Attention Thieves added to bill for Reading Festival

Published 23 Jul 2012 13:30 3 Comments

Berkshire band Attention Thieves have been announced for the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading Festival.

The alt-rock Reading four piece, who recently released EP Look A Little Closer, join up-and-coming acts including screamo-punks Max Raptor and the hotly-tipped Deaf Club on the BBC Introducing bill at the festival.

The three-day festival is headlined on the main stage by The Cure, Kasabian and Foo Fighters, with Maccabees, At The Drive-In, Florence and the Machine and Paramore also playing at Little John's Farm, Reading, from Friday, August 24-Sunday August 26.

Sunday day tickets for the festival are sold out. Weekend tickets cost £197.50 plus booking fee, and day tickets £85 from www.readingfestival.com

The full BBC Introducing line-up features:

Attention Thieves

Backyards

Bearfoot Beware

Black Moth

Crooked Tongues

Cut Ribbons

Danica Hunter

Deaf Club

Dear Prudence

Dingus Khan

Empror & Duppy Beatz

Escape To New York

Escapists

The Establishment

Family of the Year

Fish Tank

Glassbody

Hawk Eyes

Hildamay

Ifan Dafydd

Lady Lykez

Marmozets

Marsicans

Max Raptor

Mikill Pane

Park Bench Society

Proxies

Rachel Sermanni

RIO

Samoans

Sarah Williams White

Seasfire

Vengeance and the Panther Queen

Wet Nuns

We Walk On Ice

We Were Frontiers

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This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 23 Jul 12

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  HAMHAMsterMan
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  Jul 23, 15:16
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  Four Justin Bieber sound/lookalikes really aren't going to make an already troubled line-up any better now are they? On a plus Gary Numan is playing Sub89 in September.
  
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  Le Shiggy Diggy Face
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  Jul 30, 21:51
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  U mad bro?
  
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  89Essien
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  Aug 4, 17:19
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  Haha!! Classic Haters! Good luck to the lads!
  
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