Faith Ridler
Reading & Leeds Festival has announced even more names across music stages and confirmed which comedians will be joining the coveted Alternative Stage line-up this Bank Holiday weekend.
Pop-punk’s finest Neck Deep are newcomers to the line-up alongside Fekky, Sigrid, The View, 67, Get Inuit, PINS, Lea Porcelain, Fizzy Blood, Baby In Vain, Otherkin, The LaFontaines, All Tvvin, K.I.D and Atlanta’s Father.
The festival has also released details of which arena-sized comedians will be gracing the Alternative Stage in August.
Never Mind The Buzzcocks regular Simon Amstell will be joined by Bill Bailey, Katherine Ryan, and Comedy Central favourite Seann Walsh.
The weekend will also see performances from Jonathan Pie, Tape Face, Iain Stirling, and the legend that is Piff The Magic Dragon.
Prop-king Tape Face said: “I am beyond excited to be playing not one but two of the greatest festivals in the UK. I am lost for words.”
Other acts include Josie Long, The Rubberbandits, Joe Lycett, Tiff Stevenson, Daniel Sloss, Ivo Graham, Dane Baptiste, Suzi Ruffell, Matt Richardson, Elliot Steel, Sean Mcloughlin, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, Lloyd Griffith, Fin Taylor, Lauren Pattison, Jonny Awsum, Steve Hall, Flo & Joan and Masud Milas.
The new recruits join headliners Muse, Kasabian, and Eminem in what is shaping up to be 2017’s biggest weekend in alternative music.
