headliners revealed in first wave of line-up
The six headliners for Studying & Leeds 2024 have been revealed: with Liam Gallagher, Lana Del Rey, Blink-182, Fred Once more.., Gerry Cinnamon and Catfish & The Bottlemen set to high the invoice.
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Returning to Little John’s Farm in Studying and Bramham Park in Leeds for Financial institution Vacation Weekend over August 21-25, the legendary twin-site pageant has introduced its first raft of giant names.
Lana Del Rey and Gerry Cinnamon is not going to solely be making their R+L headline debuts, but additionally performing UK unique reveals on the weekend. The long-rumoured Blink-182 can be headlining for the primary time since 2014, with Liam Gallagher and Catfish & The Bottlemen returning to high the invoice once more.
Catfish final headlined in 2021 amidst rumours of a break up, earlier than guitarist Johnny “Bondy” Bond confirmed that he had left the band.
Following his big look at Glastonbury final 12 months, Fred Once more.. stated that “the one UK pageant I’m enjoying subsequent 12 months and is the primary pageant I ever went to.”
Gallagher in the meantime, who topped the invoice at R+L again in 2021 and can subsequent 12 months be touring to have a good time 30 years of Oasis’ seminal ‘Positively Possibly‘ and probably releasing his long-rumoured album with Stone Roses legend John Squire, stated: “I’m gonna be enjoying Studying & Leeds – Essentially the most RnR festivals we’ve got left within the UK. Be there or be sq. LG x”
Gerry Cinnamon, who made his R+L debut again in 2021, stated: “Studying and Leeds. Final time was completely fucking bananas. Was first gig straight out of lockdown, heavy emotional. Headlining now so we’ll take it up one other stage once more. Buzzing to be again. See you there.”
Blink-182 can be performing with their lately reunited basic line-up to have a good time their comeback album ‘One Extra Time’, whereas Lana Del Rey follows her big 2023 reveals at Glastonbury and Hyde Park with a victory lap for her newest album, ‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel beneath Ocean Blvd’.
Past the headliners, Raye, Skrillex, Spiritbox and Digga D have additionally been confirmed to carry out.
Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Competition Republic stated: “We’re thrilled to announce the primary wave of artists for Studying & Leeds 2024. I’m very proud that the most important artists on the planet select to play Studying & Leeds and to have three unimaginable UK pageant exclusives – the electrifying Fred once more.., a real generational expertise Lana Del Ray and the legendary Blink-182.
“The enduring Liam Gallagher will return to play an all-time basic album ‘Positively Possibly’ which can be a particular second certainly. We satisfaction ourselves on nurturing artists from the early phases of their profession, so to see acts like Catfish & The Bottlemen rising by means of the pageant to headline for the second time may be very rewarding.”
He added: “2023 was a vastly profitable 12 months for attendance and sensational viewers suggestions, and we’re keen to construct upon this success even additional on the UK’s largest and greatest music pageant.”
The complete line-up for Studying & Leeds 2024 to this point is:
FRED AGAIN..
LANA DEL REY
LIAM GALLAGHER
BLINK-182
CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
GERRY CINNAMON
DIGGA D
RAYE
SKRILLEX
SPIRITBOX
Tickets to Studying & Leeds 2024 go on sale at 8.30am on Thursday November 30 and will be available here.
Talking to NME on the finish of Studying & Leeds 2023, Competition Republic’s Melvin Benn teased some potential “stage modifications” at each websites. “We don’t stand nonetheless at Studying & Leeds and prefer to mirror what’s occurring, so there can be a few modifications,” he stated. “There are all the time modifications within the artists, however there can be to the phases as properly.”
This 12 months’s occasion was headlined by The 1975, Foals, Billie Eilish, The Killers, Sam Fender and Think about Dragons