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Reading Festival 2009

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Friday 28 August 2009 – Sunday 30 August 2009

Little John's Farm

Richmond Avenue
Reading
United Kingdom
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Rock, alternative, indie, punk, metal, with big names, breaking acts, and exclusive performances Reading Festival has it all.

The dates for Reading Festival 2009 are confirmed as on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire.

The headliners for this year’s festival will be Kings Of Leon (Friday), Arctic Monkeys (Saturday), and Radiohead (Sunday).

For the day, stage splits, line-ups and rumours where available, please click here.

Tickets have sold out and were priced at £175 for a weekend ticket, £70 a day ticket, and £10 for an early bird Thursday entry ticket. Campervan and Caravan permits cost £20 in advance and £30 on the gate. Car park passes are £5 in advance this year, or £10 on arrival. Over 18’s wristband will be optional, but allow those that look young to not have to carry ID around all the time.

There has been the occasional re-release of tickets, to see if they might be available, click here.

Note: This year tickets will not be on sale at the gate. There will be no box office of any kind. All tickets will be sent out to customers. Overseas customers will need to pick up tickets from The Hexagon.

Children under 13 (12 and under) are admitted free but MUST be accompanied by a ticket holding adult. Please note there is no separate children’s area at this event, and eFestivals considers this an event not really suitable for children.

Festival Republic produces a guide to Disabled Access and Facilities for all it’s festivals, which includes details of the 2-for-1 ticket scheme. Please request a booklet and application form on 020 8961 5490. All application forms must be submitted by Friday 24th July 2009.

On site facilities include: Bars, Cash Points, First Aid & Paramedics, Food & Non Food Stalls, Information.

There’s a few alterations for 2009.
The arena is to be extended at the Western end to create more space for the Radio One tent, make room for an extra block of loos and improve the levels of music on site, without increasing the disturbance off site for residents.
A new policy on Crowd Surfing. The policy has been revised and if attendees come over the barrier for fun, they will be put back onto road G4 and made to walk back down to the arena entrance to come back into the arena that way, the long way
The Arena Entrance has moved, the layout will change this year to ease the flow in and out.
Campsite toilets have been rearranged within the campsites, the site map when available will show this.
There are to be NO aerosols (over 100ml) or gas canisters. If you want to cook outside your tent you bring bring disposable barbecues only. Anyone seen with canisters or cylinders will be ejected from site.
There will be no Indigo Zone this year. What was indigo last year will revert back to brown and purple.

As with previous years organisers Festival Republic are keen to encourage festival goers to respect the local residents and the environment, and to encourage everyone to leave their cars at home.

Coach:
There are normally special National Express and See Coaches festival services running directly into the site from all over the UK.

The Lift Share scheme:
If you have to bring your car to Reading then why not try the lift-share scheme. It will reduce traffic congestion to the festival; you can split petrol costs between you, and helps reduce global warming at the same time.

Peak traffic flows are likely on the Thursday and on the morning of the Friday as festival goers arrive on site. Most traffic is expected to depart the site late in the evening on the Sunday and before noon on the Monday. The organisers ask all festival goers to try and avoid these periods unless necessary to minimise congestion.

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/reading/2009/
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Radiohead, Placebo, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, Fall Out Boy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Prodigy, Deftones, AFI, Lostprophets, Rise Against, Maxïmo Park, Metric, Billy Talent, Brand New, Faith No More, Vampire Weekend, New Found Glory, The Rakes, The Crystal Method, Atreyu, Crystal Castles, The Gossip, Funeral for a Friend, Anti-Flag, Patrick Wolf, Jack's Mannequin, The Maccabees, Thursday, MSTRKRFT, Alexisonfire, The View, Eagles of Death Metal, White Lies, La Roux, Friendly Fires, Passion Pit, Vitalic, Little Boots, Ian Brown, Lady Sovereign, Enter Shikari, 65daysofstatic, The Bouncing Souls, Jamie T, Bring Me the Horizon, Noah and the Whale, Glasvegas, The Horrors, Mad Caddies, Deadmau5, The Living End, 3OH!3, The Courteeners, Florence and The Machine, Manchester Orchestra, Madina Lake, Bombay Bicycle Club, Black Lips, The xx, Fightstar, The Virgins, Metronomy, Streetlight Manifesto, The Gaslight Anthem, Jack Peñate, Set Your Goals, The Temper Trap, The Airborne Toxic Event, Lightspeed Champion, The Bronx, Gallows, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Rumble Strips, Leftöver Crack, Marina & the Diamonds, A Wilhelm Scream, Frank Turner, Municipal Waste, The Blackout, Das Pop, The Big Pink, Lethal Bizzle, You Me At Six, Rival Schools, Hockey, Kids In Glass Houses, Soulsavers, The Qemists, Snuff, The Aggrolites, Titus Andronicus, White Denim, Chipmunk, Dananananaykroyd, The Joy Formidable, The Flatliners, Delphic, Marmaduke Duke, Spinnerette, Sonic Boom Six, Golden Silvers, Polar Bear Club, Fake Problems, Grammatics, Chase And Status, Fight Like Apes, The Ghost of a Thousand, Go:Audio, The Riverboat Gamblers, Amazing Baby, Broken Records, Chuck Ragan, Broadway Calls, Lovvers, The Soft Pack, Baddies, Master Shortie, Dinosaur Pile-up, In Case of Fire, Single File, Pulled Apart By Horses, Magistrates, The Teeth, Mariachi El Bronx, Skint & Demoralised, Bear Hands, KASMs, Sweethead, the ruling class, The Plight, Middle Class Rut, Everything Everything, Screaming Lights, The Living Daylights, The Chapman Family, Soft Toy Emergency, Detroit Social Club, The Computers, The Old Romantic Killer Band, Kinch, To The Bones, The Hot Rats, Goldheart Assembly, Chickenhawk, The NeaT, L'Amour La Morgue, Bear Driver, Our Fold, a plastic rose, wonderswan, Ellen and the Escapades, Punch & the Apostles, Minaars, Frontiers, Kutosis, Milk White White Teeth, Come On Gang, British Intelligence, Sixty Watt Bayonets, Horse Guards Parade, what makes you beautiful, Boney Black and Surprise... fire

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