In just one week Reading Festival will welcome thousands of fans in a celebration of live music with an era-defining line-up. 

The six stellar headliners topping the bill are Fred again… Lana Del Rey and Brit-pop icon Liam Gallagher will mark the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ all-conquering debut Definitely Maybe by performing the album in full at Reading & Leeds.

Catfish and the Bottlemen will be making their highly anticipated return and the original members of Blink-182, one the world’s biggest rock bands, will join forces, plus the UK’s biggest independent artist Gerry Cinnamon who has enjoyed one of contemporary music’s most extraordinary ascents to stardom.

2024 will also welcome two brand-new stages, The Chevron, featuring the world’s first floating video canopy, and The Aux stage.

Also performing are BRIT awards record breaker RAYE, London-born hip-hop star 21 Savage, UK R&B icon Jorja Smith and Pendulum, one of the biggest electronic rock crossover bands of all time.

Rock and indie acts announced include Ireland’s most intoxicating post-punk group Fontaines D.C., indie trailblazers Two Door Cinema Club, fan favourites The Wombats and Wrexham’s finest pop-punk heroes, Neck Deep. Coming from across the pond are Bleachers led by Lana Del Rey collaborator Jack Antonoff, plus alternative indie pop talents Rachel Chinouriri, and the genre blending Hak Baker.

A cohort of some of Gen Z’s leading talents will be at Reading & Leeds, such as pop icon in-the-making and star of the new ‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ Reneé Rapp, guitar-pop hero Beabadoobee, alt hit maker Ashnikko and winners of the BBC Sound of Poll 2024, The Last Dinner Party, who have been taking the world by storm with their distinct indie sound.

Also, ready to take to the Reading & Leeds stages is BRIT Award-winning R&B group FLO, soulful singer taking the world by storm Teddy Swims, political punk upstarts Kid Kapichi, indie pop darling The Japanese House, joyous dance pop act Confidence Man and bassline innovator Bru-C.

Continuing its constant evolution, 2024 will see the spectacular debut of a ground-breaking new stage: The Chevron, which will feature iconic artists, The Prodigy, Sonny Fodera, Skrillex, Nia Archives, Barry Can’t Swim, Denzel Curry, Bou, Kenya Grace and many more.

Positioned in the main arena of both festival sites, The Chevron is an immense 40,000-capacity open-air venue featuring mammoth staging and the world’s first floating video canopy made up of hundreds of thousands of programmable LED lights.

The new stage will also host the world’s biggest silent rave where fans can secure their tickets and headsets for £15 plus a refundable £20 deposit.