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Reading & Leeds announce headliners for 2023

Billie Eilish will be topping the bill at Reading & Leeds 2023 alongside the likes of Foals and The Killers.

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Reading & Leeds Festival have announced the six headliners for 2023 plus a ton of other acts.

Topping the bill across the weekend at the August Bank Holiday weekender are Billie Eilish, Foals, Imagine Dragons, Sam Fender, The Killers and Lewis Capaldi.

Elsewhere on the line-up, previous K! cover stars Don Broco and You Me At Six will play alongside Wet Leg, Slowthai, Central Cee, MUNA, Nothing But Thieves and more.

Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic, says, "We are delighted to return to
Reading’s Richfield Avenue and Leeds’ Bramham Park in 2023 with another epic six headline
artists, and an incredible, genre-defying line-up that features some of the very best in modern music. Once again Reading & Leeds is set to be the ultimate bank holiday festival weekend – we can’t wait to be back!”

Reading & Leeds takes place August 25-27, 2023.

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