{"id":363363,"date":"2025-08-22T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363363\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:18:12","slug":"reading-and-leeds-festival-fans-speculate-over-secret-sets-as-event-gets-underway-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363363\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and Leeds Festival fans speculate over ‘secret sets’ as event gets underway this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Leeds Festival<\/a>, which takes place at 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

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

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@VanillaBoiChris took to Reddit to share which artists they think could be announced as secret performers at this year’s festival. They wrote: “I’m going to be speaking about who I think could do a secret set at Reading or Leeds this year;<\/p>\n

“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

\"Revelers<\/p>\n

Last year saw performances from RAYE, Blink-182, Liam Gallagher and Lana Del Rey among other big names -Credit:PA<\/p>\n

“The Ting Tings, with bangers such as ‘That’s Not My Name’ and ‘Shut Up and Let Me Go’, 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

“Wolf Alice, They have been gaining huge popularity this year. They have performed and R&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

“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&L festival in the past, seeing either of these bands return for a secret set would be huge and a great vibe.<\/p>\n

“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’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.”<\/p>\n

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

\"Chappell<\/p>\n

Chappell Roan is headlining the UK festivals this weekend -Credit:WireImage<\/p>\n

They finished by asking: “What do we think about these shouts?”<\/p>\n

Reddit user @Robotdogdoo replied: “I’ve been thinking wolf alice will have a secret set since they announced the album, I would happily take that as they’re not coming to my city on their tour so I’m not seeing them.”<\/p>\n

Wolf Alice fans commented: “If Wolf Alice did a secret set I think I’d keel over, although knowing my luck it’d clash with one of the handful of bands I’m really excited for. Ironically I missed Pendulum’s secret set in 2022 because I was watching Wolf Alice.”<\/p>\n

And another fan of the rock band said: “If Wolf Alice plays, I\u2019m gonna sob happy tears. I\u2019ve adored them for yearssssss.”<\/p>\n

@Intrepid_Ad commented: “I\u2019m PRAYING for rizzle kicks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading and Leeds Festivals are taking place this weekend with performances from Travis Scott, Bring Me The Horizon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,17501,393,4884,1860,28606,125268,76869,16,15,127438],"class_list":{"0":"post-363363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chappell-roan","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-reading","14":"tag-reading-and-leeds-festivals","15":"tag-travis-scott","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wolf-alice"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115069551009784623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363363","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=363363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}