Dan Le Sac, Glasvegas, The Kills And More Confirmed For Reading & Leeds New Bands Stage

added 08 July 2008 at 11.23

A particularly impressive list of bands have been announced for the recently renamed new bands tent - now called the Festival Republic Stage - at this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals. Sounds like it's going to be a blinder.

Dan Le Sac, Does It Offend You Yeah? and Late Of The Pier will play the Friday (August 22) in Reading and Saturday (23) in Leeds.

Elliot Minor, The Audition and All Time Low will play the same stage on the Saturday (23) at Reading and on the Sunday (24) in Leeds.

The Kills, Wiley and Glasvegas will headline on the Sunday (24) in Reading and on the Friday (22) in Leeds.

The following bands will also appear on the stage across the weekend:

  • Black Acid
  • Black Kids
  • Black Tide
  • Cage The Elephant
  • Collapsing Cities
  • Emmy The Great
  • Fighting Like Apes
  • Fighting With Wire
  • Florence And The Machine
  • Friendly Fires
  • Ida Maria
  • In Case Of Fire
  • Johnny Foreigner
  • Jubilee
  • Los Campesinos!
  • Louis IVX
  • Lovvers
  • Natty
  • Sergeant
  • Teenagersintokyo
  • The Rascals
  • The Teenagers
  • These New Puritans
  • Twisted Wheel
  • White Denim
  • White Lies
  • Wild Beasts
  • You Me At 6

For all the best festival coverage over the summer months - including interviews, pictures and reviews from the likes of Glastonbury, Wireless, Wakestock, Beach Break and loads more - keep checking the Xfm Festival Minisite.

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