Leeds Festival Tickets: 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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.

Monday, May 17, 2010

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.”

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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.

Friday, May 14, 2010

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.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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."

Monday, May 10, 2010

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.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Leeds Festival Tickets news

A Day To Remember, Serj Tankian, Wild Beasts, and Girls are amongst the latest acts announced for this year's Reading, and Leeds festivals. New additions for the main stage line-up for Friday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds Festival are A Day To Remember, and Young Guns. Saturday at Reading and Friday at Leeds sees Mystery Jets, The Futureheads, and The Walkmen take to the stage. With Thrice, and Motion City Soundtrack appearing on Sunday at Reading and Saturday at Leeds Festival. Saturday at Reading and Friday at Leeds Serj Tankian will appear as special guest on the Radio 1/NME stage. Also playing on Friday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds are Girls, New Young Pony Club, and Frankie And The Heartstrings. With Surfer Blood, and Wild Beasts confirmed to appear on Sunday at Reading and Saturday at Leeds Festival. Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire, and Blink 182 headline the twin festivals. Also appearing on the main stage over the weekend are special guests The Libertines on Saturday. The line-up also includes Queens Of The Stone Age, Biffy Clyro, Lostprophets, Nofx, Gogol Bordello, Billy Talent, Dizzee Rascal, The Cribs, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Paramore, Weezer, Cypress Hill, Limp Bizkit, You Me At Six, All Time Low, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Mumford & Sons, Delphic, Yeasayer, The Big Pink, Two Door Cinema Club, Pendulum, Enter Shikari, Crystal Castles, Frank Turner, Klaxons, We Are Scientists, Foals, Band Of Horses, Kele Okereke (Bloc Party), and The Drums.

There are still lots more names to be announced as well as the full line up for the Lock-Up Stage, Dance Stage, Festival Republic Stage, BBC Introducing Stage and the Alternative Stage. More announcements will follow soon. The festivals will feature a full line-up of over 150 acts over the weekend on six stages. Tickets were priced at £180 for a weekend ticket and have sold out. Day tickets for all three days at Leeds, and Friday or Saturday at reading are still available. There are also early bird Wednesday entry and coach tickets available. Day tickets are priced at £75.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Leeds today - binge drinking, schools and morris dancers

Hope you had a good bank holiday weekend. There's a busy week ahead, at the end of which we'll find out who's going to be running the country, who's going to be running Leeds council and, perhaps more importantly depending on your perspective, will Leeds United finally win automatic promotion?

The Friends of Kirkgate Market start planning their future strategy to help save the market tonight at 5.30pm at the Victoria Pub in Great George Street. All welcome to attend. Later today, I'll be running a full preview of the Leeds council elections on Thursday. Speaking of elections, there's a real political hoo-ha of the future of the West Park Centre in North West Leeds, which I'll be filing copy on shortly. And you can also pin down the green aspirations of prospective parliamentary candidates in all Leeds constituencies thanks to an online initiative run by coalition of green groups in Leeds. Full story to follow. Oh, and in case you hadn't noticed, there's a general (and local) election this week! Energy efficiency and water saving could be on the curriculum for University of Leeds students at the newly unveiled £23m School of Earth and Environment building, reports Big Green Smile.com.

Harewood has once again proved why it is one of the area's most popular visitor attractions, as its 100 acres of stunning gardens are voted the top in a national competition to find the UK's favourite gardens to visit by BBC Gardner's World magazine.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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. Buy Leeds Festival Tickets 2010 or Sell Leeds Festival Tickets 2010 through YourTicketMarket.com One stop shop to catch your favourite event Tickets like Leeds Festival Tickets 2010, Guaranteed, Fast and Secure!
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Monday, May 3, 2010

FESTIVAL REPUBLIC WARN FANS BUYING LEEDS & READING FESTIVAL TICKETS

Festival Republic, the company behind both Reading and Leeds Festivals have again issued a plea to music fans to beware of scam sites and bogus facebook groups. With the festival tickets season now in full swing, and some of the major UK festivals such as Reading Festival, Leeds Festival, T in the Park and V Festival already sold out - organisers are urging fans to be on full alert when purchasing tickets and to avoid being scammed by unscrupulous con-men. In the past week alone two facebook groups have been shut-down after being setup offering non-existent free tickets. The groups were used instead to harvest user data, such as email addresses, for phishing attacks, and directing unsuspecting music fans to bogus websites to purchase tickets. Tickets, which of course, do not exist. In a statement, Festival Republic says, "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." In an effort to ensure fans don't get scammed, Festival Republic have partnered with ticket exchange site Viagogo to be it's official ticket exchange partner for Reading, Leeds and Latitude Festivals in 2010. "Viagogo has helped us all but eliminate the issues that we have had in the past with fans taking their chances online and being disappointed after ‘buying’ non-existent resale tickets," said Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic. “We are working with Viagogo again this year as the only recommended and official ticket exchange for the Reading, Leeds, and Latitude festivals.”

Ed Parkinson, Director of Viagogo UK added: "We are delighted to be working with Festival Republic again in 2010. We are committed to helping the festival organisers provide a safe and secure place for their fans to buy and sell tickets and protect them from rogue websites and online scams.” Stereoboard.com advises fans wishing to purchase tickets for any of the summer festivals, or sold out concerts, to use our safe comparison service, which compare tickets from credible and guaranteed sources - ensuring fans are not left out of pocket by scammers.

Friday, April 30, 2010

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.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

STAR reissue dodgy ticket agent warning

Following recent warnings from Festival Republic about all the dodgy people selling fake Reading and Leeds festival tickets, now the The Society Of Ticket Agents And Retailers have warned music fans about buying tickets from unofficial websites.

STAR are worried that consumers will be ripped off by dodgy ticketing operations, rather than being ripped off by the legitimate ticket agencies affiliated with the trade body. But at least STAR members actually have access to the tickets they are selling, even if they plonk exorbitant fees on top even when you print out your own ticket or pay cash at the venue.

The advice given out by STAR is mainly common sense stuff that has been published by the ticketing sector before. Check an event's official website for details of 'promoter approved ticketing agencies'; only buy from websites that give the operator's physical address; only buy if a website provides all relevant info, including dates, venues, seating type; and look out for payment protection symbols that normally have a padlock in them (and use credit cards rather than debit cards, because you get more protection). And, of course, STAR recommend you only buy from STAR-affiliated agents, before adding that if a ticket offer seems "too good to be true" (eg a website is selling loads of tickets for sold out events), it probably is.

STAR man Jonathan Brown says this: "It's very easy to create a website that looks classy and reputable, but that doesn't mean it's law-abiding or will definitely supply you with what you think you are buying. People need to be vigilant in the run up to the festival season. Look for the warning signs, and if in doubt, make sure you buy from a member of STAR. If you see the STAR mark, you can expect excellent service, transparent pricing and an independent means of redress if anything goes wrong".

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Mirror tickets top 10 festivals and gigs: Reading & Leeds festivals stay in top spot

Tickets for this year's Reading and Leeds festivals are once again top of the Mirror Tickets chart. This year's huge line-up includes Blink 182, The Libertines, Guns N' Roses and Arcade Fire. And the recent announcement of acts including The Futureheads, Mystery Jets and Thrice have prompted even more fans to join the race for tickets. Mirror Tickets has list day tickets and weekend tickets from the most trusted ticket exchange sites around including Viagogo, Seatwave and GetMeIn to ensure you don't miss out on one of the biggest events of this summer!

2. The Irish boy band Westlife have jumped up the Mirror Tickets chart into second place as they prepare for their upcoming UK and Ireland tour. Westlife tickets are available for their shows starting atBelfast's Odyssey Arena on May 2nd ranging right through to their final show at Cawdor Castle near Inverness.The event on Saturday 28 August will be the first concert ever to be held at the historic castle.

3. Gorillaz tickets have also been highly sought after this week, taking this week's third position. Damon Albarn's band are due to play two back-to-back Camden Roundhouse shows on the 29th and 30th April after playing their first live show since 2005 at the Coachella Festival this week. Their new album Plastic Beach has also taken the music charts by storm.

4.Michael Buble tickets are in fourth place as the ever-popular Canadian singer prepares for the UK leg of his Crazy Love tour, starting at Sheffield Hallam FM Arena on May 6th. The 'I Haven't Met You Yet' singer revealed that he left the Juno Awards in Canada on Sunday to ensure his fiancee wasn't left stranded by the travel chaos caused by Iceland's volcanic eruption.

5.Florence and the Machine tickets enter the charts at number five in this week's Mirror Tickets top ten. After her crowd-pleasing performance at the Coachella Festival in California last weekend, Florence and her band will play a series of sold out shows in the UK next month - before a headline slot at this year's Latitude Festival.

6.V Festival tickets are still available at 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.

7. Lady Gaga has announced five new European shows as part the extension of her larger-than-life Monster Ball tour. Tickets went on sale yesterday for concerts this autumn in Italy, Ireland, the UK, Finland, and Norway. Tickets are selling fast, moving Lady Gaga into this week's seventh position.

8. Kings of Leon tickets for their huge headline show at Hyde Park, London on June 30th are in eighth place. They announced this week that The Black Keys and widely tipped New York group The Drums are set to support them in this sell-out gig.

9. Boyzone tickets sit in ninth place this week. The legendary Irish pop act will embark on a massive UK Arena tour starting in February 2011, and will be entertaining adoring fans at venues such as Liverpool Echo Arena, London's Wembley Arena and Newcastle Metro Radio Arena.

10. JLS tickets make up this week's Mirror Tickets top ten chart. Tickets are still available for the X-Factor famed boy band's UK tour which runs throughout 2010 and into 2011. Fans of JLS with tickets to their summer gigs can now look forward to seeing former X Factor contestant Diana Vickers who will be supporting the band on tour.

This weeks Top Festival pick: The Isle of Wight festival

With Jay-Z, Pink, Blondie, The Editors and Paul McCartney lined up to play at the three day boutique festival we think this is going be one of the best Isle of Wight's to date. As well as fantastic headliners, Little Boots is the latest act unveiled for this year's Festival, with organisers revealing that she'll perform on the Acoustic Stage.

Monday, April 26, 2010

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.

READING AND LEEDS FESTIVAL TO EXPAND TO FOREIGN SOIL

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.”

Friday, April 23, 2010

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."

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Leeds today - Little London diversity, 'Bramleydom' and beer festival

Leeds Bradford Airport expects some domestic flights to resume today for the first time since planes were grounded by a volcanic ash cloud. There's a full report over at BBC Leeds.

Coming up today, I'm previewing tomorrow's full council meeting, which should prove to be an interesting political punch up prior to the local elections in May.

I'm also looking at the launch of an online petition to help save a Leeds school threatened with closure and will be bringing you a slideshow of pictures of the latest show at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Here's what's making Leeds tick today...

Diversity is celebrated by pupils at a school where 36 languages are spoken, Ofsted found. The education watchdog was impressed by community cohesion and promotion of equality at Little London Community Primary School and Nursery, Leeds, where four fifths of students come from ethnic backgrounds and two thirds speak English as an additional language, reports the YEP.

Following Saturday's Talk About Local unconference in Leeds, Bramley now has its very own Facebook page. Bramleydom is put together by delegate Fran Graham and looks to be the start of something very special indeed!

There's nothing like a spot of good cheer, and a new beer festival in Leeds can only be a good addition of the city's beer scene, says FletchTheMonkey on the excellent RealAleReviews blog about this Saturday's LS6 Beer Festival in Hyde Park. There's also a report over atTheCultureVulture.

Creative Boom has published a round-up of news from the past seven days, which is well worth a look.

Ten issues with related questions for the chairman of Leeds United Ken Bates that fans would like open and honest answers to - find out more atTenforKen. There's also a Leeds United Supporters' Trust board meeting on Wednesday.

Beetroot onigiris stuffed with bacon furikake. Interested? Find out more at Notanotherbrownbaglunch blog.

Leeds has had a lot of starring film roles recently and is the on-screen home to the drama A Passionate Woman, wooing audiences on TV on Sundays, reports the BBC.

Interesting piece by Carol Ferndale over at MylifeinLeeds on attractions for money conscious families. The same author has also offered sometips and advice for Leeds Festival-goers.

Residential development in Leeds city centre ground to a halt in the recession.

But homes in the heart of the city are still hot property, Peter Lazenby reports.

Leeds Savage Club spends ten minutes interviewing one of its founder members, Steve James.

The second workshop for the Kirkstall Abbey People Project has been announced over at Leeds photography site Exposure Leeds.