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Reading & Leeds Confirm Lock Up And Dance Stages
The likes of Social Distortion, Less Than Jake, Every Time I Die and Touché Amoré will appear on this year’s Lock Up.

Reading & Leeds Festivals have confirmed details of the acts set to appear at this year’s Lock Up and Dance stages.
This year’s Lock Up stage - set to take place on Friday 24th August at Reading/Saturday 25th August at Leeds - is set to feature the likes of Social Distortion as headliners, alongside Anti-Flag, Every Time I Die, Saves The Day, Touché Amoré, Bouncing Souls, A Wilhelm Scream, Ceremony, Random Hand, Star Fucking Hipsters, Dead To Me and Pettybone.
This year’s Lock Up Stage - set to take place on Sunday 26th at Reading/ Friday 24th at Leeds - is set to feature Less Than Jake as headliners, alongside Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Gallows, Turbonegro, Trash Talk, Good Riddance, The Skints, Polar Bear Club, This Is Hell, The Flatliners and Apologies, I Have None.
This year’s Dance Stage - set to take place on Saturday 25th at Reading/ Sunday 26th at Leeds - is set to feature Modestep, Feed Me, Grimes, The Japanese Popstars, Clement Marfo & The Frontline, Jagga and Zinc, alongside the already confirmed Metronomy, Azealia Banks, Katy B and Jaguar Skulls.
Additionally, in main stage news, L:os Campesinos! will now appear at Reading on the 25th and Leeds on the 26th.
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