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.
From Cambridge, UK · Sounds like Slayyyter, SOPHIE, Lorde
Reading & Leeds 2026 Lineup
The August bank-holiday rite of passage — one giant bill, two cities, and the UK's loudest end to summer.
About Reading & Leeds 2026
Reading & Leeds is the UK's August bank-holiday rite of passage: one giant lineup played across two cities at once, where every British teenager's first festival memories are made and the main stage has minted headliners for half a century. The 2026 edition makes history — six headliners (Charli xcx, RAYE, Dave, Florence + The Machine, Fontaines D.C., and Chase & Status) that are 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. This page tracks the Reading site's days; the same acts play Leeds on rotated dates.
Expect pop, alternative, UK rap and dance across 111 acts.
Reading & Leeds 2026 lineup: all 111 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.
From London, UK · Sounds like Sub Focus, Andy C, Wilkinson, Pendulum
South London's laureate — novelistic UK rap that fills stadiums without raising its voice, Mercury-winning storytelling with a pianist's touch.
From London, UK · Sounds like Stormzy, Central Cee, J Hus
The high priestess of festival headline sets — barefoot, feral, hymn-sized, sprinting the barricade while 'Dog Days' detonates.
From London, UK · Sounds like Kate Bush, Lorde, Hozier, Bat for Lashes
Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock — 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
From Dublin, IE · Sounds like IDLES, The Murder Capital, Wunderhorse
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.
From London, UK · Sounds like Adele, Amy Winehouse, Jorja Smith, Duffy
54 Ultra
Absolutely
From UK
Rising UK pop songwriter on the main-stage undercard.
From UK
York's queer-pop firecracker — TikTok-honed hooks backed by real band energy and a live show that outruns the algorithm that found her.
From York, UK · Sounds like Rina Sawayama, GAYLE, Renee Rapp
'Brazil' wunderkind grown into a glam-flecked festival veteran at 27 — big-hearted indie-pop with a political streak and a wardrobe to match.
From Hertfordshire, UK · Sounds like The 1975, Sports Team, Sam Fender, Blossoms
Little Mix's Jade gone gloriously weird — 'Angel of My Dreams' announced a real pop auteur, camp and chaos with A-list polish.
From South Shields, UK · Sounds like Little Mix, Charli xcx
YouTuber-turned-legitimate indie rocker — wry, anthemic, and self-aware, with a built-in audience now singing real choruses.
From UK · Sounds like The 1975, Sundara Karma, Wallows
Keo
From UK
Confessional South London hip-hop — jazz-warm, tender, and quietly huge, verses about family and flaws delivered like conversation.
From London, UK · Sounds like Tom Misch, Rejjie Snow, Little Simz, Sampha
Diary-entry pop with a novelist's detail — the 'Good Witch' faithful sing every word, British wit sharpening every heartbreak.
From West Sussex, UK · Sounds like Gracie Abrams, Olivia Rodrigo, Sasha Alex Sloan
Heartthrob pop with indie manners — 'Sally, When the Wine Runs Out' made him a festival fixture, and the crowd brings the wine.
From Cape Elizabeth, ME · Sounds like Conan Gray, Gracie Abrams, Alexander 23, Dominic Fike
Grime's global ambassador — Konnichiwa-era bars and a DJ's instincts, London energy at any scale, 'Shutdown' still a detonation.
From London, UK · Sounds like Stormzy, Wiley, JME, Kano
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop — Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
From St. Louis, MO · Sounds like Charli xcx, Kim Petras
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills — heartbreak at streaming scale.
From New York, NY · Sounds like The Neighbourhood, Conan Gray
Adéla
Club-circuit electronic project.
Alex Spencer
From UK
Amma
From UK
London's elusive trio — murmured vocals and tangled guitars that made Matador come calling, with a mystique maintained by saying almost nothing in public.
From London, UK · Sounds like Sonic Youth, Deerhunter, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo
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.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Peaches, Uffie, Crystal Castles
Betty
From UK
Bleech 9:3
From UK
Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like Macky Gee, DJ Hazard, Turno
Camille Blackman
From UK
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
From Cork, IE · Sounds like The Murder Capital, Just Mustard
Ceebo
From UK
Wry, glossy indie-pop — 2026's buzziest new writer-performer, with hooks polished enough for radio and lyrics sharp enough to sting.
From Malaysia / London · Sounds like beabadoobee
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer — deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Archie Hamilton, Enzo Siragusa
Manchester's whispered R&B-electronica — internet-cult intimacy gone big, hushed vocals drifting over UK garage shadows, long-lost demos turned devotional catalog.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like Jessie Ware, Sevdaliza, Sampha, FKA twigs
Clementine Douglas
Yes, that Beckham — scrappy young rock band earning its stripes on the small-print circuit, with famous-family curiosity doing the marketing.
From London, UK
Anthemic young alt band.
December 10
From UK
Hushed UK bedroom-pop — lowercase songs, uppercase feelings, whisper-close vocals over soft guitar loops made for headphones at 1 a.m.
From UK · Sounds like Alex G, boy pablo, Cavetown, Clairo
DJ EJ
From UK
Djammin
From UK
UK house classicist — 'Ocean Drive' sunsets guaranteed, with 'Need U (100%)' and a decade of chart-house craft behind them.
From London, UK · Sounds like Disclosure, Calvin Harris
F3miii
From UK
Finessekid
From UK
Fiona-Lee
From UK
Fliss
From UK
Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
From Wicklow, IE · Sounds like The Cranberries, Inhaler, The Last Dinner Party
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
From New York, NY · Sounds like 100 gecs, Snow Strippers, underscores
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Black Midi, Wet Leg, Parquet Courts, King Krule
Atlanta's melodic-trap stylist — liquid flows and designer-drip anthems, delivered with barely a raised pulse and total control.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like Young Thug, Lil Baby, Future, Lil Uzi Vert
UK bass with a dancehall bounce — the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, 'Skanka' the breakout.
From London, UK · Sounds like Salute, Skin On Skin, Interplanetary Criminal, Skream
Jump-up drum & bass's loudest new star — pure warehouse chaos, double-drops stacked until the low end wins.
From UK · Sounds like Macky Gee, DJ Hazard, Sub Zero
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.
From Grantham, UK · Sounds like Phoebe Bridgers, Gracie Abrams, Lizzy McAlpine
Liquid drum & bass at its most emotional — festival fields turned choir, soaring vocals over rolling breaks.
From UK · Sounds like Netsky, London Elektricity, High Contrast, Fred V & Grafix
IN PARALLEL
Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur — abrasive and gorgeous at once, walls of distortion hiding devastating melody.
From New Jersey · Sounds like My Bloody Valentine, 100 gecs, Deftones, Alex G
JD Cliffe
From UK
Manchester house on the rise — rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Archie Hamilton, PAWSA
Joss Dean b2b Nafe Smallz
From UK
Moody, guitar-flecked alt-pop with a whisper-to-hook delivery — quiet verses that detonate into choruses, diary-page lyrics under the gloss.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Halsey, Maggie Lindemann
Julian Fijma
Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
From Galway, IE · Sounds like Skin on Skin, Sammy Virji, Cloonee, Salute
Kibo
From UK
Kilu
From UK
KING BOOO!
From UK
Anthemic Irish folk-rock — banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
From Limerick, IE · Sounds like Mumford & Sons, Noah Kahan
Belfast's bilingual rap provocateurs — republican mischief, mosh-pit energy, real bars, and a film's worth of mythology already.
From Belfast, UK · Sounds like The Streets, slowthai, Bicep, IDLES
Lamb
From UK · Sounds like Portishead, Massive Attack, Zero 7
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse — dark, rolling, precise, and seemingly booked every weekend somewhere in Europe, grooves with total technical control.
From Amsterdam, NL · Sounds like Michael Bibi, Reelow, ANOTR
Lo-fi house graduate turned rave heavyweight — Jordon Alexander's peak-time pressure, from blog-house hiss to full warehouse assault.
From Newcastle, AU · Sounds like DJ Seinfeld, Ross From Friends, Skee Mask, Overmono
Brothers back-to-back — UK tech-house's cheekiest rising pair, trading grooves with sibling telepathy, four hands and one groove.
From UK · Sounds like Michael Bibi
Meeshy
From UK
Quebec trio making impossibly smooth bedroom dream-pop — bass-forward, hushed, and quietly enormous online, a headphone act that scaled to festivals.
From Montreal, QC · Sounds like Beach House, Mac DeMarco, Clairo, Cigarettes After Sex
Mulaa Joans
From UK
Milton Keynes's deadpan comic rapper — 'Who's That What's That' absurdism, small-town Britain narrated in perfect deadpan.
From Milton Keynes, UK · Sounds like Aitch, ArrDee, Lil Dicky
Nine Vicious
From UK
UK bass and garage — clean, physical, dancefloor-first, drops with surgical timing and low-end pressure without a wasted bar.
From UK · Sounds like MPH, Sammy Virji
Omar+
From UK
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.
From Birmingham, UK · Sounds like The Snuts, Sam Fender, Circa Waves, Kasabian
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop — 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
From Derbyshire, UK · Sounds like Florence + the Machine, Hozier
People I've Met
From UK
Pozzy
From UK
Melbourne post-punks — wiry, literate, buzzing, in the great Australian art-school tradition, sharp songs delivered with nervous energy.
From Melbourne, AU
Raynor
From UK
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house — Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, club momentum rising fast.
From Liverpool, UK · Sounds like Sammy Virji, Interplanetary Criminal, Salute
UK house groover — bumpy, bassline-led sets with a garage-revival spring in the step, grooves that bump exactly as intended.
From UK · Sounds like Interplanetary Criminal, Salute, Sammy Virji
Ruby Roberts
From UK
Sade Olutola
From UK
Saint Ludo
From UK
Say Now
From UK
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.
From Oldham, UK · Sounds like Gerry Cinnamon, Jamie Webster, Sam Fender
Minneapolis shoegaze-pop with a devoted early cult — gauzy vocals over slow-blooming walls of guitar, patience rewarded in full.
From Minneapolis, MN · Sounds like Alvvays, Beach House, Cocteau Twins
New-school UKG — swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
From UK · Sounds like Interplanetary Criminal, Sammy Virji, Conducta, Salute
SINN6R
From UK
Grime royalty meets rave revivalists — a one-off collision built for The Warehouse, bars over breakbeats until the room gives out.
From London, UK / Leeds, UK · Sounds like Wiley, Chase & Status
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts — old-soul phrasing on new-school subjects.
From London, UK · Sounds like RAYE, Amy Winehouse
SOTA
From UK
Sydney hardcore that went global fast — brotherhood-forward lyrics and riffs built entirely for the pile-on, community as the whole point.
From Sydney, AU · Sounds like Turnstile, Knocked Loose, Terror, Gel
The Guest List
From UK
The North
From UK
Tommy Phillips
From UK
Tooth
From UK
UK post-hardcore upstarts with arena ambition — Architects-school heaviness with a new generation's polish, ones to watch, loudly.
From UK · Sounds like Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, While She Sleeps
Untitled
From UK
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire — one of the best live bands on earth right now, 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
From Stockholm, SE · Sounds like IDLES, Fontaines D.C., The Fall
Villanelle
Yes, Dave's daughter — and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Wolf Alice, Phoebe Bridgers
Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang — scrappy, hook-first, rising fast on word of mouth, and the hype is earning itself.
From Manchester, UK
WHATMORE
YT
From UK
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
- Florence Road — Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise.
- Chloe Qisha — Wry, glossy indie-pop — 2026's buzziest new writer-performer.
- Jane Remover — Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur — abrasive and gorgeous at once.
- 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.
- Seb Lowe — Oldham's protest-pop songwriter — TikTok-viral, guitar-first.
Other acts worth planning around
- Kneecap — Belfast's bilingual rap provocateurs — republican mischief, mosh-pit energy, real bars.
- Viagra Boys — Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire — one of the best live bands on earth.
- Loyle Carner — Confessional South London hip-hop — jazz-warm, tender, and quietly huge.
- Men I Trust — Montreal's velvet dream-pop trio — bass-forward calm that somehow moves fields.
- Skepta b2b Prospa — Grime royalty meets rave revivalists — a one-off collision built for The Warehouse.
- 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 shown are for the Reading site (August 28–30). The same bill plays Leeds with days rotated — check your ticket's site for exact days.
- 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 + 30 more
Reading & Leeds 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Reading & Leeds 2026?
August 27–30, 2026, over the UK bank-holiday weekend. Main-stage days at Reading run Friday–Sunday (August 28–30).
Where does it take place?
Two sites at once: Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park outside Leeds, with the bill rotating between them.
Who is headlining Reading & Leeds 2026?
Charli xcx, RAYE, Dave, Florence + The Machine, Fontaines D.C., and Chase & Status — the first all-British-and-Irish headline slate in 25 years.
How many acts are playing?
111 announced so far across five stages, with more to come.
Do Reading and Leeds have the same lineup?
Yes — the same acts play both sites, with days rotated. This page shows Reading's days; flip them for Leeds.
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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