Arctic Monkeys live in NYC (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
The 2014 Reading Festival has now completely sold out ahead of the August Bank Holiday Weekend.
Reading is held this year between August 22nd-24th, and both weekend and day tickets have now all been snapped up, though some are still available for the event’s twin site in Leeds.
One of the main contributing factors is likely to be the booking of Arctic Monkeys; speaking earlier this year, organiser Melvin Benn revealed there had been a ‘huge demand’ for the band to make a return to the festival.
“There was a huge, huge demand for Arctic Monkeys to come back,” he told NME. “To be honest with you, we’d have had them come back even if there wasn’t a huge demand because just they’re that good. They’re a phenomenal, phenomenal band at the pinnacle of their powers right now.”
“That they have a long history at the festival and sharpened their craft here only adds to the magic of them headlining.”