26 Aug 2026
Preview: Who To Catch at Reading Festival 2026
Here is your So Young guide to the acts worth ripping up your schedule for at Reading Festival.
Here is your So Young guide to the acts worth ripping up your schedule for at Reading Festival.
Their varying backgrounds as songwriters, producers and instrumentalists attests to the unique style of Lover1k, a much needed project that couldn’t be replicated by anyone else.
Black Nylon bring a polarising yet deeply emotive sound that feels distinctly authentic.
August are theoretically an art-rock band, hypothetically a pop group. Geographically? Quite the admin nightmare. With origins split between New York, Bermuda, Sheffield, Essex and Devon, the five-piece have spent their past year dragging their self-described “no-seconds-wasted medicine show” around…
Bubbling away in the capital’s grassroots circuit across 2026 as a 5-piece live outfit, lifepath99 raise the curtains with sparkling debut single, ‘Misfortune’, landing via Brooklyn’s Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
It’s a perfect introduction to where Sorry might be heading next: familiar enough to feel like them, but weird enough to remind you that they’re still unwilling to stay in one place for too long.
Most musical acts dance precariously on the tightrope between stardom and cult hero’s, yet in this dialectic of recognition, for Fontaines D.C., it appears to have been natural…
Vancouver quintet Concrete Vehicles are steadily emerging as a fine new voice in the jagged scraplands of post-punk abrasion.
Leeds duo Trouflies share new single ‘Pugh’. Repetitive guitar chords meet toy melodicas in this slice of woozy, dreamlike surrealism.