{"id":2270616,"date":"2026-02-06T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2270616"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:04:40","slug":"the-50-best-music-festivals-in-the-uk-to-book-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-50-best-music-festivals-in-the-uk-to-book-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Best Music Festivals in the UK to Book for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" data-component=\"annotation\" data-testid=\"annotation_testID\">\n<p><span>Another year, another stellar lineup of UK music festivals. Sure, Glastonbury \u2013 the UK\u2019s tentpole music event, no pun intended \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/music\/glastonbury-festival\">is taking a fallow year<\/a>, but other lineups are more than making up for Worthy Farm\u2019s absence. Established musical feasts (Reading and Leeds, Latitude) will return amid tantalising new blockbuster additions (Roundhay Festival), alongside the usual more specialised genre and scene events (Supersonic, AVA, FOCUS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While it might seem a little early (and a tad chilly) for planning a sun-glazed weekend of outdoors live music, these days the UK festival season lasts beyond the summer months. The festival calendar is pretty much a year-round affair, with events taking place not just in fields or parks but in venues across cities, from early spring all the way through to late November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Already confirmed for 2026 are several lineups that\u2019ll have the heads drooling at the mouth. Reading and Leeds has Charli XCX, Chase &amp; Status, Dave, Florence + the Machine, Fontaines D.C and Raye. Download has Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Guns N Roses. London\u2019s Victoria Park, across All Points East and LIDO, will host Tyler, the Creator, Deftones, Lorde, CMAT and Maribou State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking beyond the major fests, the lineups get even better. The 15th anniversary of Outbreak in Manchester has Alexisonfire and Basement topping the bill; Mighty Hoopla has scooped a headline performance from Lily Allen (performing <\/span><em><span>West End Girl <\/span><\/em><span>in full); FOCUS Wales will boast Fat Dog, Idlewild and Shame. And that\u2019s just the events that have announced lineups \u2013 plenty are still to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Still deciding which festivals are for you this year? Look no further than our guide. Time Out knows the UK\u2019s festival scene inside-out \u2013 and these are the events we say are going to be the most essential in 2026 (in chronological order).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\ud83c\udfb8 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/uk\/music\/best-music-tours-and-concerts-uk-2026\"><strong>The 20 best major music tours and concerts coming to the UK in 2026<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.timeout.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another stellar lineup of UK music festivals. Sure, Glastonbury \u2013 the UK\u2019s tentpole music event, no pun intended \u2013 is taking a fallow year, but other lineups are more than making up for Worthy Farm\u2019s absence. Established musical feasts (Reading and Leeds, Latitude) will return amid tantalising new blockbuster additions (Roundhay Festival), alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21800,439582],"class_list":["post-2270616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-music-music-festivals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-50-Best-Music-Festivals-in-the-UK-to-Book.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270618,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270616\/revisions\/2270618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}