New Festival Republic Stage at Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival organisers have announced that there will be a brand new stage this year. It is called the ‘Festival Republic’ stage.
This will replace the Carling stage, which has now gone because their sponsorship with Leeds ended as of this year.
“The stage is the first port of call for anyone looking to see the next big things now.,” states the official website.
It is packed full of acts for all three days and each night has three headlining acts:
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| The Kills Wiley Glasvegas |
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Does It Offend You, Yeah? Late Of The Pier |
Elliot Minor The Audition All Time Low |
Other acts include:
Black Acid
Black Kids
Black Tide
Cage The Elephant
Collapsing Cities
Emmy The Great
Fighting Like Apes
Fighting With Wire
Florence And The Machine
Friendly Fires
Ida Maria
In Case Of Fire
Johnny Foreigner
Jubilee
Los Campesinos!
Louis IVX
Lovvers
White Denim
White Lies
Wild Beasts
You Me At 6
Natty
Sergeant
Teenagersintokyo
The Rascals
The Teenagers
These New Puritans
Twisted Wheel
18 Responses
July 9th, 2008 4:43 pm
very impressed with this new stage, but i heard that BBCintroducing stage will be there also! so doe sthat mean liek 6 or 7 stages?
main stage
NME/Radio 1 stage
Lock Up and Dance tents
Festival Republic Stage
BBCintroducing stage?
Alternative stage
wow!
July 10th, 2008 12:23 am
Yeah I heard that too. I have no idea what the line-up is for that, but I believe its mainly very new bands. hence ‘introducing’
thanks for the comment!
July 10th, 2008 4:08 am
I dunno about the BBC introducing ’stage’ i think the FR stage maybe be sponsered by the BBC as half those acts on the list are part of the whole BBC introducing set of bands anyway, Late of the Pier etc….
July 10th, 2008 5:06 am
wow! lot of stages this year. looking forward to the whole thing,,,,except the clashes! thanks for all the information on this site. gets everything all the rumour etc extremly quick!
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July 10th, 2008 5:18 am
Brad wrote:
thanks! we aim to be the best
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July 10th, 2008 5:18 am
Ben wrote:
I will look into this, i’m not entirely sure what the deal is.
July 10th, 2008 5:22 am
well when i went to radio one big weekend, fighting with wire were on the introducing stage, so they mustve either moved up on to the new stage or as you say its a shared stage like NME and Radio1 stage?
only time will tell!
do you think there is any more acts to go onto the main stage and NME/Radio1?
fingers crossed for storyoftheyear!
July 10th, 2008 7:01 am
yo,
just noticed now, on the bottom of the poster on the websites leedsfestival.com
there is the bbcintroducing logo.
hmm confused?
x
July 10th, 2008 9:35 am
Brad wrote:
I think if it was paired it would say so above the acts like how the NME/radio1 tent is. Maybe the introducing stage will be announced at a later date. Cheers for the comments
July 11th, 2008 2:41 am
This line up is dead good black kids does it offend you and dan le sac are all immense but the crosovers are a bitch all the best bands are on late like same time as headliners
July 11th, 2008 5:13 am
Yeah, the more stages they bring to the festival the more clashes that occur! its a shame
Does it offend you yeah? would be good to see. I notice three of the bands on the same day have “black” in their name, thought that was pretty funny!
July 12th, 2008 4:42 am
I don’t think there are any more stages than last year. The festival republic stage will replace last years carling tent and the BBC introducing stage will replace the topman tent from last year. Do we know what days and what order the ‘other act’ bands are playing on the FR stage?
July 12th, 2008 11:28 am
ah yes good point. I had forgotten about the Topman stage. I should really message FR and find out what all this is about. The stage situation is quite confusing!
July 12th, 2008 11:29 am
p.s I have no idea about the other acts. On hte official poster they are all just listed. I guess we find out when we get there :0
July 12th, 2008 12:10 pm
OMG, You me at six, these guys fuckin awsom! the Audition are good to.
July 12th, 2008 12:13 pm
glad you like them! Cheers for the comment
July 13th, 2008 10:49 am
FIGHT LIKE APES are worth seeing if there is no one else on, i saw them supporting We Are Scientists, woman singer is prety hot, photo’s on her myspace dont do her justice!
July 13th, 2008 12:24 pm
lol fair dos. I’ll have to check her out. No better pictures on her official website then?