Editing Reading and Leeds Festivals (section)

===2010s===
[[File:Reading Festival Aftermath, 2016.png|thumb|Campsite Aftermath, 2016]]
Reading Festival continued to expand through the early 2010s, with a new record capacity of 105,000 recorded in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iq-mag.net/2019/07/reading-festival-2019-sells-out/#.XjFmy2hKiUk|title=Reading Festival 2019 Sells Out|date=22 July 2019|website=[[IQ (magazine)|IQ]]|access-date=29 January 2020}}</ref> In the same year, 200 artists played at both festivals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.viberate.com/article/how-rock-are-you-the-best-festivals-for-headbangers/|title=How Rock Are You? The Best Festivals for Headbangers|last=Klancnik|first=Urban|date=10 December 2019|website=Viberate|access-date=29 January 2020|archive-date=29 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129101235/https://www.viberate.com/article/how-rock-are-you-the-best-festivals-for-headbangers/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The festival typically has the following stages:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carling.com/music/festival/carling_weekend/|title=Carling festival main page|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506123618/http://www.carling.com/music/festival/carling_weekend/|archive-date=6 May 2008}}</ref>
*Main Stage – major rock, indie, metal and alternative acts.
*''[[NME]]''/[[BBC Radio 1|Radio 1]] stage – less well-known acts, building up to an alternative headline act.
*Dance tent – dance music acts, previously sharing a day with the Lock Up stage, now a stand-alone 3-day stage.
*Lock Up Stage (also known as Pit Stage) – underground punk and hardcore acts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://2008.leedsfestival.com/news/story.aspx?aid=89b91dd3-7426-42f9-b789-5d097d1e5761|title=New Stages Announced|access-date=14 January 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Due to demand, from 2006 this stage took up two days rather than previous years where it was only one day.
*[[Festival Republic]] stage – acts with less popular appeal and breakthrough acts.
*1Xtra Stage – new stage for 2013 that stages Hip-Hop, RnB and Rap artists.
*Alternative tent – comedy and [[cabaret]] acts plus DJs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://2008.leedsfestival.com/news/story.aspx?aid=1ff3af91-c948-4739-915b-1fdd1ef44ed3|title=The Alternative stage|access-date=14 January 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
*[[BBC Introducing]] Stage – Typically unsigned/not well known acts. (Formerly known as the [[Topman]] Unsigned Stage at the Leeds site).

{{wide image|Reading Festival 2007 Panorama 2.jpg|1280px|align-cap=center|A panorama of the Reading Festival 2007 arena}}