Reading & Leeds 2024 predicted to sell out this weekend

nme.com:

Reading & Leeds Festival 2024 is predicted to sell out this weekend.The music festival is set to welcome 240,000 fans across Bank Holiday Weekend, with gates opening to general admission punters on Thursday, August 22.

Tickets are on sale now for both locations and are available for purchase here (for Reading) and here (for Leeds).Blink-182, Fred Again..

and Liam Gallagher are all scheduled to headline the main stage, with other big names artists on the line-up including Lana Del Rey, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Gerry Cinnamon, Raye, Fontaines D.C.

and 21 Savage.Melvin Benn, the Managing Director of Festival Republic, has said the festival’s newest additions, namely the “groundbreaking” new stage called The Chevron and The Aux venue for “pioneering digital creators”, are behind its massive ticket sales this year.A post shared by Reading & Leeds Festival (@officialrandl)“We are delighted that weekend tickets for Reading & Leeds are expected to sell out in the coming days,” he said.“Reading & Leeds is a pivotal moment in UK cultural calendar and we’re thrilled to mark a new chapter in the festival’s rich history: the debut of the groundbreaking 40,000-capacity Chevron Stage and the Aux Stage that welcomes some of the most popular content creators in the UK.”Speaking to NME specifically about the Chevron stage, which boasts the world’s first outdoor floating LED video sky canopy, Benn explained the video mesh roof will be “all-encompassing” and “give the artist an opportunity to create in a way that they haven’t done in the past”.“I also really wanted to have a stage that dance acts, hip-hop acts [and] pop acts could all feel that it was their own” he continued (it’s headliners this year include The Prodigy, Sonny Fodera and.