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.

We.... well, "I" have been working on the ultimate map for Reading Festival. I think it's gone pretty well so will try and work on a few others that focus on particular areas of the festival.

We have comprised a little picture based guide on how to get from the train station at Reading to the festival site.

Click on "read more" to see a slideshow, unless you can actually see it, in which case, there is no need to show off.

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.