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Faith No More have confirmed that they are to play the Reading and Leeds festivals. Again.

You might remember the band briefly announced the dates back in April and then retracted them within minutes, seemingly so as not to impact on ticket sales for last weekend’s Download festival, where they were also booked to play. Live Nation, who promote the Download festival, also co-own Reading/Leeds promoters Festival Republic, of course. With Download now safely out of the way, the official confirmation of Mike Patton et al’s Reading/Leeds booking was issued.

Of course there had been clues they were playing the end-of-August festival, other than the premature announcement by the band themselves. The eagle-eyed guys over at Thrash Hits had already spotted that the Reading and Leeds dates were printed on the band’s official tour t-shirts that were being sold at their Brixton show last week.

The real surprise, though, is that Faith No More will not be playing the main stage, they will be headlining the NME/Radio 1 Stage. Which will be nice for some people, perhaps not so for the hundreds who will no doubt be forced to stand outside the tent and listen to whoever’s on the main stage at the same time.