BBC News explores the impact of one of the UK's biggest and most iconic combined music festivals.
This weekend marks 25 years since Leeds joined Reading to form one of the UK’s biggest and most iconic combined music festivals. BBC News speaks to festival-goers and artists to explore the festival’s impact.
Since its introduction, Leeds has hosted an ever-evolving blend of some of the biggest rock, grime and pop artists from around the world while also championing local talent. “I saw a guy that I went to primary school with who was singing all my songs and I've not seen him since we finished.”It was a similar story for Jodie Langford, from Hull, who also performed on this year’s Introducing Stage.“I’m unapologetically northern and I'm proud of using my accent and not covering it when I sing,” she said.Wrexham-based band Neck Deep played the festival twice in one day.“It’s a compliment and it’s nice that they have a lot of confidence in us,” they said.
“The amount of times that we've done Leeds before, and I've had a phone call from my mum half an hour before I’m due on stage saying, ‘I'm in the car park but don’t know if it’s the right one’.Back in 1999, huge artists from around the world descended on Leeds Festival for the first time.
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