QUEENS Of The Stone Age and Paramore are joining the already confirmed Arctic Monkeys and Blink-182 as headliners at the three-day Leeds Festival at Bramham Park in August.

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Rock heavyweights Queens Of The Stone Age and pop-rock trailblazers Paramore will share the headliners’ role on August 23 in their only British appearance of this year, alongside their August 22 performance at the Reading sister festival. Josh Homme’s QOTSA will be breaking their duck as headliners after five Leeds festivals; Paramore have chalked up four Leeds outings already.

Pop-punk legends Blink-182 play their only UK shows of 2014 at Leeds on August 22 and Reading on August 24 with a new album in tow, while 2014 BRIT Award winners Arctic Monkeys take the festival closing spot at Leeds on the Sunday.

Also confirmed for the Bramham Park main stage on August 22 are Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, alias the hip-hop duo of rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis, whose meteoric rise has been cemented by four Grammy Awards this year for Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.

Hertfordshire rockers You Me At Six promote their number one album, Cavalier Youth; metalcore act A Day To Remember promise one of the heaviest sets of the weekend and Sleeping With Sirens make their Leeds debut.

Disclosure, The 1975, Metronomy, Clean Bandit and “the UK’s most mysterious band”, Jungle, are booked for the NME/Radio 1 stage for the Friday.

The Saturday main stage bill also features New Yorkers Vampire Weekend’s first Leeds Festival show since 2009; the return of Enter Shikari, who switched to Shikari Soundsystem mode at last summer’s festival; a festival exclusive set by Jimmy Eat World; Norfolk alternative rock band Deaf Havana; and rap metal combi Hacktivist, who step up from the Lock Up/Rock Stage in 2013 to the opening slot.

The NME/Radio 1 stage has lined up Courteeners, SBTRKT and Warpaint, plus Temples, promoting their psychedelic Top Ten album Sun Structures, and noisy grunge rock sibling duo Drenge.

Nottingham wunderkind Jake Bugg is on the Sunday main stage, as are Grammy Award-winning American alternative rockers Imagine Dragons and indie-pop trio Foster The People, whose sophomore album, Supermodel, will be released this month.

Ever energetic Swedish festival favourites The Hives will be returning to Leeds and indie champs Peace will be looking to build on the promise of last year’s In Love album.

On the NME/Radio 1 stage, North Londoners Bombay Bicycle Club take the Sunday headline spot in the wake of their fourth album, February’s So Long, See You Tomorrow, claiming the number one spot. Lauren Mayberry’s Chvrches follow up last year’s breakthrough album The Bones of What You Believe with a festival spot; South Africa’s Die Antwoord’s futuristic rap-rave hybrid, Don Broco, Cage The Elephant and London electronic trio NERO (Live) will be there too.

Leeds Festival fans have the chance to secure their 2014 tickets at 2013 prices until March 31. Tickets are strictly limited to a maximum of four per person/address/payment card for those booking by telephone on 0871 231 0821 or online at festivalrepublic.com or leedsfestival.com