Leeds Festival has announced its arena will open before 2pm, with Reneé Rapp set to open the Main Stage, after Storm Lilian caused delays and cancellations.

The festival has been affected by the “extreme weather” conditions on its opening day, with campers being told this morning to secure their tents and stay inside them to remain safe, amid gusts of up to 60mph and a yellow weather warning.

Shortly afterwards, the festival was forced to announce that two of its stages – the BBC Radio 1 Stage and the new Aux Stage – would not be hosting any performances on Friday (August 23).

The main arena at Bramham Park had originally been scheduled to open its gates at 11am, but this was also delayed because of the weather, but now the news has come that the arena will be opening “between 1.45pm and 2pm”.

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The Main Stage will finally see its first performance of the weekend when Reneé Rapp performs at her scheduled time of 3.10pm, with the remainder of the day’s lineup set to remain intact.

Jaguar will open the Chevron Stage at 2.25pm, while the BBC Introducing Stage will commence from “around 3pm”.

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The festival has said that further information regarding the status of the Festival Republic Stage will be coming soon, and has thanked festival-goers for their patience.

You can see the full lineup of bands and artists scheduled to play the rest of the day at Leeds, and at Reading, here.

The festival boasts Fred Again.., Lana Del Rey, Liam Gallagher, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Blink-182 and Gerry Cinnamon as its six headliners this year.

Raye, Spiritbox, Fontaines D.C., Reneé Rapp, Pendulum, Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats, Nia Archives, Two Door Cinema Club, Neck Deep, The Wombats, Ashnikko, Rachel Chinouriri, Hak Baker, The Last Dinner Party and more are also expected to play.

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