Massive Attack for Creamfields show

Massive Attack for Creamfields show

Massive Attack's only festival appearance is at Liverpool

Massive Attack are to headline this summer's Creamfields festival in Liverpool.

Their show on 23 August at the Old Liverpool Airfield will be their first ever in the city.

The band will play in front of 40,000 people on the festival's outdoor stage, which was added last year for the first time.

The show comes two days before Massive Attack play a huge outdoor concert in their home city of Bristol.

Creamfields, now in its sixth year, has attracted some of the world's biggest dance and electronic acts such as Run DMC, Primal Scream, Basement Jaxx, Underworld, Faithless and the Pet Shop Boys.

The full line-up is being announced on 25 April.

Meanwhile, a number of bands have been added to the Reading and Leeds Festivals.

Coldplay are headlining at V

Interpol and Electric Six will appear on the BBC Radio 1 stage alongside The Polyphonic Spree and Elbow on Friday 22 August at Reading, and on Saturday 23 August in Leeds.

The Libertines will play on the main stage on the Saturday at Reading and on the Sunday at Leeds, with The Streets, Doves, Beck, White Stripes and Blur.

Turin Brakes, Inspiral Carpets and The Zutons have been added to the V Festival on 16-17 August.

They join headliners Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters and David Gray at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Stafford.

Super Furry Animals, Kelly Osbourne, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Hives and PJ Harvey have also been confirmed for the show.

Headlining the 12th annual Guildford Festival on 4-6 July will be Madness, Alice Cooper and Love with Arthur Lee.