NME Festival Guide
Reading & Leeds Festival 2012

Reading & Leeds Festival Line-up 2012

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Reading Festival - Main Stage

My Chemical Romance

30 Seconds To Mars

The Offspring

Deftones

Rise Against

Bring Me The Horizon

New Found Glory

The Blackout

Architects

Leeds Festival - Main Stage

Muse

Elbow

Interpol

Friendly Fires

Enter Shikari

The View

Frank Turner

Taking Back Sunday

We Are The Ocean

Reading Festival - NME/Radio 1 Stage

Beady Eye

White Lies

Noah And The Whale

The Vaccines

Metronomy

Patrick Wolf

The Naked And Famous

Mona

Miles Kane

Frankie And The Heartstrings

Pulled Apart By Horses

Leeds Festival - NME/Radio 1 Stage

2manydjs

The Streets

Death From Above 1979

Panic! At The Disco

Warpaint

Chapel Club

Cage The Elephant

Best Coast

Fucked Up

Dananananaykroyd

Reading Festival - The Dance/Lock Up Stage

UNKLE

SBTRKT (DJ set)

Simian Mobile Disco

Nero (DJ set)

Sub Focus

Devlin

Crystal Fighters

Mount Kimbie

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

DRUGS

Leeds Festival - The Dance/Lock Up Stage

Descendents

Flogging Molly

Special Guest

Face To Face

Hot Water Music

Bedouin Soundclash

OFF!

The Black Pacific

The Menzingers

Your Demise

Spy Catcher

Fighting Fiction

Reading Festival - Festival Republic Stage

The Horrors

Digitalism

Tom Vek

White Denim

Anna Calvi

The Antlers

Foster The People

Cerebral Ballzy

Dry The River

Royal Bangs

The Computers

Islet

Mini Mansions

Cherri Bomb

Leeds Festival - Festival Republic Stage

Pete Doherty

Viva Brother

Ed Sheeran

Young Legionnaire

CocknBullKid

Twin Atlantic

Fight Like Apes

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Little Comets

Dutch Uncles

Nightbox

Flats

Our Fold

Reading Festival - The Alternative Stage

Henry Rollins

The Petebox

Al Pitcher

Stephen Williams

Saul Williams

Dizraeli

Brigitte Aphrodite

Wayne Deakin

Leeds Festival - The Alternative Stage

Future Disco

Nirvana 92 Live at Reading

PJ Harvey Shorts

The Rubberbandits

Gordon Southern

Lee Nelson

Rob Rouse

Tom Wrigglesworth

Andrew O’Neill

Craig Campbell

Tom Deacon

Mike Bubbins

Mark Thomas

Reading Festival - BBC Introducing Stage

General Fiasco

Don Broco

Milk Maid

A Genuine Freakshow

These Furrows

Kirk Spencer

Clock Opera

The Boy Wonders

The Minutes

The Bronze Medal

Circles

Heart Ships

Leeds Festival - BBC Introducing Stage

Rizzle Kicks

Cuba Cuba

The Winchell Riots

Ham Sandwich

Courage Have Courage

Rae Morris

Save Your Breath

Funeral Suits

The Original Rudeboys

The Mexanines

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Reading Festival - Main Stage

The Strokes

Pulp

The National

Jimmy Eat World

Madness

Two Door Cinema Club

Seasick Steve

The Pigeon Detectives

The Joy Formidable

Leeds Festival - Main Stage

My Chemical Romance

30 Seconds To Mars

The Offspring

Deftones

Rise Against

Bring Me The Horizon

New Found Glory

The Blackout

Architects

Reading Festival - NME/Radio 1 Stage

Jane's Addiction

Crystal Castles

Bombay Bicycle Club

Glassjaw

Everything Everything

The Kills

OFWGKTA

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros

Yuck

Funeral Party

Leeds Festival - NME/Radio 1 Stage

Beady Eye

White Lies

Noah And The Whale

The Vaccines

Metronomy

Patrick Wolf

The Naked And Famous

Mona

Miles Kane

Frankie And The Heartstrings

Pulled Apart By Horses

Reading Festival - The Dance/Lock Up Stage

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The King Blues

The Bronx

Capdown

Leftover Crack

Comeback Kid

BoySetsFire

Street Dogs

Let Live

Teenage Bottlerocket

Title Fight

Sharks

Leeds Festival - The Dance/Lock Up Stage

UNKLE

SBTRKT (DJ set)

Simian Mobile Disco

Nero (DJ set)

Sub Focus

Devlin

Crystal Fighters

Mount Kimbie

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

DRUGS

Reading Festival - Festival Republic Stage

The Midnight Beast

Rival Schools

And So I Watch You From Afar

Little Roy

The Smith Westerns

Cloud Control

Cults

Mariachi El Bronx

Grouplove

Tribes

Big Deal

She Keeps Bees

Yellow Wire

The Coopers

Leeds Festival - Festival Republic Stage

The Horrors

Digitalism

Tom Vek

White Denim

Anna Calvi

The Antlers

Foster The People

Cerebral Ballzy

Dry The River

Royal Bangs

The Computers

Islet

Mini Mansions

Cherri Bomb

Reading Festival - The Alternative Stage

Lee Nelson

Rob Rouse

Doc Brown

Paul Chowdhry

Michael Fabbri

Tom Stade

Late Night Gimp Fight

Daniel Sloss

Mark Thomas

Stephen Grant (MC)

Leeds Festival - The Alternative Stage

Goldierocks

Johnny Flynn

Pete And The Pirates

Dry The River

Transgressive Records (Club)

Kaboom

Henry Rollins

The Petebox

Tim Minchin

Al Pitcher

Marlon Davis

Dead Cat Bounce

Seann Walsh

Josh Widdicombe

Popcorn Comedy

Mixtape And Disco

Danny McLoughlin

Reading Festival - BBC Introducing Stage

Fixers

Discopolis

Spector

Daughter

Tomahawks For Targets

Anguish Sandwich

Black Diamond Bay

The Kill Van Kulls

Rainy Boy Sleep

Castrovalva

The Simon Pollard Band

Arthur Rigby And The Baskervylles

Leeds Festival - BBC Introducing Stage

General Fiasco

Don Broco

Milk Maid

A Genuine Freakshow

These Furrows

Kirk Spencer

Clock Opera

The Boy Wonders

The Minutes

The Bronze Medal

Circles

Heart Ships

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Reading Festival - Main Stage

Muse

Elbow

Interpol

Friendly Fires

Enter Shikari

The View

Frank Turner

Taking Back Sunday

We Are The Ocean

Leeds Festival - Main Stage

Pulp

The Strokes

The National

Jimmy Eat World

Madness

Two Door Cinema Club

Seasick Steve

The Pigeon Detectives

The Joy Formidable

Reading Festival - NME/Radio 1 Stage

2manydjs

The Streets

Death From Above 1979

Panic! At The Disco

Warpaint

Chapel Club

Cage The Elephant

Best Coast

Fucked Up

Dananananaykroyd

Leeds Festival - NME/Radio 1 Stage

Jane's Addiction

Crystal Castles

Glassjaw

Bombay Bicycle Club

Everything Everything

The Kills

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros

Yuck

Funeral Party

Reading Festival - The Dance/Lock Up Stage

Descendents

Flogging Molly

Special Guest

Face To Face

Hot Water Music

Bedouin Soundclash

OFF!

The Black Pacific

The Menzingers

Your Demise

Spy Catcher

Mouthwash

Leeds Festival - The Dance/Lock Up Stage

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The King Blues

The Bronx

Capdown

Leftover Crack

Comeback Kid

BoySetsFire

Street Dogs

Let Live

Teenage Bottlerocket

Title Fight

Sharks

Reading Festival - Festival Republic Stage

Pete Doherty

Viva Brother

Ed Sheeran

Young Legionnaire

CocknBullKid

Twin Atlantic

Fight Like Apes

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Little Comets

Dutch Uncles

Nightbox

Flats

Our Fold

Leeds Festival - Festival Republic Stage

The Midnight Beast

Rival Schools

And So I Watch You From Afar

Little Roy

The Smith Westerns

Cloud Control

Cults

Mariachi El Bronx

Grouplove

Tribes

Big Deal

She Keeps Bees

Yellow Wire

The Coopers

Reading Festival - The Alternative Stage

Nirvana 92 Live at Reading

The Rubberbandits

Tom Wrigglesworth

Marlon Davis

Tim Minchin

Jarred Christmas

Steve Hughes

Mixtape And Disco

Tom Deacon

Seann Walsh

Josh Widdicombe

Popcorn Comedy

Mike Bubbins

Leeds Festival - The Alternative Stage

Two Door Cinema Club

SBTRKT (DJ set)

Transgressive Records (Club)

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Russell Kane

Roisin Conaty

Gar Murran

Abandoman

Dave Fulton

Late Night Gimp Fight

Mark Watson

Jimmy McGhie

Saul Williams

Dizraeli

Brigitte Aphrodite

Dave Twentyman (MC)

Reading Festival - BBC Introducing Stage

Rizzle Kicks

Cuba Cuba

The Winchell Riots

Ham Sandwich

Courage Have Courage

Rae Morris

Save Your Breath

Funeral Suits

The Original Rudeboys

The Mexanines

Leeds Festival - BBC Introducing Stage

Fixers

Discopolis

Spector

Daughter

Tomahawks For Targets

Anguish Sandwich

Black Diamond Bay

The Kill Van Kulls

Rainy Boy Sleep

Castrovalva

The Simon Pollard Band

Arthur Rigby And The Baskervylles

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