WEEKEND tickets for this month's Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival at Bramham Park have sold out in record time.

The festival will run from August 27 to 29 with headline performances from Green Day, The Darkness and The White Stripes, backed up by Morrissey, The Offspring, The Streets, The Libertines and Franz Ferdinand.

Over the three days, on six stages, the festival will see 150 bands and comedy and cabaret acts play to more than 60,000 people in the event's sixth year and its second at Bramham Park, near Wetherby.

Melvin Benn, managing director of event organisers Mean Fiddler, says: "This ticket news is brilliant. Last year was the best we had had and we managed to sell out on the weekend of the festival."

A small number of day tickets are available at £45 plus booking fee on 08457 500044 or via the website, www.leedsfestival.com.

Updated: 16:15 Thursday, August 05, 2004