Reading / Leeds line-up

Rest of festival acts announced

31 Mar 2008 - Rage Against The Machine and Metallica will join The Killers to headline this years Reading and Leeds festivals.

Metallica make their return after five years away from the event, and festival boss Melvyn Benn told 6 Music he is over the moon to have bagged Tom Morello and his men this year too.

He said: "Rage Against The Machine I really wanted them to play last year, they decided they'd only do one show last year which was in Los Angeles.

"But they absolutely assured me if they were going to do a show in Europe it would be Leeds and Reading festivals, and they were good to their word."

The mighty trio will sit at the top of a storming support bill on the main stage which includes The Fratellis, Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, Queens Of The Stone Age, Taking Back Sunday, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Anti-Flag, Bloc Party, The Raconteurs, Editors, We Are Scientists, Dirty Pretty Things and The Subways, just to name a few.


The Enemy also take a step up to the main stage this year, and Tom Clarke told us he is really looking forward to getting stuck in.

"We've been playing a lot of bigger stages with the Manic Street Prteachers and The Stereophonics we did the O2 with The Rolling Stones," he explained.

"We've learnt from the greats how to sort of own a big stage, so I'm looking forward to walking out and seeing loads of people, it'll be class."

Reading: Friday August 22, Leeds: Saturday August 23

Main Stage
Rage Against The Machine
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Fratellis
The Enemy
Biffy Clyro
Serj Tankian
Dizzee Rascal
Taking Back Sunday
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Anti-Flag

Radio 1/NME Stage
Babyshambles
The Wombats
Vampire Weekend
MGMT

Reading: Saturday August 23, Leeds: Sunday August 24

Main Stage
The Killers
Bloc Party
The Raconteurs
Editors
We Are Scientists
Dirty Pretty Things
The Subways

Radio 1/NME Stage
Manic Street Preachers
Bullet For My Valentine
Justice
Foals

Reading: Sunday August 24, Leeds: Friday August 23

Main Stage
Metallica
Tenacious D
Slipknot
Feeder
Avenged Sevenfold
Dropkick Murphys

Radio 1/NME Stage
The Cribs
Conor Oberst
Pendulum

More names are still to be announced, and tickets are on sale now.



Jo Youle