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by Andrew Trendell | Photos by Chris MacDonald

Tags: Reading Festival 

Alt-J, Drenge lead 70 new acts added to Reading + Leeds

Charli XCX, Gaslight Anthem and more join R+L

 

Reading & Leeds line-up adds Alt-J, Drenge & 70 more bands - tickets Photo: Chris MacDonald

Loads of amazing news for fans of Reading & Leeds Festival - they've just added a massive 70 bands to the line-up, including Alt-J, Drenge, Charli XCX, Gaslight Anthem and plenty more. Check out the full bill below. 

Joining the likes of headliners Mumford & Sons, Metallica and The Libertines are a huge raft of names - also including Palma Violets, Spector, Against Me!, Eliza & The Bear and plenty more. Alt-J have filled the anticipated 'special guests' slot ahead of Mumford & Sons on the main stage.

"We're really over the moon to be returning to Reading & Leeds," said Alt-J frontman Gus Unger-Hamilton. "It'll be our third time playing, and we always have the best time."

The full list of names added this week is: Alt-J, Drenge, FIDLAR, Palma Violets, Against Me!, The Gaslight Anthem, Babymetal, Feed The Rhino, Modestep, Parquet Courts, Spector, Ghostpoet, Charli XCX, Twin Atlantic, Nothing But Thieves, AWOLNATION, Kwabs, The Skints, All We Are, Maribou State, Jacob Plant, LANY, MK, Oliver Dollar, Kevin Saunderson, Secondcity, Dimension x Kove, Elliphant, Blonde Live, Rustie, Evian Christ, Snakehips, TCTS, 99 Souls, Modern Baseball, The Bots, The Smith Street Band, Youth Man, Atreyu, PVRIS, And So I Watch You From Afar, Black Peaks, Ho99o9, The One Hundred, Beartooth, Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes, Turbowolf, Moose Blood, Queen Kwong, Hawk Eyes, Single Mothers, Black Foxes, Fort Hope, Saint Raymond, Prides, Bear’s Den, Vaults, Joywave, Elize and the Bear, Hunter & the Bear, Lucy Rose, Blossoms, Bad Breeding, Little Comets, Mini Mansions, Gengahr, Hippo Campus, Sundara Karma, Black Honey, The Sherlocks, Ms Dynamte, Tempa T, Loyle Carner, Kiko Bun.

Check out the full line-up below 

Reading & Leeds festival takes place from 28 - August and features the likes of The Libertines, Mumford & Sons, Metallica, Limp Bizkit, Bastille, Bring Me The Horizon, Royal Blood, Kendrick Lamar and many more. For Reading tickets visit here, and for Leeds tickets visit here

Below: Every Reading + Leeds line-up poster in history

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