Leeds/Reading boss Melvin Benn: Young Fathers can headline the festival

As Reading and Leeds festival closed, organiser Melvin Benn predicted Young Fathers would headline soon.

Mumford & Sons, The Libertines and Metallica topped the bill this year, but the hip-hop trio from Edinburgh could fill those shoes.

He has one band already signed for 2016 and has made no secret of the fact he wants Foals to top the bill one day.

But Melvin is also looking much further into the future.

"Young Fathers have been the best young act I have seen in the last year," he tells Newsbeat at Leeds festival.

"They are not ready to headline Reading and Leeds yet, but will they? I think they will, I think they are that good.

"It will only be if they don't want to that it will it not happen, but if they want to, they are good enough to do so at a point."

It is high praise indeed for the Mercury Prize-winning group, whose success has been steadily growing in the past year.

So that is one possible future UK headliner, which is good news in a time when there is a lot of talk about there not being enough British bands to step up to the top spot.

But Melvin Benn is one man who believes in the British music scene.

"When I see a band like that, I just think this is the future, and I forget anything I have heard before, because it is so good and that is what the music industry should be."

Another British act that he is very excited by is Royal Blood, who performed on the main stage, two below Metallica.

"It is just hard to believe how good they are for just two of them on stage," he says.

"How humble they are, and how normal they are and how relaxed they are.

"I spent some time talking to Lars from Metallica last night and he was very excited about being at the festival, but as much as anything he wanted to talk about Royal Blood."

The festival organiser has given alt-J and Foals, among others, their first UK headline slot at one of his other festivals, Latitude in Suffolk.

"It is great with Latitude that we are able to give those acts that first opportunity in terms of taking that headline slot, like we did with alt-J," he explains.

"And I am committed to that," he insists.

"I have a conversation with an agent today about exactly that, with somebody who is here.

"In fairness we have already made the offer and they said, 'Do you think we are OK to do it?' And, you know, I would not have offered it if I didn't think so."

We throw a few names at him, but Benn is staying tight-lipped.

"The one thing I am absolutely certain is that music is getting better by every single day that comes."

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