OFWGKTA cancel their show at Leeds Festival

OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) have announced they will not be appearing at this month's Leeds Festival due to the MTV Video Music Awards.

The band's leader Tyler Okonma has been asked to attend the MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday 28th August where he has been nominated for two MTV VMA's - New Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for his video 'Yonkers'.

A statement from OFWGKTA says, "Odd Future would like to formally apologise to both the Leeds festival organisers and the fans attending for having to cancel their appearance. Tyler recently achieved a lifelong dream of being nominated for two MTV VMA's - New Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for his video 'Yonkers', which he directed himself.

This is an extremely unique situation for a group who are devoted to their fans. We have agreed to give all Leeds festival ticket holders a pre-sale option for our next show in the north of England. Again we apologise to anyone who was looking forward to seeing them live, and will do whatever it takes to make it up to them. We look forward to having another opportunity to play Leeds festival..

Sincerely, Grandpa Wolf"

The band will still be appearing at Reading Festival. The festival which is twinned with Reading Festival takes place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August, and takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Muse headline Friday, My Chemical Romance headline Saturday, and Pulp and The Strokes co-headline Sunday. 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, and Peter Doherty, Mark Thomas, Russell Kane, Tim Minchin, Henry Rollins, Lee Nelson, and more. For the line-up details, stage splits, and rumours where available, please click here.

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. Day tickets will be available at a later date.

To buy tickets from Seetickets - click here.

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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.

There will be no box office selling tickets on site at Leeds this year.

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