Apart from the huge headliners, Reading & Leeds Festivals are stuffed full of acts of varying smaller sizes. The line-up for the new band stage was announced today and Platform has compiled single-sentence descriptions* of each band playing so you can work out (in advance) exactly who to drag yourself away from the muddy horrors of the Main Stage for.
Marmaduke Duke – Eclectic yet digestible lightweight math-rock.
The Blackout – A bit loud, a bit shouty, a bit Welsh – Epitaph Records pulls out the goods.
La Roux – Insert “mum was in The Bill” gag here.
Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan – Incredibly dark and ethereal alt-folk.
Black Lips – Lo-fi 60’s revival pop with a layer of sticky beer and nicotine.
Bring Me The Horizon – Bring Me A Noose
Atreyu – Tangled post-hardcore from Orange County.
Lightspeed Champion – Basically still a huge joke about bollocks, with less brilliance.
The Rumblestrips – Showcasing new Mark Ronson produced sophomore album.
The Big Pink – Intense drug-addled late-night anthems.
Broken Records – Divergent and eclectic heavily orchestrated indie geekdom.
Bombay Bicycle Club – Cajun Dance Party’s younger and arguably fresher relations.
Marina And The Diamonds – Hyperactive orchestral pop with comical lyrical twists.
Skint And Demoralised – Spoken word verses over Northern Soul backing, fantastic.
The Temper Trap – Sparse yet effective intelligent landscapes of sound.
The Soft Pack – Stripped down lo-fi rock with intelligent wording.
Hockey – Synth-heavy post-MGMT hipster tunes.
Bear Hands – Bouncy lo-fi pop, Band Of Horses after a bucket of Haribo.
Amazing Baby – Mildly psychedelic American upstarts.
A Place To Bury Strangers – Addictive spacious but intense 80’s revival.
A Day To Remember – Angst releasing pop-punk with unrelenting apeal.
Fight Like Apes – They do this song called “Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues”. Enough said.
Titus Andronicus – Overexcitable shoegaze with an elegantly simple rhythm section.
Middle Class Rut – Poignant guitar riffs coupled with incendiary post-rock.
Single File – Charming indie-pop from Denver, a guilty pleasure.
Jack’s Mannequin – Gorgeous melancholy with explosive choruses.
Pulled Apart By Horses – A rush of art-rock influenced post-hardcore.
Grammatics – Delectable layers of delicate magnificence from Midlands starlets.
The Chapman Family – Maximo Park having a period, fantastic bloody mess.
Detroit Social Club – Elegant yet ramshackle blues throwback.
Golden Silvers – Homegrown psychedelic pop to rival Wesleyan’s finest.
Baddies – Aggressive angular post-punk from Southend-On-Sea.
Go Audio – Painfully familiar power-pop trash.
The Joy Formidable – Early Karen O colliding with fantastic heavy choruses and hooks.
Magistrates – Hotly tipped sample-heavy pop with velveteen vocal delivery.
The Hot Rats – Predictably outdated trash from 2/4 of Supergrass.
*Now with added LOLs.
WORDS: LIAM HAYNES
