Muse, My Chemical Romance, The Strokes + Pulp for Reading & Leeds

My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, Muse, and Pulp will headline this summer's Reading and Leedsfestivals.

On Friday at Reading, and Saturday at Leeds My Chemical Romance make their first headlining appearance ath the twin event with their only English festival appearance of the year.

The Strokes,are set to co-headline this year's Reading & Leeds Festival with Pulp whose Leeds show will be their only date in the North of England since they announced their return. The Strokes playing after Pulp at Reading on Saturday and Pulp closing after The Strokes in Leeds on Sunday.

On Sunday at Reading and Friday at Leed,s Muse return to the two festivals for to headline with their Only European Shows of 2011.

The full announcement (but not the full line-up - there's more to come over the coming weeks) is as follows:

The Main Stage at Reading on the Friday and Leeds on the Saturday will have: My Chemical Romance, special guests Thirty Seconds To Mars with their only UK festival appearance, as are the appearances of The Offspring, andDeftones. also confirmed are Rise Against, Bring Me The Horizon, New Found Glory, The Blackout, and Architects.

The Main Stage at Reading on the Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday will have: The Strokes, Pulp, The National, Jimmy Eat World, special guests Madness, Two Door Cinema Club, Seasick Steve, The Pigeon Detectives, and The Joy Formidable.

The Main Stage at Reading on the Sunday and Leeds on the Friday will have: Muse, Elbow one of only two UK festival appearances the band have confirmed this year, Interpol, Friendly Fires, Enter Shikari, The View, Frank Turner, Taking Back Sunday playing the UK for the first time ever under their original line-up, and We Are The Ocean.

On the Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on the Friday and Leeds on the Saturday will have: Beady Eye headlining with their first ever appearance at the festival, White Lies, Noah and the Whale, The Vaccines, Metronomy, Patrick Wolf, and The Naked & Famous.

The Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday will see Jane's Addiction, Crystal Castles, Bombay Bicycle Club, Everything Everything, The Kills, and OFWGKTA.

At Reading on the Sunday and Leeds on the Friday will have: 2manydjs who are this year’s co-headliners on the NME/Radio 1 Stage, with The Streets, Death From Above 1979, Panic At The Disco, Warpaint, Chapel Club, and Cage The Elephant.

The Festival Republic Stage headliners are The Horrors on Friday at Reading Festival and Saturday at Leeds, The Midnight Beast on Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds, and Peter Doherty on Sunday at Reading and Friday at Leeds.

The first acts confirmed for The Alternative Stage are Mark Thomas on Saturday at Reading and Friday at Leeds, Tim Minchin on Sunday at Reading at Saturday at Leeds, Henry Rollins on Friday at Reading and Saturday at Leeds, Lee Nelson on Saturday at Reading and Friday at Leeds, and Russell Kane at Leeds only on Sunday.

The festivals will feature a full line-up of over 150 acts over the weekend on six stages. For the line-up details, stage splits, and rumours where available, please click here for Reading and here for Leeds.

Many more names are still to be announced as well as the full line-up for the Lock-Up Stage, Dance Stage, Festival Republic Stage, BBC Introducing Stage and the Alternative Stage.

The twin festivals take place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

General sale tickets are now on sale, and are expected to sell rapidly. A weekend ticket is priced at £192.50, day tickets are priced at £82.50. An early entry (Thursday) ticket is priced at £15, lockers are priced at £15, and a campervan pass is priced at £40. Over 18's wristband will be optional, but allow those that look young to not have to carry ID around all the time.

To buy tickets for Reading from Seetickets - click here.

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To buy tickets for Leeds from Seetickets - click here.

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To buy tickets for Leeds from Ticketline - click here.

To buy tickets for Leeds from Gigantic - click here.

Coach travel with combined festival tickets can also be purchased. To buy coach tickets for Reading, or Leeds, click here.

Make sure any tickets you buy are legitimate. eFestivals always links to official ticket outlets (and doesn't host adverts for unofficial outlets unlike other festival websites!) so you can be sure that any ticket bought via eFestivals will get you into the festival of your choice. Do not purchase tickets from unofficial or secondary ticket outlets or auction sites as they often are unable to supply the tickets, and might not even give you a refund - there's lots of dodgy operators out there!

Note: Tickets will not be on sale at the gate. There will be no box office of any kind. All tickets will be sent out to customers. Overseas customers will need to pick up tickets from The Hexagon.

Children under 13 (12 and under) are admitted free but MUST be accompanied by a ticket holding adult. Please note there is no separate children's area at this event, and eFestivals considers this an event not really suitable for small children.

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