As the dual main stage layout returns, meaning more massive names and no clashes. Billie Eilish, Sam Fender, Foals, The Killers, Imagine Dragons and Lewis Capaldi will be joined by the most exciting talent in rock, indie, alternative, hip-hop and dance including Becky Hill, Bicep Live, Wet Leg, Central Cee, Declan McKenna, Don Broco, Steve Lacy, MK, Inhaler, Slowthai, Tion Wayne, Trippie Redd and many more, with further acts yet to be announced. The three-day Leeds Festival will take place on 25-27 August 2023. Tickets on sale now and going fast!
20-year-old Billie Eilish remains one of the most treasured singer-songwriters of her generation, continuing to shatter the ceiling of music with her genre-defying sound since the release of her debut single ‘ocean eyes’, breakout No.1 album ‘WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?’ and latest album ‘Happier Than Ever’, released last summer to global critical acclaim and topping the charts in nineteen countries worldwide. With multiple accolades including seven Grammy awards, three BRIT Awards, a world tour that included Glastonbury and Coachella headline slots and six nights at the O2 Arena, Billie Eilish is also the youngest artist to write and record an official James Bond theme song, ‘No Time To Die’, which won an Academy Award this year. She is now set to become the youngest-ever solo artist to headline Leeds as another early-career triumph.
If Sam Fender’s debut album, 2019’s ‘Hypersonic Missiles’, introduced a smart, street-wise British songwriter with a penchant for euphoric, hard-hitting guitar anthems, it was 2021’s peerless Seventeen Going Under that sent the Geordie artist stratospheric., headlining Leeds is set to become another thrilling chapter of Sam’s coming-of-age story. Now, bearing a trove of well-deserved awards to his name, Sam Fender has almost inadvertently become one of Britain’s most celebrated and successful musicians of a generation.
Foals are one of Britain’s biggest and most beloved bands, and Leeds are proud to welcome the Oxfordshire natives back as headliners for the first time since 2016. The chart-topping, BRIT Award winners recent album ‘Life Is Yours’ was purpose-written for a euphoric festival summer with joyous, dance-influenced tracks and a jubilant message. Their long-standing classics My Number, Mountain At My Gates and In Degrees feel timelessly at home on the radio waves and during the band’s electrifying live shows, and will undoubtedly delight Leeds fans when returning to the main stage.
The Killers are a band that need little introduction, and Leeds is thrilled to be welcoming them back as headliners. Last seen dazzling the UK with a sold out stadium tour, the Las Vegas group return to Leeds following their acclaimed LP, ‘Pressure Machine’, and the recent single, boy. From their earliest hits and through their record-breaking seven consecutive Number 1 albums, the band spans true modern classics such as Mr Brightside, Somebody Told Me and All These Things That I’ve Done, via When You Were Young and Dustland Fairytale, Human, Runaways, to more recent favourites like The Man, Caution, Run For Cover and My Own Soul’s Warning. Their catalogue of anthems speaks for itself, and with a new studio album in the works, fans at & Leeds will see a band at the height of their powers. The Killers’ grand return to & Leeds 2023 will no doubt be met with a heroes’ welcome.
Imagine Dragons have been tirelessly filling stadiums, crafting cloud-rattling anthems, and breaking records at every opportunity. Fronted by the effortlessly talented Dan Reynolds, the diamond-certified GRAMMY Award winning Las Vegas quartet occupy rarefied air as one of the biggest bands in the world, now set to headline Leeds for the first time ever. Counting tens of millions of album sales and over 110 billion total streams,
Double BRIT Award winner and GRAMMY nominated Lewis Capaldi makes his Leeds headline debut as one of the UK’s biggest music success stories. Top-selling album ‘Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent’ broke the record for the most consecutive weeks in the chart for any solo artist, and still holds the record for the most-streamed week one debut., his appearance at Leeds is sure to tip him into a world of superstardom, bolstered by his unmatched songwriting capabilities and sky-scraping ambition.
