Reading and Leeds Festivals 2016 line-up: Everything going on at every stage and tent
The festivals are sharing the same bill this year
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Your support makes all the difference.The annual Reading and Leeds festivals get underway on Friday, so here’s all the crucial details. Sharing the same bill this bank holiday weekend, Reading and Leeds complete the festival scene for many music fans this summer. Taking place simultaneously, both festivals promise a fun and hopefully storm-free weekend boasting the same headliners. These include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foals, Disclosure, Biffy Clyro and Fall Out Boy.
But it's not all about the music at Richfield Avenue. With three silent tents dotted around, a disco pumps away each night after 10pm. And if that's not enough, you can continue the party at an after midnight cinema, JagerHaus or fun fair.
The acts line up is as follows:
Main Stage
Friday 26th Aug at Reading/ Saturday 27th Aug at Leeds
Foals
Disclosure
Chvrches
Boy Better Know
Die Antwoord
Lower Than Atlantis
Nothing But Thieves
Frank Carter & The RattleSnakes
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls
Saturday 27th Aug at Reading/Sunday 28th Aug at Leeds
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Imagine Dragons
Courteeners
EODM (Eagles of Death Metal)
Slaves
Parkway Drive
Clutch
Sundara Karma
Sunday 28th Aug at Reading/ Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
Biffy Clyro
Fall Out Boy
The Vaccines
Viola Beach Tribute
A$AP Rocky
Five Finger Death Punch
Sleeping with Sirens
Cohed and Cambria
The VirginMary’s
State Champs
NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage
Friday 26th Aug at Reading/ Saturday 27th at Leeds
Jack Ü
Twenty One Pilots
Crystal Castles
Fetty Wap FT Monty
The Neighbourhood
The Internet
Giggs
Mura Masa
Hinds
H ÆLOS
Fickle Friends
Saturday 27th Aug at Reading/Sunday 28th Aug at Leeds
Two Door Cinema Club
NAS
Jack Garratt
Sigma
Krept & Konan
Netsky
Blossoms
Whitney
Highly Suspect
Sunset Sons
Fatherson
Sunday 28th Aug at Reading/ Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
The 1975
The Wombats
Cage the Elephant
Savages
Rat Boy
Half Moon Run
Tonight Alive
Deaf Havana
Spring King
Basement
Black Foxxes
BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage
Friday 26th Aug at Reading/ Saturday 27th at Leeds
Oliver Heldens
Hannah Wants
AlunaGeorge
Philip George
Danny L Harle
Tkay Maidza
Lion Babe
99 Souls
Hermitude
Draper
Saturday 27th Aug at Reading/Sunday 28th Aug at Leeds
Duke Dumont
Disciples
My Nu Leng B2B Oneman + Dread MC
Riton
Sophie
Birdy Nam Nam
Lemaitre
Zac Samuel
Rag’n’Bone Man
The Japanese House
Sunday 28th Aug at Reading/ Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
DJ EZ
David Rodigan
Mistajam
Friction
Jauz
Fred V & Grafix
Redlight
Low Steppa
Delta Heavy
James Organ
The Pit
Friday 26th August at Reading/ Saturday 27th Aug at Leeds
Asking Alexandria
Thrice
Crossfaith
Hacktivist
Nothing More
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Citizen
Superheaven
Creeper
Trash Boat
SWMRS
Saturday 27th August at Reading/ Sunday 28th August at Leeds
Mastodon
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Kvelertak
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra
Milk Teeth
Heck
Ghost Town
Dead!
Big Spring
Lock Up Stage
Sunday 28th August at Reading/ Friday 26th August at Leeds
Good Charlotte
The Kind Blues
MGK
Arcane Roots
Modern Baseball
Roam
Beach Slang
Waterparks
Greywind
Strange Bones
Fighting Caravans
Festival Republic Stage
Friday 26th Aug at Reading/ Saturday 27th at Leeds
Maximo Park
Pulled Apart By Horses
Rationale
Luh
Blaenagvon
The Sherlocks
Lewis Del Mar
Otherkin
Anteros
Transviolet
Banners
White Miles
Area 52
Saturday 27th Aug at Reading/Sunday 28th Aug at Leeds
Brian Fallon and The Crowes
Palace
Lapsley
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
White Room
Vant
The Hunna
Lany
Seratones
Inheaven
Tuff Love
The Beach
Beach Baby
Sunday 28th Aug at Reading/ Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
The Temper Trap
Third Eye Blind
Borns
DMA’s
Eaguls
Clean Cut Kid
Gnash
Ezra Furman
The Magic Gang
The Vryll Society
Will Joseph Cook
Isaac Gracie
Tibet
BBC Radio 1XTRA Stage
Friday 26th Aug at Reading/ Saturday 27th at Leeds
Wiley
Protoje
Little Simz
Maverick Sabre
Charlie Sloth
Baauer
Troyboi
Mick Jenkins
Lady Leshurr
Geko
K.Flay
Saturday 27th Aug at Reading/Sunday 28th Aug at Leeds
Stormzy
Section Boyz
Logic
DJ Semtex
Bugzy Malone
Anderdson.Paak & The Free Nationals
The Range
Metro Boomin
Rejjie snow
Rude Kid
Clara Amfo
Sunday 28th Aug at Reading/ Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
Kano
Yung Lean
Hoodie Allen
Big Narstie
Fekky
Rayleigh Ritchie
Yungen
Franko Fraize
Kiko Bun Sneakbo
Astroid Boys
BBC Music Introducing Stage
Friday 26th Aug at Reading/ Saturday 27th at Leeds
Coquin Migale
Beau
Muncie Girls
Paris Youth Foundation
Airways
Happy Accidents
Eat Fast
The Wholls
Strong Asian Mothers
Jordan Allen
Faux Pas
Dusk
Saturday 27th Aug at Reading/Sunday 28th Aug at Leeds
Fronteers
Ten Tonnes
The Shimmer Band
High Tyde
Cameron A G
The Tin Pigeons
Avalanche Party
Tiny Giant
Haus
We Were Giants
The Indigo Project
Vexxes
Sunday 28th Aug at Reading/ Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
Superglu
K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade
Lawrence Taylor
Tusk
Sonny Green
Mowbeck
Mouses
Arctic Lake
Castles
Hardwicke Circus
Night Owls
Adore/Repel
Alternative Stage
Thursday 25th August at Reading
Hot Dub Time Machine
Thursday 25th August at Leeds
Grandmaster Flash
DJ Yoda
Cassettevoy vs DJ Rubbish
Nightmares from the Discotheque
Rave Karaoke
Friday 26th Aug at Reading
Russell Howard
Lee Nelson
Sara Pascoe
Mark Steel
John Robins
Al Porter
Angela Barnes
Lloyd Griffith
Ian Boldsworth MC
Huw Stephens VS Pulled Apart by Horses DJs
Jen Long vs Bless DJs
Transgressive Sound System Vs Rockfeedback DJs
Peace Vs Hinds DJs
Friday 26th Aug at Leeds
Russell Kane
Holly Walsh
Mark Watson
Andrew Maxwell
Jamali Maddix
Mark Grist
Anthony Anaxagorgu
David Morgan-MC
Kurupt FM
Propaganda Feat. This is England’s Thoman Turgoose, DJ Dan and Special Guests
Mystry
David Morgan - MC
Saturday 27th At Reading
Bill Bailey
Marcus Brigstocke
Russell Kane
Andrew Maxwell
Holly Walsh
Daniel Simonsen
Dane Baptiste
David Morgan- MC
Cassetteboy vs. DJ Rubbish
Buttoned Down Disco
Saturday 27th At Leeds
Russell Howard
Owen Jones ICW Andy Parsons
Sara Pascoe
Joel Dommett
Shappi Khorsandi
Mark Steel
Angela Barnes
Iain Stirling – MC
Transgressive Sound System
Metronomy (Summer 08 DJ Set)
Honne
Bless DJs
Sunday 28th August at Reading
Owen Jones ICW Andy Parsons
Joel Dommett
Tom Deacon
Jamali Maddix
Shappi Khorsandi
Mark Grist
Anthony Anaxagorgu
Iain Stirling – MC
Kurupt FM
Propaganda Feat. This is England’s Thoman Turgoose, DJ Dan and Special Guests
Mystry
Sunday 28th August at Leeds
Bill Bailey
Marcus Brigstocke
Lee Nelson
Carl Donnelly
John Robins
Al Porter
Dane Baptiste
Daniel Simonsen
Lauren Pattison
Dan Nightingale MC
Transgressive Sound System
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