Reading and Leeds Festivals
LocationEngland (UK)
WhenAugust
AttendanceAbout 200,000 combined
About Reading and Leeds Festivals
Twin festivals sharing one lineup across two sites on the August holiday weekend. Reading claims the oldest popular music festival lineage, tracing to 1961. Famous for raucous crowds and bottle throwing folklore. Nirvana played a defining 1992 set at Reading.
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