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[[Image:Reading burning 2005.JPG|thumb|200px|A fire at Reading 2005]]
After a successful first year in Leeds, a continued resurgence in the popularity of outdoor music festivals led to the Reading festival selling out more and more quickly every year. The Leeds leg, however, was plagued by riots and violence which led to problems in retaining its licence. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2216223.stm</ref> The worst of these was in 2002, after which Mean Fiddler moved the festival to [[Bramham Park]], near [[Wetherby]] to the east of Leeds in 2003<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/entertainment/03/festivals_map/html/reading_leeds.stm]</ref>. Since then, security at both sites has increased and problems appear to have been quelled<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2006/08/17/music_leeds_festival_2006_camp_info_feature.shtml]</ref>. However, this has also lead to an increase in demand.
The first few years of the 2000s saw a varied but predominantly rock line-up, however as the decade has progressed the Main Stage and Radio 1 Stage line-up has followed music trends and featured more and more indie artists, that have become very popular in the British music mainstream. However, one day (Sunday in the case of Reading) is traditionally set aside for hard rock and metal. This was most pronounced at the 2006 festival, which saw little hard rock on the first two days, but featured bands such as [[Mastodon]], [[Slayer]] and [[Pearl Jam]] on the Sunday. However this can arguably laid down to the growing popularity of the Download festival in June providing a solely metal, hard rock and punk outlet.
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