry in Armley in 1851.

"We have called (the mascot) Denny after Henry Denny, the curator who identified the hippo bones in 1851."

To create 'Denny', a special rubber hippo mould was made for the festival by Chris Gauntley, a student at Leeds College of Art and Design.  Ms Earnshaw now has 10 rubber hippo moulds at the ready and is on the lookout for a team of volunteers to help create hundreds of little Dennys. 

"We need an army of helpers to come and mix plaster and fill them over and over again until we have hundreds of hippos," she explained. "You don't need any skills at all except the ability to put plaster into water from a scoop and then mix it with your hands (rubber gloves provided) until it's like cream, then pour your lovely mix into the waiting moulds.

"Put the moulds on the drying racks and then you can go home. It's very funny when we take them out of the moulds – its a bit like being James Herriot!"

Ms Earnshaw wants volunteers to sign up to help for around two hours each.

Three sessions will be running daily for the next four weeks at 9am, 11.30am and 2pm Monday to Saturday.

On Sundays, the sessions will be running at 1pm and 3pm. Volunteers are asked to bring a change of clothes.

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Reading And Leeds Organisers To Stage Third Festival Abroad?

Reading and Leeds festival organisers are considering launching a third site abroad, it’s been reported. Promotor Melvin Benn said it was “dream” to expand the event, although ruled out taking it to an exotic location.

“We may well develop a site but probably not in the UK, “ he told the Daily Star. “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.” When asked if the festival would take place in a warm climate, he replied: “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.” 

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Mirror Tickets Top 10: Reading and Leeds Festival tickets back on top

Reading and Leeds have jumped back into the number one spot this week after being relegated to the number two spot by the Captila FM Summer Ball for the past fortnight. Reading Festival ticketsand Leeds Festival tickets are still widely available on the secondary ticket market from the likes of Seatwave and Viagogo after selling out from primary vendors less than an hour after going on sale. This year's Reading and Leeds Festival line-up is packed full of huge names, including Blink 182, Arcade Fire, Guns N' Roses, The Libertines, We Are Scientists, Foals, Queens of the Stone Age, Paramore, Dizzee Rascal, Biffy Clyro, LCD Soundsystem, Klaxons and Pendulum. Prices for Reading weekend tickets and Leeds weekend tickets can be compared on Mirror Tickets to find the cheapest available.

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Festival Fortnight: Live at Leeds

As part of the Festival Fortnight series, Sam Clements blogs about his experience at the 2010 Live at Leeds festival which took place April 30th to May 3th.

With copious amounts of beer, bands and something else beginning with “B”, which I can’t think of right now, Live at Leeds is one of the best ways to begin the summer and start off the festival season.

Like most festivals, the worst bit is having to choose between which bands to see. Live at Leeds Festival has this problem in a different way though – as it is set in different venues dotted all around the city, once you make a decision, you pretty much have to stick to it.

So with warm weather: check, sunglasses: check, and four mates: check, all was in order for a great day. Despite it being a relatively small festival on the calendar, at the bargain price of £15 to see headline acts like Wild Beasts, The Drums Hadouken, 65 Days of Static, The Sunshine Underground, Blood Red Shoes, and Lightspeed Champion it was impossible to turn down.

Rolo Tomassi were the first band we saw at the Cockpit venue. It was all a bit too early in the day for a screamo synth band and having never heard them before, they seemed like a bit of a poor man’s HORSE The Band.

Having said that, they gave it their all and were really lively – especially as it’s always entertaining to watch a female vocalist produce sounds that only an animal or fictional monster should make.

The hardcore fans at the front were in awe and the slightly more subdued crowd could only watch with respect at the band’s jumping and hair swinging – their enthusiasm was really impressive.

Lightspeed Champion was next, playing at Leeds University, drawing a full crowd that spilled out of the venue although many were left disappointed by their forgetful performance.

To ensure prime positions to see Blood Red Shoes, we had to put ourselves through The Bronx and Wolfgang. A full set of The Bronx’s pop hardcore music was a surprisingly brilliant live experience, full of energy, which was pretty much responsible for the continuous moshing and circle pit, which I can’t deny I got involved with.

Wolfgang provided some of the most generic pop indie music to date, with a wardrobe of outfits to match. With them, they brought a sea of squealing girls, who unfortunately stayed for the prime reason I had gone to Live at Leeds – Blood Red Shoes.

I was apprehensive that the Brighton two piece would fall flat with their limited instrument presence, but they filled the hall so well. Especially impressive was Steven Ansell, who simultaneously was drumming and singing and really brought the performance together. Playing a lot of old favourites and their two most recent singles, the duo was never a note out of place.

We didn’t get to see The Sunshine Underground, being just that little bit too late to the venue. You’re not guaranteed to see every band you want, especially headliners, and considering the day I had, it was impossible to be disappointed.

Live at Leeds offered a great diverse music selection and a full day and evening’s entertainment. It’s definitely something to stick in the calendar for next year.

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Leeds Waterfront Festival 2010: Preparations underway

Leeds's stunning Waterfront will take centre stage again this summer as preparations for the city's annual celebratory festival start to heat up. Organisers say plans for this year's Waterfront Festival are taking shape and have vowed that the event will be bigger and better than ever before. The showpiece celebration will take place on July 17 and 18 along the waterfront in Leeds. This year's programme for the festival is set to feature craft markets, live music, fun water activities, decorated canal boats and local radio station Radio Aire alongside many more activities. he festival is organised by Aire Action Leeds along with a number of private and public organisations including Welcome To Yorkshire, British Waterways, Leeds City Council and Yorkshire Water. The aim of the festival is to showcase all the waterfront has to offer residents and vistors.

Rachel Clunas, project officer for Aire Action Leeds said: "This year's festival is really coming together we have so much entertainment planned there is something for everyone.

"Thwaites Mill will be the perfect place for children with plenty of family activities. Further up stream at Clarence Dock, Brewery and Granary Wharf there will be lots to see and do, including historic canal boats, live jazz, aerial circus and arts and craft stalls.

"We've all being working so hard to bring this event to the city again this year and now I'm really excited its taking shape. It's going to be brilliant and what's even better is its all free for everyone to enjoy."

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Reading, Leeds to launch third site abroad?

Reading and Leeds Festival bosses are understood to be considering the idea of launching a third site abroad.

The event's organiser Melvin Benn declared that it is his "dream" to expand the bash, which introduced the Leeds venue in 1999 having been solely held in Reading since the early '70s. "We may well develop a site but probably not in the UK," he told the Daily Star. "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." When asked if the festival could be heading for a sunnier climate, he answered: "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."  

This year's Reading and Leeds Festivals - headlined by Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182 - will be held from August 27 to August 29.

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