Carling Weekend - Leeds Festival 2005 Regular readers of Designer Magazine will know that around this time of year we normally bring you our extensive Leeds Festival coverage that leaps between the unknown bands on the Carling Stage through to the headliners on the mainstage. Over the years we've brought you fantastic reviews of Guns'n'Roses, Eminem, Mariln Manson, Green Day, The White Stripes, The Manics and at the time new bands such as Do Me Bad Things, The Departure, So Solid Crew and countless others. Sadly this year we are unable to bring you the reviews because....wait for it....Orlaith from Big Brother and friends were invited to promote Carling's Cold Beer ting and hence the ticket allocation for press was reduced. Designer Magazine has always covered Leeds Festival because despite being sponsored by an international corporation it was always about the music, music that challenged you, music that was loud and in a lot of cases music that didn't get played on daytime radio. This year we've provided a gallery of some of the less well known bands that played on the Radio 1 Stage, the sort of bands you won't find in the gossip columns of tabloids or in Heat Magazine. I'd like to think think that next year business as usual will return to Leeds Festival and music publications such as Designer Magazine will be able to cover the event for what it essentially is about, the music. But that's up to the organisers at the end of the day and it's up for them to decide whether they want to keep true to the spirit of Leeds or get the invite's ready for Colleen Rooney or Atomic Kitten's Jenny Frost and sell 1 more crate of Carling to a Sun Reader. In true noughties style tickets for Carling Weekend 2006 are on sale now before the line-up's even been announced. You can buy tickets from the usual outlets NOTE: If you were at Leeds Festival and want to see your review in print please contact Designer Magazine at the usual email addy Words: Alex McCann Photos Shirlaine Forrest www.shirlainephotos.co.uk TOWERS OF LONDON BLOC PARTY THE SUBWAYS THE RAKES PLUS GUESTS THE FUTUREHEADS MAXIMO PARK DEAD 60'S BEST OF THE REST In order Including Art Brut, Hal, Black Velvets, British Sea Power, Boy Kill Boy, YourCodeNameIs:Milo

 

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