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Reading festival is one of the Uk's biggest Rock festivals. Once a mainstream rock/heavy rock festival it now opens its arms up to the indie rock and mixed rock scene with a varied lineup, an excellent dance arena as well. This is one not to be missed. This festival always pulls big acts in to make their lineup that little bit better. 

This year’s headliners have to be seen to be believed. The most exciting act taking to the main stage is undoubtedly super-group The Cure, who hit the stage on Friday. 2012 marks the band’s first set at the Reading Festival for 33 years. Other acts headlining on Friday include the dreamy Bombay Bicycle Club, raucous You Me At Six and the chaotic electronic duo of Crystal Castles.

Saturday promises to be just as spectacular as Friday, as festival favourites Kasabian take the floor alongside contemporaries Enter Shikari and Blood Red Shoes. The enigmatic Florence + The Machine’s complex lyrics and soaring melodies are the perfect ice breaker for indie kids The Shins and Mystery Jets. The Vaccines and Odd Future Wolf Game Kill Them All promise to break up the sets with their unique takes on modern punk and grimy street beats.

Closing off the main stage on Sunday is Dave Grohl and the boys of the Foo Fighters – a legendary live act, the Foos wowed crowds at T in the Park last year and look set to do the same with their new material for Reading Festival. The quirky funky sounds of The Black Keys, riotous cries of the Kaiser Chiefs and self-referential rock of The Eagles of Death Metal will also flow freely from the main stage on the last day of the festival.

Rumours still abound that Katy B and Metronomy could be making an appearance and announcements are still sneaking out all the time, so keep your eye on this page to stay abreast of all the developments to Reading Festival 2012’s line-up.

A great rock festival with a brilliant mix of artist's.
The Cure Main Stage
Paramore Main Stage
Bombay Bicycle Club Main Stage
You Me At Six Main Stage
Crystal Castles Main Stage
Angels and Airwaves Main Stage
Coheed and Cambria Main Stage
Cancer Bats Main Stage
Deaf Havana Main Stage
The Maccabees NME Stage
Foster the People NME Stage
The Courteeners NME Stage
Graham Coxon NME Stage
Passion Pit NME Stage
The Blackout NME Stage
The Hives NME Stage
Spector NME Stage
Friends NME Stage
Chiddy Bang NME Stage
Here We Go Magic NME Stage
Sleigh Bells Festival Republic Stage
The Subways Festival Republic Stage
Veronica Falls Festival Republic Stage
Bastille Festival Republic Stage
Niki & The Dove Festival Republic Stage
Zulu Winter Festival Republic Stage
Lucy Rose Festival Republic Stage
Alt-J Festival Republic Stage
We Are Augustines Festival Republic Stage
JEFF the Brotherhood Festival Republic Stage
Savages Festival Republic Stage
FIDLAR Festival Republic Stage
Palma Violets Festival Republic Stage
O\'Brother Festival Republic Stage
Social Distortion Lock Up Stage
Anti-Flag Lock Up Stage
Every Time I Die Lock Up Stage
The Bouncing Souls Lock Up Stage
Saves The Day Lock Up Stage
Touché Amoré Lock Up Stage
A Wilhelm Scream Lock Up Stage
Ceremony Lock Up Stage
Random Hand Lock Up Stage
Dead to Me Lock Up Stage
Star Fucking Hipsters Lock Up Stage
Pettybone Lock Up Stage
Chris Cox Alternative Stage
Chris Ramsey Alternative Stage
Katherine Ryan Alternative Stage
Late Night Gimp Fight Alternative Stage
Nathan Caton Alternative Stage
Scroobius Pip Alternative Stage
Kasabian Main Stage
Florence + The Machine Main Stage
The Vaccines Main Stage
Enter Shikari Main Stage
The Shins Main Stage
OFWGKTA Main Stage
Mystery Jets Main Stage
Blood Red Shoes Main Stage
Los Campesinos! Main Stage
At the Drive-In NME Stage
The Cribs NME Stage
Mastodon NME Stage
Billy Talent NME Stage
Miike Snow NME Stage
Santigold NME Stage
Dry The River NME Stage
Twin Atlantic NME Stage
Pure Love NME Stage
Feeder Festival Republic Stage
Young Guns Festival Republic Stage
Lower Than Atlantis Festival Republic Stage
Bassnectar (DJ Set) Festival Republic Stage
We Are the In Crowd Festival Republic Stage
Dog Is Dead Festival Republic Stage
Jake Bugg Festival Republic Stage
Don Broco Festival Republic Stage
Oberhofer Festival Republic Stage
The Knux Festival Republic Stage
Citizens Festival Republic Stage
Theme Park Festival Republic Stage
THE MINUTES Festival Republic Stage
Blood or Whiskey Festival Republic Stage
Metronomy Dance Stage
Katy B Dance Stage
Azealia Banks Dance Stage
Jaguar Skills Dance Stage
Modestep Dance Stage
Feed Me Dance Stage
Grimes Dance Stage
The Japanese Popstars Dance Stage
Clement Marfo and The Frontline Dance Stage
Jagga Dance Stage
Benjamin Zephaniah Alternative Stage
Doc Brown Alternative Stage
Jeff Leach Alternative Stage
Jimmy Mcghie Alternative Stage
Kid Koala Alternative Stage
Lee Nelson Alternative Stage
Reginald D Hunter Alternative Stage
Thepetebox Alternative Stage
Foo Fighters Main Stage
The Black Keys Main Stage
Kaiser Chiefs Main Stage
Bullet For My Valentine Main Stage
All Time Low Main Stage
The Gaslight Anthem Main Stage
Eagles of Death Metal Main Stage
Band of Skulls Main Stage
Pulled Apart by Horses Main Stage
Justice NME Stage
Two Door Cinema Club NME Stage
The Horrors NME Stage
SBTRKT NME Stage
Mark Lanegan NME Stage
The Joy Formidable NME Stage
Tribes NME Stage
Django Django NME Stage
Howler NME Stage
Of Monsters and Men NME Stage
The View Festival Republic Stage
The Futureheads Festival Republic Stage
Benjamin Francis Leftwich Festival Republic Stage
King Charles Festival Republic Stage
2:54 Festival Republic Stage
S.C.U.M Festival Republic Stage
Alberta Cross Festival Republic Stage
Iceage Festival Republic Stage
DZ Deathrays Festival Republic Stage
Toy Festival Republic Stage
Deap Vally Festival Republic Stage
The Cast of Cheers Festival Republic Stage
L.A. Festival Republic Stage
Less Than Jake Lock Up Stage
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Lock Up Stage
Gallows Lock Up Stage
Turbonegro Lock Up Stage
Trash Talk Lock Up Stage
Good Riddance Lock Up Stage
The Skints Lock Up Stage
Polar Bear Club Lock Up Stage
This Is Hell Lock Up Stage
The Flatliners Lock Up Stage
Apologies, I Have None Lock Up Stage
Damo Clark Alternative Stage
Glenn Wool Alternative Stage
Holly Walsh Alternative Stage
Jason Byrne Alternative Stage
Popcorn Comedy Alternative Stage
Seann Walsh Alternative Stage
Stephen K Amos Alternative Stage
SilentArena Silent Arena
Artist Stage Day
2:54 Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
A Wilhelm Scream Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Alberta Cross Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
All Time Low Main Stage Sun 26th
Alt-J Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Angels and Airwaves Main Stage Fri 24th
Anti-Flag Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Apologies, I Have None Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
At the Drive-In NME Stage Sat 25th
Azealia Banks Dance Stage Sat 25th
Band of Skulls Main Stage Sun 26th
Bassnectar (DJ Set) Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Bastille Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Benjamin Francis Leftwich Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Benjamin Zephaniah Alternative Stage Sat 25th
Billy Talent NME Stage Sat 25th
Blood or Whiskey Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Blood Red Shoes Main Stage Sat 25th
Bombay Bicycle Club Main Stage Fri 24th
Bullet For My Valentine Main Stage Sun 26th
Cancer Bats Main Stage Fri 24th
Ceremony Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Chiddy Bang NME Stage Fri 24th
Chris Cox Alternative Stage Fri 24th
Chris Ramsey Alternative Stage Fri 24th
Citizens Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Clement Marfo and The Frontline Dance Stage Sat 25th
Coheed and Cambria Main Stage Fri 24th
Crystal Castles Main Stage Fri 24th
Damo Clark Alternative Stage Sun 26th
Dead to Me Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Deaf Havana Main Stage Fri 24th
Deap Vally Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Django Django NME Stage Sun 26th
Doc Brown Alternative Stage Sat 25th
Dog Is Dead Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Don Broco Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Dry The River NME Stage Sat 25th
DZ Deathrays Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Eagles of Death Metal Main Stage Sun 26th
Enter Shikari Main Stage Sat 25th
Every Time I Die Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Feed Me Dance Stage Sat 25th
Feeder Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
FIDLAR Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Florence + The Machine Main Stage Sat 25th
Foo Fighters Main Stage Sun 26th
Foster the People NME Stage Fri 24th
Friends NME Stage Fri 24th
Gallows Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Glenn Wool Alternative Stage Sun 26th
Good Riddance Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Graham Coxon NME Stage Fri 24th
Grimes Dance Stage Sat 25th
Here We Go Magic NME Stage Fri 24th
Holly Walsh Alternative Stage Sun 26th
Howler NME Stage Sun 26th
Iceage Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Jagga Dance Stage Sat 25th
Jaguar Skills Dance Stage Sat 25th
Jake Bugg Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Jason Byrne Alternative Stage Sun 26th
Jeff Leach Alternative Stage Sat 25th
JEFF the Brotherhood Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Jimmy Mcghie Alternative Stage Sat 25th
Justice NME Stage Sun 26th
Kaiser Chiefs Main Stage Sun 26th
Kasabian Main Stage Sat 25th
Katherine Ryan Alternative Stage Fri 24th
Katy B Dance Stage Sat 25th
Kid Koala Alternative Stage Sat 25th
King Charles Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
L.A. Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Late Night Gimp Fight Alternative Stage Fri 24th
Lee Nelson Alternative Stage Sat 25th
Less Than Jake Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Los Campesinos! Main Stage Sat 25th
Lower Than Atlantis Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Lucy Rose Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Mark Lanegan NME Stage Sun 26th
Mastodon NME Stage Sat 25th
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Metronomy Dance Stage Sat 25th
Miike Snow NME Stage Sat 25th
Modestep Dance Stage Sat 25th
Mystery Jets Main Stage Sat 25th
Nathan Caton Alternative Stage Fri 24th
Niki & The Dove Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
O\'Brother Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Oberhofer Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Of Monsters and Men NME Stage Sun 26th
OFWGKTA Main Stage Sat 25th
Palma Violets Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Paramore Main Stage Fri 24th
Passion Pit NME Stage Fri 24th
Pettybone Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Polar Bear Club Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Popcorn Comedy Alternative Stage Sun 26th
Pulled Apart by Horses Main Stage Sun 26th
Pure Love NME Stage Sat 25th
Random Hand Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Reginald D Hunter Alternative Stage Sat 25th
S.C.U.M Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Santigold NME Stage Sat 25th
Savages Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Saves The Day Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
SBTRKT NME Stage Sun 26th
Scroobius Pip Alternative Stage Fri 24th
Seann Walsh Alternative Stage Sun 26th
SilentArena Silent Arena day TBC
Sleigh Bells Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
Social Distortion Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Spector NME Stage Fri 24th
Star Fucking Hipsters Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Stephen K Amos Alternative Stage Sun 26th
The Black Keys Main Stage Sun 26th
The Blackout NME Stage Fri 24th
The Bouncing Souls Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
The Cast of Cheers Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
The Courteeners NME Stage Fri 24th
The Cribs NME Stage Sat 25th
The Cure Main Stage Fri 24th
The Flatliners Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
The Futureheads Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
The Gaslight Anthem Main Stage Sun 26th
The Hives NME Stage Fri 24th
The Horrors NME Stage Sun 26th
The Japanese Popstars Dance Stage Sat 25th
The Joy Formidable NME Stage Sun 26th
The Knux Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
The Maccabees NME Stage Fri 24th
THE MINUTES Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
The Shins Main Stage Sat 25th
The Skints Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
The Subways Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
The Vaccines Main Stage Sat 25th
The View Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Theme Park Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Thepetebox Alternative Stage Sat 25th
This Is Hell Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Touché Amoré Lock Up Stage Fri 24th
Toy Festival Republic Stage Sun 26th
Trash Talk Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Tribes NME Stage Sun 26th
Turbonegro Lock Up Stage Sun 26th
Twin Atlantic NME Stage Sat 25th
Two Door Cinema Club NME Stage Sun 26th
Veronica Falls Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
We Are Augustines Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
We Are the In Crowd Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
You Me At Six Main Stage Fri 24th
Young Guns Festival Republic Stage Sat 25th
Zulu Winter Festival Republic Stage Fri 24th
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