email: 
password: 
 | forgotten your password?
Tourdates requires flash to play music, videos & enable chat. Our media player will be loaded here shortly.
can't hear anything? click to check our player has loaded
popular artists on Tourdates
tagCloud
Henry Rollins among new Reading and Leeds acts
Plain White T's also named for the main stage
This year's festivals will be the biggest yet Heavy poet-rocker Henry Rollins and indie group Plain White T's are the latest big names to be confirmed for the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August.

Jeffrey Lewis is another major name to join the festival for 2008, which is held over the August Bank Holiday from Friday 22nd to Sunday the 24th.

Also named are Pete And The Pirates, Tiger Army, The Briggs, Blackhole and Mindless Self-Indulgence, joining main stage headliners The Killers, Metallica and Rage Against The Machine.

The complete line-up so far for the sold-out event looks like this:

Reading: Friday August 22, Leeds: Saturday August 23

Main Stage

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

NME/Radio 1 Stage

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

The Lock-Up Stage

Less Than Jake
Pennywise
Special Guests
Goldfinger
Tiger Army
The Unseen
H20
Frank Turner
The Briggs
The Loved Ones
Blackhole
Hexes

Reading: Saturday August 23, Leeds: Sunday August 24

Main Stage

The Killers
Bloc Party
The Raconteurs
Editors
We Are Scientists
Dirty Pretty Things
The Subways
British Sea Power
The Automatic

NME/Radio 1 Stage

Manic Street Preachers
Bullet For My Valentine
Justice
Foals
Seasick Steve
The Ting Tings
The Mystery Jets
Santogold
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
Kids In Glass Houses
Bombay Bicycle Club

The Lock-Up Stage

Gallows
Alkaline Trio
Thrice
Flogging Molly
MXPX
The Cancer Bats
Set Your Goals
King Blues
Fucked Up
The Gaslight Anthem
Hi Fi Handgrenade
Random Hand

Reading: Sunday August 24, Leeds: Friday August 23

Main Stage

Metallica
Tenacious D
Slipknot
Feeder
Avenged Sevenfold
Dropkick Murphys
Plain White T’s
Alexisonfire
Mindless Self Indugence

NME/Radio 1 Stage

The Cribs
The Last Shadow Puppets
Conor Oberst
Pendulum
The Music
Hadouken!
Lightspeed Champion
Cajun Dance Party
Adam Green
Yeasayer
The Metros

The Dance Stage

CSS
Digitalism
Simian Mobile Disco
Chromeo
Crystal Castles
Lethal Bizzle
Holy Fuck
The Whip
Robots In Disguise
The Shoes

The Alternative Stage

Henry Rollins

written by on 21/05/2008 11:14:00
Photo : This year's festivals will be the biggest yet

more news

also in the news

see more from henry-rollins on their tourdates micro site >>

comments

please login to add a comment - not a member? click here to join.

Share |
the latter day saints - heads will roll - CLICK TO PLAY
play heads will roll by the latter day saints
5,000+ free music downloads
right here at tourdates.co.uk
Exposure Music Awards 2010 live voting results EMA®
follow us on twitter
    new members
    Blue Rooms >>
    male, 20, from Herefordshire
    TheBugcast >>
    male, 38, from South Yorkshire
    STANZA >>
    male, 24, from Greater London
    recent comments
    said to
    Thanks so much for voting!! To say thanks I'd like to email you your favourite track from my album...

    said to
    Hi Kathy! Thanks so much for voting!! To say thanks I'd like to email you a track for free! Which...

    said to
    Hi Alex! Thanks so much for voting!! To say thanks I'd like to email you your favourite track fro...

    © 2005 - 2009 TourDates.Co.UK | about | press release | contact | sitemap | xml sitemap | LTD PDFs
    Find us and other music sites in the Open Directory Project at dmoz.org