NME Festival Guide 2008
Reading & Leeds Festival

Glasvegas, Late Of The Pier plus 35 more bands for Reading And Leeds

Glasvegas on the John Peel Stage, Friday 1pm. With frontman James Allan wearing his now-trademark Ray Ban sunglasses and the band clad in black, Glasvegas played a set including recent single 'Geraldine' and 2007 debut single 'Daddy's Gone', both of which prompted mass sing-alongs in the crowd.

Glasvegas on the John Peel Stage, Friday 1pm. With frontman James Allan wearing his now-trademark Ray Ban sunglasses and the band clad in black, Glasvegas played a set including recent single 'Geraldine' and 2007 debut single 'Daddy's Gone', both of which prompted mass sing-alongs in the crowd.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? and The Kills also set to play

37 bands including Glasvegas, Late Of The Pier and Does It Offend You Yeah? have been added to the bill of the .

The bands will play on the Festival Republic stage at the bash, which is set to take place on the two sites on August 22-24.

Dan Le Sac, Does It Offend You Yeah? and Late Of The Pier are confirmed as headliners on the Friday August 22) at Reading (August 23 Leeds).

Elliot Minor, The Audition and All Time Low will play headline slots on the Saturday at Reading and on Sunday (August 24) in Leeds. The Kills, Wiley and Glasvegas will headline on the Sunday in Reading and on the Friday in Leeds)

The following bands will also appear on the stage:

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 XIV
Lovvers
Natty
Sergeant
Teenagersintokyo
The Rascals
The Teenagers
These New Puritans
Twisted Wheel
White Denim
White Lies
Wild Beasts
You Me At 6



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pelocin 

Jul 8, 2008

I have been waiting SO long for Los Campesinos to be announced. Years and Years. They are going to be the high light

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