in-store Reading & Leeds Festival tickets to go on sale one hour early

Tickets for this summer's Reading & Leeds Festival will be available on pre-sale one hour earlier at 6.15pm at selected HMV stores in major UK cities as well as Fopp in Manchester.

Online tickets to this year's Reading & Leeds 2012 festival will go on general sale tonight, Monday 12th March, at 7.15pm, with in-store tickets going on sale one hour early at the following 15 participating store locations:

hmv Leeds Headrow
hmv Reading Oracle
hmv Birmingham High Street
hmv Birmingham Bull Ring
hmv Bristol Broadmead
hmv Cardiff
hmv Liverpool One
hmv London Oxford Street
hmv London Trocadero
hmv Newcastle
hmv Nottingham Victoria Centre
hmv Oxford
hmv Portsmouth Commercial Road
hmv Southampton
Fopp Manchester

The line-up will be revealed at 7.15pm on Monday, 12th March, when the headliners and many more names will be announced. eFestivals believes The Cure, Kasabian, and Foo Fighters will be announced as headliners at the twin event held over the August Bank Holiday Weekend.

General sale tickets priced at £197.50 for a weekend ticket will be released on Monday 12th March at 7.15pm. Early entry tickets enabling festival goers to get into the site on the Wednesday will also be available priced at £15, with campervan passes priced at £60, and lockers £15. Day tickets will be £85 for any day.

Tickets are expected to be limited to a maximum of two per person and per credit card for those booking online. U16s (15 & under) must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

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.

In order to spread the cost of tickets there will be two installment schemes, a two-part scheme and a four-part scheme, available to buy from official ticket agents (see below).

The Two-part scheme will involve an initial payment is 50% of the face value of tickets (not yet announced) plus an £8 booking fee. This will be followed by making a second payment of 50% of face value plus a postage fee priced at £5.25 per transaction (regardless of number of tickets in the booking) at a later date (yet tbc).

The Four-part scheme requires an initial payment of 25% of the face value plus the £8 booking fee per ticket.Followed by two more monthly instalments at 25% of face value, and then a final 25% payment of face value plus £5.25 postage fee per transaction (regardless of number of tickets in the booking).

There are no acts confirmed yet for 2012, expect a line-up of big names from the rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal scenes. For the line-up rumours as available, please click here for Reading, and here for Leeds.

The twin festivals take place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th August. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Reading from Seetickets - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Reading from Ticketline - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Reading from Gigantic - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Reading from Ticketmaster - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Leeds from Seetickets - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Leeds from Ticketline - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Leeds from Gigantic - click here.

To buy tickets from 7.15pm this evening for Leeds from Ticketmaster - click here.

Festival organisers are warning ticket buyers to NOT use fake ticket selling sites. Make sure any tickets you buy are legitimate. eFestivals always links to official ticket outlets (and doesn't host adverts for unofficial outlets unlike other festival websites!) so you can be sure that any ticket bought via eFestivals will get you into the festival of your choice. Do not purchase tickets from unofficial or secondary ticket outlets or auction sites as they often are unable to supply the tickets, and might not even give you a refund - there's lots of dodgy operators out there!

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