Leeds Festival

Best local festival by far and been going 10 years!

Piece out

Been going 10 years and is always well organised non commercial and great fun!

Rage Against The Machine were epic and the whole experience was amazing. Getting drunk before the first band and making so many friends around the different campsites. I had such a good time!

I went to the Leeds Festival last year for the first time - It was amazing! As a virgin festival goer, there was all the grime, greasy people and gross toilets that I was expecting (it all adds to the fun doesn't it!). The headliners were really good last year, to be honest more my cup of tea than this year, but I'm still looking forward it it and have my tickets bought and ready.

There is nothing like getting up at 6am after the coldest wettest night ever and after been woken up 4 or 5 times by random people falling into your tent to and getting stuck into some vodka and luke warm beer, getting pleasently pissed before the first bands start up at 11 or 12ish. The atmosphere at leeds is really good, with lots of friendly/drunk/stoned people to talk to and get to know! All I can say is roll on August! xxxx

We usually go to the Leeds Festival every year, for at least a day or 2, if not the whole weekend. It is by far my favourite music festival because the lineup is second to none - even on days when the main stage is full of garbage there's always something interesting to discover on the smaller stages, and loads of cult indie acts always play, and often it's the only time they come up from London if they're from foreign shores. I've also found that in comparison to other festivals, it's not too big (Glastonbury was ridiculously overwhelming after 24 hours, much less after 4 days) and the atmosphere is pretty friendly. Granted, we have not had to resort to camping (I *HATE* camping) so did not experience the rioting and burning toilets.

To be honest the only downsides have been the weather - which the organisers have no control over; the cost - the tickets cost too much and the beer costs too much and the food is disgusting and costs too much; and the site at Temple Newsam which wasn't big enough causing sound to spill over from the dance tent into the NME tent during quieter acts and from the carnival rides into both of the smaller stages - not good. But, one would hope this will have been solved with the removal of the festival to Bramham Park.

In any case, it's highly recommended as festivals go. It's not as full of anti-social fools disrupting your enjoyment of the music as Glastonbury and it's not so much a Festival-Lite as V.