They add to her previously announced gigs with Florence + The Machine and Pulp next year
By Liberty Dunworth 2nd December 2025
Self Esteem. Credit: Scarlett Carlos Clarke
Self Esteem has announced three outdoor shows set for the UK next summer.
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The artist, real name Rebecca Lucy Taylor, will play some huge gigs in the summer of 2026, kicking off in the woodland amphitheatre in Reading on July 4, as part of the On The Mount At Wasing summer series.
AdvertisementFrom there, she will continue with a new slot on July 10, as part of the Live At York Museum Gardens 2026 instalment, where she will be joined by Joshua Idehen and Moonchild Sanelly as special guests.
Finally, she has also confirmed a new gig in Wales for July 24, where she will head to Cardiff Castle and perform as part of the Depot Live sessions alongside Kae Tempest.
The three new shows add to an already impressive run of dates Self Esteem has planned for next year, including a slot opening for Pulp at the Live From Wythenshawe Park series in Manchester in August, and a show supporting Florence + The Machine at the Edinburgh Summer Sessions also that month.
Self Esteem at her ‘A Complicated Woman’ theatrical show. CREDIT: Aaron Parsons
Tickets for the Reading, York, and Cardiff gigs go on sale this Friday (December 5) at 10am. Visit here for tickets and more information.
Self Esteem’s newly announced summer 2026 UK outdoor shows are:
RecommendedJULY 4 – Reading, On The Mount At Wasing @ Wasing Estate 10 – York, Live At York Museum Gardens 24 – Cardiff, Depop Live at Cardiff Castle
Earlier this year the Sheffield singer-songwriter headed out on her UK and Ireland tour in support of her third studio album ‘A Complicated Woman’, which was released in April.
The live shows included a slot at Glastonbury this summer, where she brought a powerful, theatrical set to The Park Stage.
“From opening with an eerie nod to A Handmaid’s Tale to getting the crowd moving with tongue-in-cheek new single ‘69’, Self Esteem‘s set was even more ornate than you might expect at Glasto, and not one to be forgotten in a hurry,” NME wrote in a round-up of her set at Worthy Farm. “When the Pyramid is ready for Taylor, there’s no doubt she’ll be able to fill it.”
AdvertisementBefore then, she won the Visionary Award at The Ivors 2025, and opened up to NME about what the recognition meant to her.
“It means everything,” she said at the ceremony. “Not to start going on about women like I always do, but people don’t think women write songs. It still gets questioned. People think I’ve got writers’ camps and all these things.
“No judgement if you do that, but it’s the art and I take ages over it. It ruins my life and all I do is try to create that art. I need to.”
