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Winners of Best Live Event at the NME Awards, the Reading & Leeds Festivals take place on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th August 2008. A total of 200,000 tickets sold in 24 hours marking 2008 as the tenth year at Leeds and twentieth at Reading as an extra special event.

Reading Friday / Leeds Saturday
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

Reading Saturday / Leeds Sunday
The Killers
Bloc Party
The Raconteurs
Editors
We Are Scientists
Dirty Pretty Things
The Subways
British Sea Power
The Automatic

Reading Sunday / Leeds Friday
Metallica
Tenacious D
Slipknot
Feeder
Avenged Sevenfold
Dropkick Murphys
Plain White T’s
Alexisonfire
Mindless Self Indulgence

Radio 1/NME Stage
Reading Friday / Leeds Saturday
Babyshambles
The Wombats
Vampire Weekend
MGMT
Jack Penate
One Night Only
The Duke Spirit
Be Your Own Pet
Blood Red Shoes
Make Model
Pete and the Pirates

Reading Saturday / Leeds Sunday
Manic Street Preachers
Bullet For My Valentine
Justice
Foals
Seasick Steve
The Ting Tangs
The Mystery Jets
Santogold
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Kids in Glass Houses
Bombay Bicycle Club

Reading Sunday / Leeds Friday
The Cribs
The Last Shadow Puppets
Conor Oberst
Pendulum
The Music
Hadouken
Lightspeed Champion
Cajun Dance Party
Adam Green
Yeasayer
The Metros

Lockup Stage / Dance Stage
Reading Friday (Lockup) / Leeds Saturday (Lockup)
Less Than Jake
Pennywise
Special Guests
Goldfinger
Tiger Army
The Unseen
H20
Frank Turner
The Briggs
The Loved Ones
Blackhole
Hexes

Reading Saturday (Lockup) / Leeds Sunday (Dance)
Gallows
Alkaline Trio
Thrice
Flogging Molly
MXPX
Cancer Bats
Set Your Goals
King Blues
Fucked Up
The Gaslight Anthem
Random Hand

Reading Sunday (Dance) / Leeds Friday (Lockup)
CSS
Digitalism
Simian Mobile Disco
Chromed
Crystal Castles
Lethal Bizzle
Holy Fuck
The Whip
Robots In Disguise
The Death Set
The Shoes

To get you in the mood how can we forget some of the memorable moments that Reading & Leeds have brought us over the years… Kurt Cobain coming onto the Main Stage in a wheelchair, Foo Fighters nearly bring down the Second Stage Tent, Arctic Monkeys host a 60,000 person sing along to ‘Mardy Bum’ from the main stage at Leeds and who can forget when James encouraged an entire field of festival goers to ‘Sit Down’.

The Reading and Leeds Festivals are the undisputed king of the festivals. This year is no exception with three headline acts on the world famous Main Stage that are exclusive to us and guaranteed to have you praying for the August Bank Holiday to come round that little bit quicker.

Over the three days we have the return of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, a band tailor made for Reading and Leeds, a UK exclusive performance from THE KILLERS, one of the world’s biggest acts and the best and biggest heavy rock band in the world playing their only UK festival, METALLICA.

The NME / Radio One Stage sees a unique headline performance from NME’s Godlike Geniuses MANIC STREET PREACHERS, a special co-headline between BABYSHAMBLES and THE WOMBATS and THE CRIBS taking a well earned debut headline slot.

The 10th year of the Leeds Festival, still the North of England’s only music festival coincides with the 20th Reading Festival since the people at Festival Republic rescued the event from a slow slide and made it into the world famous rock n’ roll spectacular that we all know and love. Over the years a host of bands have started their careers at one or both of the sites, from Nirvana to Underworld, Arctic Monkeys to Editors, Foo Fighters to Coldplay, the biggest names in music have written the opening chapters of their amazing stories at the world’s best festival. Perhaps that’s why this year’s event arrives clutching its third NME Best Live Event award in a row.

This year is special being our 20/10 anniversary and the starting line-up reflects that. Across the stages we have every new buzz band you have read about this year, every band you want to hear play across the twin sites and three headliners of such colossal size and importance they are probably visible from space. All exclusive performances, you won’t see our headliners on any other festival stage in England, or indeed the UK in the case of two of the three.

Away from the Main Stage expect some real surprises on the NME / Radio One Stage, the A to Z of punk, hardcore and ska that is the Lock Up Stage and the headliners of the future on the smaller stages. Last year was a secret gig by the Kaiser Chiefs at Leeds, the irresistible rise of The Enemy and The Pigeon Detectives on the NME/ Radio One Stage as both bands moved on to platinum album sales, a Kate Nash show on the Carling Stage that was packed to the rafters and three of the biggest bands in the world headlining the Main Stage. The Reading and Leeds Festival has always been the moment of the summer when bands rise to prominence and last year was no exception.

Over 3 days, over 150 acts, these are the Reading and Leeds Festivals, back again to make the summer worthwhile.

Three day weekend tickets, including camping and parking, priced at £155 plus booking fee.
Day Tickets which do not allow camping are priced at £65 plus booking fee.

Tickets available from:
www.seetickets.com

This marks a happy turning point in the festival’s history with Reading Festival reclaiming its prestigious name after the Carling Weekend association. The festival first arrived in Reading in 1971 and has been hosted on the same site on the banks of the river Thames ever since.

The Reading Festival underwent a serious shake up and opened with a stellar line-up including New Order, The Pogues, The Mission, The Wonder Stuff and The Sugarcubes, that would put Reading back on the music fans radar and cement the future of the festival for ever more.