The band join The National, Massive Attack and The Chemical Brothers as headliners for the festival 

Connect Festival has added an extra day and a host of new acts to their four day celebration, including rock icons Rage Against The Machine. Tickets for the extra day, set for Wednesday 24 August, go on sale at 9am on Saturday 23 April. 

Rage Against The Machine will perform in part to celebrate their 30^th anniversary. In a press release for the festival, a representative for festival promoters DF Concerts state, ‘Since forming in the early 1990s, Rage Against the Machine have educated masses of heavy music fans by injecting their cocktail of rap, hardcore punk, funk, and metal with a sobering dose of fiercely polemical, politically charged urgency throughout the years.

‘Now the band make their long-awaited return to Scotland to play at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre.’

The long-running band will be joined on Wednesday by Run The Jewels, Nova Twins and The Last Internationale, with more acts to be announced.

The full Connect Festival line-up so far: 

Wednesday 24 August: Rage Against the Machine, Run The Jewels, Nova Twins, The Last Internationale 

Friday 26 August: Massive Attack, Jon Hopkins, Black Coffee, John Grant, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Future Utopia, Maeve, Moses Boyd, Cloth, LVRA, Optimo (Espacio), Hammer.

Saturday 27 August: The Chemical Brothers, Bonobo, The Twilight Sad, Caribou, Chloe Moriondo, Ride playing Nowhere, LOW, Matt Maltese, Willie J Healey, Swim School, Erol Alkan, Nightwave.

Sunday 28 August: The National, Mogwai, Bombay Bicycle Club, Little Simz, Self Esteem, Black Country, New Road, Rae Morris, Idlewild playing The Remote Part, Admiral Fallow, Sudan Archives, Dehd, Hamish Hawk, Lizzie Reid, Geese, Kathleen Frances, Horse Meat Disco, Jamz Supernova, Rebecca Vasmant

Tickets for the Connect Festival's brand new date go on sale at 9am on Saturday 23 April.