Red Hot Chili Peppers to Headline UK’s 2016 Reading & Leeds Festival

Credit: Clara BalzaryThe first batch of artists to play the 2016 edition of the U.K.'s Reading & Leeds festival has been revealed, and Red Hot Chili Peppers headlines the list. Twenty One Pilots and The 1975 also are included in the partial lineup.

This past summer's Reading & Leeds festivals featured performances by Metallica, Royal Blood, Mumford & Sons, Bring Me the Horizon, Wolf Alice and AWOLNATION.

Reading & Leeds consists of two festivals occurring simultaneously in England -- one at Reading's Richfield Avenue and the other at Leeds' Braham Park. The 2016 festivals will be held August 26-28. Visit ReadingandLeedsFestival.com for more info.

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