Originally written by Mike Diver · 29 July 2008
The BBC Introducing Stage visits the Reading and Leeds festivals for the first time next month, and here's who will perform across the three days of the August Bank Holiday weekend (click names for MySpace links).
Attack Attack
The Cherry Cobb Cartel
Darlings of the Splitscreen
Eureka Machines
Fangs
FF'ers
Flash Guns
Fox Cubs
General Fiasco
Hungry Ghosts
I concur
Ipso Facto (pictured)
Kid iD
The Last People on Earth
Loqui
The Maybes
New York Fund
Our Fold
Out From Animals
Pulled Apart By Horses
Razmatazzlorryexcitement
Situationists
Skeletons
That Fucking Tank
Thomas Tantrum
Tiger Shadow
Tripwires
The bands were chosen by a panel fronted by DJ Huw Stevens, who commented:
"Reading and Leeds is the festival for new music and so to have Introducing there is very exciting. The line-up for the stage offers a whole load of new talent and compliments the array of new artists playing."