Reading & Leeds Festival announce six huge headliners for 2023 as the dual main stage layout returns, meaning more massive names and no clashes. Billie Eilish, Sam Fender, Foals, The Killers, Imagine Dragons and Lewis Capaldi will be joined by the most exciting talent in rock, indie, alternative, hip-hop and dance including Becky Hill, Bicep Live, Wet Leg, Central Cee, Declan McKenna, Don Broco, Steve Lacy, MK, Inhaler, Slowthai, Tion Wayne, Trippie Redd and many more, with further acts yet to be announced.
The three-day festival will take place on 25-27 August 2023, returning to Reading’s famous Richfield Avenue and Leeds’ legendary Bramham Park. Existing Barclaycard and Three customers presale starts 09:00AM Friday 09 December.
General sale tickets and instalment plans available from 09:00AM on Monday 12 December from www.readingfestival.com/tickets and www.leedsfestival.com/tickets.
Alongside the exciting headline acts, Reading and Leeds are pleased to announce some further fantastic additions to the 2023 line-up. BRIT Award-winning dance pop pioneer Becky Hill, the introspective hip-hop stylings of Loyle Carner, indie breakout Wet Leg, critically-acclaimed singer / songwriter Declan McKena, blazing UK rap talent Central Cee and UK Dance titans Bicep Live, are set to play the ultimate bank holiday weekender, alongside one of dance music’s first superstars MK, Australian boundary blurring alternative R&B rock heavyweights Chase Atlantic, and North London born rap royalty Tion Wayne.
The festivals will also welcome Slowthai‘s unapologetic caustic charm with his hybrid of grime and punk, GRAMMY nominated Californian psychedelic pop singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Steve Lacy, euphoric queer indie pop idols MUNA, Swedish sonically unorthodox emo rap pioneer Yung Lean, a key figurehead in drum’n’bass evolution Andy C, Irish indie infused Inhaler,the viral hitmaker producers LF System, Mercury nominated producer and vocalist Georgia, angst-charged creatively fluid emo rapper Trippie Redd, and anthemic rock from Nothing But Thieves. Veteran jungle and drum’n’bass DJ Shy FX, the viral’Baddest Of Them All’ DJ, producer and singer, Eliza Rose, raucous Scot rockers The Snuts, the playful Gen Z anti-pop of Baby Queen, roaring rock anthems from UK five piece You Me At Six, recent number 1 album boasting Bedford four piece Don Broco, the heartache laden gothic pop of Nessa Barrett, Lil Tjay‘s addictively melodic hip-hop, Mancunian rap newcomer Meekz, shoegaze tinged indie pop beatmakers Lovejoy, and Reading raised up-and-coming rap star SONGER also join next year’s line-up, with more yet to be announced.
Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic said: “We are delighted to return to Reading’s Richfield Avenue and Leeds’ Bramham Park in 2023 with another epic six headline artists, and an incredible, genre-defying line-up that features some of the very best in modern music. Once again Reading & Leeds is set to be the ultimate bank holiday festival weekend – we can’t wait to be back!”
