Reading & Leeds announce ticket installment plan

pay for weekend tickets in two installments

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 24th May 2011

Reading Festival 2011 - around the festival site (Saturday)
Photo credit: Scott Williams

Reading Festival 2011

Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August 2011
Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ, England MAP
£192.50 for a weekend ticket - SOLD OUT, £82.50 - Friday or Saturday
Daily capacity: 90,000

Reading and Leeds festival organisers have announced a payment programme for festival fans to spread the expenditure of weekend tickets over 2 installment payments.

around the festival site (Saturday)
An initial payment of £103.25 per ticket must be paid immediately, leaving a balance due of £96.25. The balance, plus a registered post charge of £5.25, will then be taken on Friday 29th July.

To buy installment tickets for Reading from Seetickets - click here.

To buy installment tickets for Leeds from Seetickets - click here.

The twin festivals take place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

General sale tickets are now on sale. A weekend ticket is priced at £192.50, day tickets are priced at £82.50. An early entry (Thursday) ticket is priced at £15, lockers are priced at £15, and a campervan pass is priced at £40. Over 18's wristband will be optional, but allow those that look young to not have to carry ID around all the time.

To buy tickets, click here.

The line-up is headlined by My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, and Pulp. Also confirmed are Thirty Seconds To Mars, The Offspring, Deftones, Rise Against, Bring Me The Horizon, New Found Glory, The National, Jimmy Eat World, Madness, Two Door Cinema Club, Seasick Steve, The Pigeon Detectives, The Joy Formidable, Elbow, Interpol, Friendly Fires, Enter Shikari, The View, Frank Turner, Taking Back Sunday, Beady Eye, White Lies, Noah and the Whale, The Vaccines, Metronomy, Patrick Wolf, The Naked & Famous, Jane's Addiction, Crystal Castles, Bombay Bicycle Club, Everything Everything, The Kills, 2manydjs, The Streets, Death From Above 1979, Panic At The Disco, Warpaint, Chapel Club, The Horrors, The Midnight Beast, Peter Doherty, and more.

The festivals will feature a full line-up of over 150 acts over the weekend on six stages. For the line-up details, stage splits, and rumours where available, please click here for Reading and here for Leeds.

Many more names are still to be announced as well as the full line-up for the Festival Republic Stage, and BBC Introducing Stage.

Coach travel with combined festival tickets can also be purchased. To buy coach tickets for Reading, or Leeds, click here.

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 small children.


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