Reading/Leeds Festival Headliners Revealed…

…The Libertines Confirm Reunion

The headliners for this year’s Reading/Leeds Festival have been announced this evening, while the strongly rumoured reunion of The Libertines has also been rubber-stamped.

The highlight of the weekend looks like being the Friday in Leeds and the Saturday in Reading when Arcade Fire will headline a bill that also includes the aforementioned Libertines, The Cribs, Dizzee Rascal and Modest Mouse.

Arcade Fire’s Will Butler told the NME the band plan to premiere new material from their hotly-anticipated third album at the festival: “We’re really looking forward to playing the new songs live,” he said, and added that he feels “like an inventor emerging from his basement after a year’s work.”

The other headline acts will be US legends Guns n Roses, who will be joined by Queens Of The Stone Age and Biffy Clyro amongst others, and Blink 182, who headline a bill which also features Weezer.

It is the reformation of The Libertines which is set to generate the most headlines from the announcement, and Carl Barat has told NME.com that they have returned for the fans: “We’re reforming the band to play the songs that people want to hear. We’re going to get together, play songs which have been collecting dust in the garage. People want to hear them, so we’re going to give them a run. We’ll be playing them like we’re playing them for the last ever time.”

Meanwhile, Pete Doherty, who has made no secret of his desire to reform The Libertines over the past few years, added: “I can’t really believe it yet. I haven’t quite digested it. It’s been a bit of a pipe dream.”

The twin events will take place over the last weekend of August. More acts are set to be announced shortly.

Line-up:

Reading Friday August 27 / Leeds Sunday August 29
Main Stage
Guns N’ Roses
Queens Of The Stone Age
Biffy Clyro
Lostprophets
NoFX
Gogol Bordello
Billy Talent

NME/ Radio 1 Stage
LCD Soundsystem
Phoenix
Mumford & Sons
Delphic
Yeasayer
The Big Pink
Two Door Cinema Club

Reading Saturday August 28/ Leeds Friday August 27
Main Stage
Arcade Fire
The Libertines
Dizzee Rascal
The Cribs
The Maccabees
Modest Mouse
Gaslight Anthem

NME/ Radio 1 Stage
Pendulum
Enter Shikari
Crystal Castles
Special Guests
Frank Turner

Reading Sunday August 29/ Leeds Saturday August 28
Main Stage
Blink-182
Paramore
Weezer
Cypress Hill
Limp Bizkit
You Me At Six
All Time Low

NME/ Radio 1 Stage
Klaxons
We are Scientists
Foals
Band of Horses
Kele
The Drums