A DAY TO REMEMBER
We are proud to announce yet more incredible names for the world famous READING AND LEEDS FESTIVAL held on 27th – 29th August 2010 at Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds. Tickets for this event are now sold out.
Joining our headliners, GUNS N’ ROSES, ARCADE FIRE and BLINK-182 on the Main Stage are some of the hottest names around which will excite all music fans. A DAY TO REMEMBER, MYSTERY JETS, THRICE, YOUNG GUNS, THE FUTUREHEADS, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK and THE WALKMEN will all join the best festival bill of the summer.
At the NME/Radio 1 Stage GIRLS, SERJ TANKIAN, NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, SURFER BLOOD, WILD BEASTS and FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS will all appear over the weekend.
There are still lots more names 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. More announcements will follow soon.
ON THE MAIN STAGE
Friday 27th August at Reading Festival / Sunday 29th August at Leeds Festival
Florida’s A DAY TO REMEMBER arrive at Reading and Leeds with their exhilarating metal-core/pop-mosh sound. With a formidable live reputation and a Number 1 US Independent album under their belt make sure you don’t miss this amazing combo.
Hotly tipped UK rockers YOUNG GUNS make their debut appearance at Reading and Leeds Festival just over a year since the release of their debut EP, 'Mirrors'. Having won the 2009 Kerrang! Readers Poll for 'Best New Band', anticipation for forthcoming full-length album, 'All Our Kings Are Dead', is at fever pitch. Expect a lively start to the day.
Saturday 28th August at Reading Festival / Friday 27th August at Leeds Festival
On the eve of their fourth album and first for new label Rough Trade, we are delighted MYSTERY JETS have confirmed their appearance at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival. The band make their main stage debut which will bear witness to their anarchic wonderful live show.
Hot on the heels of THE FUTUREHEADS fourth album ‘The Chaos’, 2010 finds a reinvigorated band with a bold new sound. The single ‘Heartbreak Song’ hogged the airwaves and this year indeed looks extremely pleasing for the Sunderland four piece. These shows will see a band wooing a passionate crowd as they make their appearance on the Main Stage.
THE WALKMEN have an excellent pedigree and a well earned reputation for being one of the most exciting bands on the circuit. Their debut album ‘Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone’ was lauded by the critics and the band are currently holed up in a New York recording studio working on album number four. These shows aren’t to be missed.
Sunday 29th August at Reading Festival / Saturday 28th August at Leeds Festival
It’s hard to believe THRICE have been around for over a decade now, but recent album ‘Beggars’ has shown they have lost none of their energy or urgency. The Californian band have won over a massive amount of fans in the UK with their experimental hardcore rock.
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK will open the Main Stage at Reading and Leeds and are sure to start the day as it means to go on. With latest release ‘My Dinosaur Life’ they gathered excellent reviews and this, their first appearance at the festival will be an eye-opener in every sense of the word.
THE NME/RADIO 1 STAGE
Friday 27th August at Reading Festival / Sunday 29th August at Leeds Festival
The music of GIRLS captures the stoned and sun-baked outlook of life in San Francisco. With a mix of 50’s surf-pop, 60’s psychedelia and 80’s hardcore, Christopher Owens and JR White captured the critics’ hearts with the release of ‘Album’ their debut, er, album last year. Expect melodic yet twisted summer pop from this amazing band.
Having won over the critics with their Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album ‘Fantastic Playroom’ in 2007, NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB have torn up the rulebook once again. On their return with this year’s ‘The Optimist’, the band have delivered an album that mines a vein of both emotional and intellectual depth with brutal clarity. Already heralded on release, it’s the sound of a band taking full control of their present and future.
West Palm Beach quartet SURFER BLOOD bring their revved up, sun-strafed vein of anthemic, eccentric pop to the festival. Debut album ‘Astro Turf’ and a UK tour in the spring of 2010 will ensure the audience are ready to embrace their hotly tipped tunes.
Emerging fully formed out of the North East, or Sunderland to be precise, FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS spent 2009 grafting solidly before releasing their debut single ‘Hunger’ on Rough Trade in December. This year has seen the band tipped as ‘Ones to Watch’ and via their own PopSexLtd label will release a second single ‘Tender’; a debut album is planned for Autumn. Frankie & The Heartstrings are soul-brothers, the dreamers who dared to think big.
Saturday 28th August at Reading Festival / Friday 27th August at Leeds Festival
SERJ TANKIAN will be sure to fire up the crowd in the NME/Radio 1 tent at the weekend. The Lebanese born Armenian-American poet-gone-wild showed the world with his debut album ‘Elect The Dead’ he could entertain as a solo artist as much as he could in his band System Of A Down. This will be a truly uplifting show.
Sunday 29th August at Reading Festival / Saturday 28th August at Leeds Festival
Celebrated four-piece WILD BEASTS cleaned up in the ‘End of Year’ polls with their universally praised sophomore album ‘Two Dancers’ - described by The Sunday Times as “one of 2009’s indisputable masterpieces.” The band bring their own unique, inimitable style to this year’s festival - witness and be enthralled.
We are proud to announce yet more incredible names for the world famous READING AND LEEDS FESTIVAL held on 27th – 29th August 2010 at Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds. Tickets for this event are now sold out.
Joining our headliners, GUNS N’ ROSES, ARCADE FIRE and BLINK-182 on the Main Stage are some of the hottest names around which will excite all music fans. A DAY TO REMEMBER, MYSTERY JETS, THRICE, YOUNG GUNS, THE FUTUREHEADS, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK and THE WALKMEN will all join the best festival bill of the summer.
At the NME/Radio 1 Stage GIRLS, SERJ TANKIAN, NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, SURFER BLOOD, WILD BEASTS and FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS will all appear over the weekend.
There are still lots more names 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. More announcements will follow soon.
ON THE MAIN STAGE
Friday 27th August at Reading Festival / Sunday 29th August at Leeds Festival
Florida’s A DAY TO REMEMBER arrive at Reading and Leeds with their exhilarating metal-core/pop-mosh sound. With a formidable live reputation and a Number 1 US Independent album under their belt make sure you don’t miss this amazing combo.
Hotly tipped UK rockers YOUNG GUNS make their debut appearance at Reading and Leeds Festival just over a year since the release of their debut EP, 'Mirrors'. Having won the 2009 Kerrang! Readers Poll for 'Best New Band', anticipation for forthcoming full-length album, 'All Our Kings Are Dead', is at fever pitch. Expect a lively start to the day.
Saturday 28th August at Reading Festival / Friday 27th August at Leeds Festival
On the eve of their fourth album and first for new label Rough Trade, we are delighted MYSTERY JETS have confirmed their appearance at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival. The band make their main stage debut which will bear witness to their anarchic wonderful live show.
Hot on the heels of THE FUTUREHEADS fourth album ‘The Chaos’, 2010 finds a reinvigorated band with a bold new sound. The single ‘Heartbreak Song’ hogged the airwaves and this year indeed looks extremely pleasing for the Sunderland four piece. These shows will see a band wooing a passionate crowd as they make their appearance on the Main Stage.
THE WALKMEN have an excellent pedigree and a well earned reputation for being one of the most exciting bands on the circuit. Their debut album ‘Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone’ was lauded by the critics and the band are currently holed up in a New York recording studio working on album number four. These shows aren’t to be missed.
Sunday 29th August at Reading Festival / Saturday 28th August at Leeds Festival
It’s hard to believe THRICE have been around for over a decade now, but recent album ‘Beggars’ has shown they have lost none of their energy or urgency. The Californian band have won over a massive amount of fans in the UK with their experimental hardcore rock.
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK will open the Main Stage at Reading and Leeds and are sure to start the day as it means to go on. With latest release ‘My Dinosaur Life’ they gathered excellent reviews and this, their first appearance at the festival will be an eye-opener in every sense of the word.
THE NME/RADIO 1 STAGE
Friday 27th August at Reading Festival / Sunday 29th August at Leeds Festival
The music of GIRLS captures the stoned and sun-baked outlook of life in San Francisco. With a mix of 50’s surf-pop, 60’s psychedelia and 80’s hardcore, Christopher Owens and JR White captured the critics’ hearts with the release of ‘Album’ their debut, er, album last year. Expect melodic yet twisted summer pop from this amazing band.
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