Reading Festival 2013 Lineup

The festival headliners for 2013 will be pop-punk pioneers Green Day playing Friday at Reading, global rap icon Eminem who takes to the stage on Saturday at Reading and ‘Best British Band’ NME Award winners Biffy Clyro closing the show on Sunday. All three of the Main Stage headliners are UK festival exclusives; you won’t find them at any other UK festival this year!

System Of A Down and Deftones return to Reading & Leeds with UK festival exclusive performances, playing Friday at Reading. Nine Inch Nails are back for the first time since 2007 to perform a 2013 UK exclusive show on the Main Stage and Fall Out Boy return to the Festivals with a UK festival exclusive appearance, both bands playing Sunday at Reading.

Over on the NME/Radio 1 Stage will be a UK festival exclusive set from multi Grammy Award-winning dubstep DJ, song writer and producer Skrillex, ‘Mercury Music Prize’ winners Alt-J and French outfit Phoenix, taking to the top of the line-up for the stage and playing to thousands of revellers across the weekend.

On the BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage, newly expanded from one day to three days for 2013, English electronic music producer Sub Focus Live, Magnetic Man and electronic dance music heavyweights Knife Party will all headline.

The BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage, one of the most exciting additions that Reading & Leeds have witnessed for a long time, will play host one to of the pioneers of grime Wiley and UK rapper Devlin as the first confirmed headliners for 2013.

New announcements for Reading Festival 2013:
- Announced 25th April 2013 -

Alkaline Trio
AlunaGeorge
And So I Watch You From Afar
Arcane Roots
A-Trak
Balthazar
Big Black Delta
Bondax
British Sea Power
The Bronx
Bury Tomorrow
California X
Cerebral Ballzy
Chapel Club
Charli XCX
Chvrches
Clean Bandit
The Computers
Crossfaith
Crystal Fighters
Dillon Francis
Drenge
Shikari Sound System
The Family Rain
FIDLAR
Findlay
Flux Pavillion
Fred V & Grafix
Fenech-Soler
Friction
Frightened Rabbit
Funeral For A Friend
Gallows
Half Moon Run
Heaven's Basement
Is Tropical
Jacob Plant ft. Majestic
Jagwar Ma
The Jim Jones Revue
Kate Nash
King Prawn
Kodaline
The Living End
Lower Than Atlantis
Lucy Rose
Merchandise
MMX
MØ
MS MR
Nico Vega
Night Works
Parquet Courts
Pure Love
Quicksand
Redlight
Robert Delong
RX Bandits
Sick Of It All
SKATERS
Skindred
Spector
Splashh
Surfer Blood
Tim Burgess
To Kill A King
Tribes
twenty one pilots
We Are The In Crowd
Willy Moon


Artists announced so far:

MAIN STAGE
Friday 23rd August
Green Day 
System Of A Down 
Deftones 
Frank Turner 
Bring Me The Horizon 
New Found Glory 
Skindred
While She Sleeps

Saturday 24th August
Eminem 
Chase and Status 
Foals 
White Lies 
Brand New 
Twin Atlantic 
The Blackout
Lower Than Atlantis
Mallory Knox

Sunday 25th August
Biffy Clyro 
Nine Inch Nails 
Fall Out Boy 
The Lumineers 
Editors 
Hadouken! 
We Are The In Crowd
Bury Tomorrow

NME/RADIO 1 STAGE
Friday 23rd August
Skrillex
A$AP Rocky
Major Lazer
Bastille
Peace
Deap Vally

Saturday 24th August
Alt-J
Jake Bugg
Tame Impala
Imagine Dragons
Johnny Marr
Palma Violets
Modestep 
Theme Park

Sunday 25th August
Phoenix
Azealia Banks
Disclosure
City And Colour 
Haim 
Alex Clare 
Tribes
AlunaGeorge

DANCE STAGE
Friday 23rd August
Sub Focus Live
Fenech-Soler
Iggy Azalea 

Saturday 24th August
Magnetic Man
A-Trak
Flux Pavillion

Sunday 25th August
Knife Party
Baauer 
Dillon Francis

1XTRA STAGE
Friday 23rd August
Wiley

Saturday 24th August
Devlin

Sunday 25th August
Names to be announced soon

LOCK UP STAGE
Alkaline Trio
Tomahawk 
Shikari Soundsystem
More names to be announced soon 

FESTIVAL REPUBLIC STAGE
Crystal Fighters
British Sea Power
Spector
CHVRCHES
Surfer Blood
Lucy Rose
Tim Burgess
Pure Love
The Jim Jones Revue
Swim Deep 
Temples 
The 1975 
The Strypes 
More names to be announced soon 

BBC INTRODUCING STAGE
Names to be announced soon

ALTERNATIVE STAGE
Names to be announced soon

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