more acts for Reading & Leeds

The winners of the annual Futuresound competition have been revealed and include the first acts confirmed for the BBC Introducing Stage at this year's Reading and Leeds festivals.

Circles, The Simon Pollard Band, Heart-Ships, Arthur Rigby and the Baskervylles, and Castrovalva received the highest votes at the finals and will be playing on the BBC Introducing Stage on the 27th and 28th August.

The overall winner who won a slot on the Festival Republic Stage at Leeds and Reading was The Coopers.

The annual competition, now in its 11th year, offered six bands and musicians from around the West Yorkshire region the opportunity to appear live at both sites of the Leeds and Reading Festivals.

With the likes of The Cribs, Wild Beasts, Pulled Apart By Horses and Dinosaur Pile Up all having competed previously, the competition received hundreds upon hundreds of applications in May, music industry judges whittled it down to the best 44 up-and-coming regional bands who then went onto play one of the eleven final heats over the course of June and July.

These latest additions join a line-up that includes headliners My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, and Pulp. Also confirmed are Thirty Seconds To Mars, The Offspring, Deftones, Rise Against, Bring Me The Horizon, New Found Glory, The National, Jimmy Eat World, Madness, Two Door Cinema Club, Seasick Steve, The Pigeon Detectives, The Joy Formidable, Elbow, Interpol, Friendly Fires, Enter Shikari, The View, Frank Turner, Taking Back Sunday, Beady Eye, White Lies, Noah and the Whale, The Vaccines, Metronomy, Patrick Wolf, The Naked & Famous, Jane's Addiction, Crystal Castles, Bombay Bicycle Club, Everything Everything, The Kills, 2manydjs, The Streets, Death From Above 1979, Panic At The Disco, Warpaint, Chapel Club, The Horrors, The Midnight Beast, and Peter Doherty, Mark Thomas, Tim Minchin, Henry Rollins, Lee Nelson, and more.

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.

Acts are still to be announced including the full line-up for the BBC Introducing 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, installment tickets have sold out. A weekend ticket is priced at £192.50, day tickets are priced at £82.50, Sunday at Reading has sold out. 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.

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

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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