Wretch 32 to headline BBC 1Xtra Stage at Reading and Leeds

Leading the latest hip-hop and grime acts confirmed for this summer's Reading & Leeds Festivals Wretch 32 who is has been confirmed as the final BBC 1Xtra Stage headliner joining Wiley and Devlin.

This summer's Reading & Leeds Festivals take place over the weekend of the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th August and joining the the London MC who makes his debut on Friday at Leeds and Sunday at Reading on the line-up will be Angel Haze, Ms Dynamite, David Rodigan, Mikill Pane, Ghostpoet, Context, and Knytro.

Added to the BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage at Reading on Saturday and Leeds on Sunday joining the previously announced Dagenham-based rapper Devlin are Action Bronson, Giggs, Mic Righteous, Semtex, Lunar C, Broke n' English, and Etta Bond.

UK grime artist Wiley Top the bill at Reading on Friday and Leeds on Saturday with support from the newly announced The Toddla T Sound, P Money, Left Boy, Stylo G, Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee & The Clinic, Murkage, and Scrufizzer.

For the line-up details, and stage splits, where available, please click here for Reading and here for Leeds.

Other artists playing across the Festivals include the Main Stage UK festival exclusive headliners Green Day, Eminem, and Biffy Clyro, plus UK festival exclusive performances from Fall Out Boy, System Of A Down and Deftones, as well as Skrillex, Major Lazer, Azealia Banks, Flux Pavillion, Redlight, Night Works, Foals, Jake Bugg, Bring Me The Horizon, System of a Down, Fall Out Boy, Alt-J, Deftones, Skrillex, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Knife Party, Frank Turner, A$AP Rocky, The Strypes, Alex Clare, Disclosure, The Lumineers, Swim Deep, Azealia Banks, Editors, Johnny Marr, Magnetic Man, Baauer, Major Lazer, Tame Impala, Bastille, Mallory Knox, Temples, Modestep, The 1975, The Blackout, New Found Glory, Theme Park, Brand New, Tomahawk, Hadouken!, Palma Violets, Twin Atlantic, Chase & Status, Haim, Peace, Deap Vally, Sub Focus, and more. There are still around 30 more acts to be confirmed as well the line-ups for the BBC Introducing Stage and the Alternative Stage.

Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Weekend tickets are priced at £202.50, with day tickets priced at £90.

Early entry tickets enabling festival goers to get into the site on the Wednesday are priced at £15, car park passes £5, with campervan passes priced at £60, and lockers £15.

Tickets can also be secured with a £67.50 deposit. The last day you can participate in the scheme will be on Friday 31 May.

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.

To buy tickets, click here.

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