New Stage For Leeds Festival
25 July 2006
Unsigned acts including Dirtblonde, Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire, Little Ze and Letters And Colours will all feature after winning local talent contests.
Better known acts like Polytechnic, Stoney, The Somatics and The Scaramanga Six will also perform.
Fans will also be able to enjoy entertainment later into the night, with this year's Leeds Festival being granted a license until 3am.
Mini soundsystems, BMX
displays and other forms of entertainment will be on offer after hours, in an attempt to stop the rioting that has hampered
the festival in recent years.
Organiser Melvin Benn told the NME: "The Fans' Forums seemed to suggest that people got up
to mischief because everything stopped at eleven o'clock at night. I'm hoping that the later entertainment will (stop
the rioting). I'm also hoping this Love Not Riots campaign will help as well. It's only a hundred people out of tens
of thousands, the rest of the festival has such an amazing atmosphere."
Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, from 25-27 August. Click here for more.
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