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Little Boots self confirm Reading and Leeds Appearance

Little Boots

In a recent interview with NME.com Little Boots confirmed that she would be playing a host of UK Festivals this year, including Bestival, T In The Park, Reading and Leeds and Glastonbury. She also quashed rumours that she would be playing this years V Festival.

She also said that she hopes her early fans don’t think that she’s sold out as she’s gotten more popular.

Little Boots is now the second artist to confirm for the Reading and Leeds festivals alongside Kings of Leon.

Reading and Leeds festivals take place this year between the Bank Holiday weekend of Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August this year.

Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday 30th March at 7pm with the official line up and price details being made available only hours earlier.

Soulwax and 2Many DJs added to Bestival Line-Up

Soulwax

Soulwax will first play the main stage in the evening, before swapping guitars for headphones to spin as 2Many DJs in the Big Top at night.

They join Kraftwerk and Massive Attack, who will headline the event which has won the Best Medium Festival at the UK Festival Awards three times.

Click—–>here<—–to see the full festival line-up.

As previously reported on Wristband the fancy dress theme will be Outer Space and it will include Blastival, a fiery spectacle that blends pyrotechnical pleasures with street theatre.

Bestival 2009 will take place at Robin Hill Country Park, Newport on the Isle Of Wight from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September.

Tickets are on sale now priced at £140 for the weekend.

Kraftwerk for Bestival

The chaos of festival options closes in on us again, and the proverbial clock is ticking away. To add to your confusion Bestival has announced its mammoth line up.

Kraftwerk will be putting in a UK festival exclusive on the Saturday night and Massive Attack have been named for the Friday.

New York, space-rockers MGMT have also been confirmed alongside the likes of Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve, Klaxons and Little Boots.

The full line up, which is far too long to post here, can be found here.

Bestival returns to Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, and happens from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September. This year also features a space theme, and a brand new line up.

Tickets are available now for £140. Campervan Tickets are available for £50 although organisers are warning that the vehicle must be specially adapted for people to stay in, which does not include transit vans with a mattress in the back or 4x4s with the seats folded down.

All tickets include camping.

Click here to listen to Autobahn by Kraftwerk