Playing at a music festival can be the highlight of any band’s career, and it can be a sign that you’ve made it big. Music festivals have become quite popular in all areas of the world, but there are still some festivals that are more prominent. TomorrowWorld, Coachella, and Glastonbury are some that immediately come to mind, but the Leeds Festival is one more that’s of note.

The Leeds Festival is the younger brother of the Reading Festival, the oldest popular music festival still in existence. These two festivals take place over the course of one weekend, sharing the same bill. Big names continue to play at these local bands, including classics like Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, and Arctic Monkeys. After going through some changes in format, however, these festivals have also begun to include lesser known acts in their side stages.

Last year, the Leeds and Reading Festivals featured the talented Reeps One, a vocal powerhouse whose beatboxing talents have continued to amaze producers and recording companies. Although beatboxing is yet to see the recognition that it deserves, the Leeds and Reading Festivals are giving this contemporary genre a new home.

Bingo has also begun to shine in the festivals. An extremely popular pastime in the UK, the bingo industry is worth upwards of $557 million per year. Free Bingo Hunter also reports that prizes for bingo games have included everything from trips to New York to free home makeovers. The Leeds and Reading Festivals have played an excellent part in continuing the promotion of bingo by featuring Rebel Bingo, a fairly new variation of the classic game.

Rebel Bingo is a game that prides itself in being “not your grandmother’s bingo”, with outlandish and sometimes offensive gags. It’s a rock and roll concert and a bingo game all rolled into one big, fun mess – just the perfect combination for a music festival that’s lasted throughout the years and continued to evolve to make room for a bit more fun.

Independent acts The Districts and Slaves also performed at the festivals. The Districts, a four-piece indie rock band from Pennsylvania that’s released three EPs in the four years since they were established. Slaves are a two-man indie punk band that have learned to be a band the way all bands should: playing at small gigs in dive bars and basements until they earned enough street cred to play at the Leeds and Reading Festivals in 2013. Since then, the band has not stopped growing and playing gigs.

Music festivals continue to be an avenue for many indie bands and acts to break out. For a list of upcoming music festivals, click here.