Reading and Leeds tickets selling out fast

United Kingdom | | 03 April 2008

All 200,000 weekend tickets for this year's Reading and Leeds Festival have sold out in record time.

Day tickets are still available priced at £65 each. Click HERE to buy Reading day tickets. Click HERE to buy Leeds day tickets.

Revellers hoping to see the likes of Metallica, Rage Against The Machine and The Killers at the August event snatched up all the wekend tickets up for the three-day festivals in just two hours.

The Reading and Leeds Festivals take place at Little Johns Farm, Reading, and Bramham Park, Leeds, from 22-24 August.

Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic said, "I am over the moon! Absolutely thrilled. […] Whoever is talking about a slump in festival popularity is talking rubbish. Long live Reading and Leeds!"

Other acts playing over the bank holiday weekend include Dizzee Rascal, Slipknot, The Enemy, Babyshambles, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, The Cribs, Avenged Sevenfold and Anti Flag.