Pop's reigning vanguardist — the brat era's architect bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage, a decade of underground experiments finally cashing out at scale.
Leeds 2026 Lineup
Bramham Park's August bank holiday — four days, six stages, and the northern half of the UK's loudest weekend.
About Leeds 2026
Leeds Festival is the northern half of the UK's August bank-holiday rite of passage — Bramham Park, a stately-home estate turned campsite, hosting the same six-headliner slate as Reading: Charli xcx, RAYE, Dave, Florence + The Machine, Fontaines D.C. and Chase & Status, all British or Irish for the first time in 25 years. Leeds gets more of everything this year: 124 acts to Reading's 110, a sixth stage in LS23, and a Thursday night that Reading doesn't have at all.
The two sites are not interchangeable. The 90 acts that play both run on different days at each — as a rule, what's Friday at Reading is Saturday here, Saturday there is Sunday here, and Sunday there is Friday here, though a handful of DJ sets break the pattern — and 34 acts on this page play Leeds only, including Kasabian, Blossoms, The Lathums, The K's and Jamie Webster. If your ticket says Reading, use our Reading page; the days here will not match your weekend.
Expect pop, alternative, indie rock and dance across 124 acts.
Leeds 2026 lineup: all 124 acts
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UK drum & bass institution in full live mode — twenty years of rave history delivered with a band's punch, still peerless at festival scale.
South London's laureate — novelistic UK rap that fills stadiums without raising its voice, Mercury-winning storytelling with a pianist's touch.
The high priestess of festival headline sets — barefoot, feral, hymn-sized, sprinting the barricade while 'Dog Days' detonates.
Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock — 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
Kasabian
Leicester's swaggering electro-rock survivors — two decades of festival-sized choruses built for exactly this, with Serge Pizzorno running the show out front.
Britain's Grammy-and-BRIT-sweeping songwriter freed from label limbo — big-band soul-pop with real stakes, and a live show that earns every award.
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Arkayla
Rising UK pop songwriter on the main-stage undercard.
York's queer-pop firecracker — TikTok-honed hooks backed by real band energy and a live show that outruns the algorithm that found her.
Blossoms
Stockport five-piece who turned synth-lined indie-pop into a run of UK number-one albums — melodic, unhurried, and impossible to leave a field before.
'Brazil' wunderkind grown into a glam-flecked festival veteran at 27 — big-hearted indie-pop with a political streak and a wardrobe to match.
Dylan John Thomas
Glaswegian singer-songwriter — acoustic-rooted indie with a rasp and a knack for the kind of chorus a whole field finishes for him.
Little Mix's Jade gone gloriously weird — 'Angel of My Dreams' announced a real pop auteur, camp and chaos with A-list polish.
YouTuber-turned-legitimate indie rocker — wry, anthemic, and self-aware, with a built-in audience now singing real choruses.
Keo
Diary-entry pop with a novelist's detail — the 'Good Witch' faithful sing every word, British wit sharpening every heartbreak.
Heartthrob pop with indie manners — 'Sally, When the Wine Runs Out' made him a festival fixture, and the crowd brings the wine.
Grime's global ambassador — Konnichiwa-era bars and a DJ's instincts, London energy at any scale, 'Shutdown' still a detonation.
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop — Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills — heartbreak at streaming scale.
The Lathums
Wigan four-piece with a chart-topping debut behind them — jangling, plainspoken guitar pop that reads like short stories about a northern town.
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4AM Kru
Old-school jungle and 90s rave revived without irony — breakbeats, air horns, and a set that runs at the pace the name suggests.
Adéla
Club-circuit electronic project.
Alex Spencer
Alisha
Amma
London's elusive trio — murmured vocals and tangled guitars that made Matador come calling, with a mystique maintained by saying almost nothing in public.
Basht.
Snarling internet-era electroclash — bratty vocals over blown-out bass, reviving the genre's trashy Berlin glamour for a generation that missed it the first time.
Betty
Bleech 9:3
C100
Camille Blackman
CamUKG
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
Manchester's whispered R&B-electronica — internet-cult intimacy gone big, hushed vocals drifting over UK garage shadows, long-lost demos turned devotional catalog.
Clementine Douglas
CROSSY
Yes, that Beckham — scrappy young rock band earning its stripes on the small-print circuit, with famous-family curiosity doing the marketing.
Anthemic young alt band.
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Delilah
Hushed UK bedroom-pop — lowercase songs, uppercase feelings, whisper-close vocals over soft guitar loops made for headphones at 1 a.m.
DJ EJ
Djammin
UK house classicist — 'Ocean Drive' sunsets guaranteed, with 'Need U (100%)' and a decade of chart-house craft behind them.
F3miii
Finessekid
Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
Florentenes
Garage Flower
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Dublin's next post-punk export — snarling and kinetic, riding the same wave that carried Fontaines out of the city.
Halfpint
UK bass with a dancehall bounce — the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, 'Skanka' the breakout.
Jump-up drum & bass's loudest new star — pure warehouse chaos, double-drops stacked until the low end wins.
Bruised, cinematic alt-pop — Grantham's bedroom-to-BRIT-Award story, small-town detail sung in a fog of reverb, intimacy that scales to festival fields.
Liquid drum & bass at its most emotional — festival fields turned choir, soaring vocals over rolling breaks.
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Jack Marlow
Jamie Webster
Liverpool songwriter whose terrace-anthem folk went from pub singalongs to arenas without losing the crowd that got him there.
JD Cliffe
Manchester house on the rise — rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
Moody, guitar-flecked alt-pop with a whisper-to-hook delivery — quiet verses that detonate into choruses, diary-page lyrics under the gloss.
Julian Fijma
Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
Kibo
Kilu
Anthemic Irish folk-rock — banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
Belfast's bilingual rap provocateurs — republican mischief, mosh-pit energy, real bars, and a film's worth of mythology already.
Lamb
Lens
Locky
M60
Lo-fi house graduate turned rave heavyweight — Jordon Alexander's peak-time pressure, from blog-house hiss to full warehouse assault.
Meeshy
Megra
Mulaa Joans
Milton Keynes's deadpan comic rapper — 'Who's That What's That' absurdism, small-town Britain narrated in perfect deadpan.
Nine Vicious
UK bass and garage — clean, physical, dancefloor-first, drops with surgical timing and low-end pressure without a wasted bar.
Omar+
Osmosis Jones
Birmingham lads making festival-ready indie rock singalongs — lager-in-the-air choruses in the great British tradition, a rising band already at home on big stages.
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop — 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
People I've Met
Pozzy
Pretty Girl
Raynor
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house — Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, club momentum rising fast.
Riria
East London dance-pop built for the 5am end of the night, with the songwriting to survive daylight — rave euphoria with a pop heart.
UK house groover — bumpy, bassline-led sets with a garage-revival spring in the step, grooves that bump exactly as intended.
Ruby Roberts
Sade Olutola
Saint Ludo
Say Now
Minneapolis shoegaze-pop with a devoted early cult — gauzy vocals over slow-blooming walls of guitar, patience rewarded in full.
New-school UKG — swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
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Grime's elder statesman trading back-to-back with a minimal tech-house specialist — a pairing that only exists on a festival bill.
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts — old-soul phrasing on new-school subjects.
SOTA
Soul Mass Transit System
UK bass duo working the seam between garage, jungle and hard drum — club records with the low end pushed forward.
Sydney hardcore that went global fast — brotherhood-forward lyrics and riffs built entirely for the pile-on, community as the whole point.
The Clause
Birmingham indie-rock four-piece — sharp-dressed, hook-first guitar songs with a swagger borrowed from the Midlands bands before them.
The Guest List
The K's
Merseyside indie built for shouting back at — brisk, hook-forward guitar rock that turned a devoted local following into a national one.
The Lilacs
The North
Tooth
UK post-hardcore upstarts with arena ambition — Architects-school heaviness with a new generation's polish, ones to watch, loudly.
Villanelle
Yes, Dave's daughter — and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang — scrappy, hook-first, rising fast on word of mouth, and the hype is earning itself.
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The headliners
- Charli XCX — Pop's reigning vanguardist — the brat era's architect bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage, a decade of underground experiments finally cashing out at scale.
- Chase & Status Live — UK drum & bass institution in full live mode — twenty years of rave history delivered with a band's punch, still peerless at festival scale.
- Dave — South London's laureate — novelistic UK rap that fills stadiums without raising its voice, Mercury-winning storytelling with a pianist's touch.
- Florence + The Machine — The high priestess of festival headline sets — barefoot, feral, hymn-sized, sprinting the barricade while 'Dog Days' detonates.
- Fontaines D.C. — Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock — 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
- RAYE — Britain's Grammy-and-BRIT-sweeping songwriter freed from label limbo — big-band soul-pop with real stakes, and a live show that earns every award.
- Kasabian — Leicester's swaggering electro-rock survivors — two decades of festival-sized choruses built for exactly this, with Serge Pizzorno running the show out front.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- The K's — Merseyside indie built for shouting back at — a devoted local following gone national. Leeds only.
- Dylan John Thomas — Glasgow songwriter with a rasp and field-sized choruses. Leeds only.
- The Clause — Birmingham indie-rock swagger, sharp-dressed and hook-first. Leeds only.
- Florence Road — Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise.
- Westside Cowboy — Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang — scrappy, hook-first, rising fast.
- Clara La San — Manchester's whispered R&B-electronica — internet-cult intimacy gone big.
Other acts worth planning around
- Kasabian — Leicester's electro-rock survivors take the first Thursday-night headline slot Leeds has ever had — and Reading has no equivalent.
- Blossoms — Stockport synth-pop with a decade of UK number ones — near enough a hometown crowd. Leeds only.
- The Lathums — Wigan jangle-pop, plainspoken and local to this half of the country. Leeds only.
- Jamie Webster — Liverpool terrace-anthem folk — the singalongs arrive fully formed. Leeds only.
- Kneecap — Belfast's bilingual rap provocateurs — republican mischief, mosh-pit energy, real bars.
- SPEED — Sydney hardcore's global ambassadors — pit-commanding, community-first.
- Maisie Peters — Diary-entry pop with a novelist's detail — a devoted crowd sings every word.
The lineup by day
Days are for the Leeds site, including the Thursday opening night. Reading runs the same weekend in a different order and without the Thursday — see our Reading page for those.
- Thursday, August 27: Kasabian, The Lathums, Arkayla, C100, CamUKG, Halfpint + 1 more
- Friday, August 28: Chase & Status Live, Florence + The Machine, Role Model, Blossoms, Arthur Hill, Dylan John Thomas + 33 more
- Saturday, August 29: Charli XCX, Fontaines D.C., Skepta, Declan Mckenna, James Marriott, Keo + 34 more
- Sunday, August 30: Dave, RAYE, Sombr, JADE, Maisie Peters, Slayyyter + 32 more
Leeds 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Leeds Festival 2026?
August 27–30, 2026, over the UK bank-holiday weekend. Leeds opens on the Thursday night and runs through Sunday.
Where does it take place?
Bramham Park, about ten miles east of Leeds in West Yorkshire.
Who is headlining Leeds 2026?
Kasabian open on Thursday — the first Thursday-night headliners in the festival's history. Then Chase & Status and Florence + The Machine on Friday, Charli xcx and Fontaines D.C. on Saturday, and Dave and RAYE on Sunday.
How many acts are playing?
124 announced so far across six stages, with more to come.
Is the Reading lineup the same?
Not quite. 90 acts play both sites but on different days — for nearly all of them, Friday at Leeds is Sunday at Reading, Saturday here is Friday there, and Sunday here is Saturday there, though a few DJ sets sit outside that pattern, so trust the day on the act itself. On top of that, 34 acts play Leeds only and 20 play Reading only, and Reading has no Thursday. Check the page for the site on your ticket.
How do I figure out which of the acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love — it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
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