Music festival held over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Richfield Avenue, with headliners rotating with Leeds Festival.
Reading Festival returns to Richfield Avenue from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 August 2027, with early entry from Wednesday 25 August. It's the August Bank Holiday weekend, and as usual, it runs alongside its twin Leeds Festival at Bramham Park, with most of the major artists rotating between the two sites.
The festival's roots go back to the National Jazz Festival of the early 1960s, and it's been based in Reading since 1971. Over the decades, it's moved through jazz, blues, progressive rock, hard rock, punk, and metal, with headline acts including Nirvana, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, The Cure, Green Day, Muse, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975, Billie Eilish and Blink-182.
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These days it's gone well beyond its rock DNA. The line-up spans pop, hip-hop, grime, drum and bass, house and electronic music across stages like The Grid, The Gallery, The Warehouse and The Ballroom. It's held at Richfield Avenue, close to the town centre, near Caversham Bridge and Reading railway station. For those who need them, there are disabled facilities including accessible viewing platforms, accessible toilets and a sensory calm space.
