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Two bands from Huddersfield are in with a position at playing at the Leeds Festival. Both Tokyo Corner and Dirty Green Vinyl have made it to heats of the yearly Futuresound contest at The Cockpit in Leeds. The competition offers unsigned music groups the coveted scope for 1 of 6 festival slots, 5 on BBC Introducing Stage as well as the overall winner taking on the Festival Republic stage.

The promoters based in Leeds have whittled down hundreds and hundreds of hopeful entrants as well as announced the final sixty performers, who will play in one of fifteen dates during June as well as in July. Dirty Green Vinyl’s heat is on 8th July, Monday, while Tokyo Corner will perform on 18th July, Thursday. Tickets for the event are available from bands as well as on the door on the night.

Earlier this week the Reading and Leeds Festival organizers announced yet another wave of music bands for the yearly August bank holiday music festival. The Main line up has been elaborated to include The Pretty Reckless and Don Broco.

Post War Years, Alvin Risk and electronic music pair Pegboard Nerds have all been included to the BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage. Over on the Lock Up/Rock Stage inclusions are Sonic Boom Six, Feed The Rhino, The Creepshow, Palm Reader, Rat Attack, Gnarwolves, Off With Their Heads, Anti Vigilante, Sharks, Chuck Ragan, Great Cynics, Filter, The Virginmarys, Beware Of Darkness Hacktivist and Hawk Eyes.

Green Day have joined the likes of Eminem and Biffy Clyro to be the 3rd and final headliner for the 2013 Reading and Leeds Festivals. The United States pop punk veteran act from California started their journey in the year 1987 and they broke into the mainstream music in the 1990s with their 3rd album named Dookie that spawned hit tracks such as – When I Come Around and Basket Case. The group would come back to play in the 2013 Reading festival on 23rd August, Friday and also on Leeds Festival, 24th August, Saturday after playing a secret Reading Festival 2nd stage on the final day of 2012’s festival.

On the other hand, Nine Inch Nails would make their live come back to the United Kingdom shores for the very 1st time since the year 2009 when the band played their only United Kingdom shows of 2013 at the Reading Festival on Sunday and at the Leeds Festival on Friday, the band before Biffy Clyro.

Frank Turner would also come back to the Reading festival and Leeds festival, making 2013 his 7th consecutive year at twinned site music festivals and coming back with work from his upcoming 5th solo album called – ‘Tape Deck Heart’. Other acts such as Twin Atlantic, Editors, Chase and Status, The Lumineers, White Lies and Brand New will also be a part of the Main Stage across both music festival sites.