Stages
The festival typically has the following stages:
- Main stage – major rock, indie, metal and alternative acts.
- NME/Radio 1 stage – less well-known acts, building up to an alternative headline act
- Festival Republic stage (formerly known as the Carling stage) – acts with less popular appeal and breakthrough acts
- Lock Up Stage – underground punk and hardcore acts. Due to demand, from 2006 this stage took up two days rather than previous years where it was only one day.
- Dance tent – dance music acts, on the day that the Lock Up Stage does not run
- Alternative tent – comedy and cabaret acts plus DJs.
- BBC Introducing Stage – Typically unsigned/not well known acts. (Formerly known as the Topman Unsigned Stage at the Leeds site).
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