UK festival staples Reading and Leeds have announced their much-awaited lineups for 2023. The twin festivals will take place on August 25th – 27th of next summer, with almost identical rosters of artists. The new lineups are host to the likes of Billie Eilish, Foals, The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Lewis Capaldi and Sam Fender in headlining slots. Eilish, at twenty years old, will become the youngest solo artist ever to headline at Reading and Leeds, after her 2019 album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where do We go? skyrocketed her to world fame. The headlining slot comes after the release of Eilish’s sophomore album, Happier Than Ever, in July last year.
Eilish shares headlining company with Sam Fender, whose album, Seventeen Down Under, was released earlier this year to resounding acclaim, landing him the Brit Award for Best British Alternative/ Rock Act.
Saturday’s Reading headliners, Imagine Dragons, have already accrued musical fame since the pop-rockers released “Radioactive”, a song that has clocked a grand total of 87 weeks on the Billboard music charts since its debut.
Also playing at the festivals are Wet Leg, Slowthai, Steve Lacey, Muna, Baby Queen, Yung Lean, Loyle Carner, Bicep and more, with many other names still to be announced.
Tickets for the festivals went on sale at 9am on Monday, 12th December.
2022’s Leeds festival lineup played host to the likes of Dave, Little Simz, Halsey, Run the Jewels and many others, with Reading, as always, providing a venue for the same list of artists on different days to Leeds.
The Reading Festival will be held on Little John’s Farm on Richfield Avenue, central Reading, whilst the Leeds event takes place in the historic grounds of Bramham Park near Wetherby. Weekend tickets, including camping, are available, along with standard day tickets.
The Reading Festival itself boasts the claim of being one of the oldest still-existing pop music festivals in the world, and was initially conceived as the National Jazz Festival in 1961. Since the late nineties, however, the festival has focused heavily around rock, alternative, indie, punk and metal, with an increasing hip hop presence (past headliners have included the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone).
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Tickets for Reading Festival are now on sale here. Alternatively, you can get tickets for the Leeds event here.
