Reading Festival 2008

Music

For the first year we are inviting BBC introducing into the arena to work with is to bring you the very best of new young talent. In addition to this, the Carling stage is no longer and has been renamed the Festival Republic stage.

Get in the Guitar Hero spotlight at Reading Festival

The Guitar Hero Experience makes its Reading Festival debut, with a very special opportunity to play the global smash hit videogame in the specially-designed arena containing pure, unadulterated rock, with Guitar Hero running wall-to-wall.

Reading Festival is ranked the best event of the summer, having become the most sought-after ticketed event in the UK.

A survey has polled the festival as the number one event, while the top sporting event was also in Berkshire – Royal Ascot.

Festival organisers have denied building a “network of causeways” on the Reading Festival site.

Reading’s environmental watchdogs raised concerns about the “causeways” in the flood plain at Little John’s Farm, at Green City and Open Spaces Forum on Tuesday last week.

If you missed out on a ticket to the festival, or other stewarding positions, have a passion for the environment and want to help get the festival goers to recycle as much as possible, then please join Team Recycle. You will be at recycling points around the festival, in the campgrounds showing people which bin to put their recycling in.

You will be rostered to do 24 hours from Thursday to Sunday, during daylight hours. All volunteers are welcome to enjoy the festival when they are off-shift.

Right - here's your chance to win a bad ass Eurohike 4 man tent and a sleeping bag.

All you have to do is send us a pic or video (YouTube a possibility), showing us just why you deserve to be the winner. Simple huh. Any split decisions will be resolved by a tie breaking question which will be revealed at the time.

If you want to email us your entry, please send it to: competition@strictlyreading.co.uk. Alternatively, sign up to our forums and post your entry here: http://strictlyreading.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=642.0

We have it on good authority that there will be another announcement to the lineup early next week... yes, as usual, we are first with the news.

I'd probably say Tuesday morning would be a good time to stay tuned.