READING AND LEEDS FESTIVAL 2018 LINEUP ANNOUNCED
by Kit Vickery
by Kit Vickery
Feb 15, 2018
Image credit: Reading Leeds Festival
Kings of Leon, Fall Out Boy, and Kendrick Lamar have been named as 2018 Reading and Leeds festival headliners.
Panic! at the Disco have been named as one of the top acts for the first time, and will perform alongside pop star Due Lipa and BBC Music Sound of 2018 winner Sigrid.
The first wave of 54 acts was announced this morning, Tuesday, February 13, with more names coming in the next few weeks and months.
The sister festivals, now in their 47th year, will take place between 24 and 26 August.
Kings of Leon have headlined the festivals once before in 2009, and this will be the fourth time they’ve played there. Fall Out Boy co-headlined the event with Biffy Clyro in 2016.
This comes off the back of his critically acclaimed DAMN. UK arena tour which will conclude later this week.
Up to 90,000 people are expected to attend across the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Event organiser Melvin Benn said: “Reading and Leeds prides itself on being a music-first festival and this year’s line-up already proves that.
"Kings of Leon and Fall Out Boy are bands that have grown with the festival and its fans and we couldn't be more pleased to invite them back to headline.
"Adding Panic! at the Disco and Kendrick Lamar, probably the most sought-after act in the world right now, we think Reading and Leeds Festivals 2018 are off to an amazing start”.
Panic! at the Disco frontman, Brendan Urie, was knocked out ​
Among the other performers named were Wolf Alice, Courteeners and The Wombats, as well as London-based rapper Skepta.
The festivals, based at Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds, are set to announce hundreds of acts before this summer.
on stage in 2006 after he was hit in the head by a bottle thrown from the crowd.