Chappell Roan will headline Reading and Leeds Festivals

Singer Chappell Roan and rapper Travis Scott will headline Reading and Leeds Festival next year.

Metal band Bring Me The Horizon and singer-songwriter Hozier will also be top billings at both events over the August bank holiday weekend.

Pink Pony Club singer Chappell Roan is enjoying enormous popularity this year with the singles “Hot to Go!” and Pink Pony Club, a sold-out UK tour and their debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Melvin Benn, head of event organizer Festival Republic, said she was “an inspiring new pop star ready to define a generation”.

This year’s festival line-up, announced on BBC Radio 1’s new music show with Jack SaundersIt also includes AJ Tracey, Becky Hill and rapper Trippie Redd.

Other artists confirmed for the line-up include Sammy Virji, Enter Shikari, The Kooks, Bloc Party, Conan Gray, Amyl and The Sniffers and Wunderhorse.

Rudim3ntal, Suki Waterhouse, The Dare, Lambrini Girls and Lola Young will also perform, with additional acts to be announced.

It’s been a tumultuous year for Chappell Roan, who won best new artist at the VMAs in September after canceling two European shows to attend the awards.

She also pulled out of the All Things Go festival in Washington DC and New York City, saying she felt overwhelmed by the pressure of her newfound fame.

Travis Scott, who last performed in Reading and Leeds in 2018, has just completed his Utopia Circus Maximus tour with the release of his first UK number one album, Utopia.

In 2021, he performed at the Astroworld music festival in Texas, where ten people died after fans streamed onto the stage.

Last year he had to cancel a show in front of the Egyptian pyramids, citing “complex production problems.”

Mr Benn said the rapper’s main performance in 2025 would be an “exclusive performance” in Europe.

Lana Del Rey and Blink-182 was the headliner of the 2023 summer festivals and two stages in The Leeds site was closed when Storm Lilian struck.

Mr Benn claimed the 2025 line-up was one of the “youngest” in years and reflected “an exciting wave of inspirational voices breaking through in pop culture”.

The events will take place at Reading’s Richfield Avenue and Bramham Park in Leeds from August 21-24, with tickets going on sale on Monday.

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