Jamie T may be planning a secret set at Reading & Leeds 2026, telling organisers online that he wants to join the line-up as a “last minute” addition.
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The gates to the 2026 edition of the dual festival open today (Thursday August 27), with Kasabian set to headline in Leeds tonight, and the main bulk of performances at both sites commencing tomorrow.
Already the festival has a stacked line-up for this year, with Charli XCX, Florence + The Machine, Fontaines D. C., Dave, RAYE and Chase & Status, headlining, and other names on the line-up including Skepta, Sombr, Role Model, JADE, Kneecap, Geese, Skye Newman, Holly Humberstone, Gurriers, Westside Cowboy, Declan McKenna, Maisie Peters, Paris Paloma, Overpass and Duke Dumont.
Now, just hours before things kick off, Jamie T has hinted that he could be making a surprise appearance at Reading.
At time of writing, he isn’t on the bill, but has recently made a plea to festival organisers online, asking if he can join as a “last minute” addition.
The request for “33 minutes and 10 seconds” is a nod to his new single ‘3310’, which was released recently as the first taster of his new album, ‘Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)’, which drops on October 9 via Polydor Records.
That album will mark the highly anticipated follow-up to his fifth LP ‘The Theory of Whatever’ which dropped in 2022, and some of the new music has already been previewed by Jamie T during a last-minute, intimate gig at London’s Scala.
A potential R&L appearance would also come ahead of his 2026 UK tour kicking off in December – for which, tickets are on pre-sale now before going on general sale from 10am on Friday August 28 – See full dates here.
It would also mark another “secret set” planned for Reading & Leeds – with rock duo Royal Blood also set to make a last minute appearance tomorrow (Friday August 28).
For Royal Blood, the slot comes on the heels of them announcing their fifth album ‘Dead Company’ with the pummelling comeback single ‘Ten Over Ten‘.
Speaking to NME about the set, they shared: “The first time we played Reading was pretty mental… If my memory is correct it was when we had ‘Out Of The Black’ and ‘Figure It Out’ on the radio.
We were doing a UK tour of about 100-capacity rooms, some of them were selling out and some of them were not.”.
As for other Jamie T news, since dropping his last album, the artist has played his largest-ever headline show at Finsbury Park in 2023, and more recently had Fred Again.
The pair performed the track live at a gig at London’s Alexandra Palace, which was one of the producer’s ’10 Shows in 10 Weeks in 10 Cities’ series.
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