[3] LeeFest began in 2006 with seven bands playing on a small stage in the garden of teenager Lee Denny's family home on 31 August in Beckenham, London.
The line-up included Bastille, The Futureheads, Hot Club De Paris, Jakwob, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, The King Blues, Johnny Foreigner, Starsmith, The Loose Cannons, and Fenech Soler.
Taking place for the first time across two days, the festival expanded to a larger line-up that included British Sea Power, Young Knives, Fenech Soler, DJ Fresh, David's Lyre, and The Whip.
Acts included London Grammar, Clean Bandit, Noisettes, Delphic, Public Service Broadcasting, The Other Tribe, King Charles, The Skints, Man Like Me, Stanton Warriors, Dark Sky, Lulu James and much more.
The lineup for 2016 included Lianne La Havas, Ghostpoet, Shura, The 2 Bears, Little Simz, Formation, loyle carner, The Big Moon, Dj Luck and MC Neat, Big Deal, Dinosaur Pile Up, Spring King, Queen Kwong, Demob Happy, Girli, Beaty Heart and Miamigo.
Isobel, Jamo at the Disco!, Kyrill, BLT, Femme Fatale, Matt Squared, Fin & Charlie Dot By Miro, Jade Fox, Isobel, Atomic Face, Civilian, Park Bench Politics, Martyn Snow Band, BLT, Charlie Allen, Rich Legate, Adam Santer, Andrew Gummer The Skints, Linchpin, DJ Hatsey, One Way To Kansas, Snish, Catfish Blue, SouthBound, The Over Dramatics, Mr Newells Breakfast Club, Koz + MC Mekkar, Death To Disco, Jonny Abraham, Acoustic Charlie The Holloways, Saving Aimee, The Xcerts, Sam Isaac, A1 Bassline, Kid id, Tomb Crew, Lights Go Blue, Luke Leighfield, The Skints, Starsmith, Marcel Legane, Mike Brown Band, Adelaide, Local Heroes, Astro Physics, Charles Anonymous, Death To Disco, Kojack, Richard Maddy, Silent Disguise, Mesa The Futureheads, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Jakwob, The King Blues, Fenech Soler, Johnny Foreigner, Hot Club De Paris, Marcel Legane, King Charles, Starsmith, The Loose Cannons, DJ Hatesy, Mean Poppa Lean, They Came From Japan, Richard Maddy, Chris Cape, Professor Penguin, Trashcan DJs, Bordeauxxx, Keston Cobblers Club Fenech Soler, Young Knives, Get Cape.
Fly., Little Comets, King Charles, Man Like Me, To Kill a King, David's Lyre, Dutch Uncles, Ellen and the Escapades, British Sea Power, DJ Fresh, The Whip Mystery Jets, GhostPoet, Jakwob, Slow Club, DJ Friction, DJ Marcus Nasty, Summer Camp, Casiokids, Bastille, Man Like Me, The Skints, We Were Evergreen, Dismantle, Tom Williams & The Boat, Urban Nerds, Sound of Guns, FOE, BIGkids, Broken Hands, Fever Fever, Seye, Raf Daddy (The 2 Bears), Bwani Junction, Santiago Street Machine, DJ Rattus Rattus, Linguistics, By The Rivers, Youth Imperial, Sai, Hatesy, Jesse James, Colour Clouds, Sea Stacks, To Kill A King, The Brownies, Josh Beech & The Johns, Hella Better Dancer, Matt Emery, Jamie Parisio, The Lost Cavalry, Tate Toussant, Lion, Paul Cook, Red Lapels, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Van Susans, ill Murray and more.
London Grammar, Clean Bandit, Noisettes, Delphic, Public Service Broadcasting, The Other Tribe, King Charles, The Skints, Man Like Me, Stanton Warriors, Dark Sky, The Lost Cavalry, Lulu James The Cribs, Frightened Rabbit, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, MØ, Years & Years, Young Fathers, Maribou State, Rae Morris, Jack Garratt, Krafty Kuts, Blonde & Childhood Fallow year Everything Everything, Lianne La Havas, Circa Waves, Ghostpoet, Shura, Roots Manuva, Little Simz Jake Bugg, Slaves, Annie Mac, Jungle, Kae Tempest, Wild Beasts, Wilkinson, Mr Scruff, Maribou State, Crazy P, Parcels, Zak Abel, Oxide & Neutrino, Tom Grennan, Kidnap Kid, Fickle Friends, Pumarosa, Lewis Watson, Keston Cobblers Club, Moxie, Shame Clean Bandit, Bastille, Declan McKenna, Tom Grennan, Sub Focus, Denis Sulta, RAM Records, Percolate, We Are Scientists, Jeremy Loops, Rae Morris, Keston Cobblers Club The festival has also been acknowledged with a nomination in the European Festival Awards[citation needed] In the build-up to the fourth LeeFest on 15 August 2009 the festival received national press coverage including features on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, London Tonight and the Kent on Saturday.
This project received a great deal of press online too, as well as support from a range of artists and key figures in the music industry.
November 2015: LeeFest is the subject of an advertisement for the Android phone operating system under the strapline "Be together, not the same" and alludes at the end of the ad to the new location... 2016: The Neverland chapter begins, with Lee leading the Lost Boys, Pirates and Mermaids to a bigger party than ever before!