{"id":362509,"date":"2025-08-21T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:47:13","slug":"reading-and-leeds-festival-fans-speculate-over-secret-sets-as-event-gets-underway-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362509\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Leeds Festival fans speculate over &#8216;secret sets&#8217; as event gets underway this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who could be brought on stage as a surprise act at Reading and Leeds Festival 2025?<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755794831_961_0_Leeds-Festival-2022.jpg\" alt=\"General view during the Leeds Festival 2022 at Bramham Park in Leeds. \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Fans are trying to guess who might be the secret sets at Leeds Festival 2025(Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/reading-and-leeds-festivals\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading and Leeds Festivals<\/a> are taking place this weekend with performances from Travis Scott, Bring Me The Horizon, Chappell Roan, and Hozier among more major names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/leeds-festival-full-weekend-line-32303544\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds Festival<\/a>, which takes place at<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/leeds-festival-2025-met-office-32303057\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bramham Park in West Yorkshire<\/a>, is set to see around 75,000 people attend, whereas Reading, located in Richfield Avenue, is set to host around 87,000 music lovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ahead of the events over bank holiday weekend, fans have taken to social media to speculate over potential secret acts that could be brought on stage over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">@VanillaBoiChris took to Reddit to share which artists they think could be announced as secret performers at this year&#8217;s festival. They wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be speaking about who I think could do a secret set at Reading or Leeds this year;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Lewis Capaldi, As he was meant to preform back in 2023, I feel as though he could return this year. His performance at Glasto shows how popular he is. Also, with him going on tour, I feel as though it would be great to see him as a secret half an hour set at Reading or Leeds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755794832_721_0_Leeds-Festival-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Revelers during the Leeds Festival 2022 at Bramham Park in Leeds\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Last year saw performances from RAYE, Blink-182, Liam Gallagher and Lana Del Rey among other big names(Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The Ting Tings, with bangers such as &#8216;That&#8217;s Not My Name&#8217; and &#8216;Shut Up and Let Me Go&#8217;, there has been huge speculation that they could be performing a secret set. I feel as though this would be a great vibe. Also, with their new album having dropped this year, it would be a great way to promote themselves onto a younger audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Wolf Alice, They have been gaining huge popularity this year. They have performed and R&amp;L before. With their new album dropping the week of the festival, I feel as though a secret set would be a great way of promoting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Paramore\/Biffy Clyro, A very rogue shout but I feel as though they always have a chance. With both bands being such a staple of R&amp;L festival in the past, seeing either of these bands return for a secret set would be huge and a great vibe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Pulp, Would be amazing if this came to light. Having performed a secret set at Glasto and having headlined their local festival Tramlines, I feel as though Pulp isn&#8217;t to bad of a shout. Having release a new album this year, they are still such a huge new with younger audiences and would be a missed opportunity not have them perform a secret set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Other artists the Reddit user suggested including Rizzle Kicks who performed at Tramlines Festival, and US pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo whose friend Conan Gray is on the line up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_BESTPIX-Sziget-Festival-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Chappell Roan performs onstage during Sziget Festival on August 11, 2025 in Budapest\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Chappell Roan is headlining the UK festivals this weekend(Image: WireImage)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They finished by asking: &#8220;What do we think about these shouts?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Reddit user @Robotdogdoo replied: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking wolf alice will have a secret set since they announced the album, I would happily take that as they&#8217;re not coming to my city on their tour so I&#8217;m not seeing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Wolf Alice fans commented: &#8220;If Wolf Alice did a secret set I think I&#8217;d keel over, although knowing my luck it&#8217;d clash with one of the handful of bands I&#8217;m really excited for. Ironically I missed Pendulum&#8217;s secret set in 2022 because I was watching Wolf Alice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And another fan of the rock band said: &#8220;If Wolf Alice plays, I\u2019m gonna sob happy tears. I\u2019ve adored them for yearssssss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">@Intrepid_Ad commented: &#8220;I\u2019m PRAYING for rizzle kicks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who could be brought on stage as a surprise act at Reading and Leeds Festival 2025?Fans are trying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,125268,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-reading-and-leeds-festivals","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115067777619048428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}