This article was published in 2003.

Festival promoters Mean Fiddler have announced that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will take the slot vacated by the White Stripes at this year’s Leeds Festival. The band will play the Main Stage before headliners Blur on Sunday 24th August.

Those line ups in full:-

FRIDAY

MAIN STAGE: Metallica / System of a Down / Sum 41 / Primal Scream / Courtney Love / Good Charlotte / Lost Prophets / Godsmack / The Used
RADIO ONE STAGE: The Music / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Grandaddy / Hot Hot Heat / Hell is for Heroes / The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster / Radio 4 / The Raveonettes / Serafin / Kinesis / The Applicators
CARLING STAGE: British Sea Power / Manitoba / Hope of the states / Har Mar Superstar / Longview / Calla / Instruction / Winnebago Deal / The Stills / Keane / White Light Motorcade / Cardia / The Prosaics
DANCE ARENA: Lamb / Futureshock / Aphrodite / Just Jack / FC Kahuna / Blak Twang

SATURDAY

MAIN STAGE: Linkin Park / Blink 182 / Placebo / Jay Z / Staind / The Datsuns / Finch / Bowling For Soup
RADIO ONE STAGE: The Polyphonic Spree / Elbow / Interpol / Electric Six / Ladytron / Mull Historical Society / Alien Ant Farm / Ok Go / Saves The Day / All American Rejects
CARLING STAGE: Sparta / The Black Keys / Mclusky / Vue / The Hiss / Rocket Science / Franz Ferdinand / The Blueskins / Colour of Fire
DANCE ARENA: Death in Vegas / Richard Fearless / Blackalicous / Amon Tobin / Scissor Sisters / Buck 65 / My Computer

SUNDAY

MAIN STAGE: Blur / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Beck / Doves / The Streets / The Libertines / Junior Senior / The Darkness / Cave In
RADIO ONE STAGE: AFI / Hundred Reasons / Cooper Temple Clause / The Mars Volta / The Thrills / The Kills / The Rapture / Jet / My Morning Jacket / Futureheads
CARLING STAGE: The Bandits / Soledad Brothers / The Sights / The Sons / Ima Robot / The Revs / The Sun / Whirlwind Heat / The Go / The Agenda
CONCRETE JUNGLE STAGE: Pennywise / Lagwagon / The Ataris / Alkaline Trio / Mad Caddies / Turbonegro / Boy Sets Fire / Thrice / A Static Lullaby / King Prawn / Funeral for a Friend
DANCE ARENA: Audio Bullys / Spooks / Free*land / Gold Chains / Outlandish / The Majesticons / Zongamin

Check www.leedsfestival.com for more details.