Leeds Festival 2010

Digital Guide

Late Night Entertainment

Campsite DJs

Are you the next superstar DJ? Does your heart race at the thought of banging out your favourite tunes to a baying crowd of campers at Leeds Festival? If this sounds like you, bring your best tunes with you and get yourself down to the campsite office in your zone early to earn yourself a 20 – 30 minute slot to play later that evening.

There will be CD decks in each of the campsite offices / campsite DJ tents which can play both regular CDs and MP3 CDs. You can also plug in your iPods – chargers are provided.

5-a-side football

Welfare Tent

The Welfare Tent is situated in the Village Area and is open 24 hours from 2pm on Wednesday to noon on Monday and offers general welfare, assistance and advice, a drugs advisory service, sexual health advice, counselling, a messages service and they will help distressed / missing people.

The Welfare Tent also offers a recovery area for patients from medical and emergency shelter in a Crash tent with camper mats and sleeping bags.

There is also a book here that you can add your comments to.

Wheelbarrow hire

Wheel Easy Ltd. will be providing this year a cloth wheelbarrow rental service at Leeds Festival. These lightweight and strong cloth barrows are designed to make it easy for you to carry your tents and supplies from your cars or bus to the campsite and help maximise your festival experience. There will be a number of rental points located in the car parks as well as return points located within the campsites saving you the hassle of having to walk all the way back out to the car parks to return the wheel barrow.

Alternatively you can hire a wheelbarrow for the weekend (limited availability) or hire a porter to wheel the barrow for you.

Price Guideline:
One and a half hour Dry Hire rental: £7 + £30 deposit

If you have any queries or would just like to say hi, you can email info@wheeleasy.eu

Over 18 wristbands

Bar staff will ask for proof of age ID whenever the customer appears to be under 18. However, if you are over 18 but feel you will be asked for your ID a lot on site because you are fortunate to look youthful please get one of our new “over 18’s wristbands”.  The Over-18 wristband tent will be located near the football pitch. Opening times will Wednesday 2pm-8pm, Thursday 9am-9pm, Friday 9am-11pm, Saturday 9am-9pm and Sunday 10am-2pm.

This is a voluntary venture for anyone who wants it and the aim is that it will help our bar staff, gate staff and other local retailers to do a quick check for anyone that seems around 18 years old.  

It will stop you having to carry your ID every time you want a drink on site, or want to bring alcohol into the campsites from the supermarkets. There will a tent near arena entrance where you will be able to get the over 18’s band once you are in the event.  

You will need valid ID in order to get the wristband and this will be a a PASS hologrammed ID card, a full photo card driving licence issued by the DVLA or a passport. If there is any doubt as to the age of the customer they will be refused service. The onus is on the individual to demonstrate unequivocally that they are 18 years old or over and if the individual cannot do so they will not be served.

ID MUST BE SHOWN ON ENTRY TO THE EVENT.

WE ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING FORMS OF ID ONLY:
Current Driving Licence, Current Passport, Citizen Card, Proof GB, Validate, Young Scot, Connexions Card (scheme is closed but card still valid), Portman Group (scheme is closed but card still valid), UreLife® (scheme is closed but card still valid)

Pharmacy

The medics have pharmacy supplies onsite and arrangements with local hospitals for restocking.

Basic pharmacy supplies eg plasters, sunscreen etc will be available in the supermarket in the Village Area at the registered retail price. 

The nearest pharmacy is at Tesco at Seacroft (shuttle buses run there from the onsite bus station at Yellow Gate).

The pharmacy at Tescos at Seacroft is open 0800 to 2000 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Saturday and from 1100 to 1700 on Sunday.

Information Tent

The Information Tent is open from noon on Thursday to 1am Sunday night and reopens Monday morning at 8am until noon.

The Information Tent is located in the Village Area.

The Information Tent handles a large variety of queries from festival goers, runs a message board and has details of all local transport services etc. The latest information on the running order is available at the Information Tent.

CATs

The CATs are volunteers based in the festival campsites and main arena. CAT volunteers are there to help you get the most out of your festival 24 hours a day! If you're having trouble putting up your tent, need directions, are wondering about a performance or the days line-up, are concerned about a group or an individual's behaviour, need a UV pen to mark your belongings, would like to complain about a build-up of litter, or let us know about facilities which require attention – please contact a CAT volunteer – they'll do their best to help!

To contact a CAT – head towards your nearest fire tower, campsite office, or catch them as they patrol around!

If you're interested in volunteering to be a CAT please visit: www.HotboxEvents.com

Or you can email: info@hotboxevents.com

Or you can just go straight to the online application here: https://hotboxevents.paamapplication.co.uk/

Lost Children / People

Recycling

There are a number of recycling points onsite in the campsites.

For more Green Initiatives and Recycling info, go to the GREEN LEEDS section.

Supermarket

Firewood

Leeds City Council have again given us the go ahead to allow small campfires fuelled by clean wood in the campsites but not unauthorized bonfires. Small campfires are ones where the flame itself is below knee height and less than one pace wide.

They will be monitored and will have to be put out if they are exceeding these limits. We have a firewood trader onsite so that you can buy clean wood for your small campfires - located in the Village and in Orange Campsite. 

Campfires are not allowed in the arena or in the car parks.

Bars

There are several bars in the arena and one in the Village area. They should be able to accept Debit and Credit cards as well as cash.

Water points on site are drinking water safe.

Food Stalls

Toilets & Showers

There are toilet blocks in the arena. The campsite toilets are non-flammable. All toilets have hand-washing facilities.

There are teams of internal and external environmental health monitors checking each toilet block throughout the festival in order to report any sanitation issues.

Please report any problems to the nearest CAT member or steward.

There are free showers in the Village area which will be open 5pm to 9pm Wednesday and on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday they will be open from 6am to 2pm and 5pm to 9pm.

Check out the SEAT Human Carwash while you’re here. Yep, you guessed right – it’s a carwash for humans! The SEAT Soapers will lather you up, hose you down and give you a thorough air drying – just like a real carwash. Whether you’re mucky from the mosh pit or just feel like a freshen-up, this’ll be the place.

Water

Meeting Point

Banks & Cashpoints

There will be at 30 cash point machines onsite in total.

There will be 16 in the village and 14 in the Arena. They accept most cards but there is a surcharge of £2.50 per transaction. The cash points in the Village are open 24 hours and the arena cashpoints are open whenever the arena is open.

The nearest cash point apart from those onsite is at Tesco at Seacroft. Shuttle buses run there from the onsite bus station at Yellow Gate. The Information Tent has details of all the telephone numbers for reporting lost cards.

Lockers

This year we have again teamed up with Lockerhouse to make sure you can keep your belongings safe at Leeds Festival. You get to keep a souvenir branded padlock after the event too! Book now, and be sure to keep your stuff safe all weekend. The lockers also have mobile phone charging facilities, which require 12v Car adapters/chargers.

IMPORTANT! - PLEASE NOTE: the locker sizes are 25cm wide x 15.5cm deep x 10cm high - so they are the right size for small valuables (mobiles, wallets, cameras). The Locker is used at Hirers own Risk

BUY HERE

Merchandise

Film Oxford Cinema Tent

Showing films from midnight to 03:00 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Cinema Tent will screen the following :

THURSDAY

00:00  SHORTS:
Ramona Falls: I Say Fever (Stefan Nadelman) + Music Matters:
Kate Bush (Elliot Dear) + Franco DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer
(Andrew W. Jones) + Music Matters: The Jam (Show & Tell) + Clutchy
Hopkins: Verbal Headlock (Christian Borstlap) + The Cat Piano (Eddie
White / Ari Gibson) + Music Matters: Nick Cave (Sarah Cox / Emma
Lazenby) + Leader Of The Pack (Jason Roberts) (15)

00:40 FEATURE:  SHUTTER ISLAND (15)

FRIDAY

00:00 SHORTS:
Wax Tailor: I Own You (Romain Chassaing) + Pixels (Patrick Jean) + Crash! Bang! Wallow? (Jon Dunleavy /Keith Wilson-Singer) + Light
Warfare (Freddie Wong) + Au Bout Du Rouleau (The Artaban Filmance
& Mandri) + Brett Domino: Justin Timberlake Medley (Rob Madin) +
TUB (Bobby Miller) (15)

00:35 FEATURE:  GREEN ZONE (15)

02:30 SHORTS:
Jaydiohead: Ignorant Swan Medley (Jason Cacioppo) + Star Wars: Retold (Joe Nicolosi) + Tim and Puma Mimi: Perspective (Mone) +
Music Matters: Louis Armstrong (Lee Gingold) + 15 Before the 3rd
(Jamie Winterstern) + 25R1 (Roly Carline) + I Met The Walrus (Josh
Raskin) + Music Matters: Sigur Rós (Felix Massie) + Footage (Ana
Barbour) + Dillz, Matthews & Shipp: Class Of 2010 (Maxime Bruneel) (PG)

SATURDAY

00:00 SHORTS:
Nobody Beats The Drum: Grindin’ (Rogier van der Zwaag) + Three
and a Half Seconds About LIfe (Eran Hilleli) + Ataque de Panico
(Fede Alvarez) + Rhett & Link T-Shirt War (Joe Penna) + Miles Fisher:
This Must Be The Place (David Green) + Nuit Blanche (Arev Manoukian) (12)

00:20 FEATURE:  AVATAR (12A)

SUNDAY

00:00 SHORTS:
Sonar (Renaud Hallée) + SWITCH (Tyson Hesse) Pivot (Kevin Megens, Floris Vos, Arno de Grijs, André Bergs) + Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. (Chris Cairns) + The Subway Time (Dongzhen.Li) + Cotton Stones (Jonathan Entwistle) (15)

00:30 FEATURE:  SHERLOCK HOLMES (12A)

Things you can and can't bring

The following items are not allowed to be brought into the site by ticket holders:

- Excessive amounts of alcohol ie more than for personal consumption
- Any alcohol in the possession of anyone under 18
- Excessive amounts of cigarettes ie more than for personal consumption
- Excessive amounts of food ie more than for personal consumption
- Glass bottles, jars or containers
- Chinese or sky lanterns
- Illegal substances
- Nitrous oxide
- Legal highs
- Portable laser equipment and laser pens
- Unauthorised professional film, or video equipment
- Spray cans
- Audio recorders
- Fireworks
- Flares
- Generators (exemption for generators within campervans)
- Any goods with unauthorised Reading / Leeds Festival logos
- Any goods for unauthorised trading
- Any items which may reasonably be considered for use as a weapon
- Individual camping gas canisters (exemption for gas canisters fitted within campervans).
- Aerosols over 250ml
- Airhorns and megaphones 

Permitted stoves which may be brought into the campsites:

- Disposable barbeques
- Meth stoves
- Trangia stoves
- Solid fuel stoves
- Gel stoves
- Green base camp cooker
- Firelighter stoves 

In addition to the items not allowed in the campsites, the following items will not be allowed to be brought into the arena:

- Alcohol
- Drinks bottles other than sealed plastic water / soft drinks bottles under 500ml.
- Cans
- Disposable barbeques and other permitted stoves (above)
- Flags 

All items will be confiscated. Receipts will be issued for all confiscated items and you can pick them up on Monday from 7am from the Left Luggage Tent in the Village. A lot of work goes into this system so do trust it and reclaim your confiscated items. The only items that will not be returned because we cannot safely store and return them are:

- illegal substances
- items that may be used as weapons
- gas canisters / aerosols including nitrous oxide (exemption for gas canisters fitted within campervans]

You may be body searched. Persons suspected of carrying items that may be used in an offensive or dangerous manner, or carrying out illegal activities may be searched.

No animals are allowed onsite with the exception of registered guide and hearing dogs.

Cameras are normally permitted for personal use. Cameras with telephoto lens will not be allowed through the arena entrance. Professional cameras and video / audio equipment are strictly prohibited. Live video / audio recordings made without the permission of the artiste or premises licence holder are prohibited.