Our friends at Reading Festival reveal the latest tranche of additions to the bill - just as weekend tickets sell-out

With just weeks to go before the country's greatest pure rock festival kicks off, the organisers behind Reading Festival reveal a pile of new additions to its bill.

If you were lucky enough to have secured one of the now-sold out weekend tickets, the new names, for the BBC Introducing stage, may well leave you feeling extr smug.

If you weren't quick enough, you can make amends for your procrastination by grabbing a day ticket.

Designed to be a springboard for new talent, BBC Introducing has a knack in securing the hottest emerging talent - and has previously been responsible (or guilty, depending on your tastes) of signing-up Daughter, Don Broco, Everything Everything and Pulled Apart By Horses for Reading debuts.

So who is new?

Nottingham and London band Amber.

High Wycombe indie-pop band As Elephants.

Sunny Torquay indie-pop five-piece Big Wave.

London indie band Casablanca (who have earned comparisons to Bombay Bicycle Club, Cajun Dance Party and Theme Park).

Melodic Welsh-based indie four-piece Catfish and the Bottlemen

Enagaging ock pop hopefuls City of Lights.

Glasgow based post hardcore act Crusades.

Haunting-voiced 19 year-old East London singer-songwriter Denai Moore (who counts Plan B and Tom Odell among her fans).

Northern rising stars Glass Caves.

Transatlantic alternative indie-pop trio The Grand, who hail from Wakefield.

Up-and-coming Exeter five-piece I Divide.

West Midlands garage-pop four-piece Jaws (who have played alongside fellow Brum bands Peace and Swim Deep).

Politically-minded Nottingham songsmith Joel Baker.

York's chilled-out King No-One.

Live favoutes Lonely The Brave.

Alternative-folk-rock quartet Man Can’t Fly, from Bradford.

Newcastle’s energetic, feel-good pop act Mausi, featuring siblings Daisy and Thomas Finetto.

Writer Jon Headley's electronic-acoustic outfit Modo Stare - who mix 100-year old harmoniums with sparkling synthesizers, out-of- tune pianos, growling bass synths, antique cuckoo clocks and distorted drum loops.

Five-piece Peasants King from South Wales, who had their song Antidotes chosen as an Introducing Track of The Week, and earned comparisons to Kings of Leon and Vampire Weekend.

Scottish synthpop trio Prides, who rose from previous band Midnight Lion.

Ruen Brothers - featuring another pair of siblings, this time Rupert and Henry Stansall from Scunthorpe, who share a fascination with the early to mid-1960s. Their sound has been compared to Roy Orbison.

17 year old Nottingham's singer Saint Raymond, who is almost inevitably described as the next Jake Bugg.

Kent two-piece Slaves who have gained a fearsome live reputation with their political punk.

Reading's indie four-piece Sundara Karma.

Four-piece alternative rock band Theory 59 from Cleethorpes.

London's rhythmic alternative pop band Thumpers - formerly of Pull Tiger Tail.

Producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Frank Pescod' s solo vehicle To Be Frank.

Nineties-style indie band Tripwires from Reading.

Peterborough quintet We Are Fiction, who blend modern alternative rock with heartfelt lyrics.

Trio We Are Knuckle Dragger, who have recently toured with the Dillinger Escape Plan.

Striking Leeds duo Louisa Osborn and Chris Mulligan - We are Witch Hunt

Musician and producer Zaheer, who has already gained support from BBC Introducing, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 6 Music.

.. and there's more...

They join a handful of new acts across the rest of the festival, including:

Childhood - who have have supported Palma Violets and have been compared to Stone Roses, House of Love and Primal Scream.

Benin City - aka Theo Buckingham, Tom Leaper and Joshua Idehen from London, who have supported Soweto Kinch, VV Brown, Moko and Youngblood Brass band.

Bipolar Sunshine - the solo project of Manchester singer-songwriter Adio Marchant, who have collaborated with Rudimental.

Stay Positive - a London based producer and classically trained violinist.

Parachute Youth - who cite their influences as Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Cure and The Stone Roses.

Decade - an alternative rock / post-hardcore band from Bath, formally known as Ready Set Low.

The Wytches - Brighton band have had their music descried as “a cynical, dark and flowery take on psychedelia, 1950’s surf riffs, desert whips, loungey, melancholic shuffles with a stage performance that puts you under.”

Battle Lines - Leeds's dark and cerebral neo-shoegaze and synthpop idols.

For more on this year's Reading Festival - and the up to date ticket situation, go to Readingfestival.com