Reading and Leeds 2026: Charli XCX, Fontaines DC, and Florence and the Machine revealed as headliners
The first wave of headliners for Reading and Leeds festival 2026 have been revealed, including Charli XCX, Fontaines DC, and Florence and the Machine.
The iconic British festival is set for a massive line-up next summer, with an additional three headliners also taking to the stage in the form of Raye, Dave, and Chase and Status.
In a new addition to the Leeds side of the event, Kasabian are also set to top the bill for a special main stage headline set on the opening day of Thursday, August 27th, giving festival-goers an early taste of the action.
Elsewhere on the line-up across both the Reading and Leeds sites, there are a slew of huge names including Skepta, Sombr, Role Model, Jade, Josh Baker, Kneecap, Kettama, Geese, Skye Newman, Adéla, Keo, and Chris Stussy, the latter of whom is appearing in Reading only.
The festival, set to take place over the course of the English summer bank holiday from August 27th to August 30th, 2026, still has a slew of other artists to be announced in the coming months.
It is set to mark one of the festival’s most seismic line-ups in recent years, with the 2025 edition headlined by Travis Scott, Hozier, Chappell Roan, and Bring Me The Horizon.
For Florence and the Machine, Reading and Leeds currently marks the only British festival they are set to headline next summer so far, with other appearances set to take place at Nos Alive in Lisbon, Portugal, and Mad Cool festival in Madrid, Spain.
In terms of both Charli XCX and Fontaines DC, however, the news of them headlining the festival comes as their first official activities since a number of months ago, potentially sparking speculation that new music could respectively be on the way from both at some point in 2026.
Tickets for Reading and Leeds 2026 will go on general sale from 12pm local time on December 3rd, 2025, with presales also beginning from December 1st and December 2nd at 12pm local time, respectively.
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