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.
Reading 2026 Lineup
The August bank-holiday rite of passage — three days on Richfield Avenue and the UK's loudest end to summer.
About Reading 2026
Reading Festival is the southern half of the UK's August bank-holiday rite of passage: three days on Richfield Avenue where a generation of British teenagers has its first festival weekend and the main stage has been minting headliners for half a century. The 2026 edition is part of a six-headliner slate — Charli xcx, RAYE, Dave, Florence + The Machine, Fontaines D.C. and Chase & Status — that is all British or Irish for the first time in 25 years, over a bill that sprints from grime and drum & bass warehouses to indie's next wave.
Leeds Festival runs the same weekend at Bramham Park under the same banner, but the two are not interchangeable: the shared acts play different days at each site, and each site books acts the other doesn't. Twenty acts on this page play Reading only. If your ticket says Leeds, use our Leeds page instead — the days here will not match your weekend.
Expect pop, alternative, UK rap and dance across 110 acts.
Reading 2026 lineup: all 110 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.
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.
54 Ultra
Absolutely
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.
'Brazil' wunderkind grown into a glam-flecked festival veteran at 27 — big-hearted indie-pop with a political streak and a wardrobe to match.
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
Confessional South London hip-hop — jazz-warm, tender, and quietly huge, verses about family and flaws delivered like conversation.
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.
Adéla
Club-circuit electronic project.
Alex Spencer
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.
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
Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
Camille Blackman
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
Ceebo
Wry, glossy indie-pop — 2026's buzziest new writer-performer, with hooks polished enough for radio and lyrics sharp enough to sting.
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer — deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
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
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.
December 10
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
Fiona-Lee
Fliss
Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Atlanta's melodic-trap stylist — liquid flows and designer-drip anthems, delivered with barely a raised pulse and total control.
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.
IN PARALLEL
Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur — abrasive and gorgeous at once, walls of distortion hiding devastating melody.
JD Cliffe
Manchester house on the rise — rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
Joss Dean b2b Nafe Smallz
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
KING BOOO!
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
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse — dark, rolling, precise, and seemingly booked every weekend somewhere in Europe, grooves with total technical control.
Lo-fi house graduate turned rave heavyweight — Jordon Alexander's peak-time pressure, from blog-house hiss to full warehouse assault.
Brothers back-to-back — UK tech-house's cheekiest rising pair, trading grooves with sibling telepathy, four hands and one groove.
Meeshy
Quebec trio making impossibly smooth bedroom dream-pop — bass-forward, hushed, and quietly enormous online, a headphone act that scaled to festivals.
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+
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
Melbourne post-punks — wiry, literate, buzzing, in the great Australian art-school tradition, sharp songs delivered with nervous energy.
Raynor
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house — Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, club momentum rising fast.
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
Oldham's protest-pop songwriter — TikTok-viral, guitar-first, state-of-the-nation verses with a busker's directness, folk-club politics for the comment section.
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.
SINN6R
Grime royalty meets rave revivalists — a one-off collision built for The Warehouse, bars over breakbeats until the room gives out.
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts — old-soul phrasing on new-school subjects.
SOTA
Sydney hardcore that went global fast — brotherhood-forward lyrics and riffs built entirely for the pile-on, community as the whole point.
The Guest List
The North
Tommy Phillips
Tooth
UK post-hardcore upstarts with arena ambition — Architects-school heaviness with a new generation's polish, ones to watch, loudly.
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire — one of the best live bands on earth right now, 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
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.
WHATMORE
YT
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.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Chloe Qisha — Wry, glossy indie-pop — 2026's buzziest new writer-performer. Reading only.
- Jane Remover — Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur — abrasive and gorgeous at once. Reading only.
- Seb Lowe — Oldham's protest-pop songwriter — TikTok-viral, guitar-first. Reading 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
- Viagra Boys — Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire — one of the best live bands on earth. Reading only.
- Loyle Carner — Confessional South London hip-hop — jazz-warm, tender, and quietly huge. Reading only.
- Men I Trust — Montreal's velvet dream-pop trio — bass-forward calm that somehow moves fields. Reading only.
- Skepta b2b Prospa — Grime royalty meets rave revivalists — a one-off collision built for The Warehouse, and it happens here 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 Reading site. Leeds runs the same weekend with a different day order and a partly different bill — see our Leeds page for those.
- Friday, August 28: Charli XCX, Fontaines D.C., Skepta, Declan Mckenna, James Marriott, Keo + 31 more
- Saturday, August 29: Dave, RAYE, Sombr, JADE, Maisie Peters, Slayyyter + 32 more
- Sunday, August 30: Chase & Status Live, Florence + The Machine, Loyle Carner, Role Model, Arthur Hill, 54 Ultra + 29 more
Reading 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Reading Festival 2026?
August 27–30, 2026, over the UK bank-holiday weekend. Music runs Friday to Sunday, August 28–30.
Where does it take place?
Richfield Avenue in Reading, Berkshire.
Who is headlining Reading 2026?
Charli xcx and Fontaines D.C. on Friday, Dave and RAYE on Saturday, Florence + The Machine and Chase & Status on Sunday — the first all-British-and-Irish headline slate in 25 years.
How many acts are playing?
110 announced so far across five stages, with more to come.
Is the Leeds lineup the same?
Not quite. 90 acts play both sites but on different days — for nearly all of them, Friday at Reading is Saturday at Leeds, Saturday here is Sunday there, and Sunday here is Friday there, though a few DJ sets sit outside that pattern, so trust the day on the act itself. On top of that, 20 acts play Reading only and 34 play Leeds only, and Leeds adds a Thursday night that Reading doesn't have. 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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