Reading & Leeds add Lostprophets

headlining the NME/Radio 1 Stage

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 7th Apr 2009

Reading Festival 2009 - Lostprophets
Photo credit: Luke Seagrave

Reading Festival 2009

Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August 2009
Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ, England MAP
£175 for a weekend ticket, £70 a day ticket - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 55,000

Lostprophets have been announced for this year's Reading & Leeds Festivals.

Lostprophets
The Welsh band will headline the NME/Radio 1 Stage on Saturday 29th August at Leeds and Sunday 30th at Reading. The band last toured the UK in 2007 and have been working flat out in the UK and US on their highly anticipated follow up to the number one album 'Liberation Transmission'.

Vocalist Ian Watkins commented, "We've been dying to come back to the UK and play and when we realised the timing meant we could make it to Reading & Leeds we jumped at the chance as it's got the most amazing memories for us. We also thought, rather than playing on the main stage we could get in the tent and see the whites of the eyes of the fans down the front, and get their first hand reaction to the new songs. It'll be amazing."

The festivals have headliners of Kings Of Leon (Reading Friday/Leeds Sunday), Arctic Monkeys (Reading Saturday/Leeds Friday), and Radiohead (Reading Sunday/Leeds Saturday), with other acts including Kaiser Chiefs, Placebo, The Prodigy, Maximo Park, Ian Brown, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, Gossip, Glasvegas, and many more.

For the Reading line-up details click here.
For the Leeds line-up details click here.

The festival will feature a full line-up of over 150 acts over the weekend on six stages.

Reading and Leeds Festivals which take place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

There are some combined coach packages available which include a weekend ticket (which also includes camping) with a value of £175, and then there's an added amount for the coach travel which varies dependant on where the travel is from. Day tickets are priced at £70 for any day (and do not include camping).

To buy Reading Festival early bird coach tickets, click here.

To buy Leeds Festival day tickets and coach packages, click here.



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