Readipop Festival

08/05/2026

This weekend, our friends Heavy Pop host their excellent annual multi-venue, new music focussed Are You Listening? Festival across Reading town centre. Previous Readipop Festival and Fiesta performers including Jewels Music Puma Theory The Borough Uncle Peanut Bone Idle Grace Pounds and Tigers on Vaseline play sets alongside a host of fresh talent from across the UK. Tickets are still available from areyoulistening.org.uk, see you down the front!

05/05/2026

Readipop music events are back! After a break while we moved back into our newly expanded studios (more news on that soon!), Team Readipop are back with our first major event since Readipop Fiesta and, best of all, tickets are free!�

Readipop presents: XOX 2026 at Oakford Social Club (right next to Reading Station) on Saturday 13th June will feature six incredible live electronic music performers from across the UK alongside live visuals, all lovingly curated by Readipop's XOX & RG EMOM teams. Headliners Movement81 from Swansea combine indie synth and dance music with immersive visuals and our special guest performer and co-host will be Martin Christie (founder of the Electronic Music Open Mic movement). Mentat is a London-based EMOM performer making improvised and ever-evolving live techno and progressive house whilst Bloco Electrohed are a live electronic drumming supergroup made up of Readipop’s very own Electrohed, Projected Form & BIGBOXlittlebox. Sophie Sirota creates evolving ambient soundscapes using strings, vocals, effects and live looping; Welsh synth-pop artist Spryt Electra brings analogue warmth and DAWless live energy rooted in Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Ladytron.

The night will also include the premiere screening of “A Year in the Life of RG EMOM” mini documentary by BAFTA winning filmmaker Matt Hulse plus DJ Pete Wheeler plays electronic classics for the Oakford dancefloor after the live sets finish at 11pm until 1am.

Free tickets available now from link in our bio (limited capacity so grab them early!): citizenticket.com/events/readipop-3/readipop-presents-xox-2026-at-oakford-social-w-movement81-martin-christie-founder-of-emoms-and-more. We kick off at 6pm and the first live act begins at 6.30pm

Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/93XvByf4p

08/10/2025

Riverbeats 2025 was an unforgettable weekend this summer in Reading where proudly collaborated with to fill the Oracle Riverside with music, arts and fun for all ages! This aftermovie has brought all the great memories flooding back and reminded us how special those two weeks in August were. We really want to thank The Oracle for having us and our creative partners & for helping us deliver workshops and immersive walkabout performances. Thank you also to everyone who attended and performed at Riverbeats 2025, we couldn’t have done it without you! 🎶🎨🎭💃🏻🕺🏽🙌

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29/09/2025

"Fantastic day" (sung in the style of Haircut 100)! Another good review of Readipop Fiesta, this time from Reading Indie Life.

Also, more positive words on Fiesta acts from RaW Sounds.Today who feature three more performers in this week's playlist: www.rdg.today/raw-sounds-today-featuring-stealing-sheep-aine-deane-the-outliers/

A fantastic day was had by all at the Reading University Student’s Union on Saturday the 13th of September courtesy of the wonderful local charity Readipop.

24/09/2025

Tomorrow evening (Thursday 25th September), we restart our monthly XOX Presents Reading Electronic Music Open Mic sessions at . Running from 7pm, there will be live sets from seven electronic acts across the evening alongside bespoke visuals and ambient music between sets from Soxsa. If you caught the Reading EMOM takeover at Readipip Fiesta earlier this month, you’ll love these sessions which take place in the fourth Thursday of the month (23rd October and 20th November) 🎛️🎹🔥🙌 Entry is free but arrive earlier, we’re expecting a busy one!

22/09/2025

A second selection of Readipop Fiesta 2025 photos from Andrew Merritt, taking us across many of the live performances at Reading Students' Union. A nice visual reminder of how many fantastic sets we got to enjoy across the day and night. If you came along and haven’t already done so, please fill out the audience survey here: illuminate-data.org.uk/survey/gwrgmv

📸: Andrew Merritt Photography

18/09/2025

Now the dust has settled from Saturday we’re starting to look forward again. If you did attend Readipop Fiesta, we’d be very grateful if you could complete our audience survey. This helps us both with our planning for future events and to inform the Arts Council England what the overall impact has been. Please either scan the QR code above or head to the link below, many thanks from us all at Team Readipop! 🙏❤️

https://www.illuminate-data.org.uk/survey/gwrgmv?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwM5ExdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp6oiGasmVu5NL67Dxau27qpefoR5omOj07zJT5TboWjhm6zPBWXUeeD8FTOJ_aem_1rCzfmQZB_9bJpvtWATAFw

17/09/2025

“You’re such a lovely audience, we’d love to take you home with us!”. Heres some of the lovely people of Readipop Fiesta 2025…not just watching and dancing, with in town we also had some of you taking to the mic 🎤🤩 Did we snap you or your mates in this selection? 📸💃🏻🕺🏽😍

Speaking of audiences, we now have our audience survey live and would very much appreciate your thoughts about Readipop Fiesta 2025. Simply follow the link in our bio and you’ll be helping us both to make our events better and to grow for the future 🙏❤️

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17/09/2025

A few musical heroes united at Readipop Fiesta 2025: & .

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16/09/2025

Another selection of photos from Readipop Fiesta on Saturday, this time from of . A longtime champion of local music, Andrew has captured the vibrancy of so many of the performances here.

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15/09/2025

Highlights of The Amazons' unforgettable headline set from Saturday's READIPOP FIESTA 2025, captured brilliantly by Louis La Grange.

🎥: louis-jeanlagrange.com
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