Reading Festival
last updated: Thu 9th May 2013
This is the granddaddy of them all, having originally started in Richmond as the National Jazz Festival in 1961 (run by the National Jazz Federation). It moved to Reading in 1971 at the invitation of the local council and chamber of commerce to celebrate the town's 1000th anniversary.
In 1998 the current organisers (Festival Republic, formally Mean Fiddler) started a northern leg of this festival in Leeds, with just about all the same bands (there can be one or two variations) playing both festival sites but on different days.listed events:-
- Reading Festival 2013
- Reading Festival 2012
- Reading Festival 2011
- Reading Festival 2010
- Reading Festival 2009
- Reading Festival 2008
- Reading Festival 2007
- Reading Festival 2006
- Reading Festival 2005
- Reading Festival 2004
- Reading Festival 2003
- Reading Festival 2002
- Reading Festival 2001
- Reading Festival 2000
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