Readipop Festival 2024 – Day Tickets & Second Line-Up Announcement
Readipop Festival, which takes place by the banks of the River Thames in Christchurch Meadows (10 mins walk from Reading Station) between Friday 12th and Sunday 14th July, has now announced who will be playing on each day of the festival and made limited day tickets available from www.readipop.co.uk/festival. Readipop Festival is an event created in-house by Readipop, the music charity, to raise funds to continue using music and arts to enrich the lives and cultural landscape of our local community around Reading and the Thames Valley area.
Headlining Readipop Festival 2024 will be Northern Irish indie rockers Ash, godfathers of drum and bass Fabio & Grooverider and Britpop trailblazers Echobelly. Joining them are a diverse array of new and established artists including technopop punk rockers Republica, energetic festival mainstays Dub Pistols, Welsh tongue-in-cheek rappers Goldie Lookin’ Chain (playing a legends set), Manchester indie-dance pioneers A Certain Ratio, BBC 6Music favourites from Holland, Pip Blom and 1980s Reading punk band International Resque playing their final show together.
Readipop will be showcasing their valuable work across the weekend. These showcases include AAA takeovers, presenting an array of local talent that learn musical skills at the charity’s weekly AAA youth club alongside live sets from artists signed to their Riser Music label and their community bands. In addition, Readipop XOX Project Live will be performing a set of classic tracks to demonstrate the vintage drum machines and synthesisers that will make up part of Readipop’s upcoming XOX Project museum.
“We’ve been blown away by the response so far” explains Festival Producer Molly Banbury, “We’ve seen our highest ever ticket sales to date for this point and are so grateful to everyone that has already shown their support for this year’s event. Not only will it be our biggest Readipop Festival so far but also our most sustainable!”
“Although we are an incredibly small team, we are determined to see our charity festival flourish with community and sustainability at the heart of everything we do.” Molly continues, “As part of us taking sustainability seriously, I am proud to share that this year we created a sustainability “pathway” plan. This pathway maps out our ambitions creating achievable steps for us to reach our green goals over several years, helping us to make continuous environmentally conscious improvements.”
“A huge positive worth mentioning is the incredible location of the event. Today, the single biggest contributor to carbon emissions for festivals, as much as two thirds, is audience travel. With our Readipop Festival site only a 10 minute walk from Reading train station, and even less from nearby bus routes, it is incredibly easy to get to without any need for a car. In fact, most of our audience walked to the site from their homes last year which means we are already massively ahead of other festivals in reducing our overall carbon impact! We want to continue to improve upon this by encouraging travel by bike this year and offering secure bike storage inside the grounds.”
BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire have selected three up-and-coming acts which they will host in the Purple Turtle tent on Friday 12th July.
Readipop’s family area will be open on the afternoons of Saturday and Sunday featuring craft, music and dance workshops, story telling, immersive performances and other fun activities featuring local arts and music organisations including Jelly, Dance Reading, Tankata Percussion, MiniMixers DJs and more.
Reading’s Indie Market also come to the site on Saturday and Sunday bringing their stalls full of locally produced festival-friendly arts, crafts and clothes stalls. Purple Turtle bars serve local craft beer and real ale all weekend alongside a selection of lagers, ciders, spirits and wine.
First release adult day tickets are available now (and selling fast already) which start from just £20 each while third release weekend tickets (which give you access on all three days) are currently just £60 each. Teen tickets are available at a discounted price and Under 14s tickets are available from £1 each. Every penny raised from the festival helps support the amazing work within the community that Readipop as a charity does across a number of projects. These include music based mentoring with young people facing challenging circumstances, all the way up to weekly music workshops open to all ages and abilities. For more info on our all year round work, see readipop.co.uk
