We are very excited to announce that one of the defining pop artists of the moment, Self Esteem, has been announced as a headliner for On The Mount at Wasing 2026 at our spectacular woodland amphitheatre.
O2 Presales: Wednesday 3rd December 2025 @ 10am
Ticketmaster Presale: Thursday 4th December 2025 @ 10am
Spotify Pre-sale : Thursday 4th December at 12pm
General Sale: Friday 5th December 2025 @ 10am
Find out more & book tickets here
Headlining on Saturday 4 July 2026, Self Esteem joins the previously announced MIKA, who will headline on Friday 26 June 2026, and Pixies, who will headline on Saturday 27 June 2026.
Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is one of the UK’s most exciting breakout stars of the past decade. Emerging from cult favourite to mainstream hero in the space of five whirlwind years, she enters 2026 as a bona fide triple threat in music, literature and acting.
2025 saw the release of her hugely acclaimed third album and debut book, both titled A Complicated Woman and both containing all Taylor’s unmistakable thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under.
Released in April 2025, the album features some of Taylor’s strongest songwriting to date and is propelled by a jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices – “a community of people. I want you to hear and feel the connection” – including close friends, her band and collaborators. A month after its release Taylor won the Visionary Award at the Ivor Novello Awards for her genre-defying and fearless songwriting. The album’s lead single ‘Focus Is Power’ was chosen by the BBC to soundtrack their coverage of the Lionesses’ UEFA European Football Championships win in July – a full circle moment coming just months after Taylor publicly announced her ambition for the album to become montage music to mass sporting events and stadiums.
The album was followed in October by the book. Through the notes, lyrics and biting observational prose for which Taylor has become lauded, A Complicated Woman offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation; who has done unto others the damage that has been wrought upon her; and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience that surprised her. It’s a cathartic scream that gets to the heart of being a woman in the world today, and cements Taylor as one of the most exciting voices of her generation, something reinforced by her co-curation of the London Literature Festival at the Southbank in November.
Quite the opposite of an overnight success, Taylor spent a decade as one half of indie duo Slow Club before adopting the pop star persona she’d always dreamed of. She released her first Self Esteem album Compliments Please in 2019, featuring fan favourite singles ‘The Best’, ‘Girl Crush’ and more.
The breakthrough moment had come with the huge success of her empowering, truth-telling 2021 single ‘I Do This All The Time’. Self Esteem’s wildly acclaimed second album Prioritise Pleasure quickly followed, tackling the hypocrisies and joys found in her experiences of modern day womanhood across dating, friendship, comparison culture, self love, women’s safety and sexual assault and much more. Prioritise Pleasure received Mercury Prize, BRIT Award, Sky Arts and NME Award nominations, was crowned The Guardian and Sunday Times Culture’s Album of the Year, and ‘I Do This All The Time’ was also named The Guardian’s #1 song of 2021.
Gathering a passionate and vast legion of fans ever since, Taylor has appeared on The Graham Norton Show, Celebrity Gogglebox, Friday Night Live, performed three times on Jools Holland including the NYE Hootenanny, graced the covers of magazines from Grazia to NME to Sunday Times Style, and is one of a handful of artists to have been playlisted across BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music simultaneously.