Festival Republic is the UK’s leading Festival and Event promoters. We are extremely proud to be the team behind the greatest Rock shows on the planet; the Reading and Leeds Festivals, the critically applauded Latitude, not to mention our annual London festivals for the GLA; Rise and St Patrick’s Day.
Festival Republic also have operational responsibility for and are the licence holders of Glastonbury Festival.

In 2007 we restructured our business, selling the majority of our venue portfolio while retaining ownership of the much celebrated jewels in the London venue crown, The Astoria and The Astoria 2.

A brief history
Formed in 1982, we largely created the modern music festival market in the UK. Under the name of Mean Fiddler, we took shared ownership of the Reading Festival in 1989 and took sole ownership in 1993. Since then we have built Reading into the most famous Rock show on the planet and in 1999 created a parallel event in Leeds. In 2002 we took over operational management of Glastonbury Festival and in 2007 increased the capacity of the festival to 177,500. In 2006 we launched Latitude, our fledgling music and arts festival, which is heading into its third year. Held in the beautiful Sunrise Coast, Suffolk Latitude is doing phenomenally well; in its second year it almost doubled capacity to 20,000 visitors and is set to rise to 25,000 in 2008. We continue to manage the annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square and promote Rise: London United, a free anti-racist and multicultural festival, both for The Mayor of London, Ken Livingston.