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New 'headliner' joins Reading And Leeds Festival – exclusive

We can reveal who'll be topping the NME/ Radio 1 Stage this summer

April 7, 2009 | 28 Comments
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Lostprophets have joined the line-up for the 2009 Reading And Leeds Festivals.

The Welsh band will make their live comeback headlining the NME/ Radio 1 Tent on Saturday (August 29) in Leeds and Sunday in Reading (30).

This year's festivals take place between August 28 and 30 with Radiohead, Kings Of Leon and Arctic Monkeys headlining.

The full line-up so far is:

Main Stage

READING FRIDAY (AUGUST 28)/ LEEDS SUNDAY (30)
Kings Of Leon
Kaiser Chiefs
Placebo
Fall Out Boy
Deftones
Funeral For A Friend

READING SATURDAY (29)/ LEEDS FRIDAY (28)
Arctic Monkeys
The Prodigy
Maximo Park
Ian Brown
Courteeners
Enter Shikari
Eagles Of Death Metal

READING SUNDAY (30)/ LEEDS SATURDAY (29)
Radiohead
Bloc Party
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Vampire Weekend
Brand New

NME/ Radio 1 Stage

READING FRIDAY (AUGUST 28)/ LEEDS SUNDAY (30)
Jamie T
Friendly Fires
Florence And The Machine

READING SATURDAY (29)/ LEEDS FRIDAY (28)
Gossip
Glasvegas
White Lies
The Maccabees

READING SUNDAY (30)/ LEEDS SATURDAY (29)
Lostprophets
AFI
Gallows
The Gaslight Anthem

More names will be announced soon exclusively via NME.COM. All weekend and day tickets for this year's festival have sold out, head to Readingfestival.com for more information.

alexcoates13

Apr 7, 2009

Methinks there might be an empty tent for Lost Prophets, what with an actual headline worthy act on the Main Stage; I congradualate the organisers for making the NME tent a rock stage for Saturday though; Leeds/Reading is always let down by poor planning, so at least Fest Rep. are doing something right for once.

Ewan Nicolson

Apr 7, 2009

OMG I am sooooooo pissed off about Lostprophets even appearing at Reading and Leeds at all, let alone headlining the NME stage. Listening to Lostprophets is like listening to a cat being violated. Couldn't they have got someone talented to headline the NME stage, such as Foals, MGMT or Pete Doherty??? Oh well, I guess I still have Vampire Weekend and Florence & The Machine to look forward to.

carlb1988

Apr 7, 2009

Yikes, that's hideous news

MartynDavenport

Apr 7, 2009

And that's it? That's what everyone was waiting for in the forums last night that didn't materialise until today? Everybody actually already knew that. I thought at least the 3rd Radio 1 stage headliner would be revealed as well

Gerbalism

Apr 7, 2009

Oh dear! The lineup goes from bad to worse!

aphexbin

Apr 7, 2009

I guess we'll know who youll be watching then TOMQ84- no doubt with all the other brainless racist cunts right? Youre the sort of bloke people like Alex Turner and Ian Brown HATE, ah the irony......you are a fucking moron

janiceramone

Apr 7, 2009

What a truely fucking awful band.

Rob0793

Apr 7, 2009

Thats an awesome lineup!Shut up moaning you ungrateful tards!Theres a problem though...On here it says Glasvegas and White Lies are playing the Friday at Leeds, yet on both of their myspace's it says that they're playing the sunday?!Which is right?!I'm only going on the Friday so I hope that you are!

rufiorules

Apr 7, 2009

Do you know what, TOMQ84, you and your racist knuckle dragging monkey mates are not welcome. Go see if Jim Davidson's on tour or something.

Al Smith

Apr 7, 2009

Ok, don't get me wrong there are lots of bands worth seeingBut the ONLY TWO worth actually getting mildly excited about (White Lies and Prodigy) are gonna ****ing clash, aren't they.Brilliant. Thanks guys.

verbalkint

Apr 7, 2009

OMG...oh no boo hoo, music thats a little bit loud and that real people listen to. not stupid little boys who bum off old indie icons, why dont u just wank off to that music whilst wearing ur super skinny jeans and tight tops that make u look like a prepubescent girl.cunt.

verbalkint

Apr 7, 2009

if u all really want to listen to your crappy indie music that much, why dont u just piss off to glasto or isle of wight? look at reading for the last few years, those were proper bands. who are florence and the machine anyway?...they sound amaaaaaaazing

verbalkint

Apr 7, 2009

f u all really want to listen to your crappy indie music that much, why dont u just piss off to glasto or isle of wight? look at Reading for the last few years, those were proper bands. who are florence and the machine anyway?...they sound amaaaaaaazingstop trying to turn Reading into an indie fest.

verbalkint

Apr 7, 2009

f u all really want to listen to your crappy indie music that much, why dont u just piss off to glasto or isle of wight? look at Reading for the last few years, those were proper bands. who are florence and the machine anyway?...they sound amaaaaaaazingstop trying to turn Reading into an indie fest.

Dan182

Apr 7, 2009

I think its a great addition but its something alot of people already knew. lostprophets were amazing in 07 one of the bands of the festival.bloc party shouldnt be there AGAIN 3rd year in a row, playing in the same slot! that was just stupid. theres so many more better bands out there to fill that spot. but yea indie kids quit your moaning the whole festival is basically gone indie. and who ever said pete doherty instead, get your ears tested!

Major_Tom7

Apr 7, 2009

jeez everyone stop moaning. this is actually a good line-up and lostprophets are good. immense live infact. and they still have over 100 bands to announce yet.and all the tickets are sold out so if you have a ticket stop complaining and just enjoy it and and if you haven't got a ticket your either bitter about it or just plain sad.

pantokloo

Apr 7, 2009

that freaking sucks! the main headliners suck to! the only good so far is yeah yeah yeahs, florence & the machine,friendly fires and vampire weekend!

Grimbo

Apr 8, 2009

not a fan of the lostprophets but can see this is an excellent line up all in. same with t in the park, cant wait for both.

placeboi

Apr 8, 2009

I can't believe the things some of these people are saying... the only good bands are florence and the machine, vampire weekend etc?? I'd just like to let these people know that there were some bands around before 2006! and they were generally of better quality as well!

90jl11

Apr 8, 2009

Since when was reading/leeds an explicitly 'Rock' festival? Since never. Fine it had a frankly shit rock day, that I would never go near if you paid me, but it has always seemed pretty indie to me in recent years. The lineup is great so far.If you want 'Rock' go to Download

90jl11

Apr 8, 2009

Oh and by the way Lostprophets are bollocks.

MartynDavenport

Apr 16, 2009

lol everyone always says "If you want rock, go to Download" Like everybody wants to listen to metal if they don't like indie. Leeds & Reading used to made up mostly of non pretentious genuinely talented alternative groups, and had almost nothing from either extreme, indie/pop or metal. All the indie lovers seem to think that if you don't like indie, you're a metalhead. Should all go and find themselves some proper bands to listen to

nicktuckerrr

Apr 27, 2009

Grow up, stop complaining. They make much more decent music than all the indie bands. Metallica last year, they were heavy and they played awesome. Also, with Reading being for alternative music, download for metal, this is complete bollocks. Download is prodomintly metal and Glastonbry is prodomintly alternative. Reading is the festival that has a good mix of both. To be fair live with it. Lostprophets are awesome end of.

Zephious

Apr 27, 2009

Hey guys, piss off. If you don't like them, don't go. Let their fans actually see them. Lostprophets are hardly Indie. Go on Youtube, and see their previous Reading and Leeds Footage. You can't say theres no crowd, and that they hate what they hear.You don't always get what you want...

Madii

Apr 27, 2009

This line-up fails...cuz I'm not going =/I'm glad Lostprophets are playing though and that they're headlining a smaller tent, it'd probably be even more immense with less people...if that makes sense.

andyllw91

Apr 27, 2009

god guys.... Lostprophets win my vote any day... it's nice to see some 'rockier' acts added to the bill.... in my opinion too much indie this year... and no i dnt like heavy metal that much so i wnt bum off to Download before anyone says. Lostprophets will have a packed tent..... espescially with new album on the way. A band that is much better than these indie one-hit wonders e.g. MGMT, Foals... and other same old same old indie bands.

Jahovaa

May 11, 2009

Wow, what a shit band to have headlining. Sunday in the Nme tent is truly awful this year. The Gaslight Anthem??? Why? Also all people who get all pissed when someone slags off a band they like, a reply like: 'Dont go, let their fans enjoy it.....' etc, is a bit lame. Commenting on this stuff is about having your say, it's not personal, and lostprophets, frankly, are shit.

Xii AzZa iiX

Aug 5, 2009

Lostprophets are fucking amazing. They're latest album was a bunch of shit with the exception of about two songs.They're first two albums are fucking amazing. And they're performing they're new album at the festival. And they have said it's going to be like the first two albums mixed, harder, more distortion, bit more screaming.They should be on the fucking main stage like they have been before, not pieces of shit like Enter Shikari, they speak, they don't fucking sing. Another is Kings of Leon, one good song. The rest is complete shittttttt.