late night entertainment announced for Leeds Festival 2018

plus more alternative stage acts for both Reading & Leeds

By Mike Marshall | Published: Fri 29th Jun 2018

Leeds Festival 2018 - around the site (Friday)
Photo credit: Jason Richardson

Leeds Festival 2018

Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th August 2018
Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS23 6ND, England MAP
£205 weekend tickets, £69.50 any day
Daily capacity: 79,999

More entertainment and acts have been revealed for Reading Festival and Leeds Festival  which happen annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend of Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th August 2018 in Reading, Berkshire and Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire respectively.

The Leeds late night entertainment, aka the Picadilly Party, will start with Youtube favourites TPD TV on Thursday, before a Slaves (DJ Set) on Friday. There will also be the Relentless Energy stage, and new art installation Anachronica, featuring a Mad Max-esque world engineered from recycled materials and discarded everyday objects in a huge production. More late night entertainment and acts are still to be announced.

Also announced are details of the Transgressive Records return to the Alternative Stage at both Reading and Leeds.

Entertaining both sites will be:- Bless, Transgressive Soundsystem, Hot Dub Time Machine, The Guilty Feminist presents Suffrageddon

Leeds will also feature:- Big Narstie, George Fitzgerald (live), Chip

Performing at Reading are:- Yala! Records DJs, The Magic Gang, Blaenavon, Dream Wife, Huw Stephens, Akala, Buttoned Down Disco

All these acts join previously announced acts Kendrick Lamar, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, Kings of Leon, Dua Lipa, Wolf Alice, The Kooks, Pendulum, Annie Mac, Diplo, Don Broco, Skindred, Death from Above, The Joy Formidable, Nothing But Thieves, The Used, Sigrid and more.

For all of the details including day & stage splits please see the Reading line-up page or Leeds line-up page.

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Weekend tickets are priced at £205. A Wednesday early entry permit is priced at £20, a campervan pass is £75, and a locker is priced at £16, and a car park pass is priced at £10. day tickets are priced at £69.50. Prices do not include booking fees.




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