TOP comedians and club nights are among the acts taking to the Alternative Stage at the Reading and Leeds Festival.

Topping the bill will be comedian Simon Amstell, best known as host of Popworld and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, ahead of his What Is This? tour.

Returning to the festival after storming sets last year, is multi-award winning stand-up Bill Bailey bringing musical virtuosity, surreal tangents, and trademark intelligence, while Katherine Ryan will set out to entertain Reading and Leeds audiences with her razor-sharp pop culture critique.

Joining them over the bank holiday weekend are Comedy Central favourite Seann Walsh (Reading Only), Tape Face with his unique prop-lead performance, viral political sensation Jonathan Pie, Iain Stirling, who will join us fresh from a third series narrating TV ratings hit Love Island, and the spectacular sight of the one and only Piff The Magic Dragon.

Renowned indie club night Propaganda will provide a late-night euphoric disco soundtrack with special guest appearances lined up from breakthrough Main Stage blazers Blossoms, who’ll be delving into their record collection for a DJ set not to be missed.

Elsewhere, UK pop-punks Neck Deep will take to the Lock Up Stage for a landmark headline performance, while the ever-growing popstar Sigrid delivers a remarkable insight into the beats and hooks thousands have already fallen for.

Beloved Scottish indie kings The View will touch down at the festival, with an unmistakable trip down memory lane with their catalogue of singalong favourites, while El Clasico grime stormer Fekky will return to the fields with a full-throttle set of crowd-pleasing hits.

The stage is also set for the likes of dirty pop weavers Get Inuit, the unrivalled South London drill rhymes of 67, and Mancunion risers PINS who’ve all been added to the bill.

Further appearances will come from the likes of London via Berlin duo Lea Porcelain, alt-indie blenders Fizzy Blood, live juggernauts Otherkin, rap-rock morphers The LaFontaines, Irish favourites All Tvvin, Danish riff-rippers Baby In Vain, Toronto force K.I.D and Atlanta hip-hop swayer Father.

All acts join headline sets lined up from the already-confirmed Eminem, Muse and Kasabian.

For full line-up details and ticket information log on to www.readingfestival.com and www.leedsfestival.com

Acts confirmed in this announcement:

Simon Amstell
Bill Bailey
Katherine Ryan
Seann Walsh (Reading Only)
Tape Face
Jonathan Pie
Piff The Magic Dragon
Josie Long
Matt Richardson (Reading Only)
Neck Deep
Sigrid
The View
Fekky
67
Get Inuit
PINS
Lea Porcelain
Fizzy Blood
Baby In Vain
Otherkin
The LaFontaines
All Tvvin
K.I.D
Father
The Rubberbandits
Joe Lycett
Tiff Stevenson (Leeds Only)
Daniel Sloss
Ivo Graham
Dane Baptiste (Reading Only)
Suzi Ruffell (Leeds Only)
Iain Stirling
Elliot Steel
Sean Mcloughlin
Mark Oliver
Kiri Pritchard-Mclean (Leeds Only)
Lloyd Griffith
Pierre Novellie
Fin Taylor (Leeds Only)
Lauren Pattison (Leeds Only)
Jonny Awsum (Reading Only)
James Gill
Steve Hall (Reading Only)
Flo & Joan
Masud Milas
Wifi Wars
Hot Dub Time Machine
Propaganda w/Blossoms
Buttoned Down Disco
Rave Karaoke