This will be BBC Introducing’s fifth year at the festivals, and the acts to play the stage include Wet Nuns, Backyards and Fish Tank – amongst many others.

 

The full list of BBC Introducing acts at Reading and Leeds 2012 is:

 

Attention Thieves
Backyards
Bearfoot Beware
Black Moth
Crooked Tongues
Cut Ribbons
Danica Hunter
Deaf Club
Dear Prudence
Dingus Khan
Empror & Duppy Beatz
Escape To New York
Escapists
The Establishment
Family of the Year
Fish Tank
Glassbody
Hawk Eyes
Hildamay
Ifan Dafydd
Lady Lykez
Marmozets
Marsicans
Max Raptor
Mikill Pane
Park Bench Society
Proxies
Rachel Sermanni
Samoans
Sarah Williams White
Seasfire
Wet Nuns
We Walk On Ice
We Were Frontiers
 

Post War Glamour Girls have also been announced as the openers of the NME/Radio 1 stage on Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds, after winning the Futuresound competition. 

 

There has also been a new addition to the Alternative Stage with Australian comedian Adam Hills due to perform.

 

The Alternative Stage is going to be a particular treat for Leeds Festival attendees, as Transgressive is going to take over the Alternative Stage for two nights. Transgressive and friends will DJ and host the stage’s late-night entertainment on Saturday and Sunday night and the line-up includes performances from Ghostpoet and Summer Camp.

 

Tickets are still available. For more information, visit Gigwise Gig Tickets.