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Down With Boring reports from Reading 2026 with James Marriott, Arthur Hill, She's Green and Tooth
The awards are clearly in the post.
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Antony Szmierek's world has changed dramatically since his debut. As 'Decoding Birdsong' arrives, he's making peace with success and discovering what comes after the breakthrough.
Three March headline shows follow the band's Top 5 debut album.
A deluxe edition lands on 23rd October, with 'Not For Lack Of Clarinets' shows in Edinburgh, Manchester and London the same weekend.
The Fringe runs from 15th to 22nd October, with the Mercury Prize awards show at the Utilita Arena on 22nd October.
Two-day events on consecutive weekends will replace a traditional memorial.
Limp Bizkit, Olivia Dean, KATSEYE and Fontaines D.C. make their India debuts in Mumbai in January.
Three dates in March 2027 bring the Powerlines Tour to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Bristol join the 'Anarchy In The UK' tour.
Cobrah, Alien Chicks and Leith Ross lead the final wave, with The Streets playing 'A Grand Don't Come For Free' in full as a special event.
Paul Heaton, The Reytons and Courteeners headline, with Rick Astley playing a hometown set.
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Southern California post-hardcore favourites Movements return with fourth album ‘Happier Now’, finding fresh ways to embrace their reputation as the sad band.
Matilda Mann's second album 'Kismet' arrives at exactly the right moment. Written quickly and released on her own terms, it's a record that finds her following fate instead of fighting it.
A Wembley Arena headline show before a debut album, a George Michael cover his own team tried to talk him out of, one torn ACL, and now the biggest stage Reading & Leeds has. Arthur Hill keeps doing things in the wrong order, and it keeps working out.
With her Reading Festival debut behind her, Absolutely finally feels like the universe she imagined with ‘Paracosm’ is fully alive.
Maisie Peters returns to Reading Festival with ‘Florescence’, huge ambitions and plenty of new music already taking shape.
A decade of lore leads to this weekend in a park in east London, at the only UK Twenty One Pilots show of the year. Plus Wunderhorse return - maybe with new material to show - and a lower order of some of the most engaging and exciting rock has to offer.
Heartbreak, health struggles and horrible depressing songs? Nieve Ella’s dancing her way through all of it on her debut album, she explains at Reading Festival.
Southern California post-hardcore favourites Movements return with fourth album ‘Happier Now’, finding fresh ways to embrace their reputation as the sad band.
Matilda Mann's second album 'Kismet' arrives at exactly the right moment. Written quickly and released on her own terms, it's a record that finds her following fate instead of fighting it.
'Live At KOKO' arrives on 9th October, with Carl Barât guesting and 'Wolfman' back after 20 years.
Their third album 'Cartoons' arrives on 6th November via AMK / Kartel Music Group.
The self-titled four-track EP arrives on 20th November, on vinyl only, and 'Space/Time' is the first taste of it.
'Dog On The Rock', 'Seven Off The Two', 'Seaplane Dog' and 'The View From Tian Tan' were previously handed out on CD-R at shows.
The two London dates on the Wildworld Tour were the group's biggest shows to date.
The Melbourne band's first full-length arrives on 30th October, with 'Crying With You' out now and a UK tour in November.
The title track is out now, recorded at Konk with Tony Hoffer, and the album lands in April 2027.
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Dance music for the body and the soul.
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The weekend ceremony in Montecito follows a year-long engagement.
'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' is the latest preview of '20th Century Paddy', which also features Hozier, The Libertines and Primal Scream.
"I didn't realize how much I missed it," she wrote after her set at Olivia Rodrigo's festival.
The EP lands on 25th September and is the first project Banoffee has sung, written and produced entirely alone.
Her third album arrives on 16th October, with a London Roundhouse date next May.
'I'M ACTUALLY KINDA FAMOUS' soundtracks Gaga's under-a-minute makeup routine.
A leaked track called 'Witch v Witch' has both artists piecing together a session in LA.
August's sold-out 'Pure Devotion' release-day headline is now on YouTube.
New single 'Don't Sleep' is "an Uber Pop song" about loving and hating London; the record arrives on 16th October.
A Wembley Arena headline show before a debut album, a George Michael cover his own team tried to talk him out of, one torn ACL, and now the biggest stage Reading & Leeds has. Arthur Hill keeps doing things in the wrong order, and it keeps working out.
Greg Kurstin, Ali Tamposi and Mustafa all appear in the pictures.
Their third album 'Cartoons' arrives on 6th November via AMK / Kartel Music Group.
A deeply personal album which is as much entwined with who Lucia is as it is an expression of what she wants to say.
