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Booker of the renowned Leeds and Reading festival, Neil Pengelly is ready to hand over all his responsibilities at the Festival Republic. He has been working for the last 2o years. It is heard that Pengelly has booked some 2500 bands from his starting of career as a promoter in London in the year 1990.

Not only he has booked the comedy and second stage at the Reading festival, he has also taken over all the musical stages at the festival that was held in the year 1994 along with Leeds. He has spent 19 years at the artistic wheel of the festival which became highly popular that time.

Boss of Festival Republic, Mr. Melvin Benn said about Pengelly that he is a legendary man and it will be a tough act to follow. Benn said that he will be missed by all of us and undoubtedly the rest of the team will be an understatement. But definitely the man will be there to stay in an advisory role and the new member will soon join in behalf of Pengelly.

Both the Leeds and Reading festival are governed by the Festival Public and earlier these festivals used to known as Carling Weekend. The Leeds event or festival is held in Wetherby. For the visitors, campsites are made available and day tickets were also sold. The capacity of this festival has now increased to 80,000 and is expected to increase more in the future. The festival tickets are available the day before the festival starts.

Leeds Festival organizer Melvin Benn announced that he wishes to reward the weekend ticket holders. The weekend goers to the festival will be offered a free burger and beer every day. The full details of the offer have been released. The vouchers of the food will be sent out along with the tickets from today. The vouchers will be presented to ‘Food for Campers’ vendors at certain designated locations in the campsite till midday. The vouchers will be given out only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

One food voucher will be valid for each day so that nobody skips breakfast and beer and soft drinks will be given in exchange of wrist band. To have beer one will need to give an age proof as well. Melvin Benn explains that Beer & Burger has turned into Beer and Baps. The foods on offer for breakfast are bacon, scrambled egg, sausage or mushroom Bap. The breakfast will be available between 7:00am and 12:00 pm on all the three days marking the weekend.

The twin festival of Reading and Leeds will take place on bank holiday weekend that starts from 24th Friday to 26th Sunday, August. The Leeds Festival is scheduled to take place at Bramham Park, Leeds, in Yorkshire. The festivals will showcase over 150 acts on 6 stages. Tickets are limited to a maximum of four per person and also per credit card for those who wish to book online. Teenagers of 15 years and under are welcomed but with a ticket holding adult.