Blur for Carling Weekend

Blur are to co-headline this year's Reading and Leeds Carling Weekend Festivals, dotmusic can confirm.

The band, who release their long-awaited seventh album - 'Think Tank' - next month, will play the Main Stage on Saturday August 23 (Reading) and Sunday, August 24 (Leeds).

US rock acts Linkin Park and Metallica will join Blur as headliners for the annual festival, with acts including The White Stripes, Blink 182 and System Of A Down also scheduled to perform over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Full details are as follows:

Reading - Little Johns Farm, Reading Rd, Berks

Friday, August 22: Linkin Park, Blink 182
Saturday, August 23: Blur, The White Stripes
Sunday, August 24: Metallica, System Of A Down

Leeds - Temple Newsam Park, West Yorkshire

Friday, August 22: Metallica, System Of A Down
Saturday, August 23: Linkin Park, Blink 182
Sunday, August 24: Blur, The White Stripes

Other acts confirmed to play are as follows: Sum 41, Beck, Placebo, Doves, The Streets, Elbow, The Music, Courtney Love, Good Charlotte, The Polyphonic Spree, The Datsuns, AFI, The Mars Volta, Hundred Reasons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cooper Temple Clause.

Further acts will be announced over the coming weeks.

Tickets are available now, click HERE to buy.

Weekend passes (car parking and camping included) are priced at £95, with day passes (car parking only) at £40. All prices subject to booking fee.

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