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Following the hugely successful 2012 festival, the legendary Reading & Leeds Festival returns for the August bank holiday in 2013, promising to be bigger and better than ever with the best names in music from across the globe set to play at both sites.
With loads of changes happening at the festival this year, from new stages to more acts than ever before, the first band names get us ready for what is going to be a HUGE festival season ahead.
The most successful rapper in history, Eminem, is the first headliner to be announced on the Main Stage. 11 years after he topped the bill at the festivals, he returns for this performance, his only UK festival appearance in 2013.
In another UK festival exclusive, Biffy Clyro will also headline, playing hits from their extensive catalogue as well as tracks from their current double album 'Opposites'.
Green Day complete the Main Stage headliners at Leeds Festival 2013 in another UK festival exclusive appearance. After a surprise Reading performance at 11am in 2012, which saw thousands of revellers heading to the NME/Radio 1 Stage and thousands more watching on screens in the arena, the band returns to play a full headline set at both sites.
And there's lots more to come...
BBC Introducing Stage
- Amber
- As Elephants Are
- Big Wave
- Casablanca
- Catfish And The Bottlemen
- City Of Lights
- Crusades
- Denai Moore
- Glass Caves
- I Divide
- Jaws
- Joel Baker
- King No-One
- Lonely The Brave
- Man Can't Fly
- Mausi
- Modo Stare
- Peasant's King
- Prides
- Ruen Brothers
- Saint Raymond
- Soft Play
- Sundara Karma
- THUMPERS
- The Grand
- Theory 59
- To Be Frank
- Tripwires
- We Are Fiction
- We Are Knuckle Dragger
- Witch Hunt
- Zaheer
Dance To The Radio Stage
- Black Moth
- The Crookes
- Dutch Uncles
- Hookworms
- Menace Beach
Radio 1Xtra Stage
Main Stage
- Chase & Status (Live)
- Foals
- White Lies
- Brand New
- Twin Atlantic
- Lower Than Atlantis
NME/Radio 1 Stage
Radio 1 Dance Stage
- Knife Party
- Dillon Francis
- Charli XCX
- Fred V & Grafix
- Jacob Plant
- Pegboard Nerds
- Bipolar Sunshine
- Stay Positive
- Parachute Youth
- Sub Focus
- Fenech Soler
- DJ Friction
- Clean Bandit
- Is Tropical
- Bondax
- Robert DeLong
- Alvin Risk
- Benin City
Rock Stage
The Lock Up / Rock Stage
- Filter
- Hacktivist
- The Virginmarys
- Beware Of Darkness
- Hawk Eyes
- Battle Lines
Festival Republic Stage
- Papa
- Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs
2013 Headliners
Radio 1Xtra Stage
- Itch (1)
- Devlin
- Chance The Rapper
Also Appearing
- Alkaline Trio
- Baauer
- Sea Power
- CHVRCHES
- California X
- Cerebral Ballzy
- Chapel Club
- Crystal Fighters
- Drenge
- Findlay
- Half Moon Run
- Iggy Azalea
- Kate Nash
- King Prawn
- Lucy Rose
- MMX
- MS MR
- Mallory Knox
- Merchandise
- Mo
- Modestep
- Parquet Courts
- Pure Love
- Quicksand
- RX Bandits
- Sick Of It All
- Skaters
- Spector
- Splashh
- Surfer Blood
- Swim Deep
- Temples
- The 1975
- The Blackout
- The Bronx
- The Computers
- The Family Rain
- The Jim Jones Revue
- The Living End
- The Strypes
- Theme Park
- Tim Burgess
- To Kill A King
- Tomahawk
- While She Sleeps
- twenty one pilots
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