Reading And Leeds Try To Keep Things Current

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]

 
Justice / Arctic Monkeys / Bloc Party - daniel & tan
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Justice / Arctic Monkeys / Bloc Party - daniel & tan
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The band reconnected with long-time producer Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian ... shifts that serge somewhere between Stephen Malkmus' strums and a lot of Bloc Party's, too. However, the real charm is in the youth and vitality of this enterprise.



 
  1. Anonymous  |   Posted on Mar 31st, 2009

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

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