Leeds Festival: Music lovers head to Bramham Park

Suzanne, Stephanie, Erin and Louise are among the 90,000 festival-goers

Hundreds of people have started making their way to Leeds Festival, which takes place this weekend.

Many have been making use of the shuttle buses which are running from Leeds city centre to the site at Bramham Park, which is between Leeds and Wetherby.

Suzanne, Stephanie, Erin and Louise travelled to Leeds from Glasgow for the festival, and were eager to see Saturday's headliner, Chappell Roan.

Asked what brought them to the festival, Louise said: "I always said I'd only do a festival if the line-up was really good, and it is good, so that's why we're here!"

About 90,000 people are expected to attend the event which runs from Thursday to Sunday.

Headliners Travis Scott, Hozier and Bring Me The Horizon will join Chappell Roan to play at the festival.

Charlie Cannon, 19, came from Lincoln for the festival with his girlfriend.

"It's my first time at a festival and I'm only coming because my girlfriend wanted to come!

"There are a whole group of us who have come from college, I think there are about 15 of us," he said.

Charlie is heading to the festival with friends, and said it was his first time at Leeds

Charlie said he had come to see Travis Scott, and his girlfriend wanted to see Chappell Roan.

"We don't really know many of the people on, we have come more to spend time with friends really," he added.

Penny, Harry, Sally and Ben travelled down from near Penrith in the Lake District.

Penny said they all came to the festival last year, apart from Sally who was a first-timer.

Ben said he was excited to see Sammy Virji and Sally wants to see Chappell Roan.

"Definitely Chappell Roan, I'm so excited," she said.

Penny, Harry, Sally and Ben travelled down from near Penrith in the Lake District

The US singer Chappell Roan was named best new artist at the Grammys as well as Radio 1's Sound of 2025.

Her 80s-influenced pop hits include "Good Luck, Babe!" and "Pink Pony Club".

Not everyone travelling to the festival was going for fun - Daniel, 28, said he was working at a fries and nachos food stall.

He said he had been "seven or eight times before", but this time was working 12-hour shifts.

He said he hoped to see some of his favourite acts, including Bring Me The Horizon and Enter Shikari.

Daniel has been to Leeds Festival "seven or eight times before"

Festival promotor Melvin Benn said it was "pretty amazing" to get Chappell Roan as a headliner.

"She's blown up in terms of popularity," he said

"We saw her at a couple of American festivals last year and she was top of our list - and the pairing with Hozier is perfect for that day.

"It will be pretty special. It will be her biggest-ever live performance in front of the biggest crowd she's played.

"She will go on to be a stadium act, but for the festival-goers she's the most important act of the festival."

Mr Benn is the managing director of Festival Republic, the promotor behind Reading & Leeds Festivals, as well as Latitude, Wireless and Wilderness.

He said the campsites have been much improved at Leeds this year.

"Instead of a single, general campsite, we now have four additional campsites, bespoke campsites, a solo campsite for those coming on their own, so it's really easy to engage with people," he said.

Melvin Benn is behind Reading and Leeds Festivals, Wilderness and Latitude

"I've got a calm campsite, with a garden and yoga, and a run club, for people who don't want to be right in the heart of things."

He added: "The changes I'm making at Leeds and Reading are genuinely the most important changes in campsite offerings of any festival in the world.

"You can always go and buy upgrades for glamping, but this is without having to buy it.

"When people think of Leeds and Reading, they often think it is just 17,18,19-year-olds, just kids in that sense.

"They are the loudest, and that's why I love them more than anybody, but there's an awful lot of older people that come who want a quieter experience when they do go to bed.

"That's why we're adapting to that."

One of the most talk-about festival experiences - the toilets - have also been improved, with "brand new vacuum toilets" installed.

"I want people to come away thinking they've had the best toilets at a campsite they've ever seen - and I think they will," Mr Benn added.

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