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Reading 2027 Lineup
The August bank-holiday rite of passage returns to Richfield Avenue for four days in 2027. Lineup TBA.
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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. Forty-seven 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, dance and indie rock across 145 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Richfield Avenue, Reading, UK
- Hours
- Campsites open at 18:00 on Wednesday for Early Entry and at 08:00 on Thursday for Weekend Camping, and close at noon on Monday. The arena opens at 11:00 Friday to Sunday.
- Ages
- All ages are welcome, though the festival advises against bringing young children. Under 16s must be with an adult ticket holder aged 18 or over who stays on site, and under 13s get in free.
- Passes
- 1st release Weekend Camping is £326, Weekend + Early Entry Camping £362 and Weekend Non-Camping £296. A £20 deposit with monthly instalments is available.
- Website
- Official site
Reading 2026 lineup & schedule: all 145 acts
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Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
Post-punkAlt-rock
South London's laureate, and novelistic UK rap that fills stadiums without raising its voice: Mercury-winning storytelling with a pianist's touch.
UK rap
Britain's Grammy-and-BRIT-sweeping songwriter freed from label limbo, with big-band soul-pop that has real stakes and a live show that earns every award.
Pop-soulR&B
The high priestess of festival headline sets, barefoot, feral and hymn-sized, sprinting the barricade while 'Dog Days' detonates.
Art-rockBaroque pop
UK drum & bass institution in full live mode: twenty years of rave history delivered with a band's punch, still peerless at festival scale.
Drum & bass
Wimbledon's motormouth storyteller of night buses and last orders, whose skiffle-punk debut Panic Prevention still gets sung back at him word for word.
Indie rockAlternative
York's queer-pop firecracker: TikTok-honed hooks backed by real band energy and a live show that outruns the algorithm that found her.
Pop
Keo
British band giving grunge-weight guitars and nineties indie rock a new run behind Finn Keogh's raw voice.
Pop
YouTuber-turned-legitimate indie rocker who is wry, anthemic, and self-aware, with a built-in audience now singing real choruses.
Indie rock
'Brazil' wunderkind grown into a glam-flecked festival veteran at 27, with big-hearted indie-pop, a political streak and a wardrobe to match.
Indie pop-rock
Grime's global ambassador, with Konnichiwa-era bars and a DJ's instincts, London energy at any scale, and 'Shutdown' still a detonation.
Grime
Absolutely
Alternative
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop: Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
HyperpopDance-pop
Diary-entry pop with a novelist's detail, where the 'Good Witch' faithful sing every word and British wit sharpens every heartbreak.
Pop
Little Mix's Jade gone gloriously weird, where 'Angel of My Dreams' announced a real pop auteur, camp and chaos with A-list polish.
Pop
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
Alt-popBedroom pop
54 Ultra
Singer-songwriter pairing a swooning falsetto with retro guitar-pop that recalls late-'70s and '80s radio. Found his audience through viral short-form video clips.
Alternative
Rising UK pop songwriter on the main-stage undercard.
Pop
'Messy' made her unavoidable, with raw South London soul-pop, a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
Alt-popSoul
Confessional South London hip-hop that's jazz-warm, tender, and quietly huge, with verses about family and flaws delivered like conversation.
UK hip-hop
Heartthrob pop with indie manners: 'Sally, When the Wine Runs Out' made him a festival fixture, and the crowd brings the wine.
Pop
Meeshy
Dance
Tooth
Alternative
JD Cliffe
Indie
Lamb
Bleech 9:3
Alternative
DJ EJ
DJ set
Djammin
Dance
Sam Seven
The North
Indie
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics, Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
Indie rockIrish
Julian Fijma
House
Megra
Electronic
The Guest List
Indie
FAEDA
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house, Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, with club momentum rising fast.
Dance
British singer and songwriter whose voice has fronted a run of house and dance records, writing for other producers as often as she features on their tracks.
Dance
People I've Met
Indie
Slovak pop singer with a club producer's sense of drama, writing hooks that sound built for a strobe.
PopElectronic
Osmosis Jones
Melbourne DJ and INTHEHOUSE label head at the front of the garage renaissance, bassline wobblers, speed-garage edits and rude dubs.
House
The Rolling People
Indie rock
Anthemic young alt band.
Alternative
Birmingham lads making festival-ready indie rock singalongs, with lager-in-the-air choruses in the great British tradition, a rising band already at home on big stages.
Indie rock
Esmeralda Road
Alternative
Amsterdam tech-house workhorse who plays dark, rolling, precise grooves with total technical control and seems to be booked every weekend somewhere in Europe.
Tech house
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts, bringing old-soul phrasing to new-school subjects.
Pop-soul
Melbourne DJ and producer working in the line of Detroit and Chicago house: stripped-back, functional records built for the floor. 'Actin' Tough' took him from local underground ID to a Beatport number one.
Electronic
London grunge trio playing loud, full-throttle guitar songs in the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins mould, sung with a dry, sardonic British edge.
Rock
BRODIE
New-school UKG with swung drums and sub-bass pressure from the garage revival's next rank, two-step engineered for new floors.
UK garage
Irish indie four-piece with harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
Indie rock
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Indie rockArt-rock
T-Lex
Camille Blackman
Pop
Gentlemens Club
UK post-hardcore upstarts with arena ambition, with Architects-school heaviness and a new generation's polish. Ones to watch, loudly.
Post-hardcore
Watford producer who sings his own hooks over house, pulling R&B melody and UK garage swing into club tracks like "Back It Up" and "Can't Slow Down".
House
SINN6R
Dark pop
Manchester house on the rise, with rolling, minimal grooves for sunset slots, and one of the UK underground's fastest-moving names.
HouseMinimal
Grime royalty meets rave revivalists in a one-off collision built for The Warehouse, bars over breakbeats until the room gives out.
GrimeRave
YT
UK rap
Fiona-Lee
Indie rock
Lo-fi house graduate turned rave heavyweight, bringing Jordon Alexander's peak-time pressure from blog-house hiss to full warehouse assault.
HouseRave
Ceebo
UK rap
Sade Olutola
R&B
Fliss
Pop
Katie Jones
Say Now
Pop
Pozzy
UK rap
KING BOOO!
Dance
Amma
Pop
Camille Doe
House
Melbourne post-punks: wiry, literate, buzzing, in the great Australian art-school tradition, sharp songs delivered with nervous energy.
Post-punk
Manchester's whispered R&B-electronica, with internet-cult intimacy gone big: hushed vocals drifting over UK garage shadows, and long-lost demos turned devotional catalog.
alt-R&BElectronic
Miss Lilly
Ruby Roberts
Singer-songwriter
SUBBUTEO + FRIENDS
Tommy Phillips
Dance
Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur, abrasive and gorgeous at once, with walls of distortion hiding devastating melody.
Glitch-popShoegaze
Yes, that Beckham: a scrappy young rock band earning its stripes on the small-print circuit, with famous-family curiosity doing the marketing.
Rock
Bsearl
Dance
Anthemic Irish folk-rock with banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, from Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
Folk-rock
HULTON
Hip-hop
Oldham's protest-pop songwriter is TikTok-viral and guitar-first, with state-of-the-nation verses and a busker's directness: folk-club politics for the comment section.
Indie folk-rock
Joss Dean b2b Nafe Smallz
UK rapDJ set
London's elusive trio, with murmured vocals and tangled guitars that made Matador come calling, and a mystique maintained by saying almost nothing in public.
Post-punkSlacker rock
UK house classicist with 'Ocean Drive' sunsets guaranteed, and 'Need U (100%)' and a decade of chart-house craft behind them.
House
I.5.2.Y W/ M:CASS
RIRIA
Electronic
Finessekid
UK rap
IN PARALLEL
Electronic
Jaz Imksy w/ Cola B
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
Kibo
Indie
Nine Vicious
Alt-rap
Bushbaby
Garage
UK house groover with bumpy, bassline-led sets and a garage-revival spring in the step, grooves that bump exactly as intended.
House
Sydney hardcore that went global fast, with brotherhood-forward lyrics and riffs built entirely for the pile-on, and community as the whole point.
Hardcore
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire (one of the best live bands on earth right now), with 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
Post-punk
Max Dean b2b Luke Dean
Brothers back-to-back, UK tech-house's cheekiest rising pair, trading grooves with sibling telepathy, four hands and one groove.
Tech house
Milton Keynes's deadpan comic rapper, with 'Who's That What's That' absurdism and small-town Britain narrated in perfect deadpan.
Comedy rapUK rap
Atlanta's melodic-trap stylist, with liquid flows and designer-drip anthems, delivered with barely a raised pulse and total control.
Melodic trapHip-hop
Alex Spencer
Singer-songwriter
ANJELI
Mulaa Joans
R&B
Minneapolis shoegaze-pop with a devoted early cult: gauzy vocals over slow-blooming walls of guitar, patience rewarded in full.
ShoegazeIndie
Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, making dreamy, Y2K-tinted trip-pop out of breezy synths and hushed vocals.
Indie popDream pop
Betty
Pop
$ebbuku
Hip-hop
Italian-born, London-based DJ with a monthly show on Rinse FM. Her sets lay rap vocals over UK bass, grime, garage and jungle, opening around 140 BPM and finishing near 170.
Dance
Raynor
Alternative
Bruised, cinematic alt-pop from Grantham's bedroom-to-BRIT-Award story, with small-town detail sung in a fog of reverb, intimacy that scales to festival fields.
Alt-pop
Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang are scrappy, hook-first and rising fast on word of mouth, and the hype is earning itself.
Indie rock
December 10
Alternative
UK producer working the jump-up end of drum and bass, where the basslines are built to be recognised from across a room.
Sophia Violet
Dance
UK bass with a dancehall bounce: the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, with 'Skanka' the breakout.
Dance
Hushed UK bedroom-pop with lowercase songs, uppercase feelings, and whisper-close vocals over soft guitar loops made for headphones at 1 a.m.
Bedroom pop
Moody, guitar-flecked alt-pop with a whisper-to-hook delivery: quiet verses that detonate into choruses, with diary-page lyrics under the gloss.
Alt-pop
EVA
Untitled
DELILAH
Electronic
Frey
UK bass and garage that is clean, physical, and dancefloor-first, with drops of surgical timing and low-end pressure and without a wasted bar.
UK garageBass
Kilu
Alternative
Wry, glossy indie-pop from 2026's buzziest new writer-performer, with hooks polished enough for radio and lyrics sharp enough to sting.
Indie pop
Quebec trio making impossibly smooth bedroom dream-pop that is bass-forward, hushed, and quietly enormous online, a headphone act that scaled to festivals.
Dream-popIndie-pop
Precious Pepala
Pop
Jump-up drum & bass's loudest new star, pure warehouse chaos with double-drops stacked until the low end wins.
Jump-up drum & bass
UK bass duo working the seam between garage, jungle and hard drum, making club records with the low end pushed forward.
BassGarage
Yes, Dave's daughter, and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
Alt-rockSinger-songwriter
Nori
Amsterdam's minimal-house standard-bearer, with deep, warm, relentless grooves that made him one of Europe's most booked underground names.
Minimal house
WHATMORE
Hip-hop
SOTA
Drum & bass
F3miii
UK rap
Kwazi
Faster Horses
Manchester's jump-up juggernaut, bringing relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure as one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
Drum & bass
Snarling internet-era electroclash with bratty vocals over blown-out bass, reviving the genre's trashy Berlin glamour for a generation that missed it the first time.
ElectroclashBass
Irish rave-house heat with big-room energy and underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, and Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
HouseRave
Liquid drum & bass at its most emotional: festival fields turned choir, soaring vocals over rolling breaks.
Liquid drum & bass
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop: 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
Dark folk-pop
Belfast's bilingual rap provocateurs, with republican mischief, mosh-pit energy, real bars, and a film's worth of mythology already.
Irish rap
The headliners
Charli XCX · Pop's reigning vanguardist and the brat era's architect, bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage as a decade of underground experiments finally cashes 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, and 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 and 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, with big-band soul-pop that has 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 lineup (August 28)
Charli XCX, Fontaines D.C., Skepta, Declan Mckenna, James Marriott, Keo + 42 more
Friday set times (48 sets)
- Jamie T · The Grid
- Meeshy · The Warehouse
- Tooth · The Canopy
- JD Cliffe · The Gallery
- Lamb · The Canopy
- DJ EJ · The Gallery
- Bleech 9:3 · The Ballroom
- Beth McCarthy · The Grid
- Djammin · The Warehouse
- Sam Seven · The Bus
- The North · The Canopy
- Keo · The Grid
- Julian Fijma · The Warehouse
- Cardinals · The Ballroom
- Megra · The Yard
- The Guest List · The Canopy
- FAEDA · The Bus
- Riordan · The Warehouse
- James Marriott · The Grid
- Clementine Douglas · The Ballroom
- People I've Met · The Canopy
- Adéla · The Gallery
- Osmosis Jones · The Yard
- The Rolling People · The Bus
- Declan Mckenna · The Grid
- Day We Ran · The Canopy
- Overpass · The Ballroom
- Luuk Van Dijk · The Warehouse
- Esmeralda Road · The Bus
- Skye Newman · The Gallery
- Dean Turnley · The Yard
- Villanelle · The Canopy
- BRODIE · The Bus
- Skepta · The Grid
- Silva Bumpa · The Warehouse
- Geese · The Gallery
- Florence Road · The Ballroom
- T-Lex · The Bus
- Camille Blackman · The Canopy
- Gentlemens Club · The Yard
- unpeople · The Ballroom
- Omar+ · The Warehouse
- Charli XCX · The Grid
- SINN6R · The Gallery
- Josh Baker · The Gallery
- Skepta b2b Prospa · The Warehouse
- YT · The Ballroom
- Fontaines D.C. · The Grid
Saturday lineup (August 29)
Dave, RAYE, Sombr, JADE, Maisie Peters, Slayyyter + 42 more
Saturday set times (48 sets)
- Mall Grab · The Warehouse
- Fiona-Lee · The Canopy
- Ceebo · The Gallery
- Absolutely · The Grid
- Sade Olutola · The Canopy
- Fliss · The Ballroom
- Katie Jones · The Bus
- Say Now · The Gallery
- Pozzy · The Canopy
- KING BOOO! · The Warehouse
- Amma · The Canopy
- Slayyyter · The Grid
- Radio Free Alice · The Ballroom
- Camille Doe · The Yard
- Clara La San · The Gallery
- Miss Lilly · The Bus
- Ruby Roberts · The Canopy
- Tommy Phillips · The Warehouse
- SUBBUTEO + FRIENDS · The Bus
- Jane Remover · The Ballroom
- Cruz Beckham and the Breakers · The Canopy
- Maisie Peters · The Grid
- Bsearl · The Yard
- Kingfishr · The Gallery
- HULTON · The Bus
- Seb Lowe · The Canopy
- Joss Dean b2b Nafe Smallz · The Warehouse
- Bar Italia · The Ballroom
- JADE · The Grid
- Duke Dumont · The Gallery
- I.5.2.Y W/ M:CASS · The Bus
- RIRIA · The Yard
- Finessekid · The Canopy
- IN PARALLEL · The Warehouse
- Jaz Imksy w/ Cola B · The Bus
- Frost Children · The Ballroom
- Kibo · The Canopy
- Sombr · The Grid
- Nine Vicious · The Gallery
- Bushbaby · The Yard
- Rossi. · The Warehouse
- SPEED · The Ballroom
- Dave · The Grid
- Viagra Boys · The Gallery
- Max Dean b2b Luke Dean · The Warehouse
- Niko B · The Ballroom
- RAYE · The Grid
- Gunna · The Gallery
Sunday lineup (August 30)
Chase & Status Live, Florence + The Machine, Loyle Carner, Role Model, Arthur Hill, 54 Ultra + 43 more
Sunday set times (49 sets)
- Mulaa Joans · The Gallery
- Alex Spencer · The Canopy
- ANJELI · The Bus
- 54 Ultra · The Grid
- She's green · The Canopy
- AFTER · The Gallery
- Betty · The Ballroom
- Saint Ludo · The Warehouse
- $ebbuku · The Bus
- Raynor · The Canopy
- Holly Humberstone · The Gallery
- Westside Cowboy · The Ballroom
- Arthur Hill · The Grid
- December 10 · The Canopy
- Original Sin · The Bus
- Sophia Violet · The Yard
- Hamdi · The Warehouse
- Julia Wolf · The Gallery
- dexter in the newsagent · The Ballroom
- EVA · The Bus
- Untitled · The Canopy
- Lola Young · The Grid
- NOTION · The Warehouse
- DELILAH · The Yard
- Frey · The Bus
- Kilu · The Canopy
- Chloe Qisha · The Ballroom
- Men I Trust · The Gallery
- Loyle Carner · The Grid
- Precious Pepala · The Bus
- Hedex · The Warehouse
- Violet Grohl · The Canopy
- Soul Mass Transit System · The Yard
- Nori · The Bus
- Chris Stassy · The Gallery
- WHATMORE · The Ballroom
- Role Model · The Grid
- SOTA · The Warehouse
- F3miii · The Canopy
- Kwazi · The Bus
- Faster Horses · The Yard
- Bou · The Warehouse
- Bassvictim · The Ballroom
- KETTAMA · The Gallery
- Florence + The Machine · The Grid
- Hybrid Minds · The Warehouse
- Paris Paloma · The Ballroom
- Chase & Status Live · The Grid
- Kneecap · The Gallery
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?
143, every one with a set time, across seven stages. The set-times drop added two daytime stages, The Bus and The Yard, that were not on the announced bill.
Is the Leeds lineup the same?
Not quite. 96 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, 47 acts play Reading only and 41 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.
When will the Reading 2027 lineup be announced?
Not yet. Last year the festival announced its lineup on December 1, 2025. The 2027 lineup goes up on this page as soon as it is out.
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