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Billie Eilish became the youngest idiosyncratic ever to header Glastonbury festival this summer
Billie Eilish, Sam Fender and Lewis Capaldi person been announced arsenic headliners of adjacent year's Reading and Leeds festivals.
Imagine Dragons, Foals and The Killers volition besides beryllium starring connected the main stages.
Greg James revealed the line-up connected his Radio 1 Breakfast Show earlier.
The three-day festival volition instrumentality spot connected 25 to 27 August, returning to Richfield Avenue, Reading, and Leeds' Bramham Park.
Becky Hill, who's besides appearing connected the bill, says she "can't hold to consciousness the energy" of the crowds.
"The vigor is unmatched by immoderate different festival," she says. "It's 1 of my favourite crowds to execute to."
Wet Leg, MUNA, Eliza Rose, Loyle Carner, slowthai, Bicep, Central Cee and Baby Queen volition besides beryllium playing.
They'll beryllium joined connected the measure by Don Broco, Tion Wayne, Nessa Barrett, Declan McKenna and You Me At Six.
Afterglow vocalist Becky has been performing astatine the festival for a fig of years and says she "loves the information that I've worked my mode up the bill".
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Image caption,Becky Hill told BBC Newsbeat she "can't wait" to execute astatine the festivals adjacent year
"The amusement present has truly recovered its beat," says Becky.
"I'm precise excited to to person truthful galore radical enjoying themselves from each antithetic backgrounds."
Her show features resistance artists and Becky says inclusion is "so important" to her set.
"There shouldn't beryllium immoderate exclusion successful in creation music, and immoderate euphony successful anywhere, but peculiarly erstwhile radical party, it should beryllium for everybody and anyone."
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Image caption,Seventeen Going Under vocalist Sam Fender is listed to execute astatine the festival
After the pandemic, determination was disapproval that festivals had "forgotten" targets to beryllium much representative and see much female-led acts.
For adjacent year's line-up, conscionable 1 successful six headliners are female-led performers astatine Reading and Leeds.
"There's ever country for improvement," Becky tells Newsbeat.
"I think, not lone for women, but for radical of colour, for queer people, for non-binary artists."
But she says "it's beauteous to spot things changing".
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Image caption,Lewis Capaldi joins The Killers, Foals and Wet Leg arsenic header acts
Reading and Leeds besides drew disapproval past twelvemonth erstwhile a fig of acts pulled retired astatine abbreviated notice.
The 1975 replaced headliners Rage Against the Machine astatine 2 weeks' announcement and Eurovision winners Måneskin and US rapper Jack Harlow besides cancelled their sets.
Trouble flared connected the last time of the 2022 Leeds festival with tents acceptable connected fire. It followed the decease of 16-year-old David Celino, who fell sick aft taking a peculiar benignant of ecstasy astatine the festival.
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