THE revered Reading & Leeds Festival has announced over 70 new acts to this year’s bill, including Twin Atlantic, Alt-J, Prides, Rustie and The Gaslight Anthem.
Set to take place between the 28th-30th August, the organisers have booked a diverse line-up which features everything from world renowned bands to hotly tipped artists from throughout the world.
With bands such as Palma Violets, Drenge and FIDLAR all graduating to the main stage; the NME/Radio 1 tent will also be graced by a number of acclaimed acts such as Parquet Courts. Ghostpoet and KWABS.
Headlined by Metallica, Mumford and Sons and The Libertines, tickets for the dual events are available here and here.
The full list of new additions to the line-up are as follows:
Alt-J, Drenge, FIDLAR, Palma Violets, Against Me!, The Gaslight Anthem, Babymetal, Feed The Rhino, Modestep, Parquet Courts, Spector, Ghostpoet, Charli XCX, Twin Atlantic, Nothing But Thieves, AWOLNATION, Kwabs, The Skints, All We Are, Maribou State, Jacob Plant, LANY, MK, Oliver Dollar, Kevin Saunderson, Secondcity, Dimension x Kove, Elliphant, Blonde Live, Rustie, Evian Christ, Snakehips, TCTS, 99 Souls, Modern Baseball, The Bots, The Smith Street Band, Youth Man, Atreyu, PVRIS, And So I Watch You From Afar, Black Peaks, Ho99o9, The One Hundred, Beartooth, Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes, Turbowolf, Moose Blood, Queen Kwong, Hawk Eyes, Single Mothers, Black Foxes, Fort Hope, Saint Raymond, Prides, Bear’s Den, Vaults, Joywave, Elize and the Bear, Hunter & the Bear, Lucy Rose, Blossoms, Bad Breeding, Little Comets, Mini Mansions, Gengahr, Hippo Campus, Sundara Karma, Black Honey, The Sherlocks, Ms Dynamte, Tempa T, Loyle Carner, Kiko Bun.