Foo Fighters, The Cure, and Kasabian to headline Reading & Leeds

Foo Fighters, The Cure, and Kasabian will headline this summer's Reading and Leeds festivals.

On Friday at Leeds, and at Reading on Sunday Foo Fighters will headline at the twin event with their only UK appearances of the year.

The Cure play Leeds on Saturday and Reading on Friday, their only UK shows this year. Kasabian will make their only festival appearances in England and Wales of 2012 at Reading on Saturday, and closing Leeds on Sunday.

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 Paramore with their only uk festival appearance at Reading & Leeds Festival 2012, with Bombay Bicycle Club, You Me At Six, Crystal Castles, Angels & Airwaves, Coheed & Cambria, Cancer Bats, and Deaf Havana also confirmed.

The Main Stage at Reading on the Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday will have Florence + The Machine second from top of the bill. Also confirmed are The Vaccines, Enter Shikari, The Shins, OFWGKTA, Mystery Jets, and Blood Red Shoes.

The Main Stage at Reading on the Sunday and Leeds on the Friday will have The Black Keys making their only UK festival appearance. That day will also see performances from Kaiser Chiefs, Bullet For My Valentine, All Time Low, The Gaslight Anthem, Eagles Of Death Metal, Band Of Skulls, and Pulled Apart By Horses.

On the Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on the Friday and Leeds on the Saturday will be headliners The Maccabees, plus Foster the People, and The Courteeners.

The Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading on Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday will host At the Drive-In with their only UK festival appearance, plus The Cribs, Billy Talent, and Miike Snow.

At Reading on the Sunday and Leeds on the Friday Justice will headline the Radio 1/NME Stage, supported by Two Door Cinema Club, The Horrors, and SBTRKT.

The Dance Stage headliners are Metronomy on Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds, with support from Katy B, Azealia Banks, and Jaguar Skills.

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 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.

All weekend ticket holders will be entitled to a free pint and a burger to say 'thank-you' for coming.

General sale tickets are on sale now priced at £197.50 for a weekend ticket. Early entry tickets enabling festival goers to get into the site on the Wednesday are also available priced at £15, with campervan passes priced at £60, and lockers £15. Day tickets will be £85 for any day. Over 18's wristband will be optional, but allow those that look young to not have to carry ID around all the time.

Tickets are limited to a maximum of four per person and per credit card for those booking online. U16s (15 & under) must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

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.

In order to spread the cost of tickets there will be two installment schemes, a two-part scheme and a four-part scheme, available to buy from official ticket agents (see below).

The Two-part scheme will involve an initial payment of £98.75 plus an £8 booking fee. This will be followed by making a second payment of £98.75 plus a postage fee priced at £5.25 per transaction (regardless of number of tickets in the booking) at a later date (yet tbc).

The Four-part scheme requires an initial payment of £49.38 plus the £8 booking fee per ticket. Followed by two more monthly instalments at £49.38, and then a final £49.38 payment plus £5.25 postage fee per transaction (regardless of number of tickets in the booking).

The twin festivals take place on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th August. Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

To buy tickets for Reading from Seetickets - click here.

To buy tickets for Reading from Ticketline - click here.

To buy tickets for Reading from Gigantic - click here.

To buy tickets for Reading from Ticketmaster - click here.

To buy tickets for Leeds from Seetickets - click here.

To buy tickets for Leeds from Ticketline - click here.

To buy tickets for Leeds from Gigantic - click here.

To buy tickets for Leeds from Ticketmaster - click here.

Coach travel with combined festival tickets can also be purchased. To buy coach tickets for Reading Festival with National Express click here. To buy coach tickets for Leeds Festival with National Express 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.

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!

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