Official Reading & Leeds 2026

[Chad888]

On 31/01/2026 at 16:02, craigcharles420 said:

Yeah it must be resurfacing now bscause as I mentioned, when I did some looking I found comments from a few years ago. I am just pretty weirded out by how it has been swept under the rug and spoken about in hushed tones. It makes me uncomfortable, I think if they are still on the lineup I will be giving them a miss tbh

 

Rumours came out, it was pretty easily brushed off as ideological opposition due to their strong Irish Nationalism (if you know the story of K Koke, its similar but without the Irish angle and SA).

 

Theyre now very outspoken against Israel, and so for a fee of just $7,000, loads of content creators are regurgitating the same story but without the conclusion - floating it as an allegation and see what sticks.

 

 

 

Anyway, I came here to ask where the hell is any more names?? We are 6 months off and are expected to buy a ticket on the back of 19 names? Most of are repeat bookings over the last 5 years.

[craigcharles420]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

 

Rumours came out, it was pretty easily brushed off as ideological opposition due to their strong Irish Nationalism (if you know the story of K Koke, its similar but without the Irish angle and SA).

 

Theyre now very outspoken against Israel, and so for a fee of just $7,000, loads of content creators are regurgitating the same story but without the conclusion - floating it as an allegation and see what sticks.

I personally find the stories believeable, but it's entirely up to you if you feel otherwise

[gfa]

2 hours ago, craigcharles420 said:

I personally find the stories believeable, but it's entirely up to you if you feel otherwise

Not sure trial by social media is the answer here

[Benj]

On 03/02/2026 at 05:30, nathanh said:

Haha interesting we both posted at the same time but had different take aways. I said this rules him out.

I agree that it’s makes it more unlikely than likely.

 

There must be some radius clause in this type of thing, Bristol and Reading are not far apart, the Bristol promoters won’t have signed him up if he’s playing another show just down the road for many in their catchment

[craigcharles420]

1 hour ago, gfa said:

Not sure trial by social media is the answer here

You can believe what you want to believe, I can only tell you what I believe. Not saying it is true, just saying what I believe

[Tom89x]

Wasn’t expecting Raye to be elsewhere in August 

[gfa]

DJO at APE in the end

[gfa]

21 hours ago, craigcharles420 said:

You can believe what you want to believe, I can only tell you what I believe. Not saying it is true, just saying what I believe

Fair enough - on review not sure my comment was relevant to what you were saying really

[craigcharles420]

Need the second wave announcement come on it's feb

[Cooperman83]

Any chance of The Last Dinner Party subbing Fontaines???

[jonnyisRFC]

Cardinals are playing Reading/Leeds. Next announcement “this week or next”. 

[Dukey]

Wonder if we’ll get something this week? It all feels very quiet around the festival at the moment 

[jonnyisRFC]

Corella are playing too 👍🏻

[KJP98]

On 18/02/2026 at 22:51, jonnyisRFC said:

Cardinals are playing Reading/Leeds. Next announcement “this week or next”. 

Listened to their album today just out of interest as I'd seen a bit of hype about them, not sure how I managed to get through it all, singers voice went right through me😂, band sound alright.

 

Hopefully we'll get some decent acts on the announcement, really feels the least hyped festival edition I can remember and it's a Glastoless year (not that I think means much for R&L usual audience but does for us uncs)

 

 

[Dukey]

On 24/02/2026 at 20:52, KJP98 said:

Listened to their album today just out of interest as I'd seen a bit of hype about them, not sure how I managed to get through it all, singers voice went right through me😂, band sound alright.

 

Hopefully we'll get some decent acts on the announcement, really feels the least hyped festival edition I can remember and it's a Glastoless year (not that I think means much for R&L usual audience but does for us uncs)

 

 

Their social media strategy is interesting this year - it’s literally non existent 

 

Tomorrow is the equivalent Thursday we got the 2nd announcement last year so let’s see. Unlikely imo as there’s a Creamfields announcement. 

[Chapple12345]

9 hours ago, Dukey said:

Their social media strategy is interesting this year - it’s literally non existent 

 

Tomorrow is the equivalent Thursday we got the 2nd announcement last year so let’s see. Unlikely imo as there’s a Creamfields announcement. 

Due to be some Latitude names too, they usually announce around a similar time so maybe tomorrow? 

[gfa]

Think Download is out too today / next few days (maybe even already out!)

 

Wilderness is still not in sight though after getting leaked a month ago !!

[craigcharles420]

Pretty sure the DL lineup got announced earlier this week as I saw people complaining about clashes and not enough big names being added and so on.

 

R&L needs to crack on and announce some more names. What are they waiting for?

[stanh]

7 hours ago, gfa said:

Think Download is out too today / next few days (maybe even already out!)

 

Wilderness is still not in sight though after getting leaked a month ago !!

Yeah Download came a couple days back, Wilderness have just dropped (couple minutes ago), then Creamfields are also announcing later this evening. 

[stanh]

Another TRNSMT announcement coming tomorrow at 10am too

[jonnyisRFC]

I’m gonna say Tuesday for Reading/Leeds then. 

[craigcharles420]

I'm not expecting much, but tbh I am very happy with the lineup already to the extent that it has already made a weekend ticket worth it for me even if there's nothing else of interest

[Benj]

1 hour ago, craigcharles420 said:

I'm not expecting much, but tbh I am very happy with the lineup already to the extent that it has already made a weekend ticket worth it for me even if there's nothing else of interest

This must be why they’ve cut the lineup by 50%, people seem to be happy to spunk £350 to be in the arena for about 4 hours a day

[andyrhodes24]

7 minutes ago, Benj said:

This must be why they’ve cut the lineup by 50%, people seem to be happy to spunk £350 to be in the arena for about 4 hours a day

Price is going up, strength in depth is going down and people won’t vote with their feet. Wooed by six shiny names at the top.

[craigcharles420]

34 minutes ago, Benj said:

This must be why they’ve cut the lineup by 50%, people seem to be happy to spunk £350 to be in the arena for about 4 hours a day

That's fine cus I am happy with what we have got so far