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Foo Fighters, The Cure & Kasabian Headline Reading & Leeds 2012
They’ll be joined by At The Drive-In, The Black Keys, Florence & The Machine and more.

The line up for this year’s Reading & Leeds festivals has been revealed tonight (March 12).
The dual site event, which takes place between August 24-26, will be headlined by The Cure, Kasabian and the Foo Fighters.
Foo Fighters, who headline the Friday of Leeds and Sunday of Reading, will be joined by The Black Keys, Kaiser Chiefs, Bullet For My Valentine, All Time Low, Gaslight Anthem, Eagles Of Death Metal, Band Of Skulls and Pulled Apart By Horses.
Kasabian, who will headline the Saturday of Reading and the Sunday of Leeds, will appear alongside Florence & The Machine, The Vaccines, Enter Shikari, The Shins, Odd Future, Mystery Jets and Blood Red Shoes.
The Cure will headline the Friday of Reading and the Saturday of Leeds. Alongside them are slots for Paramore, Bombay Bicycle Club, You Me At Six, Crystal Castles, Angels & Airwaves, Coheed & Cambria, Cancer Bats, Deaf Havana.
The NME/Radio 1 stage will be headlined by Maccabees, the reformed At The Drive-In (as they announced themselves earlier today) and Justice, with other slots for Foster The People, The Cribs, Two Door Cinema Club, The Courteeners, Billy Talent, Miike Snow, The Horrors and SBTRKT.
The Dance Stage will see performances from Metronomy, Katy B, Azaelia Banks and Jaguar Skills.
What do you think of this year’s line-up? Join the debate over on Facebook.
Tickets for the festival, held at Reading’s Richfield Avenue and Leeds’ Bramham Park, are on sale now. For more details head to readingfestival.com or leedsfestival.co.uk. Check out the poster below:
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