Reading and Leeds Festivals line-ups

The Reading and Leeds Festivals, officially called the Carling Weekend, are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events both happen on the bank holiday weekend in August (on Friday, Saturday, Sunday), and share the same bill (usually with one or two exceptions.) The Leeds leg began in 1999, whilst the orignial festival dates back to National Jazz Festival and settled in Reading in 1971.

Below you can find a list of acts that played the festival.

2005

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Pixies The Killers Queens of the Stone Age The Coral Elbow Graham Coxon Dropkick Murphys The Wedding Present Goldie Lookin' Chain Do Me Bad Things	Foo Fighters Kings of Leon Razorlight The Charlatans Dinosaur Jr Roots Manuva Biffy Clyro All-American Rejects From Autumn to Ashes	Iron Maiden Marilyn Manson Incubus Iggy and The Stooges NoFX Funeral for a Friend Alkaline Trio Turbonegro My Chemical Romance (Reading) Bullet For My Valentine (Leeds)

NME/Radio 1 Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Kasabian Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Cooper Temple Clause My Chemical Romance (Reading) Bullet For My Valentine (Leeds) Fightstar The Subways Death From Above 1979 The Dead 60s The Blood Brothers yourcodenameis:milo The Black Velvets	The Tears Babyshambles The Arcade Fire Hot Hot Heat The Kills The Others Juliette and the Licks Nine Black Alps The Cribs The Longcut Editors Louie	Bloc Party The Futureheads LCD Soundsystem British Sea Power The Duke Spirit Maximo Park Hal Sons and Daughters The Rakes Towers of London Art Brut Boy Kill Boy

Dance Arena

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Lemon Jelly Audio Bullys Fort Minor Kano Dreadzone Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band Performance The Infadels Akala Bedouin Soundclash	See Radio 1 Lock-Up Stage	Mylo M.I.A Blackalicious Fourtet Buck 65 VHS or Beta Hot Chip T Raumschmiere The Modern

Radio 1 Lock-Up Stage

Reading Saturday

Leeds Sunday

Hatebreed Bad Religion Antiflag Rise Against Eighteen Visions Dwarves Capdown Million Dead Emanuel The Explosion Senses Fail No Comply

Carling stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Ladytron Charlotte Hatherley Saul Williams The National Mando Diao The Paddingtons We Are Scientists The Blood Arm Cherubs Two Gallants The Roger Sisters Thirsty Merc Fell City Girl Puscha	The Go! Team The Raveonettes Sleater Kinney Caesars Be Your Own Pet Yeti Dogs Arctic Monkeys Mystery Jets 747's Clor Youth Group Puggy	Echo and the Bunnymen Adam Green Engineers Amusement Parks on Fire Komakino The Rifles Battle Young Offenders Institute Test Icicles Every Move A Picture Gratitude The Crimea !Forward Russia! Beautiful People

Notes

2005 saw My Chemical Romance play both Reading and Leeds on the same day, in an alteration from the original schedule. The Transplants were originally booked to play the festivals but pulled out in mid-August due to illness. Jimmy Eat World also pulled out due to other commitments. Other drop outs include Simple Plan, Willy Mason and Fallout Boy

2004

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
The Darkness The Offspring Ash The Hives The Distillers Jurassic 5 Hundred Reasons Reel Big Fish Taking Back Sunday Goldie Lookin' Chain	The White Stripes Morrissey The Libertines Franz Ferdinand The Roots New York Dolls Razorlight Thursday Young Heart Attack The 5,6,7,8's	Green Day 50 Cent Placebo Lostprophets The Streets Dropkick Murphys The Rasmus Thrice Minus

Radio 1 Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Super Furry Animals Graham Coxon Soulwax Peaches The Donnas The Wildhearts Modest Mouse The (International) Noise Conspiracy The Open Mad Action	Funeral For A Friend Dizzee Rascal DKT/MC5 Stereolab The Network 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster The Ordinary Boys Har Mar Superstar The Icarus Line The Bronx Bloc Party	Supergrass Von Bondies Auf Der Maur British Sea Power dEUS 22-20s The Stills Dogs Die In Hot Cars The Fiery Furnaces The Futureheads Eastern Lane

Dance Tent

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Roots Manuva 2 Many DJs Nu Mark	See Concrete Jungle Stage	Mike Patton and Rahzel Ty DJ Krush

Concrete Jungle Stage

Reading Saturday

Leeds Sunday

A Sick Of It All Goldfinger Dillinger Escape Plan Bouncing Souls Coheed And Cambria Avenged Sevenfold Flogging Molly Allister Alexisonfire The Holiday Plan Fireapple Red

Carling stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Kasabian The Shins McLusky	Mark Lanegan Mondo Generator Roxy Saint	The Kills The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Devendra Banhart

Notes

On the Radio 1 Stage, the Super Furry Animals headlined on the Reading Sunday, with Graham Coxon second. This order was reversed when the bands played the Leeds Saturday. New Found Glory pulled out a few weeks before the festival.

2003

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Linkin Park Blink 182 Placebo The Darkness Staind The Datsuns Less Than Jake Finch Bowling For Soup Inme	Blur Beck Doves The Streets The Libertines Junior Senior Cave In The Sleepy Jackson with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Metallica System of a Down Sum 41 Primal Scream Good Charlotte The Used All-American Rejects Biffy Clyro Sugarcult

Radio 1 Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
The Polyphonic Spree Elbow Interpol Electric Six Ladytron Mull Historical Society Alien Ant Farm OK Go Saves The Day Young Heart Attack Violent Delight	AFI Hundred Reasons The Cooper Temple Clause The Mars Volta The Thrills The Kills The Rapture Jet My Morning Jacket Stellastarr* The Futureheads	The Music Yeah Yeah Yeahs Grandaddy Hot Hot Heat Hell Is For Heroes The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Radio 4 The Raveonettes Serafin Kinesis The Applicators The Futureheads Eastern Lane

Smirnoff Dance Arena

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Death In Vegas Richard Fearless Blackalicious	2 Many DJs Audio Bullys Spooks	Futureshock Lamb Mixologists and MC Trip

The Concrete Jungle Stage

Reading Saturday

Leeds Sunday

Pennywise Lagwagon The Ataris Alkaline Trio Mad Caddies Turbonegro Boy Sets Fire The Movie Life Poison The Well Thrice King Prawn Funeral For A Friend

Carling stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Evan Dando Sparta The Black Keys	Billy Bragg Brendan Benson The Bandits	British Sea Power Manitoba Hope Of The States

Notes

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club played as a replacement for The White Stripes, who pulled out after Jack White was in a car crash with his then-girlfriend, Renee Zellwegger. Although they played second on the Main Stage, it was billed as with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, reflecting their smaller status. Jay Z also pulled out, with The Darkness moving further up the bill to replace him. The Libertines were without Pete Doherty, who was at that time estranged from the band; he also missed their 2004 appearance. Other drop outs inluded Courtney Love, Lost Prophets And Godsmack

2002

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
The Strokes Pulp Jane's Addiction Weezer The White Stripes The Dandy Warhols Mercury Rev Soundtrack of our Lives Moldy Peaches	Foo Fighters Muse Ash Sum 41 The Hives A Less Than Jake Andrew WK Vex Red Sahara Hotnights	Guns 'n' Roses (Leeds) The Prodigy The Offspring Slipknot Incubus NoFX Puddle of Mudd Hundred Reasons Amen Raging Speedhorn (Reading) The Dillinger Escape Plan

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
2 Many DJ's Feeder The Breeders The Electric Soft Parade The Vines New Found Glory Guided By Voices Fenix TX The Bellrays The Von Bondies Finch	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Jimmy Eat World Jon Spencer Blues Explosion The Cooper Temple Clause Rival Schools Alec Empire The Icarus Line Goldfinger Midtown The Libertines The Pattern	Spiritualized And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Cornershop Haven Six By Seven Reel Big Fish The Shining Sparta Capdown Hoggboy Deathcab For Cutie

Third Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
The Boutique Stage	Concrete Jungle Stage	Dance Stage
Aphex Twin Lo-Fidelity Allstars Jimmy Cliff	Sick Of It All Alkaline Trio Saves The Day	The Streets Herbaliser Anti-Pop Consortium

Carling stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Fu Manchu Bobby Conn The Starlight Crew	Ikara Colt The Parkinsons The (International) Noise Conspiracy	The Music Alpine Stars Easyworld

Notes

Guns'n'Roses played only in Leeds as they could commit to just one date. In Reading they were replaced by Raging Speedhorn who appeared much lower on the bill.

2001

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Travis Green Day PJ Harvey Iggy Pop Eels Run DMC The Strokes Lo-Fidelity Allstars The Living End The Donnas	Manic Street Preachers Fun Lovin' Criminals Supergrass Feeder Rancid Frank Black And The Catholics And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead OPM Public Domain Terris	Eminem Marilyn Manson Papa Roach Queens Of The Stone Age The Cult System Of A Down Fear Factory (Hed)P.E Staind Boy Hits Car D12

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Ash Evan Dando BS 2000 Amen King Adora Cosmic Rough Riders Mull Historical Society South Moldy Peaches Crackout Easyworld	Mogwai Teenage Fanclub My Vitriol Folk Impression Elbow Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Guided By Vocies Dislocated Styles The Electric Soft Parade Goldrush The Zephyrs	Mercury Rev Steven Malkmus and The Jicks Gene Lowgold Mark B And Blade Alien Ant Farm Grand Theft Audio Seafood Hundred Reasons Murder City Devils Biffy Clyro

Dance Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Green Velvet Gary Numan Richie Hawtin	See Concrete Jungle Stage	Grooverider Wookie Roots Manuva

The Concrete Jungle Stage

Reading Saturday

Leeds Sunday

Rocket From The Crypt Reel Big Fish Good Riddance

Carling stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Arab Strap The Posies I Am Kloot	Backyard Babies Lostprophets Nebula	Hefner Gay Dad Clearlake

Notes

This year, Eminem appeared on the main stage twice, opening with his band D12 and headlining as a solo artist. This was also the year that the Concrete Jungle Stage made its debut.

2000

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Oasis Primal Scream Foo Fighters The Bluetones Asian Dub Foundation limpbizkit Doves Boss Hog Ooberman Cotton Mather	Pulp Beck Gomez Super Furry Animals Elastica Deftones Idlewild Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Delgados Kent	Stereophonics Placebo Slipknot Rage Against the Machine Blink 182 Daphne and Celeste A Supersuckers Cay My Vitriol

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Muse Shed Seven Ween Grandaddy Royal Trux Clinic Brassy King Adora Orange Can The Lapse	Embrace The Wannadies Badly Drawn Boy Black Box Recorder Dark Star Terris And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead JJ72 The Get Up Kids Crashland Kustom Built	Ian Brown Shack Elliot Smith Utah Saints Les Rythmes Digitales Lupine Howl The Clint Boon Experience Sleater Kinney The Animalhouse Clearlake The Crocketts Action Spectacular

Dance Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Laurent Garnier Ken Ishii Rinocersose	Black Eyed Peas Slum Village Junkie XL	Red Snapper Fila Brazillia Mint Royale

Carling Premier Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Friday
Calexio The Dirty Three Mojave 3	Queens Of The Stone Age Queen Adreena Katastrophy Wife	Baby Bird Belatrix Laika

1999

Main Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Monday
The Charlatans Chemical Brothers Reef Echo & The Bunnymen Space Gene The Dandy Warhols Apollo 440 The Donnas	Blur Catatonia Fun Lovin' Criminals The Divine Comedy Pavement Beth Orton Sebadoh The Pharcyde Sleater Kinney Atari Teenage Riot	Red Hot Chili Peppers The Offspring Terrorvision Silverchair Feeder Pitchshifter Sick Of It All Buckcherry Backyard Babies Lit

Radio 1 Evening Session Stage

Reading Friday	Reading Saturday	Reading Sunday
Leeds Saturday	Leeds Sunday	Leeds Monday
Elastica The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Stereolab The Fall Add N To X Bis Guided By Voices Clinic Bellatrix Paradise Motel	3 Colours Red Idlewild Symposium Kent Madder Rose Six By Seven Nojahoda My Life Story Snuff Ten Benson Doves Fungus Cay	Mansun The Flaming Lips Ultrasound Arab Strap Toploader Luscious Jackson The Auteurs Grand Drive Hefner Coldplay

See Also

E-festivals.co.uk, a useful webiste on British festivals and a major source for this page