The comedy line up for this years Leeds and Reading Festivals line up will include: Russell Howard, Bill Bailey, Marcus Brigstocke, Katherine Ryan, Lee Nelson, Russell Kane, Sara Pascoe, Joel Dommett, Holly Walsh and Owen Jones.  Leeds & Reading Festival takes place from 25th - 28th August at Bramham Park, Wetherby, West Yorkshire and Little John's Farm, Richfield Avenue, Reading

Also appearing are: The Boy With Tape On His Face, Andrew Maxwell, Mark Steel, Tom Deacon (Reading Only), John Robins, Carl Donnelly (Leeds Only), Daniel Simonsen, Dane Baptiste, Lloyd Griffith (Reading Only), Al Porter, Angela Barnes, Jamali Maddix, Lauren Pattison (Leeds Only) and Alternative Stage MC’s David Morgan, Iain Stirling, Dan Nightingale (Leeds Only) and Ian Boldsworth (Reading Only).

The Alternative Stage will also play host to a vast array of late night entertainment throughout the weekend, including a special appearance from the US hip-hop icon Grandmaster Flash who’ll be performing an explosive set at Leeds Festival only. He’ll be joined by hip-hop turntablist DJ Yoda and the impressive stylings of Rave Karaoke and Nightmares From The Discotheque for a full-throttled evening of entertainment, ensuring that Leeds will be dancing late into the night.

Masterful indie club night Propaganda will once again provide a late night euphoric disco soundtrack with special guest appearances from This Is England’s Thomas Turgoose, DJ Dan and many more, with Buttoned Up Disco also on hand with the rock, pop, punk and indie party-starters. Then be ready to travel back in time, with the unrivalled Hot Dub Time Machine bringing the world’s very first time-travelling party to Reading & Leeds this summer, taking you back on a journey through the defining hits of over 60 years of good times.

Artists already booked to perform at Leeds & Reading 2016 are: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foals, Disclosure, Biffy Clyro, Fall Out Boy, The 1975, Slaves, Courteeners, Boy Better Know, Twenty One Pilots, Eagles Of Death Metal, Slaves, Hinds, Ratboy, DJ EZ, Jack Ü, Imagine Dragons, Two Door Cinema Club, Fetty Wap, Crystal Castles, Parkway Drive, The Internet, Nothing But Thieves, Oliver Heldens, Hannah Wants, Kurupt Fm: Champagne Steam Rooms and Cassetteboy Vs DJ Rubbish, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Sleeping With Sirens, Asking Alexandria, FVK, Creeper, Citizen, Dillinger Escape Plan, Wakrat ,Dead!, Chvrches, The Vaccines, A$AP Rocky, HAIM, Jack Garratt, The Wombats, Lower Than Atlantis, Travi$ Scott, G-Eazy, Skindred, Five Finger Death Punch, The Neighbourhood and State Champs