new rock acts for Reading & Leeds

Reading Festival 2016

Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August 2016
Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ, England MAP
£205 - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 90,000

Last night Daniel P Carter's BBC Radio 1 Rock Show revealed more rock acts for Reading and Leeds Festivals this summer Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, and Sleeping With Sirens joining the main stage line-up at both festivals.

Also confirmed for the twin festival playing across the August Bank Holiday weekend on The Pit stage are The Dillinger Escape Plan, Asking Alexandria, Fearless Vampire Killers, Creeper, Citizen, former bassist of Rage Against the Machine, Tim Commerford's new band Wakrat, and Dead!.

Foals, and Disclosure will co-headline, aw will Red Hot Chili Peppers, they lead the first acts announced who are Jack Ü, Imagine Dragons, Two Door Cinema Club, Fetty Wap , Parkway Drive, The Internet, Crystal Castles, Nothing But Thieves, Oliver Heldens, Hannah Wants, Kurupt FM Presents: Champagne Steam Room with Cassetteboy v DJ Rubbish, Eagles of Death Metal, The 1975, Courteeners, Twenty One Pilots, Boy Better Know, DJ Ez, Slaves, Crossfaith, Hinds, and RatBoy. The first of hundreds of exciting acts set to appear across the weekend.

For the full details please see the Reading Festival line-ups page.

For the full details please see the Leeds Festival line-ups page.

Reading Festival takes place at Little Johns Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, and Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire with both events happening over the weekend of Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th August 2016.

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Weekend tickets are priced at £205. A Wednesday early entry permit is priced at £20, a campervan pass is £75, and a locker is priced at £16, and a car park pass is for Reading is priced at £10. Prices do not include booking fees.

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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