Review: 2010 Leeds Festival - Sunday (From York Press)

Review: 2010 Leeds Festival - Sunday

8:10am Tuesday 31st August 2010 in

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THE final day of the 2010 Leeds Festival saw revellers brave the icy winds and overcast skies to enjoy epic performances from new acts and genuine rock legends.

Sunday at Leeds is known as the ultimate rock festival day, and up-and-coming Young Guns kicked off proceedings on the main stage.

Leeds band Pulled Apart By Horses packed the Festival Republic stage with an afternoon set which ended with the lead singer leaping into the crowd and the guitarist destroying his instrument and hurling it to the fans.

Entry to the NME Radio One stage was almost impossible when folk favourites Mumford And Sons took the stage, with thousands of fans inside the tent and even more huddling for 30 feet around the entrances.

The main stage started to draw the biggest crowds of the weekend when Welsh rockers Lost Prophets followed NOFX for a late afternoon set, ending with a brief but exciting cover of Omen by The Prodigy.

By the time Biffy Clyro took to the stage, most of the day’s 70,000 fans had packed into the arena, as the shirtless Scots whipped the crowd into a frenzy with their energetic set.

Traditionally, every festival has a rumour, and by the time Queens Of The Stone Age hit the main stage, word had spread that after being cut off mid-set at Reading, Guns N Roses had cancelled the Leeds gig and been replaced by the Arctic Monkeys.

But it turned out to be just a rumour, and although the notoriously late 1990s rockers turned up half-an-hour late and opened with a track from recent release Chinese Democracy, all was forgiven by the time the hits from Appetite For Destruction were unleashed.

Elsewhere, chart stars Marina And The Diamonds enchanted the Festival Republic tent, and band to watch Little Fish stormed the BBC Introducing Stage.

- Natalya Wilson and Dan Bean