Reading & Leeds 2013 Line Ups Announced
So the Reading and Leeds line ups have been announced with tickets now officially on sale. If youre one of those people who keenly follows the festivals and waits for that big announcement come ticket day then you already know the line up and manically bashed your bank details into an online ticket site whilst screaming take all my money. Then again you might be one of those who saw it, grumbled about how it isnt as good as insert preferred year here and then went about your business. If you arent either of those people, and arent aware of the finally announced line up (though therell be plenty more announcements to come), then here, let me tell you and take credit for giving you the news unless your Facebook wasnt awash with people slagging it off or doing the type equivalent of squealing with glee, like mine was. Two headliners were already prior announced in the shape of Biffy Clyro and Eminem and todays announcement saw the final headliner being confirmed as Green Day. Eminem isnt going to be a big audience pull for the festival with him rarely reaching these shores, and despite a decline in quality in recent years still having an untouchable back catalogue as far as his earlier output is concerned. Biffy Clyro are always a solid festival staple, and with their double album out this headline slot will only go on to cement their position in the big league of modern bands. Green Day is an unusual, and disappointing third announcement in all honesty, but they still have quite the following, an extensive back catalogue to work from and their surprise slot last year went down a storm. The rest of the line up is pretty diverse collection of acts with some big draws and impressive additions even lower down the stages, and days. With Reading and Leeds having had a bit of a struggle with selling out, like it once used to at a frenzied pace, in recent years this more diverse line up of bands and a more restrained increase in ticket price than is usually known should go some way to get it more solidly back on track as last years line up had begun to do so. Headliners aside theres the previously mentioned grand return of Nine Inch Nails, the previously reviewed and currently at an all time high Deftones, the always amazing Brand New, the comebacks of System of a Down and Fall Out Boy, the steadily rising alt-J, international dance maestro Skrillex and just choice acts such as City & Colour, Frank Turner, Foals, White Lies, Magnetic Man, Knife Party, A$AP Rocky and the legend that is Johnny Marr. See below for the full line up as it currently stands. More announcements to come.