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Rage Against The Machine, Halsey, Pale Waves, Fever 333, Bring Me The Horizon and more Announced For Leeds and Reading Festival 2022

Recently, the first wave of bands for Reading & Leeds Festival 2022 has been announced, and there’s some huge names on the bill.

The festival is going with their East and West Main Stage set-up again and some names of who are playing? Oh….. Bring Me The Horizon, Halsey and Rage Against The Machine being three of the headliners, alongside Megan Thee Stallion, Dave and Arctic Monkeys.

Then as well we have Måneskin, Enter Shikari, FEVER 333, Kid Brunswick, jxdn, Pale Waves, Denzel Curry and loaaaaads more.

Leeds and Reading Festival 2022 will be taking place between August 26-28 at Bramham Park and Richfield Avenue respectively.

Tickets will be going on general sale this Friday (December 10) at 9am.

Waterparks & You Me At Six To Play Leeds & Reading Festival

There’s been a last minute addition to Leeds Festival.

With Machine Gun Kelly and Fever 333 among two of the acts due to miss the event, Waterparks and You Me At Six have signed up to play 2021 iteration of the festival.

In addition, Creeper have announced they have had to drop out due to positive COVID cases in their touring party.

“We are sad to announce that due to members of our touring party testing positive for COVID and in keeping with current government guidelines, Creeper will no longer be performing at Reading & Leeds festival this weekend.

As it stands we are still appearing at Slam Dunk festival next week. We apologise to those looking forward to seeing us and hope you understand and respect the decision.”

Waterparks are set to headline The Pit at Reading on Saturday and Leeds on Sunday.

And You Me At Six are set to play the Main Stage At Reading on Saturday and Leeds on the Sunday.

Creeper, Boston Manor, Spiritbox & More Announced For Leeds And Reading 2021

OVer ninety plus acts have been announced for the upcoming 2021 iteration of the Leeds And Reading Festival.

Yungblud, Neck Deep and Fever 333 will be joined by Boston Manor, Creeper, Machine Gun Kelly, Spiritbox and more!

Also, I’m going to throw in a guess that MGK and Yungblud will pop in and out for each others sets? Only because they have made some huge tracks together and they’re right next to each other on the lineup!

Yonaka, Nova Twins, Wargasm, The Hunna and loads more are on the lineup!

Check it out in full below.

Leeds And Reading Festival Adds More Names To 2021 Lineup

Leeds and Reading Festival 2021 have announced more names for the event. This announcement also includes the day splits.

Hot Milk, Gallows and Nova Twins have been added and will join Fever 333 and Neck Deep.

Check out the full poster below.

Leeds & Reading Festival 2021 Adds Five More Acts to the Lineup

Now I don’t know if this was due to criticism of the initial acts that had been previously announced a few days ago or to add to the hype but Leeds and Reading Festival 2021 have added five more acts to the lineup.

The previously announced mostly all male bill came as a surprise to following the organiser Melvin Benn’s recent comments in saying it would be ‘the most all encompassing and inclusive Reading & Leeds line-up ever’.

Now I’m glad there have been more female additions to the lineup because it’s long overdue but to be more inclusive I think there needs to be more added to make it truly inclusive.

Also, in addition with Neck Deep and Yungblud being added, I think more rock acts need to be added because the festival becoming more of a glorified Indie and Pop festival. It’s definitely not pleased quite a few fans of the festival who’ve said previously online that they feel they’ve being pushed to the side more and more. I am glad however that the Fever 333 are performing at the festival because they transcend their performances. They push the boundaries on the genre and use everything at their disposal to make sure they’re not forgotten, whether it’s their music, the way Jason Butler speaks on stage or even they way they present their gigs as demonstrations.

Leeds and Reading Festival 2021 will take place 27th – 29th August 2021.

Leeds & Reading 2021 Festival To Have Two Main Stages & Six Headliners

The news that no festivals would be taking place this year is truly upsetting but necessary as we’re fighting the current Covid-19 pandemic.

While the Leeds & Reading festivals is showcasing the different sets which have been recorded over the years, there’s been some development onto the comeback in 2021 as the boss, Melvin Benn says:

“COVID has given us a year off, so the innovation for next year is testing – everybody will be tested,” he tells NME of Reading & Leeds 2021. “We’re also going to reproduce the main stage twice. What was the second stage is going to be elevated to an equal stage with the same presentation. What that really allows us to do is book six acts that are headliners.”

He continues: “When we first took over Reading Festival in 1989, the idea that there would even be two stages of acts playing at the same time was innovative. People were like, ‘Two bands playing at once? You can’t do that, Melvin.’ We were like, ‘Yeah we can, just watch.’ Now festivals have hundreds of stages at once.”

There’s more as he comments on the 2021 expectations for next years bands.

“The idea that the 2020 line-up would work perfectly well for 2021? No, it’s not happening – not for Reading & Leeds,” he confirms. “We just wiped the slate clean and started again. There will be one headliner that will repeat, but that’s the only one. Someone asked if we should just book the same thing, but we’ve never done that so why would we start now? We’d be a year out of date.”

Check Out The Full List Of Recordings BBC’s Leeds And Reading Festivals Are Streaming

Leeds and Reading Festival was set to take place this weekend but then Covid-19 happened.

Yeah, we’re sad about it as well.

But have no fear, the BBC have put together a lot of archieve sets for everyone to enjoy.

YUNGBLUD, Creeper, Biffy Clyro, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy and more all have past sets which are being live streamed.

It all takes place from Friday 28th August 2020 (Tomorrow) from 12PM BST.

Check out the full lineup below.

Leeds & Reading 2020 Has Been Cancelled

It’s been announced that the 2020 iteration of Leeds & Reading Festival has been cancelled.

The festival was scheduled to go ahead on August 28th – 30th this year and was set to be headlined by Rage Against The Machine, Liam Gallagher and Stormzy.

Refunds will be available or you can your ticket for the 2021 festival.

A full statement from the festival can be read below.

“Reading and Leeds will no longer be taking place this year. We’ve been closely monitoring this unprecedented situation and we were hopeful we could deliver the ultimate festival to you in August, something to look forward to in these strange and confusing times. However, it has become clear that it’s just not possible for this year’s festival to go ahead.

We want to extend our gratitude to our teams, artists and partners who work so hard each year. And to our fans, we’re nothing without you – we thank you for your continued support and understanding.

We are working closely with our ticketing partners and they will be in touch very soon to process your refund, or, if you prefer, you can retain your ticket and carry it over to next year. Look out for an e-mail from your ticketing agent and please only contact them if you have not been contacted after 7 days as they are very busy at this time. If you purchased your ticket from a physical outlet, please contact that outlet to obtain your refund.

We’re already counting down the days to when we’re back in the fields we call home for the August Bank holiday weekend. We promise you that Reading and Leeds 2021 will be worth the wait.

Finally, we encourage everyone to continue supporting our emergency services, who provide invaluable support and assistance at all our events and we again express our gratitude, admiration and thanks for their dedication and professionalism which is proving so vital at this time.

Keep safe, keep healthy and look after each other.”

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Mike Shinoda, Trash Boat & More Announced For Reading & Leeds Festival

The Reading & Leeds festival just got a whole load of announcements. This includes Mike Shinoda, Chase Atlantic, The Used, Trash Boat, The Faim and so many more!

They’re joining up with Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Waterparks, Creeper and more!

The festival takes place August 24th – 26th at Richfield Avenue and Bramham Park.

Here is the full lineup so far!

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