Music festivals 2014: the top ten
Summer seem too far away? We round up the details of the big UK festivals, so you don’t have to

Reading and Leeds
Where: Richfield Avenue, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds
When: 22-24 August
Cost: £99.50 (day-ticket), £213 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Queens of the Stone Age, Blink 182, Paramore, Arctic Monkeys
orting: Imagine Dragons, Bombay Bicycle Club, You me At Six, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, The Courteeners, Disclosure, Jake Bugg, Vampire Weekend
Creamfields
Where: Daresbury, Halton, Cheshire
When: 22-24 August
Cost: £80-85 (day-ticket), £180 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: DeadMau5, Pete Tong, Avicii, Afrojack, Eric Prydz, Hardwell, Armin van Buuren, Steve Angello
Supporting: Claude Vonstroke, Skream, Sasha, Annie Mac

Download
Where: Donington Park, Derby
When: 13-15 June
Cost: £180 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Linkin Park, Aerosmith, Avenged Sevenfold
Supporting: The Offspring, Status Quo, Trivium, Alter Bridge, Fall Out Boy
Glastonbury
Where: Worthy Farm, Pilton
When: 25-29 June
Cost: £210 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Kasabian, Arcade Fire (more TBC)
Supporting: Dolly Parton, Elbow, The Black Keys, Blondie, Disclosure, Jack White, James Blake, Lily Allen
Latitude
Where: Henham Park, Suffolk
When: 17-20 July
Cost: £84.50 (day-ticket), £195.50 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Damon Albarn, The Black Keys, Two Door Cinema Club
Supporting: Editors, Haim, Billy Bragg, Bombay Bicycle Club, Kelis, Mogwai, Royksopp
The Secret Garden Party
Where: Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon
When: 24-27 July
Cost: £180.50 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Little Dragon, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Correspondents, Clean Bandit, Foxes, The Vandellas
Supporting: Denai Moore, Jagwar Ma, Wolf Alice Sub, Focus DJ Set + ID

Sonisphere
Where: Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire
When: 4-6 July
Cost: £63.25 (day-ticket), £159 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Iron Maiden, The Prodigy, Metallica, Dream Theatre, Limpbizkit
Supporting: Deftones, Alice In Chains, Slayer, Anthrax, Gary Numan
Bestival
Where: Robin Hill, Isle of Wight
When: 4-7 September
Cost: £180.50 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Outkast, Chic, Foals, Beck, Busta Rhymes, Annie Mac, Wilkinson
Supporting: London Grammar, Chvrches, Darkside, Wild Beasts, Glass Animals, Bonobo

The Isle of Wight
Where: Isle of Wight
When: 12-15 June
Cost: £75 (day-ticket), £190 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kings of Leon, Biffy Clyro, Calvin Harris
Supporting: Boy George, John Newman, Suede, Swim Deep, Katy B, Rudimental, The Horrors
V-Festival
Where: Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire
When: 16-17 August
Cost: £89 (day-ticket), £189 (weekend-ticket)
Headlining: Justin Timberlake, The Killers
Supporting: Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers, Ed Sheeran, Lily Allen, Paolo Nutini
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