Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Fall Out Boy, the Prodigy, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are among the acts playing this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, the twinned festivals that will be held in the UK during the last weekend of August. The Guardian notes that unlike other outdoor extravaganzas in the UK, Reading and Leeds are not sowing the oats of nostalgia, picking for its headliners acts that have actually had albums come out during the latter half of the ’00s. Progress sure looks funny these days! Full bills after the jump.
Reading Aug. 28 / Leeds Aug. 30:
Kings of Leon
Kaiser Chiefs
Placebo
Fall Out Boy
Deftones
Funeral for a Friend
Reading Aug. 29 / Leeds Aug. 28:
Arctic Monkeys
The Prodigy
Maximo Park
Ian Brow
The Courteeners
Enter Shikari
Eagles of Death Metal
Reading Aug. 30 / Leeds Aug. 29:
Radiohead
Bloc Party
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Vampire Weekend
Brand New
NME Radio 1 Stage (no dates yet)
Gossip
Glasvegas
Jamie T
AFI
White Lies
Friendly Fires
Gallows
The Maccabees
Florence and the Machine
The Gaslight Anthem
Reading and Leeds headiners announced [Guardian]


Wierd how in England AFI is demoted to the Radio 1 stage yet Vampire Weekend is somehow on the mainstage?