Official Reading & Leeds 2026

[Chad888]

12 months until the announcement...

 

Tyler the Creator | Sam Fender | My Chemical Romance | Lewis Capaldi | Bicep Live | Royal Blood

[p0sterb0y]

Charli XCX x Fontaines DC

Kendrick Lamar

Foo Fighters

[jonnyisRFC]

Charli XCX 

Linkin’ Park 

Dua Lipa 

Lewis Capaldi 

Biffy Clyro

Aitch 

[charlierc]

Presumably we can all look back on these guesses this time next year and laugh.

 

I just had a look at an R&L 25 prediction thread set up last year after the '24 announcement. Bring Me The Horizon were in one or two guesses but pretty much all of our other guesses were off.

 

Admittedly I don't think anyone saw Hozier and Chappell Roan's shoot up the festival booking ranks coming.

[Andre91]

Kendrick Lamar 

 

Sabrina Carpenter 

 

Foo Fighters 

[charlierc]

f**k it I'll join in and I look forward to all of these being wrong

 

Dua Lipa with Charli XCX subbing

Red Hot Chili Peppers

My Chemical Romance

[Chad888]

They tend to have an on/off/on again series of lineups given touring schedules...

 

I think they will go for a 5 headliner set (2 co-heads) and try to play it off like we're close to 2023 levels.

 

Linkin Park or Foo Fighters will be there, and I'm leanin' Linkin.

 

Big rap act will be Tyler the Creator off the back of his worldwide tour and hit album. I'd have said Kendrick but he's the biggest in the world right now.

 

He will co-head with an alt-rock like Twenty-one Pilots.

 

The indie headliner will be Sam Fender, again off the back of a huge tour for his next hit album. He will co-head with a dance act like Chase & Status.

 

 

Subs will be Fontaines DC, Little Simz, Idles.

 

Sam Fender / Chase & Status >> Idles

 

Tyler the Creator / Twentyone Pilots >> Little Simz

 

Linkin Park >> Fontaines DC

 

 

 

[foolee]

Fontaines D.C - Charli XCX

Tyler, The Creator

Foo Fighters

[Andre91]

Totally missed Tyler out of my prediction. I think he’ll be more likely than Kendrick. 
 

Can’t see Fontaines and Charli doing it unless they have new material out. 2026 would be their third summer touring each of their albums. 

[foolee]

13 hours ago, Andre91 said:

Totally missed Tyler out of my prediction. I think he’ll be more likely than Kendrick. 
 

Can’t see Fontaines and Charli doing it unless they have new material out. 2026 would be their third summer touring each of their albums. 

Yeah I know what you mean with Charli but think they’ll want a female headliner so think she’d fit best unless Sabrina does it so could be her instead but not sure if Sabrina fits R&L as much as Charli does.
 

Can see R&L striking whilst the iron is hot with Fontaines and there big shows this year, defo big enough and this album has done wonders for them. To be fair the album came out at the end of summer this year so could easily get another year out of it. The demand is clearly there. 

[Chad888]

43 minutes ago, foolee said:

Yeah I know what you mean with Charli but think they’ll want a female headliner so think she’d fit best unless Sabrina does it so could be her instead but not sure if Sabrina fits R&L as much as Charli does.
 

Can see R&L striking whilst the iron is hot with Fontaines and there big shows this year, defo big enough and this album has done wonders for them. To be fair the album came out at the end of summer this year so could easily get another year out of it. The demand is clearly there. 

 

Linkin Park...

[foolee]

34 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

 

Linkin Park...

Download next year I reckon 

[gfa]

I agree re Fontaines, they will definitely be up for booking them even though the albums a bit old now.

 

R&L 2026 is a long way away, they could easily have singles coming out from whatevers next by summer 2026.

On 12/8/2024 at 9:21 AM, Chad888 said:

They tend to have an on/off/on again series of lineups given touring schedules...

 

I think they will go for a 5 headliner set (2 co-heads) and try to play it off like we're close to 2023 levels.

 

Linkin Park or Foo Fighters will be there, and I'm leanin' Linkin.

 

Big rap act will be Tyler the Creator off the back of his worldwide tour and hit album. I'd have said Kendrick but he's the biggest in the world right now.

 

He will co-head with an alt-rock like Twenty-one Pilots.

 

The indie headliner will be Sam Fender, again off the back of a huge tour for his next hit album. He will co-head with a dance act like Chase & Status.

 

 

Subs will be Fontaines DC, Little Simz, Idles.

 

Sam Fender / Chase & Status >> Idles

 

Tyler the Creator / Twentyone Pilots >> Little Simz

 

Linkin Park >> Fontaines DC

 

 

 

 I think if C&S are a headliner, so are fontaines really at this point

[FestivalJamie]

Sabrina Carpenter

Post Malone

Lorde

Catfish and the bottlemen

[Benj]

On 12/9/2024 at 7:51 AM, gfa said:

I agree re Fontaines, they will definitely be up for booking them even though the albums a bit old now.

 

R&L 2026 is a long way away, they could easily have singles coming out from whatevers next by summer 2026.

 I think if C&S are a headliner, so are fontaines really at this point

Co-heads possibly. Selling 45,000 tickets in London or MK is very different to shifting 80,000 in Bramham park at 2-3x the cost

 

They could of course be wildly more popular this time next year, its unlikely though

[gfa]

22 hours ago, Benj said:

Co-heads possibly. Selling 45,000 tickets in London or MK is very different to shifting 80,000 in Bramham park at 2-3x the cost

 

They could of course be wildly more popular this time next year, its unlikely though

More just meant they were neck and neck size wise

 

They would work well as co-heads

[CanWeRest]

On 12/10/2024 at 6:15 PM, FestivalJamie said:

Sabrina Carpenter

Post Malone

Lorde

Catfish and the bottlemen

 

I'd love to see Sabrina Carpenter! ❤️ 

[charlierc]

28 minutes ago, CanWeRest said:

 

I'd love to see Sabrina Carpenter! ❤️ 

And you can. At BST Hyde Park.

 

Though I imagine a new LP could get her back around in 2026 if she's got the songs in the bank.

[CanWeRest]

7 hours ago, charlierc said:

And you can. At BST Hyde Park.

 

Though I imagine a new LP could get her back around in 2026 if she's got the songs in the bank.

 

Nah, been there once. Awful sound quality. It's worse than the Other Stage at Glastonbury, and that's saying something.