
Charli XCX has watched back some of her previous performances at Reading & Leeds, and teased what fans can expect from her 2026 headline set.
The singer is set to make her headline debut appearance at Reading & Leeds later this week, performing at the dual festival for the first time since 2022. The performances come on the heels of her latest album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, and ahead of a North American arena tour with Underscores in September.
In a new video interview with BBC Radio 1, the ‘360’ singer watched back clips from her previous performances at Reading & Leeds, and shared her verdict on her previous sets.
The first clip she watched back was from her performance in 2017 where she performed the single ‘Boys’.
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“It’s cringing me out, if I’m honest,” she quipped, adding that she forgot that she used to play with a live band, and actually remembers it feeling like a “a cool show”.
She then looked back at her performance of ‘I Love It’ at the 2019 edition of the festival. “I remember this because it was so hot. It was really, really hot that day. It was when I had short hair and I had a fringe. I hate that hairstyle… When I would get really hot, my fringe would do its own thing in a way that was really unfortunate.”
