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Leeds Festival 2024 day one at Bramham Park. Picture: Mark Bickerdike

'Mother nature played a part': Leeds Festival shuts two stages

Screenshot taken from a video with permission from the social media site X, formerly Twitter, posted by @decomcfc of the campsite at Leeds Festival. Two stages at Leeds Festival have closed for the day due to high winds caused by Storm Lilian. Liam Gallagher is due to headline the music festival in Bramham Park on Friday evening, as Reading and Leeds Festivals get under way for three days of music over the Bank Holiday weekend. Picture date: Friday August 23, 2024.

Storm Lilian: Leeds Festival chaos as 60mph winds hit Yorkshire

Tent hurtles across sky as Storm Lilian hits Leeds Festival.

Watch: Tent hurtles across sky as Storm Lilian hits Leeds Festival

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Leeds Festival: Stage closures and delays to opening

Doncaster Racecourse Summer Saturday Series - Summer Anthems ft Chris Moyles, Sat 1st June

Sat 1st June: DJ set from radio legend Chris Moyles & thrilling horse racing at ...

Jo Whiley as she teams up with Benecol on a campaign. Picture: Benecol/Simon John Owen/PA.

Jo Whiley: 'Be under no illusion, Glastonbury is exhausting'

Gary Davies will be taking his BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the 80s on the road this month.

Gary Davies: 'Radio is your friend who’s always there'

DJ Steve Wright, presenter of programmes for BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for over four decades has died at the age of 69. English broadcaster and disc jockey Steve Wright in a radio studio, UK, 29th November 1979. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tributes pour in for Radio 2 legend

Yungblud at Norton Coronation Working Men’s Club with Radio 1 hosts Melvin and Charlie.

A homecoming for Yungblud: 'I played my Nan’s 60th birthday party here'

Brandon Flowers of the Killers performs on stage. (Pic credit: Jo Hale / Getty Images)

Leeds Festival 2023: How can I watch Yorkshire music festival if I can’t attend?

BBC Radio 1 presenter Arielle Free has been suspended after criticising her colleague’s choice of music on air. (Getty Images)

BBC Radio 1 host Arielle Free suspended after clash with DJ on air

Adele Roberts

DJ confirms she will leave BBC Radio 1 after eight years

Thirty Seconds To Mars have been forced to postpone their first UK show in four years

30 Seconds To Mars postpone first UK show in 4 years

Lewis Capaldi performing live in 2019 (Photo: Manny Carabel/Getty Images)

BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2023 line-up announced

Festival goers arrive early to Leeds Festival 2019, Bramham Park, Leeds. August 21 2019. Reading and Leeds Festival officially kicks off Friday with temperatures forecast to sore over Bank Holiday weekend. SWNS

Reading and Leeds festival lineup: First bands revealed on BBC Radio 1

Festival goers arrive early to Leeds Festival 2019, Bramham Park, Leeds. August 21 2019. Reading and Leeds Festival officially kicks off Friday with temperatures forecast to sore over Bank Holiday weekend. SWNS

Reading and Leeds Festival: Time revealed for first band announcement soon

Singer-songwriter David Ford brings his Interesting Times Tour 2022 to Pocklington Arts Centre (PAC) on Thursday, March 10, 8pm.

Award-winning songwriter David Ford to perform at Pocklington Arts Centre in Mar...

DJ Tony Blackburn in Sunderland in 1973.

Yorkshire-born author's latest book explores history of Radio 1 and pirate DJs

Here's when we'll find out who's representing the UK at Eurovision 2020 - and ho...

Head of Apple Music in the UK George Ergatoudis at Sheffield University where he was receiving an honourary doctorate

From annoying Madonna to talking with Taylor - How Yorkshire’s George Ergatoudis...

Apollo Junction

Apollo Junction: '˜Every single person who comes to see us is appreciated'

After providing the musical warm-up for Josh Warrington's title fight at Elland Road along with Kaiser Chiefs, and performing at several notable summer festivals, the ascent of Leeds band Apollo Junction continues with a new single.

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Doncaster rapper Kannan has released his debut single GOAT.

WATCH: Upcoming Doncaster rapper makes bid for fame with debut single

Stuart Colman

Stuart Colman, musician and producer

Live at Leeds headliners - The Vaccines.

Live at Leeds fest's exciting new developments

Playing Bilton WMC soon - Hit Harrogate duo Litany.

Countdown to Harrogate band's homecoming gig

Tony Blackburn with the first Radio 1 controller, Robin Scott

Pop goes Yorkshire as Radio 1 turns 50

The Gardner family at Newby Hall last weekend at the StrEat Food & Family Fun Festival. (1709242AM7).

Street food fest's disappointing turnout at Newby Hall

Excited by new acts at Leeds Festival - BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens.

BBC's Huw Stephens unveils Leeds Festival's rising stars 2017

Olympic gold-medallist Kadeena Cox is backing the campaign.

Leeds paralympian Kadeena Cox in call to end disability benefit cuts

Leeds/Hull indie rock band Chambers

Gig preview: Chambers at BBC Radio 1's Academy

Kerosene by Redfaces is what indie rock fans call a banger

VIDEO: Sheffield band Redfaces set music world on fire with debut Kerosene

Steve Lamacq is to broadcast his BBC 6 Music show from the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds: Dean Chalkley/BBC

Music interview: Steve Lamacq of BBC 6 Music to broadcast from Brudenell Social ...

'I love going on tour with bands, which is something I've done ever since I was a fanzine writer,' says BBC 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq, by way of introduction to the series of broadcasts he's about to do across the country to mark Independent Venue Week.

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BBC radio's Sara Cox, who hosted the ARIAS Awards in Leeds.

Star-studded national audio awards celebrates best of industry in Leeds

Staple listening: BBC Radio 4s Today presenters John Humphrys and Mishal Husain provide authority and intelligence. Picture: PA.

Jayne Dowle: In a world of spin, radio is a reliable voice of reason

Sundara Karma

Festival preview: Sundara Karma at Leeds Festival

Toddla T gets to work in his BBC Radio 1 studio at Broadcasting House. Photos: Glenn Ashley

VIDEO & 360 PHOTO: Sheffield's Radio 1 DJ Toddla T spins the word forTramlines

The Stone Roses

Reviewed: The first new Stone Roses song in 22 years

Leeds indie guitar pop band Marsicans.

Tonight: Marsicans star in great indie music night at Major Tom's, Harrogate

Edith Bowman

PostMusic: Edith Bowman on Great British Music Festivals

The Jesus and Mary Chain at the University of Leeds, 1985. Picture: JC Brouchard

Mellower Mary Chain back on the road

Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons on stage at Leeds Festival in 2010.

Mumford & Sons join Metallica as Leeds Festival headliners

Duke finds sea of mobile phones ‘disconcerting’

Veteran DJ Blackburn defends ‘wonderfully-run’ early years of BBC Radio 1

Tragic youth’s song charts

First day nerves for BBC Radio 1’s new breakfast show host

Nightingale marks 40 years at the BBC

Take That – band hints it may split again

Festival deaths manslaughter inquiry

Murrayfield provides enough magic to deserve 2011 return

Kay 'embarrassed' over racy texts to girls