Blink 182 headlines Reading and Leeds Festivals

Festival season is almost upon us and every day brings another announcement of more big names at big events around the world. This time around, it was organizers of the Reading and Leeds Festivals.

This is a pair of British music festivals that are held every year on the same weekend at the end of August. The Reading Festival is the world’s oldest popular music festival still in existence.

Organizers just announced more headliners for the 2010 edition.

On August 27, 28, 29, the two stages, one in Reading and another in Leeds, will welcome Guns N’ Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink 182. Each of these bands will perform on each stage sometime over the three days of the festival.

Reading’s line-up is as follows: Guns N’ Roses will perform on Friday, August 27, Arcade Fire on the Saturday and Blink 182 hits the stage on the Sunday.

At Leeds, Arcade Fire performs at the festival on Friday, Blink 182 on the Saturday and Guns N’ Roses closes the festival on the Sunday.

Besides these big headliners, other artists scheduled to perform include Queens Of The Stone Age, The Libertines, Dizzee Rascal, Biffy Clyro, The Cribs, Weezer and Limp Bizkit.