Extra tickets have been granted for Reading Festival, this afternoon the licensing panel of Reading Borough Council have granted an increase in capacity to 80,000 for this year's Reading Festival. Last year capacity was 66,500 so there are an extra 14 thousand odd tickets that are up for grabs. Which is coincidentally almost the length of the online queue that allowed people to pre-register there interest in the tickets back in April.

The online queuers have to respond to an email being sent out by See Tickets by 9am 20th June to take advantage of the offer. Any tickets left will go on general sale after 9am Jue 20th.