Storm Liliam has caused the closure of two stages at Friday's Leeds Festival. The festival at Bramham Park in West Yorkshire is getting under way today for three days of music over the Bank Holiday weekend. However organisers said the BBC Radio 1 Stage and Aux Stage would be “lost” on Friday after Storm Liliam battered the venue overnight and this morning.
They added that they “remain hopeful that everything else will continue as planned”. Acts including indie singer Beabadoobee and US star Ashnikko were due to play the BBC Radio 1 Stage at Leeds on Friday evening, while podcasts Antics With Ash and The Useless Hotline were billed for the Aux Stage. Earlier on Friday morning organisers also people at the venue to stay in their tents while the site was hit by strong winds.
Follow the latest news and updates from Leeds Festival in our live blog below. 11:49 Simon Coyle "The urinal walls are gone and lads are just p*****g against fences, people’s tents are in the sky" One Leeds Festival reveller said she was experiencing the “worst day ever” as her tent has been destroyed and her group have been asked to leave their area because the windy conditions are “really bad”. Carrie Gill, 19, told the PA news agency that “basically our whole tent is gone” and she has spent £60 on a new tipi tent, which she has not been able to erect yet because of the weather.
The university student based in Durham said: “All the rain came in because the poles pulled so hard from.