Cribs, Manics, Enemy play Reading, Leeds

The Cribs, Manic Street Preachers and The Enemy are among the acts playing this year's Reading and Leeds festivals.

Reports earlier this month that The Killers, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica would headline the summer bash were confirmed yesterday.

Playing underneath The Killers will be Bloc Party, The Raconteurs, Editors, We Are Scientists, Dirty Pretty Things, The Subways, Manic Street Preachers, Bullet For My Valentine and Foals.

Alongside Metallica acts will include Tenacious D, Slipknot, Feeder, Avenged Sevenfold, The Cribs, Conor Oberst and Pendulum.

Lining up next to Rage Against The Machine are Queens of the Stone Age, The Fratellis, The Enemy, Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, Babyshambles and The Wombats.

Tickets for the events at Little Johns Farm, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds went on sale last night. Both festivals take place on August 22-24.