My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, Muse and Pulp have been announced as headline acts for this year's Reading and Leeds festival.

My Chemical Romance will headline Reading on the Friday (August 26) and Leeds on Saturday (August 27) with support from 30 Seconds To Mars, The Offspring, Deftones, Rise Against and Bring Me The Horizon.

The Strokes will co-headline the main stage with Pulp on the Saturday night at Reading and Sunday at Leeds. The National, Jimmy Eat World, Madness, Two Door Cinema Club and Seasick Steve will also appear.

Muse will take to the main stage on the Sunday at Reading, and Friday in Leeds, with Elbow, Interpol, Friendly Fires, Enter Shikari, The View and Frank Turner.

Beady Eye, White Lies, Noah & The Whale, Crystal Castles, Bombay Bicycle Club, Everything Everything, The Kills, The Streets and Death From Above 1979 are also on the bill.

(by Holly Frith)