We’ll start with Reading and Leeds, even though the event is already a record sell out!

Headlining are, as expected, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica and The Killers, with Manic Street preachers, The Cribs and Babyshambles topping the Radio 1 Stage.

Others playing include Bloc Party, Slipknot, Queens of the Stone Age, Pendulum, Tenacious D and Anti-Flag.

A festival you can still get a ticket for is the rather excellent Latitude, and two more headliners were confirmed this week.

The Mars Volta will top the bill on the Saturday in the Uncut Arena, with returning cult act Tindersticks closing the festival on that stage the following night.

Also new for the Main Stage are Grinderman, The Go! Team and Seasick Steve.

Latitude is headlined by Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros and Interpol.

The festival happens over the weekend of July 17-20, and returns to it’s usual home of Henham Park Estate in Suffolk.

Tickets are on sale now, a weekend ticket will cost you £130.

Franz Ferdinand and Sigur Ros are also headlining Connect, as are Kasabian.

Manic Street Preachers will also be playing in the grounds of Inveraray Castle, Loch Fyne, Argyll over the weekend of August 29-31, as are The Breeders, Grinderman, Amy MacDonald, Elbow, The Gossip, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, The Coral (Acoustic), Roots, Levellers, Paolo Nutini, Duffy and Camera Obscura.

A weekend non camping ticket will cost you £120, £140 with camping.

Five more have been added to the ever-growing Wireless line up.

Guillemots, Siouxsie Sioux, Dirty Pretty Things, New York Dolls and Lightspeed Champion have all been confirmed to play the main stage when Morrissey headlines the O2 Wireless Festival on July 4.

They will join the previously announced acts Beck and The National.

Tickets are on sale now for this, and the other days which are headlined by Fatboy Slim (July 5) and Counting Crowes (July 6).

A Thursday night headliner is still to be announced.

Supergrass and Primal Scream were added this week to the Hop Farm Festival, set to take place in Kent the same weekend (July 6).

Neil Young is the headline act, with tickets for this also on sale now.

Happening the same weekend as Reading and Leeds is Beachdown Festival, which will take place on the South Downs near Brighton (Fri 22-Mon 25 August).

De La Soul, Reverend and the Makers, Lightspeed Champion, Devonte Hynes once of Test Icicles, Terry Callier, The Infadels and Freak Power.

Day tickets are £30, a full weekend ticket is £85.

UK/Irish festivals on sale as of Sunday April 6:

2000 Trees, All Tomorrow's Parties vs Pitchfork, Beachdown, Beautiful Days, Bestival, Blissfield, Bloodstock Open Air, Camden Crawl, Camp Bestival, Connect, Creamfields, Dot to Dot, Download, Electric Picnic, End of the Road, Field Day, Forgotten Valley, Gatecrasher Summer Soundsystem, Give It A Name, Great Escape, Green Man, Guilfest, Hard Rock Calling, Hop Farm, Hox to Dot, Latitude, Live at Loch Lomond, Lovebox, O2 Wireless, Redfest, Relentless, Rip Curl Boardmasters, Rock and Blues Custom Show, Rock Ness, Secret Garden, Summer Sundae, Under Age Festival and Wakestock.