DIY Festival Guide 2023

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Editor's Letter Team DIY’s Festival Season Hit Lists

Aka the bands and artists we’ll be legging it down to the front row for this summer.

SARAH JAMIESON MANAGING EDITOR

• RINA SAWAYAMA

After seeing our Festival Guide cover star at her pitch perfect Brixton Academy show last year I was absolutely hooked, so getting to see what she cooks up for festival season is gonna be a real treat. Can’t wait!

• SAM SMITH

If Sam’s recent shows at The O2 are anything to go by, their upcoming festival stints sound likely to be ridiculously camp, joyous and moving all at the same time; and if that’s not what you want from festival season…

• YEAH YEAH YEAHS

OK, yeah, so they played some festivals last year too, but isn’t every summer a bit brighter when Karen O is involved?

• ARCTIC MONKEYS

Their rowdy days might be behind them but the quartet are still the certified kings of festival season. If you’re not going to see Arctics this summer, well, you’re just doing it wrong.

• PARAMORE

They might only be

playing a few festivals this year - America, you lucky things! - but they should absolutely be on your must-watch list. Their recent UK tour was incredible and they’re arguably on the best form of their career so far. (I would say that though, wouldn’t I…)

EMMA SWANN

FOUNDING EDITOR

The last time I did this, I missed out on anything The Strokes were due to play and both Biffy Clyro and Dua Lipa’s sets at Open’er were done for by a (quite frankly, terrifying) storm. So here’s hoping for better than 2/5 this year.

• ROBBIE WILLIAMS -

There was such a sense of utter joy at his recent XV show at the O2, almost as if the weight of being himself has finally lifted, that there’s no way Robbie taking on a pints-aloft festival crowd won’t be a winner. If Lizzo doesn’t join him for ‘Kids’ at Mad Cool it’d be a travesty.

• LIZZO

Speaking of which, Glastonbury’s rightful

headliner is on one majestic streak of late, from her excellent cover of Rammstein’s ‘Du Hast’ in Germany to responding to transphobic Tennessee legislators with an army of drag queens in Knoxville.

• BLONDIE

The last time I saw them was a soaking wet, freezing cold T in the Park while waiting for Weezer so to get to see them - and fully enjoy it - will be a privilege.

• THE STROKES

Second time lucky? Both to see them full stop, and be able to actually hear them in Victoria Park.

• BLUR

The bangers for sure, but also because seeing videos captioned solely ‘Damon from Gorillaz’ still feels wrong.

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LISA WRIGHT

FEATURES EDITOR

• BLUR

The prospect of being reunited with my one true loves several times over the summer makes me weep with joy.

• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

Genuinely thought they’d split up so these new dates are doubly excellent.

• BOYGENIUS Have not stopped rinsing ‘The Record’ since it came out and v hyped for The Gig.

• PULP

There are few things better than Jarvis in full praying mantis pose mode singing 'Babies'.

• ROBBIE WILLIAMS

The real Greatest Showman.

LOUISE MASON

ART DIRECTOR

• FRED AGAIN..

For the biggest bangers in the biggest fields.

• HEARTWORMS

Probably my favourite new act with a Spitfire aesthetic.

• BAXTER DURY

Specifically, in a Lithuanian Prison.

• SLOWTHAI

Very excited to hear the new record in 3D (also in a Lithuanian Prison).

• YOUNG FATHERS

Somehow I've missed them so far this year... this shall be rectified with haste.

Last year, festival season marked a real turn in the tide for just about all of us; after several years’ break from watching live music soundtrack sunsets across the world, we certainly weren’t the only ones glad to be back in a field. Now, the idea of getting to do it all over again this summer is already making us positively giddy.

That’s why, for 2023’s Festival Guide, we’ve gotten hold of some of music’s most exciting names to help us get prepped for what’s to come. From cover star Rina Sawayama’s slick pop, through to the rowdy chaos that Warmduscher regularly whip up - via the massive hits of fest pros You Me At Six and The Vaccines - we’ve got just about everything covered to ensure you have the best summer possible. So what’re you waiting for?!

Let’s get stuck in!

Sarah Jamieson, Managing Editor

Founding Editor Emma Swann

Managing Editor Sarah Jamieson

Features Editor Lisa Wright

Art Direction & Design Louise Mason

Contributors Burak Cingi, El Hunt, Jenn Five, Louis Griffin, Nick Levine, Sarah Louise Bennett, Vendy Palkovičová.

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POHODA FESTIVAL

CENTRAL CEE

JAMIE XX

WET LEG

SOFI TUKKER BEN HOWARD

CAROLINE POLACHEK

AMELIE LENS

SUZANNE VEGA

ARCA

SLOWTHAI SHYGIRL

RICO NASTY PERFUME GENIUS

VIAGRA BOYS

SAMPA THE GREAT

6.– 8. 7. TRENČÍN AIRPORT

MULATU ASTATKE – DRY CLEANING – SHAME – AROOJ AFTAB – HAZEY – CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY & BOLIS PUPUL YARD ACT – MEZERG – ALINA PASH – HERMETO PASCOAL – PUSSY RIOT – PETE & BAS – MANDIDEXTROUS

PVA – CAKES DA KILLA – LINIKER – BIGKLIT – VINTAGE TROUBLE – ROZI PLAIN – TATA BOJS

PSYMON SPINE – MANDY, INDIANA – LEENALCHI – AVALANCHE KAITO – BLANCO TETA – ANGRUSORI

THE ORIELLES – MARGARITAS PODRIDAS – GROOVE& – CUMGIRL8 – GLEB – THE ORIELLES

KIMI DJABATÉ – NINA FARRINA – DAKH DAUGHTERS – DUO RUUT P – ZEA

O. – JANA KIRSCHNER – FALLGRAPP – RAGAPOP – KURS VALÜT – MASSOLA

TONO S. – ZAPASKA – UA TRIBAL – MISS PETTY – ZEA – AND MANY MORE...

As we raise a warm, overpriced paper pint cup heavenwards and look ahead once more to a season of sun (hopefully) and frolics (most certainly), DIY’s festival guide is here to help you navigate your way through the wild waters of Summer ‘23. To ease you in, we’re handing things over to seasoned pro, Justin Young, to pass on his festival veteran expertise…

“In 2011, when we’d just released ‘What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?’ and everyone wanted a piece of us, I think we played 50 festivals over the summer in every continent,” recalls the frontman. “I just remember everyone having crazy breakdowns. We played Lollapalooza in Chicago and our label took us out for dinner; our tour manager got under the table and started crying because every one was just so fried. Now people quite rightly take mental health breaks when that sort of thing starts happening but the industry wasn’t as enlightened in 2011 I don’t think… You just kept on truckin’...”

Now, we’re not advising anyone to go quite this hard into festival season (in fact please, please don’t) but nonetheless, The Vaccines’ relentless touring lifestyle over the past decade has made their frontman an expert of the circuit. In those early years, he recalls a particularly hardcore stint that saw the band “circum navigate the globe twice in two and a half weeks”; as well as huge slots playing second on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and supporting The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, they’ve also had their fair share of japes. “I remember one year we started partying at Latitude, and then we played in Spain and then Croatia, and we were still up five days later when we landed in Japan,” he chuckles. “When I got to Japan, I thought I was dying. They don’t like that [sort of behaviour] at all there, but fortunately by that point I was the shell of a man rather than a weapon.” Like we said: don’t try this at home.

These days, however, The Vaccines are a somewhat more sensible beast. Heading into their thirteenth festival season with a new line-up configura tion (original guitarist Freddie Cowan recently leaving, with keyboardist Tim Langham stepping into his spot), a new album recorded and ready to go, and the same zest for a summer spent in the fields, Justin has some more advisable tips up his sleeve for the months ahead. Any wise words? “I don’t think you’re there to be wise. I think you’re there to be anything but…”

The Vaccines play Tunes in the Dunes (12th - 14th May), Toma vistas (22nd - 24th June), Community (7th July), Cactus (7th - 9th July), Truck (21st - 23rd), Low (28th - 30th), On The Beach (30th July), Hardwick (28th - 30th August), The Big Festival (28th - 30th August), Victorious Festival (28th - 30th August), and Whitehaven Alive (9th September). DIY

Welcometo FESTIVAL SEASON 2023! From

The Vaccines

Who to Watch

ARCTIC MONKEYS

We toured about three or four times with them and fell in love with them. They’re peerless really; I’ll always be happy to watch them play music for a few hours. Arctic Monkeys in the UK, you can’t really go wrong - they’re like demi-gods.

LANA DEL REY

I think Lana is one of the best artists of her generation and she doesn’t play very often, so if you’re lucky enough to be there when she’s playing I do think that’ll be a great show.

LIZZO

She’s become a cultural icon of sorts; it feels like she’s at the centre of a conversation. She’s had just as many hits as other people that have headlined Glastonbury, so I don’t see why she’s not headlining. I’m never really sure what constitutes a festival headliner because there are plenty of people with huge hits who don’t seem to be thought of as such.

WET LEG

I liked Wet Leg from the moment I heard them. It’s insane how big they are now. I still haven’t seen them live, so it’ll be interesting to see how it comes across on big outdoor festival stages because it’s such sweaty club venue music.

ELTON JOHN

I love Elton so much and I probably listen to him on a weekly basis but I don’t know… I was so excited about seeing Paul McCartney last year and I was really disappointed. I didn’t love it. But some of it’s so self-fulfillingly brilliant where it’s almost irrelevant that they’re even up there because it’s just an hour of people singing along to their favourite songs.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

WHERE TO GO

The Overseas Choice PRIMAVERA SOUND

The line-up is always completely unmatched every year, but also it’s in Barcelona, in the city, in a place where everyone knows how to party and eat well and live well. The headliners aren’t on until really late and it’s just pure hedonism with the added bonus of a bed to go back to rather than a tent.

The Biggie GLASTONBURY

I’ve never been to Burning Man, but I think Glastonbury might still be the best party in the world. That’s their headline, but I think it genuinely is true. I try quite hard to find good parties and I’ve never experienced anything on that scale with that variety like it - it’s just mad. One minute you can be watching Paul McCartney, and then 10 minutes later you can be in a gay club in downtown New York, and then the next minute you’re at the Stone Circle with a bunch of naked hippies watching the sun come up. It’s the weirdest, craziest, best place.

The Rising Star

The first couple of times we got asked to play Truck it was tiny and now it’s one of the biggest indie festivals in the country. Truck and Y Not feel quite similar in terms of their demographic; I don’t know what they’re like to go to but the shows there are always amazing.

JUSTIN’S FESTIVAL LIFE LESSONS FAO: ARTISTS

Don’t take the fun for granted (especially if you’re on stage)

It can be tiring, but we’re so lucky to be in this position. When you get tired and stressed and anxious and insecure, they’re all legitimate feelings but I wish I hadn’t let them get to me as much as I did. I wish I’d concentrated more on how lucky I was to be in Japan or Australia or wherever I was, and just enjoyed it and not assumed it’s my god-given right to be there.

Read the room (or country)

We played in Gibraltar a couple of years ago and I’d been told not to refer to it as Spain but I thought it would be funny. The Mayor of Gibraltar was there and I had to apologise and people were very upset. I didn’t realise they were so sensitive about it. We’ve not been asked to return which I’d put down to COVID but maybe that’s why…

Live music will never die

People talk about things being more and more online - TikTok is like the open mic night for new artists now - but it doesn’t seem to have any impact on how much people want to go to festivals and be part of a congregation and a community. If you showed me a photo of the crowd walking out at Y Not last year, and a photo from Reading in 2011, I really don’t think I would be able to tell you which it was.

Justin’s given punters a few tips on how to make the most of this summer, but here are a few things that the artists playing should probably bear in mind…

Take the bait (or not)

As many acts charged with entertaining a crowd that isn’t entirely theirs throughout the ‘a90s and ‘00s will recall with horror, having objects of dubious provenance thrown their way on stage is not necessarily unusual. Unlike Daphne and Celeste, 50 Cent, My Chemical Romance or Bring Me The Horizon, however, the item that paused Liam Gallagher’s headline set at Benicassim in 2018 was… a whole fish. Which had (presumably) stewed in the offender’s pocket all day in the Spanish heat. Mmmm.

Don’t forget your words!

Festivals are a prime spot to call up a famous pal or two to hop onto the stage with you – just ask Chris Martin. And from Lily Allen’s star turn with Olivia Rodrigo to Paul McCartney calling up both Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen, Glastonbury 2022 boasted its fair share. One likely to wish he hadn’t bothered, however, is Kevin Abstract: having flown in from the US especially to join Easy Life for their collaboration ‘Dear Miss Holloway’ on the Pyramid Stage, the Brockhampton star proceeded to… forget his entire verse. Whoops.

Know where you’re going

When The Horrors took to the stage at Citadel in 2018, they did so late, and temporarily without frontman Faris Badwan. When he did emerge, he revealed the reason for his tardiness to the sweltering summer crowd. “Nobody told me the festival had moved from Victoria Park,” he claimed. His last-minute dash across London meant their mid-afternoon set was just four songs long.

Show support for fellow performers

Some artists like to give a shout-out to any friends playing the same day. Others opt for an easy cheer by reeling off the stage’s subsequent acts in turn. Meanwhile some have been known to take it a whole leap further. With The Last Shadow Puppets appearing on the main stage ahead of Tame Impala at Poland’s Open’er festival in 2016, an extremely animated Alex Turner and Miles Kane opted for an improvised ode. “Kevin Parker controls the weather systems around here,” they claimed. All the while the actual Kevin Parker was backstage receiving medical treatment to ensure they actually played. “It’s sweet of them, really,” he told DIY in the aftermath. “They probably helped to save [the performance].”

Fyre Festival

Whatever they say, there is zero requirement to “ take one for the team”.

JUNE

STROMAE • STORMZY

SAM FENDER • THE 1975 • NATHANIEL RATELIFF

ZWANGERE GUY • COMPACT DISK DUMMIES

IGGY POP • CHARLOTTE DE WITTE • WARHAUS •

KING PRINCESS • ANNA CALVI • WEYES BLOOD

RÖYKSOPP • AURORA • RAYE • ASHNIKKO • GAYLE •

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE

PICTURE THIS • THE SNUTS • THE REYTONS • LIL LOTUS •

BODY TYPE • THE MARY WALLOPERS

NAS X • THE LUMINEERS • DERMOT KENNEDY • INHALER • THE DRIVER ERA

ROSALÍA • CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS • PUSCIFER •

GABRIELS • AMENRA • THE TESKEY BROTHERS

R F S DU SOL • JACOB COLLIER • J.I.D • PORTLAND •

MEROL • PIP MILLETT

LOVEJOY • BILLY NOMATES • BABY QUEEN • NOVA TWINS •

DESTROY BOYS • ETHAN BORTNICK

Feel Good Hits of the SUMMER

Warm pints and late nights are all well and good, but we all know the main attraction of festival season is the bangers. So, what better way to get geared up for what’s to come than by roping in one of our favourite comedians to run us through 2023’s surefire hits? Star of Ghosts, Stath Lets Flats and current Taskmaster competitor Kiell Smith-Bynoe gives us his verdict... Interview: Lisa Wright.

THE 1975 Looking For Somebody (To Love)

I was introduced to Matty by Jamie Demetriou because they’re good friends; I met him at the NME Awards and then we went to Fontaines DC’s afterparty and we stuffed our faces with chicken burgers on the way. That I remember! Me, Jamie, Matty and Amelia Dimoldenberg all went to the afterparty and it was a bit of fun. Otherwise, I’ve heard of them but not really listened to their stuff. It’s not my usual genre but I’m quite into them! I’ve watched a few of their live performances, and their shows look really fun. I’m not really an advocate for eating raw meat, but if that’s what you wanna do - if that’s how you wanna build your iron - then go for it. Maybe he’s bulking up for the summer. I wanna hear the song loud - maybe at a festival, maybe at a concert - but not while getting blood from raw meat splattered on my face…

FLO Cardboard Box

I really like FLO. I watched their Chicken Shop Date recently and they seem really fun. I will say I’m an R&B guy, that’s my genre. I grew up on R&B, the first CD I bought was a Dru Hill album, so I’m a proper R&B head and I think that FLO are the closest we’ve had in the UK to old school R&B in a while. I’m a big fan of them.

YOUNG FATHERS

I Saw I watched the music video for it and I feel like this is proper soundtrack music; I love a good soundtrack. I would love to hear this on a cinema screen with some action going on. It made me think of Baby Driver. That had some great music because of the nature of the story and the character, and I feel like this could be something that’d be featured in a film like that.

LANA DEL REY A&W

I love songs like this. It reminded me of Frank Ocean’s ‘Pyramid’ where there’s two different versions of the track within one. It’s always a good sign when you see seven minutes on a song’s track time. I quite like a long song. I enjoyed this and it made me wanna look out of a car window while it rains. I mean, isn’t all of her music like that? That’s generally what she does, isn’t it? That was the first half, and then the second half made me wanna trash a hotel room and I don’t think that’s her brand. Maybe I’ll start associating her with trashing hotel rooms; I’m gonna push that narrative.

PULP Common People

If you can successfully convince me that you haven’t [reunited] because you owe a lot in tax then I’m all for it. I mean, I’m not particularly a fan of Pulp, but there was a thread on Black Twitter going around recently saying ‘Name a song that white people snapped with’ and this was one of them. This is a song that’s within that sort of ‘Wonderwall’ territory where everyone can get on board with it and sing until the end. It doesn’t matter where you’re from; if you’re from the depths of the hood, you know this song, and it’s the one chance to let loose and bang your head before you have to be cool again. This is definitely what I would call one of the songs that white people snapped with.

WET LEG Ur Mum

There’s a girl that I met in Edinburgh a few years ago, I think back in 2016, and within our first interaction she spilt a drink all down herself. For the rest of Edinburgh, I called her Wet Leg McDonald, and this made me think of her. The video for this is a lot of fun and it’s really creative. It reminded me of going to house parties in drama school. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but there were times where I felt like I didn’t know what was happening - like, where everyone was singing along to this song and I was like, ’95% of the people in this room are singing along and I’ve never heard it in my life’. It gave me that vibe.

SLOWTHAI

Feel Good

I like slowthai; one of my friends has basically forced him on me and will always play slowthai in his car. There’s been a few times where I’m like, ‘Oh actually, what’s that one again?’ and I Shazam it so it goes right to my playlist. There’s a few tracks of his that I like - maybe the earlier stuffbut I’m really into this. I haven’t seen him live but is he popping steaks in his mouth as well? Straight out the packet?

ELTON JOHN Goodbye

Yellow Brick Road

It’s a prime example of white people snapping again! What an absolute banger. What’s great about this is that I really like this song but didn’t know what it was called - and now I do! Big, big tune. I think Elton’s a great guy, he’s got great fashion sense, but he should’ve been in more films. Have you seen him in The Kingsman 2? I mean, sure, he’s playing Elton John but he’s great in it. I guess he’s been playing Elton John his whole life, so why wouldn’t he be… Look, the guy’s got bangers and he dresses well, so what else do you need?

Kiell currently stars in Dreamland, available on NOW and Sky Atlantic, and Taskmaster, airing Thursdays on Channel 4 and available on All4. DIY

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caroline

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul

Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations

Erika de Casier

James Massiah b2b Kemarr

John Talabot

Kelly Lee Owens

Kelman Duran

Laura Misch

Leon Vynehall b2b Yu Su

Loraine James

Louis Culture

Lucinda Chua

Obongjayar

OK Williams

Princess Nokia

PVA

Síbín (Anja Ngozi & co)

Space Afrika

Squid

Wu-Lu

Yazz Ahmed

Collaborators & Partners

Bermondsey Project Space

Bermondsey Social Club

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Daytimers

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Goldsmiths, University of London

IKLECTIK

Jumbi

Sister Midnight

Southbank Centre

Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers

Venue MOT

Welcome back, The Moldy Peaches! You reunited for the first time in a decade at the launch of Meet Me In The Bathroom last winter - how was it being on stage together again?

Kimya Dawson: It was nice! The songs are really special to me and I was nervous at first but it was like muscle memory; those songs are so much a part of me and who I am and my younger years that, as soon as Adam started playing guitar, it all came back.

Adam Green: We didn’t really practise a lot, but those songs are just part of who we are. Of course I know how to play these songs, I could never forget these songs.

Festival season 2K23 is looking set to be a vintage one: not least because a host of old favourites are reuniting across the summer for some of the year’s most anticipated gigs.

New York cult favourites

The Moldy Peaches - who’ll be playing their first European festivals in 20 years this June - tell us what they’ve got planned… Interview: Lisa Wright.

Your 2001 debut (and only) album was written when you were really young - do you still feel the same connection to the songs?

Kimya: Both of our voices have changed since we recorded them, so it felt quite funny to me, hearing those songs come out of our mouths with our more mature voices. But the sentiment I think is still the same. I still laughed at the same jokes that we made 30 years ago. I wasn’t like, ‘Oh my gosh, we were so immature’. I was like, ‘Ha this is still funny!’

Adam: We created a new creature when me and Kimya would write songsthis weird, two-minded being that wasn’t really either of us - so it was kind of funny to experience that creature again. It feels like heightened reality when we’re inside of it. I feel like I’m a little dolphin peering out of a porthole.

Looking back at the unassuming start of the band, are you surprised how influential and well-loved it became?

Kimya: I never thought that I was gonna be a musician, so it was kind of a plot twist! We started doing stuff with Rough Trade, and The Strokes asked

us to do shows with them, and then we were doing it kind of professionally. I hadn’t planned for it but it was much better than working at the bakery…

Adam: We just brought our enthusiasm and, with a bunch of will, took really simple two-chord ideas into these spaces where they became our own versions of magic spells.

Kimya: We were literally just trying to make ourselves laugh.

When ‘Anyone Else But You’ led the Juno soundtrack, it took things into a whole different realm. How do you remember that time?

Kimya: We’d already made a pretty decent name for ourselves in the underground music world at that point, so it was different to play to people who only knew the music from the context of the movie. ‘Anyone Else But You’ is cutesy, so if someone is gonna go to a Moldy Peaches show because they’ve only heard that song, they’re gonna be in for a little bit of a surprise!

GOLDEN

“It feels like heightened reality inside this band. I’m like a little dolphin peering out of a porthole.”

- Adam Green

Adam: I feel like there are a lot of different aspects to what we do, and what me and Kimya do separately.

There’s a part of our stuff that’s tender and cute, but there’s a part that’s political and psychedelic and kind of brutal. It’s a more complicated thing than what the Juno soundtrack might suggest.

Now you’re back and playing some standalone shows as well as Primavera, what can people expect?

Adam: Moldy Peaches wasn’t that tiny when we broke up but we weren’t playing to 3,000 people and selling out shows, so it’s kind of a jump for us to be playing to this many people. It’s exciting. There’s one main album that people know, and everyone’s had a chance to know it, so we’re just gonna play our songs for people.

Kimya: That’s it. That’s what we’ve got! Same thing we had back then!

The Moldy Peaches play Primavera Sound Barcelona (1st - 4th June) and Madrid (8th - 10th June). DIY

BLUR

Playing two mahoosive Wembley Stadium shows in July, as well as a slew of festival headlines around Europe, Damon, Graham, Alex and Dave will be living the park (and field) life throughout the summer.

LE TIGRE

The pioneering electro-punks will also stop off at Primavera as part of their first European and American tour in a decade, kicking off at the end of May.

FRIENDS REUNITED

As well as The Moldy Peaches, this lot are also getting their

BE

PULP

Continuing the Britpop reunion dream, Jarvis Cocker and co will be busting an angular move at Isle of Wight , TRNSMT, Neighbourhood and a host of their own headline shows from May onwards.

BLINK-182

Though the reunited original Blink line-up of Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker will largely be traversing the world’s arenas, they’ve made exceptions for stopoffs at the recent Coachella and October emo fest When We Were Young

MOLDIES

JASON WILLIAMSON Sleaford Mods

MANDY INDIANA are like the good old days of experimental dance music before the new century kicked in, but obviously they’ve brought that up to date. It’s integral and it doesn’t care about you. It’s very cool stuff. Cool is important.

JULES JACKSON, The Big Moon

IZZY BEE PHILLIPS, Black Honey

I’m really into AZIYA and JESSICA WINTER.I love Aziya’s approach to indie rock; it’s really refreshing and I also love watching how she arranges her songs on TikTok. Jessica Winter is iconic and weird. I love her song ‘Psycho’ and she’s an amazing pianist and performer.

Everybody should go and see CMAT wherever she plays this summer. I saw her in London recently and it’s the best show I’ve seen this year. And the only one with sparkly cactuses. And she played ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ by Celine Dion in full before coming on stage, which I have massive respect for.

ORLANDO WEEKS

If TONY NJOKU is playing at the festival you’re going to then I think you’d be a fool to not make time to go and see him and his band perform. For sheer musical extravagance and romance and tenderness, Tony is very hard to beat. He’s a very special artist.

HOLLY Goat Girl

London-based producer and songwriter MAY showed shedloads of promise when she released ‘LUCKY’ via in-the-know label Slow Dance back in 2021. Dialling up the intensity, her recent track ‘PHONE ME’ felt like an arrival and MAY's live show is similarly impressive; we caught her supporting Jockstrap last year and we love her.

KATIE GAVIN, MUNA

I remember seeing The xx play a set at Lollapalooza when I was in high school, and not realising they were not much older than me at the time because their songwriting and stage presence was already so iconic. It’s amazing to see ROMY’s voice and writing unfold through the years, and her record is just going to be spectacular, as will her festival sets. Lesbian dance music for the ages, baby.

Your New Favourite FESTIVAL MUST-SEES (...picked by your old favourite festival must-sees)

Favourite MUST-SEES by favourite festival

Here at DIY, we spend our days spotlighting the best new musical finds for you to wrap your ears around and make your own. But when it comes to festivals, we’ll admit that no one spends more time in the fields than the bands themselves. With that in mind, we asked a few of our faves to pick the new and lesser-known artists they’ll be hot-footing it across the site to see. We suggest you join them.

SAMIA

I’m excited about GRETEL HÄNLYN. Really beautiful voice, and incredibly unique and honest songwriting.

JAMES SMITH, Yard Act

I’m looking forward to catching THE LAST DINNER PARTY at Reading & Leeds this year. They’ve just released their first single and it’s a bold statement. Confident and theatrical and fun. I’m looking forward to hearing more live.

ROCK EN SEINE

23rd – 27th August

Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, Paris

Billie Eilish, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Turnstile, Wet Leg

GOVERNORS BALL

WHEN: 9th – 11th June

WHERE: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY

MUST-SEE ACTS: Lizzo, Rina Sawayama, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Spice, Lil Nas X

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: It’s New York! Ride the subway, grab a hot dog / slice of pizza / cheesecake, flip a finger up at Trump Tower, make yourself the main character in the film or TV show of your choice. Then get some slightly less familiar views - walk the High Line, a former railway track turned park, which weaves through part of Manhattan, and ride the Roosevelt Island Tramway - a cable car - across the East River.

a Direct to from Edinburgh, London Gatwick, London Heathrow and Manchester.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

WHEN: 22nd – 24th September

WHERE: Downtown Las Vegas, NV

MUST-SEE ACTS: Kendrick Lamar, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The 1975, The Killers, Omar Apollo

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: Once you’ve taken the obligatory selfie under the iconic ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’ sign (which technically isn’t even in the city), stop off at the Neon Museum, a retirement home of sorts for the area’s less fortunate fascias. Or trace the history of organised crime at the Mob Museum, which features a Prohibition-era distillery making its own moonshine. Also, touch grass, see daylight, and don’t include an accidental spouse in your ‘goods to declare’.

a Direct from London Heathrow and London Gatwick.

MAHA

WHEN: 28th – 29th July

WHERE: Stinson Park, Omaha, NE

MUST-SEE ACTS: Turnstile, Big Thief, Alvvays, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Peach Pit

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: We’re not likely to insult any Omaha natives by pointing out that it’s a bit smaller than some other locations on show, but it’s also one with an incredibly indie reputation: the ‘Omaha Sound’ developing in the ‘90s to ultimately give us Conor Oberst and his many affiliated projects – including Saddle Creek the label itself. Oh, and the Cinnabon as managed meticulously by Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul was supposed to be here.

a You’ll need to transfer, but can do so from most US international hubs.

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: OK, we hear you, Paris isn’t the ‘find yourself’ type of trek from the UK. However, for those conscious of their carbon footprint, it is one accessible by rail – and the stellar views from the Sacre Coeur are a mere hop, skip and jump from the Eurostar’s terminus at Gare du Nord. If squinting past the throng to catch a glimpse of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre isn’t your artistic bag, then the Fondation du Louis Vuitton’s Basquiat x Warhol, à quatre mains exhibition is running until 28th August.

Direct from London St. Pancras.

Direct from Belfast International, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, London Luton, Manchester, and

#MYBLOODYFESTIVAL

WHEN: When: 16th – 18th June

WHERE: Lukiškės Prison 2.0, Vilnius

MUST-SEE ACTS: slowthai, Bombay Bicycle Club, Young Fathers, PVA, Shame

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: The festival’s venue itself is notable: a former prison with the darkest history imaginable, it was recently used as a filming location for Stranger Things. Elsewhere, take a walk through Vilnius’ Old Town – including the neighbourhood of Užupis - or make a pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses, a site of peaceful resistance for occupied Lithuanians since the 1800s. a Direct from London City, London Luton, and London Stansted.

SUMMER SONIC

WHEN: When: 19th – 20th August

WHERE: Maishma Sonic Park, Osaka / Zozomarine Stadium & Mahukari Messe

MUST-SEE ACTS: Blur, Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar, Liam Gallagher, Two Door Cinema Club

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: Much like our beloved Reading and Leeds, Summer Sonic takes on two sites in August, the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and the culinary hub, Osaka. In the former, make sure to give the famous Hachiko statue a pet before you traverse the Shibuya Crossing (aka Oxford Circus DUPE!), then ensure you’ve got enough space in your luggage for a shopping spree, whether it’s retro video games, the future fashion found in Harajuku or the vast choice in stationery shops. If all that sounds overwhelming, then opt for Osaka, where you can take it easy. See the city by boat, eat okonomiyaki, which originated in the region, and head up to Osaka Castle, which dates from the 16th Century. a Direct to Tokyo from London Heathrow.

JOYLAND

WHEN: 24th – 26th November

WHERE: Senayan, Jakarta

MUST-SEE BANDS: Interpol, Alvvays

MUST-SEE SIGHTS: Head to the National Museum to brush up on your Indonesian knowledge, then to Taman Mini "Indonesia Indah”. Literally translated as ‘Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park’, the ‘miniature’ is a trick; the park in fact boasts full-size replicas of buildings that reflect the country’s diverse way of life – at least circa 1975, when it opened. Then if retail therapy’s your bag, hit up the Grand Indonesia shopping centre, which for reasons we’re not at all sure of, boasts a replica of the Rockerfeller Center’s fountain that also hosts a light show.

Star Trekkin’

a Connections will be required, but can be a single stop from major UK airports.

If watching your faves a little further away from home takes your fancy, why not quench that musical wanderlust with one of these.

ESSENTIALS FESTIVAL

PACK THIS

1. VANGO ALPHA 300 TENT

If you’re looking for a budget-friendly sleeping option, the two-person Alpha 300 is just the chap. It’s lightweight, packs down small, and comes in at the cheaper end of the price spectrum without compromising on quality.

RRP: £79.99

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2. OUTDOOR REVOLUTION NIGHTFALL AIR MATTRESS

Sleep comfy with this lightweight and easy to inflate air mattress. No need for a separate pump, it’s got one already integrated inside for minimum effort.

RRP: £44.99

Get it: outdoorworlddirect.co.uk

3. PROQ FLATDOG BBQ

If you’re the sort of camper who normally packs the kitchen sink, this foldable BBQ is the perfect compromise. It cooks like a proper barbie, but packs down to the size of a laptop. Magic!

RRP: £71.99

Get it: souschef.co.uk

DRINK THIS 6 4

Forgotten how to festival? Destroyed all your camping supplies in a fit of winter rage? Fear not, for we’ve got you covered. Crib your must-haves from our handy go-to list and breeze through festie season like a pro.

4. ALTRUIST SPF FACE FLUID

The whole Altruist brand is designed to give high quality, low cost sun protection - a winner. But we’re plumping specifically for their face fluid - available in SPF 30 and 50 - because no one wants a roasted nose when they’re trying to look their festie best.

RRP: £8.50 - £10.95 Get it: altruistsun.com

5. KIND BAGS

Keep your must-haves close whilst doing good for the planet with these sustainable backpacks, each made from 18 recycled water bottles. Durable, water-resistant and available in a huge range of colours, you can fit everything you’ll need for a day of frolicking, with room to spare.

RRP: £65

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6. NICE BOXED WINE

Just as handy for keeping you merry as for holding down the corner of your tent when you run out of pegs, the nice folk at NICE wine have developed a box for all colours to see you through the weekend. One box = three bottles, and comes in Sauvignon Blanc, Pale Rosé and Argentinian Malbec varieties. RRP: £21.50 Get it: nice-drinks.co.uk

7. PHIZZ 3-IN-1 TABLETS

When you’re staring down the barrel of a hangover, rehydration is key. Pop one of these effervescent tablets in your drink and it’ll help triple your water intake, whilst adding a huge boost of Vitamin C to boot. Available in Orange, Mango, Apple and Blackcurrant, and Mixed Berry flavours, Phizz will become your best new festival friend.

RRP: £8 for 20

Get it: phizz.co

8. WATTSHOT GIN

Gin: it’s great with tonic, but you wouldn’t want to neck it back neat, right? Wrong!

WATTSHOT is the first gin purposefully designed to be drunk as a shot, giving a lingering cherry blossom flavour and what they describe as a ‘tingle’. Ooh-er.

RRP: £34.90

Get it: masterofmalt.com

Queen Camp OF THE

Gearing up for a mammoth festival season including her long-overdue debut Glastonbury performance, Rina Sawayama is riding the crest of smash second album ‘Hold The Girl’ into her most dominant era yet.

Words: Nick Levine. Live photos: Burak Cingi.

“Oh, I will not be tenting, babes

– I’m there to work. I mean, I hope my tour manager has sorted me something other than a tent…” Rina Sawayama is talking, with flawless comic timing, about making her Glastonbury debut in two months’ time: another milestone moment for an artist whose career trajectory has been climbing skywards for well over half a decade now. Last September, her stellar, genreblending second album ‘Hold the Girl’ entered the UK Album Chart at Number Three, cementing her status as a Main Pop Girl with a unique musical vision. Lead single ‘This Hell’ saw her taking on anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment with a Shania-style country strut (“Let’s go girls!” she says with a wink at the start); ‘Catch Me in the Air’, a rocky tour-de-force about Rina’s “intense” relationship with her mother, was designed with The Corrs pitching to Gwen Stefani in mind.

As well as touring the album and talking about it a lot – Rina reckons she’s given “over a hundred interviews” during this era – the 32-year-old has somehow found time to promote her first film, John Wick: Chapter 4, which came out in March. She earned rave reviews for her performance in the bloody

blockbuster as Akira, a formidable fighter who really holds her own next to Keanu Reeves’ ruthless assassin. “That [press cycle] felt easy because there was no pressure for me to really sell it,” she says today. “John Wick has its fans, and it’s a great movie, so it came out and instantly went to Number One all over the world.”

Still, Rina has been so busy that when DIY catches up with her in early April, she calculates that she’s spent just six nights in her own bed this year. Speaking from her South London home, she’s enjoying some much-needed calm before the storm of festival season. “It’s been so nice just clearing out my back garden and not engaging at all with anything,” she says. She may be doing an interview on a supposed day off, but Rina is warm, witty and willing to talk about anything. She even continues our chat for a little longer than specified while making her way to an appointment. “I’m walking now so don’t worry if I sound out of breath!” she says with a laugh.

This brief pause is only possible because, contrary to rumours that gathered traction in January, Rina will not be competing at the Eurovision Song Contest next month. Until newcomer Mae Muller was unveiled as the UK’s representative, Pop Twitter seemed convinced that Rina was very much in the running. “I mean, it was really interesting because we’d actually –maybe a couple months ago, well, like a while ago – been approached, but then we returned the call and then nothing happened,” she says. “Basically, we didn’t get anything back. So in another universe, I might have been doing it but I didn’t actually hear [back].” Wait, that’s ridiculous! “Yeah, it was all go and then it kind of went quiet,” she says. “But it actually worked out well because I really needed a break; I hadn’t really taken a proper break for three years. Honestly, it’s really good that that happened because I probably would have burnt out or something.”

It’s easy to see why many fans wanted #RinaForEurovision – she’s a bold pop star with a big voice who can really put on a show. “I grew up watching Eurovision, I love Eurovision, I like to call it ‘straight camp’ because it’s so camp but it’s for straight people,” she says. “So yeah, I feel very lucky and honoured that people were putting my name [out there]. I kind of played into it a little bit because I thought it was funny that this rumour kept getting bigger. But all the best to Mae: I’ll be tuning in and supporting.”

With those Eurovision rumours cleared up, we dig a little further into Rina’s ‘straight camp’ concept. What else would she define in this way? “Oh, John Wick is very straight camp,” she replies.

“The whole series is inspired by Greek mythology and very melodramatic – I love it. There’s a lot of great things that are straight camp.” Later, we suggest that Strictly Come Dancing - the BBC primetime show on which she performed ‘This Hell’ wearing a sparkly silver cowboy hat – also falls into this category.

My favourite pop girl is the hun pop girl."

“Oh my god, Strictly is straight camp – 100 per cent!” she says. “I love that phrase, I’m using it all the time.”

Anyway, back to business. Glastonbury is far from the only festival Rina is playing this summer - she’s booked and busy from June onwards with sets at Governors Ball in New York, Mad Cool in Madrid, NOS Alive in Lisbon and Reading & Leeds in the UK, to name just five. As a performer, does she look forward to festival season? “I used to really hate it actually, because it used to scare me,” she says candidly. “I guess a lot of people might not know that, unless you’re the headliner, you don’t get a soundcheck. Most people [performing] will be rolling in that morning. And so you’re coming off, potentially, a very long flight and then doing a show straight away. For me, flying causes quite a lot of vertigo, so I used to kind of struggle with that.”

The turning point came when Rina played Danish festival Roskilde last July. “That was the first time I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is actually really fun’. You rock up with no idea what you’re gonna get. Once you lean into the unpredictable nature of it, you start to play with it a bit, and now it’s the most enjoyable thing.” Rina also gained in confidence after performing at last year’s Coachella and styling out a technical glitch caused by desert dust in her soundboard. “At a festival, it might not be the most polished performance you’ve done, but it might be the funnest,” she says.

Rina is also brutally honest about what festivals mean to her brand and all-important bottom line. “You know, we are constantly turning down festivals we would love to do [because] the slot isn’t right,” she says. “We always wait until the slot is right. And for a lot of artists, festivals are where we actually make income.” She points out that only top-tier superstars can make a mint by charging “£500 for a VIP circle” ticket. “There are a lot of overheads, especially if you want to put on a pop show at a very high level,” she says. “That requires a large investment, and how you balance that financially is to do festivals. I don’t make any money off my headline shows.”

Rina is enough of a live draw to have packed out London’s 5,000-capacity O2 Academy Brixton in October, but she says putting on a show is always a matter of conjuring “smoke and mirrors” on a budget. She would “love to add more dancers,“ but currently can’t afford to because this would mean having to hire a second tour bus. “As an artist, I always want to put on the best show,” she says. “We’re actually redesigning the show for this run [of festivals] so it’s more theatrical and more about storytelling. And because I’m quite aware that there will be cameras on me because of festival live streams, I want to make it as photogenic as possible.” Still, the line between spectacle and practical is always a thin one. “Again, it’s about making all that possible while making [the show] transportable and able to be pushed out on stage in 15 minutes,” she adds. “It’s a lot to think about!“

Rina is also looking forward to festival season because it gives her an opportunity to reconnect with ‘Hold the Girl’ after a draining promo campaign. Sonically, her second LP is a genre-smooshing headrush, incorporating everything from bhangra to UK garage and J-pop to industrial rock, but her inventive productions are underpinned by deeply emotional songwriting. “I’m trying to be normal, but trauma is immortal,” she sings on ‘Frankenstein’, a lacerating indie banger about self-loathing. The brilliantly bombastic ballad ‘Forgiveness’ finds her grappling with the realisation that “forgiveness is a winding road”. “Sometimes I blame you, sometimes I don’t,” she sings. “Sometimes it flips so fast, I don’t know.”

Though Rina has been careful not to get too specific, she has previously said that discussing the album’s painful subject matter was “retraumatising” for her. “I did so many interviews that the album kind of lost meaning for me,” she elaborates today. “When you’re talking about something over and over again, you’re almost rewriting how you perceive that story. And I became really quite detached from what was important, I think.”

Rina says she threw herself into giving “entertaining” interviews and making equally entertaining TikToks, but now wonders whether this all-guns-blazing approach was a slight misjudgment. “The story of the record is actually very sad and very intense,” she says. “And I don’t know if I was really able to honour that, because the goal at the time was, ‘Let’s do maximum exposure and push this record as far out as possible.’ But that really diluted the message.” With the benefit of hindsight, Rina says she wishes

she had given herself “a couple of months” to figure out how to tell the album’s story. Instead, she dropped lead single ‘This Hell’ just five days after completing a tour in support of her 2020 debut LP ‘Sawayama’.

Trailed by dazzling singles ‘STFU!’, ‘Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)’ and ‘XS’ – the latter sounding like Britney doing nu-metal – the musician’s debut marked her out as an incredibly smart and seriously exciting pop visionary. As more and more people discovered the album, the buzz kept building: ‘Sawayama’ reached its UK chart peak in November 2021, more than 18 months after it first came out.

Elton John joined her for a new version of ‘Chosen Family’, a touching ballad about her queer support network. She collaborated with Lady Gaga on a joyous remix of Gaga’s self-empowerment anthem ‘Free Woman’, and teamed up with Charli XCX on ‘Beg for You’ - an irresistible chart hit that cleverly reinvented September’s Eurodance classic ‘Cry for You’.Along the way, she also became an agent of change. Though she has lived in the UK since she was five, when she and her parents moved to London from Niigata in Japan, Rina revealed in July 2020 that she wasn’t eligible for the Mercury Prize because she doesn’t hold British citizenship. For the same reason, she was effectively barred from the UK artist categories at the BRIT Awards.

Rina holds an indefinite leave to remain visa, which guarantees the right to live and work in the UK permanently. After saying in a statement that it felt “heartbreaking” that she would never “be considered a British artist in the eyes of the awards of a country I call home,” the musician attracted so much social support that she got the rules changed. The BPI, which runs the Mercury Prize and the BRIT Awards, now recognises anyone who has lived in the UK for five years as an eligible British musician. Gratifyingly, she was nominated in the Best New Artist category at this year's BRITs – her second after a Rising Star nod in 2021. “It’s one of those things that I haven't had a chance to take in,” she says today.

“While I’m clearing my back garden,

‘‘ We returned the call to Eurovision and then we didn't get anything back.”

‘‘

that’s the kind of thought that pops into my head. Like, ‘Wow, I actually changed the rules’."

Work on Album Three will begin once Rina has taken a minute to process everything and recalibrate. “You have the regrets and joys of the first album, and the regrets and joys of the second, and then you get to combine it into an amazing third album,” she says. After the emotionally-draining campaign for ‘Hold the Girl’, was she struck by what Ellie Goulding said recently about writing and releasing the “least personal” album of her career? “One of my friends screenshotted that and sent it to me with [the word] ‘You’,” Rina says with a laugh. “It is very iconic. And the truth [that Ellie is expressing] is very important. Sometimes you just want to make music. You don’t want to dig deep and go there emotionally. Like, I’ve done that with the last two albums and it’s been really great. But the personal cost to me has also been great. I want to be doing this job when I’m 60 – am I constantly going to try and find something wrong with myself?”

With this thought in mind, we end on a lighter note by talking about fundamentally fun British pop legends Girls Aloud. “Honestly, the production on ‘Sound of the Underground’ is very inspiring to me. It’s the perfect mash-up of two very contrasting genres,” she says. “But also, there is this whole era of British pop that never made it to the US, so it feels like it’s ours – groups like Sugababes and Liberty X and Girls Aloud. And that era is very much hun culture, which is the culture I grew up with. My favourite pop girl is the hun pop girl.”

No hun pop girl would dream of sleeping in a tent at Glastonbury, so let’s hope Rina’s tour manager has got the memo.

‘Hold The Girl’ is out now via Dirty Hit.

Rina Sawayama plays Governors Ball (9th - 11th June), Bonnaroo (15th - 18th June), Roskilde (24th June - 1st July), Mad Cool (6th - 8th July), NOS Alive (6th - 8th July), Osheaga (4th - 6th August), Lollapalooza (3rd - 6th August), Reading & Leeds (25th27th August), Lollapalooza Berlin (9th - 10th September), and Life Is Beautiful (22nd-24th September). DIY

At a festival, it might not be the most polished performance you've done, but it might be the funnest.”

GOOD TIME GANG The

mean, none of us do meth… that I can think of…” Clams Baker Jr chuckles. The Warmduscher frontman is recalling their Glastonbury 2022 experience, playing a 4AM set at the tail end of Saturday night, promptly followed by a 2PM set less than twelve hours later on the Sunday afternoon. It’s a double bill previously undertaken by fellow Windmill regulars Fat White Family, and one that they reported needing amphetamines to survive. Warmduscher, despite their reputation as hell-raisers, needed no such assistance. “Nothing to it but to do it, man!” he shrugs amicably.

It should come as no surprise that Warmduscher are the genuine article. Their rise – especially since the post-lockdown live music boom – has been nothing short of remarkable. They’ve climbed from being, in Clams’ own words, “just another South London, small venue band” to headlining Kentish Town Forum. Not bad for a group that were originally formed with the sole function of playing a New Year’s Eve house party, and that look to all the world like a noise rock outfit led by a deranged cowboy with a dub station.

Of course, the truth is always stranger than fiction, and in reality the picture of the band that the vocalist paints over the course of today’s call is one of a tightly-choreographed machine. Despite their debauchery-laden canon of songs, Warmduscher take pride in their craft. “Even though we’re not a

Warmduscher

“Iserious band, we take what we do very seriously,” he says. “We do what we do, it just so happens that what we like doing is fun.”

It hasn’t always been so. The band may have tightened up the screws as they’ve ascended playlist placements and column inches, but their reputation for partying was well-earned. “We’re a little bit more aware now that we’ve got to deliver. In the past, [4AM slots] would be more dangerous in the sense that we just wouldn’t care, we’d be wasted. We were almost expected to be that band,” he admits.

There are a few gigs that stand out as low (or should that be high?) points. “We had that show at End of the Road that everyone really loved, but it was one of our shittiest shows. It was pure raucous, they were saying they thought there was going to be a riot, but we were just fucked and over-tired. When we finished, we thought, ‘Oh my god, we just destroyed ourselves; everyone’s gonna hate us now’. But it was the opposite. Everyone was like, ‘Man, I saw you at End of the Road!’” Clams pauses to consider. “You become this weird sort of parody, like the Brian Jonestown Massacre or something, where people want to see you implode.”

Yet, far from imploding, Warmduscher have hit their stride. Last year’s fourth LP ‘At The Hotspot’ stood out as a marked step towards the mainstream, while lead track ‘Wildflowers’ was the closest they’ve ever inched towards a radio-friendly single. Produced by Joe Goddard and Al Doyle of Hot Chip, a pair with acclaimed dancefloor credentials, the record emerged more synth-tinged than previous outings; from the perspective of nightclub veteran Clams (also a member of Paranoid London, a group

have carved out a niche as unmissable party starters, taking their wares to late night festival sets up and down the land. After a hedonistic live highlight? Look no further…

Words: Louis Griffin.

“Even though we're not a serious band, we take what we do very seriously.”

- Clams Baker Jr

WARMDUSCHER’S GUIDE TO LATE NIGHT FESTIVAL ANTICS

Warmduscher know how to do a night right, so who better to guide you through the wee small hours of the festival when all the headliners have finished but the real party’s just beginning…

Be Spontaneous

Go with some good people, or meet some new friends. Make sure you know what you're taking, take enough of it, and just roll with it. Let your guard down. Dance. Dance it up, man, don't waste your time. Just fucking go and enjoy yourself: you spend all that money to get out there, go out and have some fun. Always the dance tent, wherever you can find that. Do something you wouldn't normally do. Just try to expand your horizons, in terms of music. Don't chinwag at 4AM, just fucking close your eyes and enjoy it. Don't take it too serious. If you're around a tent and you’re vibing, everyone's hopping around, just hop in. Don't waste your time sitting with the people that want to talk about all the bad shit.

Get to Block 9

My favourite area of Glastonbury is Block 9. It’s a sure shot at 4AM, at 6AM, at 8AM. If you can get into the Downlow, in that little bar in the back, dude it’s so much fun. Because if you’re still going, and the sun’s coming up, you get the real stragglers. You have these drag queens that have been performing all night, but they’re just sloppy, rolling around on the ground. The sun’s up, and you’re just laughing your ass off, and nobody gives a shit. That’s my favourite part of that whole festival.

The soundtrack is the key

You want the good vibes, but you don’t want too hippy dippy, campfire whatever. Sylvester’s ‘Do You Wanna Funk’ or ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’. Disco, man. Maybe Donna Summer, ‘I Feel Love’ – the ten-minute version, the Giorgio Moroder one. Go right to the cheese. It’s good cheese, too, not like that bad cheese. Just throw on Donna Summer, or a good falsetto. You want the energy, but you don't want the aggro.

once described as “the most riotous act in dance music”), that could only be a good thing. “I always wanted to combine what we were doing with a more synth-y sound, and Joe and Al added the dynamic of a lot of percussion, which was instantly awesome. They did it in a way that we never would have.”

But Warmduscher can’t sit still, and latest single ‘Love Strong’ is a move back towards twitchy post-punk, with Dan Carey returning to the producer’s chair. “Dan just did the latest single, and we did that in about four hours. So we’re going back to the fast mode!” the frontman laughs. He’s not kidding – apparently the next record is almost ready to leave the stable. “Yeah, we’ve got the next album sketched out already, all ready to go. We’re considering doing it ourselves on this one, because Ben (Romans-Hopcraft, bassist) is producing other bands now, and that might be the route that we’re going to go. But the plans are to record it before May ends, and then fingers crossed we’ll have it out before the end of the year.”

If ‘Love Strong’ is anything to go off, it’ll be another dose of vintage Warmduscher – and it seems that the band aren’t about to pivot to wholesome subject matters just yet. When asked what it is to be ‘Love Strong’, Clams smirks. “I don’t always like giving it away, I like people to [have] their own thoughts. But if you want the honest answer, the initial idea was imagining this guy in a chemsex party, just freaking out, and trying to keep it up in a world that’s getting you down - in the literal sense, and in the surreal sense.” He pauses. “I would say ‘Love Strong’ is just trying to be positive as well. Just fucking owning it. Not trying to be cool, and not trying to be down, because everyone’s fucking down, and it’s a lot

harder to be positive now, I’d say, than not.”

It’s a strangely sweet sentiment, which begs the question – would Clams consider himself a positive kinda guy? “Definitely. I have a positive outlook, I’m a can-do guy. I find the negatives funny, like Larry David – I find a lot of humour in absurdity,” he responds.

“When I say I’m positive, I’m not one of these dudes walking around with sunshine flying out of my ears, but my outlook is definitely glass half full, 100%. I kind of thrive in shitty situations. There’s been a million times where I probably should have quit, but I don’t know, I just thrive. So yeah, I like celebrating the shitty aspects of life, finding joy in the pain.”

Warmduscher may seem complex on the page, and underneath it all perhaps they are, but Clams is right. On stage, and on record, all of that washes away, and you’re left with the sheer joy of a middle-aged man in sunglasses and a white tracksuit, telling you all about a chemsex party over what sounds like a partially-melted funk record. After all, as a great man once said – who doesn’t want a little grit in their oyster?

‘At The Hotspot’ is out now via Bella Union.

Warmduscher play Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (27th April - 7th May), Wide Awake (27th May), Shindig (25th - 28th May), Bearded Theory (25th - 28th May), Indie Rocket (23rd - 25th June), TRSNMT (7th - 9th July), Rock Herk (14th - 15th July), Secret Garden Party (20th - 23rd July), Latitude (20th - 23rd July), Standon Calling (20th - 23rd July), Lokerse Feesten (4th - 13th August), Boardmasters and Green Man (17th20th August). DIY

“I LIKE CELEBRATING THE SHITTY ASPECTS OF LIFE, FINDING JOY IN THE PAIN.”CLAMS BAKER JR

Take ON THE World

EIGHT ALBUMS IN AND OVER FIFTEEN YEARS INTO THE GAME YOU ME AT SIX’S JOSH FRANCESCHI TALKS FESTIVALS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

Words: Sarah Jamieson. Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett.

hether it’s because they get to play to some of the biggest crowds of their careers, or simply because things can get a little hedonistic after dark, festival season is often the pinnacle of many bands’ calendars. And for a group like You Me At Six - who have been playing them for the better part of 15 years now - you could argue that festivals have become part of their very

From taking to the stage for their first ever arena show during 2008’s Give It A Name weekender, through to playing Main Stage slots at the likes of Reading & Leeds and Slam Dunk, the quartet are no strangers to the challenges and triumphs that these huge events can throw your way. “I remember us talking beforehand and being like, ‘We’re all gonna make mistakes, we’re all gonna fuck up today, but whatever - just enjoy it’,” frontman Josh Franceschi thinks back to that first 2008 big spot. “At that point we didn’t know if it was ever gonna happen again, so we needed to make the most of it, and we did. It was

Fast forward to the present and Josh is back home in Brighton, reflecting on the band’s most recent achievement: the release of their eighth album ‘Truth Decay’. “It came out when we were on tour, so that was quite interesting as we’d never had that before,” he nods. “It was probably the first time in a long time that we’ve put out a record and the songs have connected that quickly. Sometimes you put out music and you don’t know if it’s gonna land or not, so that felt really good. And the shows were pretty special; a lot of fun, great

It might sound like a more measured response, but he’s open about how the past few years of uncertainty have made expectations that much more unpredictable. Ahead of the record and its subsequent tour, the group found themselves in a strange spot: while, of course, the pandemic had already stopped the live world en masse, the band had previously delayed a slew of shows celebrating album anniversaries, meaning they weren’t quite sure where they fit anymore. “We didn’t truly know what the scale of a You Me At Six UK headline show could look like at that time,” Josh admits.

“[Our recent tour] felt good because we didn’t get to experience that with ‘SUCKAPUNCH’; we put out an album, did about five shows in September 2021 and then we didn’t really tour that

Walbum at all,” he continues. “We had no idea whether or not [it] had done wellobviously there was the fact it gave us a Number One, but that doesn’t really say whether or not those songs truly mean anything to anybody until you can see it in real time.”

It was this sense of questioned identity that would feed into the sonic progression of ‘Truth Decay’. “To be honest, not to lead it back to the pandemic and all the imposter syndrome, but coming out of all of that, I didn’t know what the identity of the band was,” he offers up. “With ‘SUCKAPUNCH’, we got to the conclusion that we could all have a little bit of ourselves in the album and so we tried to box-tick for everyone to make sure everyone’s creative appetite was fulfilled. But on this one, we really wanted [it to be] more cohesive and, I guess, a world.”

Looking around, they found themselves continuing to wonder where they fit into the British musical landscape. “We were like, ‘OK, where’s You Me At Six? Where’s our seat at the table?’ We soon drew back on ourselves and knew that we were always renowned as the emo or pop-punk band, so we thought, let’s see if we can reclaim that and become some of our fans’ favourite band again. It was about [asking], how do we reaffirm what we’re about and distinguish what is a quintessential You Me At Six record?”

The result saw the group take some of the spirit of their earliest releases - the punked-up pop of debut ‘Take Off Your Colours’ or the bite of 2012’s ‘Sinners Never Sleep’ - but refine it through the lens of their experience, breathing fresh new life into their take on the genre. And now, with summer fast approaching, they're about to step back onto festival stages; most notably a spot on this year’s eclectic bill at Reading & Leeds.

“I have absolutely no idea what it’s gonna be like,” Josh nods to the varied line-up which sees the likes of Foals and The Killers on the same poster as Becky Hill and Central Cee. “We spoke about it at length and it was a mixed bag as to whether we should do it. For us, though, it’s the festival we grew up going to and I think if, eighteen years in, we’re still being booked to play the main stage of a massive festival which has been so entangled in our band’s DNA…” You Me at Six’s storied festival history can complete the rest of that sentence by itself.

You Me At Six play Nova Rock (7th - 10th June), Deichbrand (20th - 23rd July), Tsunami Xixón (27th29th July), Pukkelpop (17th - 20th August),

Openair Gampel (18th - 21st August), Highfield (19th - 21st August), Reading & Leeds (25th - 27th August), Louder Than Life (21st - 24th September) and Aftershock (5th - 8th October). DIY

A TRIP DOWN

FESTIVAL MEMORY LANE…

Josh revisits a few of YMAS’s most memorable festivals past.

GIVE IT A NAME, 2008

We were actually in the middle of recording ‘Take Off Your Colours’ - we made that record in two weeks, but one of the weekends we lost to go do this festival. It was our first experience of seeing catering, and just seeing like, Fred from Taking Back Sunday and the guys from Four Year Strong [wandering around]; by then we’d done a couple of tours of the UK but that was our first experience of playing with some big fucking bands. It was our first arena show and it was very, very daunting! It felt like we’d been thrown in at the deep end but in the best way possible.

READING FESTIVAL, 2010

I remember when we played it in 2010 and Hayley [Williams of Paramore] came out for ‘Stay With Me’. That was just, ‘Oh, our mate’s gonna join us on stage, that’ll be cool’. But I still see that clip at least once a week! It’s still this thing that ties that whole feeling of, ‘Oh, fuck, they’re my band!’ That’s the great thing about those moments where you don’t know what’s happening; that’s something special.

SLAM DUNK, 2015

I remember in Leeds, I was downstairs warming up and I got a knock on the door. It was Adam Lazarra from Taking Back Sunday and he was like, ‘Let’s have a drink later!’’ And then the same weekend, I got a text from someone I knew saying, ‘The band I’m working with are asking if you want to do a song on stage with them’. I’m not really bothered about that stuff, but I asked who it was, and he said it was Finch. I sang ‘What It Is To Burn’ with them, which was a very full circle moment for me as the first band I was in used to cover that song, and ‘Cute Without The E’ by Taking Back Sunday. If I could’ve told fifteenyear-old Josh that that was gonna go on at a festival he was headlining, I think his little brain would explode.

The Glow

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With last year’s lauded ‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’, Natalie Mering cemented her status as one of America’s finest modern songwriters. Taking it into festival season, Weyes Blood is preparing to bring her lyrical apocalypse to the fields (with added glow sticks). Words: El Hunt. Live Photos: Neelam Khan

As perhaps you might expect, given the apocalyptic nature of her most recent album ‘And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow’, Weyes Blood is well prepared for the unpredictable chaos that festival season can often entail. “I would say just staying hydrated and having a granola bar is probably the best you could do,” reasons Natalie Mering, as she gears up for a summer of touring. “I’ll be bringing a backpack full of water, a sweater, good shoes, and maybe a vape pen for if you feel like vaping weed. A mushroom chocolate for if you feel like tripping out… That's not for everybody, though…” she cautions.

Though Natalie is currently enjoying some downtime at home in LA with her pomeranian Luigi – who fears rain and so won’t be accompanying her to Worthy Farm any time soon – when we speak, she’s about to head to Coachella, which will kick off a second wave of touring for the record. The middle panel of a desolate triptych of albums, ‘...Hearts Aglow’ was written during the early days of lockdown, while its 2019 predecessor ‘Titanic Rising’ has ended up taking on an eerie and prophetic prescience. “A lot's gonna change in your lifetime,” she sang on that album’s opening track – a lyric which now feels like something of an understatement.

“I was so sure that I had made this record that was sounding the alarm about things to come,” she says of the former. “I noticed when culture started to shift in this direction, and when isolation became the norm. I just didn't realise how precious and meaningful it would become during the pandemic.” ‘And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow’, meanwhile, emerged straight from the eye of the storm. “Mercy is the only cure for being so lonely,” she sings on aching opener ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’. ”Has a time ever been more revealing that the people are hurting?”

Touring the record earlier this year, Weyes

Blood often flung glow sticks into the front row. Like the warm red light that bursts out of her chest on the album’s sleeve, these luminous sticks became a symbol of heartbreak for Mering; a bright glow of survival bursting from something cracked and brittle. In a live setting, they also unlocked a kind of nostalgia for a simpler time. ”I had the glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling growing up,” she says. “The ‘90s was all about glow and sparkles and blue lipstick and just all that kind of zany, fun stuff.”

Would she advocate for mandatory glow sticks at all live shows? “I mean, I don't want

to waste too much plastic.…” she says. “But lately I’ve noticed that there's always one or two people in the audience that have managed to make their heart glow with something; a bike light or something random. I’m always so happy to see that.”

With a little distance from ‘And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow’’s release, Weyes Blood’s perspective on the record and the world at large has naturally shifted. Though there’s no one track which seems to get mentioned above all others when she’s chatting to fans – “There's a little something for everybody, I guess,” she says brightly – she’s been fascinated by listeners mishearing and inadvertently adding to certain lyrics. “In ‘Twin Flame’, I say: ‘I followed a light into the night’. Somebody thought it was: ‘I followed a lie into the night’. I wish I had said ‘lie’!” she laughs. “Well, maybe just between you and I, maybe I always said ‘lie’... Who knows?”

Still, she’s trying not to dwell on the recent past too much. “I'm on a completely new page with new songs I've been working on, and in a different zone,” she teases. Though Natalie won’t be debuting any of her next record, which is still in the preliminary writing stages, over this summer’s festival season, she happily elaborates on what the final part of her trilogy could entail. “I will say that it is more about a hope for the future,” she says. “It's going to be more of an extroverted record. There will be less taking stock of the subterranean river of your subconscious.”

As well as heading to her first Glastonbury and pitching up everywhere from Denmark’s Roskilde to Fuji Rock, Weyes Blood will also support Phoenix and Beck on their co-headline tour – and is relishing the chance to “go out and exceed people's expectations every night” as an opening act. Natalie originally met Beck at a party, and their friendship began when she accidentally spilled her entire drink all over him. “I don't think he remembers…” she says, with an audible degree of hopefulness. “We kind of became buddies based on a mutual appreciation of each other's music,” she adds.

“We did a little show together at this theatre in LA called The Largo and sang an Everly Brothers song together. It was the only time I've ever sung it with a man in close harmony where it just felt like it was so perfect. Maybe Josh from Father John Misty has a similar effect? I know very few men who sing and really rattle the ribcage and make you feel it in your heart, you know?”

Another singer Weyes Blood hugely admires is Elton John, who heads up the bill at

“I do karaoke to practise singing, by myself, alone in my house.”

Glastonbury. “‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ stands out because I do that a lot at karaoke,” she reasons. “Otherwise, I love [to cover] the classics. Old country songs. Bonnie Raitt’s ‘I Can't Make You Love Me’. Benny King’s ‘Stand By Me’. The Platters. I am obsessed with karaoke. I do karaoke to practise singing, by myself, alone in my house.”

The real question that remains is this: will Weyes Blood be planning on tracking down Barry from EastEnders for a collaboration at his now-infamous touring karaoke bar Barrieoke during festival season? Can we expect to find her down a secret singing spot any time soon, belting out any doo-wop? Well, it’s not a no… “I've always joked about doing a set and then being like, ‘OK, in 40 minutes, we're doing another hour long cover set. Come on out!’"

Mostly though, Weyes Blood is looking forward to reaching yet more audiences with her end-times love songs, and has felt the fog of isolation gradually lifting. After suffering with complications from long COVID over the last few years, Natalie is beginning to “actually feel better, and that's a miracle”.

“I’m just really looking forward to this spring and summer because I do feel like people are doing a lot of emotional healing, and it feels like energy is finally moving out of the stagnant phase that we were all in,” she says. “Obviously, we're irrevocably changed, but there's all these things to be hopeful about. In the backdrop, there's still a lot of very intense pressing issues, but I think the difference is there's less exhaustion. That was the hardest thing. I'm feeling that lift.”

‘And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ is out now via Sub Pop.

Weyes Blood plays Kilby Block Party (12th - 14th May), C6 (18th - 21st May), Rising: Melbourne (7th18th June), Glastonbury (21st - 25th June), Colours (24th June), Roskilde (24th June - 1st July), Rock Werchter (29th June - 2nd July), Pitchfork Music (21st - 23rd July), Fuji Rock (28th - 30th July), Pitchfork Paris (6th - 13th November) and Pitchfork London (7th - 13th November). DIY

LIKE THAT? TRY THIS!

If you’re a fan of Weyes Blood, these three should also be on your festival line-up hit list…

HAND HABITS

Spinning uneasy, sprawling narratives, this LA artist is a master of pairing breezy hints of Americana with heart-wrenching glimmers of grief.

ETHEL CAIN

Crafting expansive, cinematic songs that draw on eerie Southern Gothic and her religious upbringing, debut album ‘Preachers Daughter’ was one of the stand-out first outings of 2022.

OKAY KAYA

Ridiculously ambitious in concept, the Norwegian-American artist’s newest album ‘SAP’ is a thing of brilliantly bizarre beauty, honing in on the cellular shape of human life and feeling with giddying focus.

“The next album will be more extroverted, with less taking stock of the subterranean river of your subconscious.”

MAXIMO PARK . EVERYTHING EVERYTHING THE BIG MOON . THE BETHS . LIME CORDIALE

GENGAHR . PILLOW QUEENS

STAGE

CRAWLERS CMAT LÅPSLEY

BROOKE COMBE . PANIC SHACK

AFFLECKS PALACE . DEADLETTER . DOLORES FOREVER . ENOLA GAY

KINGFISHR . LOW HUMMER . MODERNLOVE. . OPUS KINK . PRIMA QUEEN

PSYMON SPINE . ROSE GRAY

YOUR SUMMER STARTS HERE

Diaries at the ready: Plot your way through a perfect festival-filled summer!

APRIL Cathedral Quarter Arts

27th April - 7th May

VARIOUS VENUES, BELFAST

piglet, Quasi, Warmduscher, Boris, LoneLady cqaf.com

r Yorkgate

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage

28th April - 7th May

VARIOUS VENUES, NEW ORLEANS, LA

Mumford & Sons, Leon Bridges, Lizzo, Ed Sheeran nojazzfest.com

a New Orleans

Sound City

28th April - 30th April

VARIOUS VENUES, LIVERPOOL

Swim Deep, Opus Kink, Courting, Malady, Maisie Peters soundcity.uk.com

r Liverpool Lime Street

Teddy Rocks

28th April - 30th April

CHARISWORTH FARM, BLANDFORD FORUM

Feeder, Panic Shack teddyrocks.co.uk

r Wool

Astral Festival

29th - 30th April

STRANGE BREW, BRISTOL astralfestival.com

a Palm Springs

Is This The Music You Like?

29th April

MARYHILL COMMUNITY CENTRAL

HALL, GLASGOW

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Pale Blue

Eyes, Sister Wives, The Bug Club

r St George’s Cross

Warm Up

29th - 30th April

FICA MURCIA

Namasenda, Yo La Tengo, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip warmupfestival.es

a Valencia

Sounds From The Other City

30th April

VARIOUS VENUES, SALFORD

Jelani Blackman, Honeyglaze, PVA, Jessica Winter soundsfromtheothercity.com

r Salford Central

MAY

Focus Wales

4th - 6th May

VARIOUS VENUES, WREXHAM

Squid, The Coral, Walt Disco, Dream Wife focuswales.com

r Wrexham General

Shaky Knees

5th - 7th May

CENTRAL PARK, ATLANTA, GA

Matt Maltese, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, Soccer Mommy, Muse shakykneesfestival.com

a Atlanta

Are You Listening?

6th May

VARIOUS VENUES, READING

Thomas Headon, Coach Party, Panic Shack, Deadletter, Prima Queen areyoulistening.org.uk

r Reading

Kilby Block Party

12th - 14th May

UTAH STATE FAIR PARK, SALT LAKE CITY, UT

The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Run The Jewels, Dominic Fike, Japanese Breakfast kilbyblockparty.com

a Salt Lake City

Tunes in the Dunes

12th - 14th May

PERRANPORTH BEACH, CORNWALL

The Vaccines, Kaiser Chiefs, James Bay tunesinthedunes.co.uk

r Truro

Just Like Heaven

13th May

BROOKSIDE AT THE ROSE BOWL, PASADENA, CA

Hot Chip, MGMT, The Faint, Peaches, Yeah Yeah Yeahs justlikeheavenfest.com

a Los Angeles

Sick New World

13th May

LAS VEGAS FESTIVAL GROUNDS, NV

Deftones, Turnstile, Death Grips, 100 gecs, Placebo sicknewworldfest.com

a Las Vegas

Welcome To Rockville

18th - 21st May

DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, DAYTONA BEACH, FL

Ho99o9, Deafheaven, Slipknot, Deftones, Nova Twins welcometorockvillefestival.com

a Daytona Beach

Celebrate This Place

19th - 20th May

VARIOUS VENUES, CARDIFF

Dream Wife, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Lambrini Girls, The Bug Club, Saloon Dion celebratethisplace.co.uk

r Cardiff Central

Hangout

19th - 21st May

GULF SHORES, AL

Tove Lo, Paramore, Thundercat, Calvin Harris, SZA hangoutmusicfest.com

a Pensacola

London Calling

19th - 20th May

PARADISO, AMSTERDAM

Deadletter, Vlure, Blondshell, Enumclaw londoncalling.nl

a Amsterdam

Get Together

20th May

KELHAM ISLAND, SHEFFIELD

Do Nothing, Friendly Fires, CMAT, James Righton, Cathy Jain gettogetherfestival.com

r City Hall

Bristol Sounds

21st - 25th May

CANONS MARSH AMPHITHEATRE, BRISTOL

JUNGLE, First Aid Kit, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

r Bristol Temple Meads

The Great Escape

10th - 13th May

VARIOUS VENUES, BRIGHTON

Once again the pubs, clubs and even the beach in Brighton dedicate themselves to all things new bands. Among those heading to the South Coast in May are the likes of The Last Dinner Party, Katie GregsonMacLeod, Heartworms and Jessica Winter as well as more familiar names like Arlo Parks, and ex-Maccabees project 86TVs greatescapefestival.com r Brighton

Lightning In A Bottle

24th - 29th May

BUENA VISTA LAKE, KERN COUNTY, CA

Caribou, Sofi Tukker libfestival.org

a Meadows Field

Bearded Theory

25th - 28th May

CATTON HALL, DERBYSHIRE

Panic Shack, Yard Act, Primal Scream, Coach Party, Interpol beardedtheory.co.uk

r Lichfield Trent Valley

Bottlerock

25th - 28th May

NAPA VALLEY, CA

Bastille, Lizzo, KennyHoopla, Lil Nas X bottlerocknapavalley.com

a San Francisco

Midnight Sun

25th - 27th May

LEWS CASTLE, STORNOWAY

Pretenders, Edwyn Collins, Honeyblood, Spiritualized, Primal Scream midnightsunweekenderstornoway.com

a Stornoway

Shindig

25th - 28th May

DILLINGTON ESTATE, SOMERSET

Warmduscher, Sister Sledge, Erol Alkan, Dawn Penn, David Rodigan shindigfestival.co.uk

r Taunton

Sonic Temple

25th - 28th May

HISTORIC CREW STADIUM, COLUMBUS, OH

Foo Fighters, Ho99o9, The Bronx, Nova Twins, Bob Vylan sonictemplefestival.com

a Columbus

Art Rock

26th - 28th May

SAINT-BRIEUC

Christine and The Queens, alt-J, Editors, Porridge Radio artrock.org

a Nantes

Boston Calling

26th - 28th May

HARVARD ATHLETIC COMPLEX, BOSTON

The National, Bleachers, Paramore, Foo Fighters, Yeah Yeah Yeahs bostoncalling.com

a Palm Springs

Immergut

26th - 28th May

NEUSTRELITZ

Sorry, Caroline Rose, DITZ, Billy Nomates immergutrocken.de

a Berlin

In Between Days

26th - 28th May

TIMES SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON

TYNE

Two Door Cinema Club, The Wombats, Twin Atlantic, Black Honey, Happy Mondays inbetweendaysncl.co.uk

r Newcastle

In It Together

26th - 28th May

OLD PARK FARM, MARGAM, PORT TALBOT

Melanie C, Groove Armada, Kelis, The Kooks, Twin Atlantic inittogetherfestival.com

r Port Talbot Parkway

Sea Change Weekender

26th - 27th May

VARIOUS VENUES, TOTNES

Django Django, O., deep tan, Bill Ryder-Jones, Heartworms seachangepresents.co.uk

r Totnes

Spring Festival Alicante

26th - 27th May

MULTIESPACIO RABASA, ALICANTE

Two Door Cinema Club, Lori Meyers, Amaia, Carolina Durante, Fangoria springalicante.es

a Alicante

Vivid LIVE

26th May - 17th June

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Yaeji, Weyes Blood, Devonté Hynes, Thundercat, Ethel Cain sydneyoperahouse.com/festivals

a Sydney

Adjacent

27th - 28th May

ON THE BEACH, ATLANTIC CITY, NJ

Paramore, Blink-182, Bleachers, Turnstile, Japanese Breakfast adjacentfestival.com

a Atlantic City

CORE

27th - 28th May

OSSEGHEM PARK, BRUSSELS

Little Simz, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, PinkPantheress, alt-J, Channel Tres corefestival.com

a Brussels

Love Saves The Day

27th - 28th May

ASHTON COURT ESTATE, BRISTOL

Years & Years, Kelis, Four Tet, Romy, Katy B lovesavestheday.org

r Parson Street

Movement

27th - 29th May

HART PLAZA, DETROIT

Underworld, Caribou, Skrillex, movementfestival.com

a Detroit

Neighbourhood Weekender

27th - 28th May

VICTORIA PARK, WARRINGTON

The Big Moon, Pulp, Self Esteem, English Teacher, Sugababes nbhdweekender.com

r Warrington Bank Quay

Portals

27th - 28th May

EARTH, LONDON

Svalbard, Bo Ningen, Maybeshewill, And So I Watch You From Afar portalsrock.com

r Dalston Kingsland

Primavera Sound

27th May - 4th June

PARC DEL FÓRUM, BARCELONA

Kendrick Lamar, Calvin Harris, Turnstile, Blur, Måneskin primaverasound.com

a Barcelona

Slam Dunk

27th - 28th May

TEMPLE NEWSAM, LEEDS / HATFIELD PARK

Boston Manor, Pvris, The Menzingers, Creeper, Billy Talent slamdunkfestival.com

r Leeds / Hatfield

Kala

31st May - 7th June

DHËRMI

Daphni, Joy Orbison, I.Jordan kala.al

a Corfu

Nuits de Fourvière

31st May - 28th July

VARIOUS VENUES, FOURVIÈRE

Christine and the Queens, alt-J, Sigur Rós, The Black Keys, Coach Party nuitsdefourviere.com

a Lyon

JUNE Northside

1st - 3rd June

AARHUS-ESKELUNDEN

The 1975, White Lies, First Aid Kit, Muse, Cavetown northside.dk

a Aarhus

Red Rooster

1st - 3rd June

EUSTON HALL, SUFFOLK

Jesse Malin redrooster.org.uk

r Thetford

Dauwpop

2nd - 3rd June

HELLENDOORN

Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy, Coach Party, Personal Trainer dauwpop.nl

a Amsterdam

Orange

Warsaw

2nd - 3rd June

WARSAW-SŁUŻEWIEC

The 1975, Sam Smith orangewarsawfestival.pl

a Warsaw

Rock Am Ring

2nd - 4th June

NÜRBURGRING / EIFEL

Bring Me The Horizon, Kings Of Leon, Foo Fighters, Nova Twins, The Distillers rock-am-ring.com

a Bonn

Rock Im Park

2nd - 4th June

ZEPPELINFELD NÜRNBERG

Kings Of Leon, Foo Fighters, The Distillers, Turnstile, Bring Me The Horizon rock-im-park.com

a Nuremberg

The Great Estate

2nd - 4th June

SCORRIER HOUSE, CORNWALL

Primal Scream, The Selecter, The Cuban Brothers, Elvana greatestatefestival.co.uk

r Redruth

Wintickets with …

Dot-to-Dot

27th - 28th May

VARIOUS VENUES, BRISTOL / VARIOUS VENUES, NOTTINGHAM

The dual-city discovery event will showcase acts including Nell Mescal, Grove, Opus Kink, Nukuluk and Heartworms, as well as headliners Yard Act and Alvvays dottodotfestival.co.uk

r Bristol Temple Meads / Nottingham

Live at Leeds in the Park

27th May

TEMPLE NEWSAM, LEEDS

Two Door Cinema Club headline the one-day bash this time, with the DIY Stage hosting Cavetown, Crawlers, CMAT, Låpsley, Bully and more throughout the day. liveatleeds.com

r Leeds

Vestrock

2nd - 3rd June

EILAND BUITENVEST, HULST

The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand, Coach Party, LIFE, Personal Trainer vestrock.nl

a Brussels

We Love Green

2nd - 4th June

BOIS DE VINCENNES, PARIS

Mac DeMarco, Gorillaz, Phoenix, Arlo Parks, Bicep welovegreen.fr

a Paris

Wychwood

2nd - 4th June

CHELTENHAM RACECOURSE

Melanie C, Ash, Happy Mondays wychwoodfestival.com

r Cheltenham Spa

Mighty Hoopla

3rd - 4th June

BROCKWELL PARK, LONDON

Kelly Rowland, Kelis, Years & Years, Flo, Aqua mightyhoopla.com

r Herne Hill

Riverside

3rd - 4th June

RIVERSIDE MUSEUM, GLASGOW

Mall Grab riversidefestivalglasgow.com

r Partick

Canadian Music Week

5th - 10th June

VARIOUS VENUES, TORONTO cmw.net

a Toronto

Primavera Sound Madrid

5th - 11th June

CIUDAD DEL ROCK, MADRID

Blur, Kendrick Lamar, Turnstile, Le Tigre, Bleachers primaverasound.com

a Madrid

Caribana

7th - 10th June

VERBIER, SWITZERLAND

Sum 41, MC Solaar, Bob Sinclar caribana.ch

a Geneva

Eden Sessions

7th June - 1st July

THE EDEN PROJECT, CORNWALL

The War On Drugs, Pet Shop Boys, Beth Orton, Kasabian edensessions.com

r St Austell

Mystic

7th - 10th June

GDAŃSK SHIPYARD

Ghost, Danzig, Sleep Token, Employed to Serve mysticfestival.pl

a Gdansk

Primavera Sound Porto

7th - 10th June

PARQUE DE CIDADE, PORTO

Japanese Breakfast, FKA Twigs, Fred again.., Kendrick Lamar, Arlo Parks primaverasound.com/en/porto

a Porto

Nova Rock

7th - 10th June

PANNONIA FIELDS, NICKELSDORF

The Distillers, You Me At Six, PUP, Slipknot, The Prodigy novarock.at

a Bratislava

Rising

7th - 18th June

VARIOUS VENUES, MELBOURNE

Weyes Blood, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Obongjayar, Ethel Cain rising.melbourne

a Melbourne

Download

8th - 11th June

DONINGTON PARK, CASTLE

DONINGTON

Slipknot, The Distillers, Nova Twins, Placebo, Bring Me The Horizon downloadfestival.co.uk

r East Midlands Parkway

Greenfield

8th - 10th June

INTERLAKEN

The Distillers, Slipknot, Touché Amoré, The Menzingers greenfieldfestival.ch

a Zurich

Hampton Court Palace

8th - 17th June

HAMPTON COURT, LONDON

Kaiser Chiefs, Grace Jones hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com

r Hampton Court

Heartland

8th - 10th June

EGESKOV

Robbie Williams, MØ, Fatboy Slim heartlandfestival.dk

a Copenhagen

Melt

8th - 11th June

FERROPOLIS

FKA Twigs, Daphni, piri & tommy, Beabadoobee, Nia Archives meltfestival.de

a Leipzig

Rock For People

8th - 11th June

HRADEC KRALOVÉ

Slipknot, Ashnikko, Muse, The Chats, The 1975 rockforpeople.cz

a Prague

Sideways

8th - 10th June

TEURASTAMO, HELSINKI

Fever Ray, Interpol, Phoenix, M83 sidewayshelsinki.fi

a Helsinki

Best Kept Secret

9th - 11th June

BEEKSE BERGEN

The Strokes, Jamie xx, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, alt-J, Leon Bridges bestkeptsecret.nl

a Eindhoven

Brighten The Corners

9th - 10th June

VARIOUS VENUES, IPSWICH

86TVs, Gengahr, Naima Bock, Pulled Apart By Horses, O. brightenthecorners.co.uk

r Ipswich

Governors Ball

9th - 11th June

CITI FIELD, NYC

Kendrick Lamar, Kim Petras, Rina Sawayama, Lizzo, Lil Nas X governorsballmusicfestival.com

a New York

Kite

9th - 11th June

KIRTLINGTON PARK, OXFORDSHIRE

Lynks, Suede, Django Django, Hot Chip kitefestival.co.uk

r Oxford Parkway

Meltdown

9th - 18th June

27th May

BROCKWELL PARK, LONDON

Among the acts joining headliner Caroline Polachek at the South London event are Jockstrap, Tirzah, Enumclaw, Gilla Band and Alex G wideawakelondon.co.uk

r Herne Hill

SOUTHBANK CENTRE, LONDON

Christine and the Queens, Warpaint, serpentwithfeet, Let’s Eat Grandma southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/meltdown

r Waterloo

November 2-4 in Reykjavík, Iceland

Long Division

10th June

VARIOUS VENUES, WAKEFIELD

Field Music, The Howl & The Hum, LIFE, Sea Power, Prima Queen longdivisionfestival.co.uk

r Wakefield Westgate

Parklife

10th - 11th June

HEATON PARK, MANCHESTER

Jessie Ware, Tyler, The Creator, Megan

Thee Stallion, PinkPantheress, Caroline Polachek parklife.uk.com

r Heaton Park

Bergenfest

14th - 17th June

BERGENHUS FESTNING

Shame, Sigrid, Iggy Pop, Warpaint, First Aid Kit bergenfest.no

a Bergen

Copenhell

14th - 17th June

REFSHALEØEN, COPENHAGEN

Architects, Touché Amoré, Employed to Serve, Def Leppard, Fever 333 copenhell.dk

a Copenhagen

Azkena Rock Festival

15th - 17th June

VITORIA-GASTEIZ

Iggy Pop, Calexico, The Nude Party azkenarockfestival.com

a Bilbao

B-Sides

15th - 17th June

SONNENBERG, KRIENS

Japanese Breakfast, Okay Kaya, cumgirl8, b-sides.ch

a Zurich

Bonnaroo

15th - 18th June

GREAT STAGE PARK, MANCHESTER, TN

Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, Lil Nas X, Rina Sawayama, Paramore bonnaroo.com

a Nashville

Graspop

15th - 18th June

DESSEL

Slipknot, Architects, The Chats, Tom Morello, Papa Roach graspop.be

a Brussels

Isle of Wight

15th - 18th June

SEACLOSE PARK, NEWPORT

The Chemical Brothers, Blondie, George Ezra, Robbie Williams, Pulp isleofwightfestival.com

A West Cowes / Ryde Esplanade

Piknik i Parken

15th - 17th June

SOFIENBERGPARKEN, OSLO

Phoenix, Tove Lo, The 1975, Warpaint pipfest.no

a Oslo

Sónar

15th June - 17th June

VARIOUS VENUES, BARCELONA

Fever Ray, Peggy Gou, Grove, Erika de Casier, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul sonar.es

a Barcelona

Black Deer

16th - 18th June

ERIDGE PARK, KENT

Kurt Vile, CMAT, Midlake, Calexico blackdeerfestival.com

r Eridge

Body & Soul

16th - 18th June

BALLINLOUGH CASTLE, CO. WESTMEATH

Sorcha Richardson, The Murder Capital, Kurt Vile, Kojaque bodyandsoul.ie

a Dublin

Hurricane

16th - 18th June

EICHENRING, SCHEESSEL

Placebo, Cavetown, The 1975, Ashnikko, Muse hurricane.de

a Hamburg

La Prima Estate

16th - 25th June

PARCO BUSSOLADOMANI, LIDO DE CAMAIORE

Bon Iver, Nas, alt-J, Just Mustard, Japanese Breakfast, Chet Faker laprimaestate.it

a Florence

Lido Sounds

16th - 18th June

DONAUUFER UHRFAHRMARKT, LINZ

Florence + the Machine, Ashnikko, Phoenix, alt-J lidosounds.com

a Salzburg

16th - 18th June

LUKIŠKĖS PRISON 2.0, VILNIUS

Bombay Bicycle Club, Young Fathers, PVA , Shame and slowthai are among those due to head to the converted prison that hosts this Lithuanian festival. 8festival.com a Vilnius

Live in the Wyldes

16th - 30th July

The Wyldes, Bude

Two Door Cinema Club

thewyldescornwall.com

r Exeter St Davids

Maifeld Derby

16th - 18th June

MAIMARKTGELÄNDE, MANNHEIM

Phoenix, Loyle Carner, Death Grips, Lime Garden, Warpaint maifeld-derby.de

a Frankfurt

Pinkpop

16th - 18th June

MEGALAND-LANDGRAAF

Maisie Peters, Nova Twins, Robbie Williams, Tove Lo, Warpaint pinkpop.nl

a Maastricht

Sea Sessions

16th June - 18th June

BUNDORAN, CO. DONEGAL

Kasabian, Joesef, Inhaler, Becky Hill seasessions.com

a Ireland West

Southside

16th - 18th June

NEUHAUSEN OB ECK

Placebo, Loyle Carner, The 1975 southside.de

a Zurich

Inmusic

20th - 23rd June

YOUTH ISLAND, ZAGREB

The Killers, Fontaines DC, Deftones, IDLES, Royal Blood inmusicfestival.com

a Zagreb

Pitchfork

21st - 23rd June

UNION PARK, CHICAGO

The Smile, King Krule, Kelela, Killer Mike, Alvvays pitchforkmusicfestival.com

a Chicago

Tons of Rock

21st - 24th June

EKEBERGSLETTA, OSLO

Iggy Pop, Architects, The Bronx, Bury Tomorrow, Kverlertak tonsofrock.no

a Oslo

Electric Forest

22nd - 25th June

ROTHBURY, MI

Aluna, SG Lewis, Sofi Tukker, Jamie xx, Madeon electricforest.com

a Grand Rapids

I-Days

22nd June - 15th July

IPPODROMI SNAI, MILAN

Florence + The Machine, Foals, Rosalía, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys idays.it

a Milan

Jera on Air

22nd - 24th June

YSSELSTEYN

Billy Talent, Code Orange, PUP, Touché Amoré, The Menzingers jeraonair.nl

a Eindhoven

Metronome

22nd - 25th June

EXHIBITION GROUNDS, PRAGUE

Aurora, Editors, M83, Biig Piig, Tove Lo metronome.cz

a Prague

Glastonbury

21st - 25th June

WORTHY FARM, PILTON

Arctic Monkeys, Lizzo, Elton John and Lana Del Rey are among the big names for this year’s event, with Lil Nas X, slowthai, Måneskin and Rina Sawayama others likely to pull something special out of the bag for those watching both in the field and at home. glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

r Castle Cary

On The Mount

22nd June - 2nd July

Mighty Sounds

23rd - 25th June

Open’er

28th June - 1st July

GYDNIA-KOSAKOWO AIRPORT

Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar, SZA , Arctic Monkeys and Lil Nas X form just some of the must-sees at the Polish event this time around. opener.pl a Gdansk

Rock Werchter

29th June - 2nd July

FESTIVALPARK WERCHTER

Ashnikko, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Stormzy and national hero Stromae are among those packing out the bumper four-day bill for the Belgian event. rockwerchter.be a Brussels

THE MOUNT, WASING

Primal Scream, Sigur Rós, Gabriels r Woolhampton

Summerfest

22nd June - 8th July

Lake Michigan, WI

Bonobo, Bleachers, Declan McKenna, Jenny Lewis, Momma summerfest.com

a Chicago

Tinderbox

22nd - 24th June

TUSINDÅRSSKOVEN, ODENSE

Cat Burns, George Ezra, Black Eyed Peas, Mimi Webb, Oh Land tinderbox.de

a Billund

Tomavistas

22nd - 24th June

RECINTO FERIAL DE IFEMA, MADRID

Ladytron, The Vaccines, Metronomy tomavistasfestival.com

a Madrid

Festival de Nîmes

23rd June - 22nd July

VARIOUS VENUES, NÎMES

Sam Smith, The Black Keys, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, Sigur Rós festivaldenimes.com

a Nîmes

Full Force

23rd - 25th June

FERROPOLIS

Defeater, The Menzingers, The Bronx, Svalbn full-force.de

a Leipzig

Indie Rocket

23rd - 25th June

Parco di Cocco, Pescara Warmduscher, Ariwo, Daikaiju, Gazebo Penguins indierocketfestival.it

a Rome

La Magnifique Society

23rd - 25th June

PARC DE CHAMPAGNE, REIMS

Japanese Breakfast, Phoenix, Jehnny Beth, Agar Agar lamagnifiquesociety.com

a Paris

AIRPORT ČÁPŮV, TÁBOR

Black Flag, Bob Vylan, Rancid, Enter Shikari mightysounds.cz

a Prague

Outbreak

23rd - 25th June

DEPOT MAYFIELD, MANCHESTER

Earl Sweatshirt, Turnover, Denzel Curry, Death Grips outbreak-fest.co.uk

r Manchester Piccadilly

British Summer Time

24th June - 8th July

HYDE PARK, LONDON

Guns N' Roses, BLACKPINK, Lana Del Rey, Take That bst-hydepark.com

r Hyde Park Corner

Roskilde

24th June - 1st July

ROSKILDE

Alice Glass, Japanese Breakfast, Rina Sawayama, Denzel Curry, Blur roskilde-festival.dk

a Copenhagen

Siren’s Call

24th June

Niemënster

Japanese Breakfast, Phoenix, Sorry sirenscall.lu

a Luxembourg

Hideout

25th - 29th June

ZRCE BEACH, NOVAL hideoutfestival.com

a Zadar

Afro Nation Portugal

28th - 30th June

PRAIA DA ROCHA BEACH, PORTIMO, THE ALGARVE

Burna Boy, Ms Banks afronation.com

a Faro

Resurrection

28th June - 1st July

VIVEIRO, LUGO

Slipknot, Architects, Black Flag, Employed To Serve, Fever 333 resurrectionfest.es

a A Coruña

Barn on the Farm

29th June - 2nd July

OVER FARM, GLOUCESTER

Holly Humberstone, Wunderhorse, Rachel Chinouriri, flowerovlove, Olivia Dean barnonthefarm.co.uk

r Gloucester

Eurockéennes

29th June - 2nd July

MALSAUCY, BELFORT

Yard Act, Wet Leg, Skrillex, Sigur Rós eurockeennes.fr

a Basel

Garorock

29th June - 2nd July

PARC DES EXPOSITIONS, MARMANDE

Fred again.., Phoenix, Skrillex, Lambrini Girls garorock.com

a Bourdeaux

Lollapalooza Stockholm

29th June - 1st July

GÄRDET, STOCKHOLM

Japanese Breakfast, King Princess, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, The 1975 lollastockholm.com

a Stockholm

Lucca Summer

29th June - 28th July

LUCCA, TUSCANY

Blur, Robbie Williams, Lil Nas X, Bob Dylan, The Chemical Brothers luccasummerfestival.it

a Florence

Openair St Gallen

29th June - 2nd July

ST GALLEN

Sam Fender, Aurora, Mimi Webb openairsg.ch

a Zurich

Vida

29th June - 1st July

VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ

The Libertines, Whitney, Aurora, Spiritualized, Suede en.vidafestival.com

a Barcelona

Down The Rabbit Hole

30th June - 2nd July

DE GROENE HEUVELS

Fred again.., Romy, Working Men's Club, slowthai downtherabbithole.nl

a Weeze

Main Square

Montreux Jazz Festival

30th June - 15th July

VARIOUS VENUES, MONTREUX

Christine and the Queens, Sam Smith, Iggy Pop, Wet Leg and Gabriels are among the acts headed to the picturesque Lake Geneva shoreline this summer. montreuxjazzfestival.com

a Geneva

30th June - 2nd July

LA CITADELLE, ARRAS

Nova Twins, Spoon, City And Colour, Anna Calvi, Fever 333 mainsquarefestival.fr

a Paris

Rolling Loud Rotterdam

30th June - 1st July

BEEKSE BERGEN, HILVARENBEEK

Kendrick Lamar, Denzel Curry, Yung Lean rollingloudrotterdam.nl

a Rotterdam

JULY

Dog Day Afternoon

1st July

Crystal Palace Park, London

Iggy Pop, Blondie, Buzzcocks, Lambrini Girls

r Crystal Palace

Longitude

1st - 2nd July

Marlay Park, Dublin

ENNY, Tyler, The Creator, slowthai, Megan Thee Stallion, Dave longitude.ie

a Dublin

Margate Summer Series

1st July - 30th September

Dreamland, Margate

Bastille, Placebo, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, McFly margatesummerseries.co.uk

r Margate

Pause Guitare

4th - 9th July

VARIOUS VENUES, ALBI

Queens of the Stone Age, Coach Party, Shaka Ponk, Indochina pauseguitare.net

a Toulouse

Beauregard

5th - 9th July

PARC DU CHÂTEAU DE BEAUREGARD

Interpol, alt-J, Blur, Coach Party, M83 festivalbeauregard.com

a Paris

5th - 8th July

UPCOTE FARM, NEAR CHELTENHAM

Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent are back as Soft Play to headline this year’s event, with Bob Vylan, Empire State Bastard, Joyce Manor and American Football also among those appearing. 2000trees.co.uk

r Cheltenham

Musilac

5th - 8th July

LAC DU BOURGET, AIX-LES-BAINS

Inhaler, Coach Party, Iggy Pop, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand musilac.com

a Chambery

Bilbao BBK

Live

6th - 8th July

KOBETAMENDI, BILBAO

The Chemical Brothers, Jamie xx, Arctic Monkeys, IDLES, Florence + the Machine bilbaobbklive.com

a Bilbao

El Dorado

6th - 9th July

EASTNOR CASTLE DEER PARK, LEDBURY

Jelani Blackman, Willow Kayne, Sampa

The Great, Mall Grab eldoradofestival.com

r Great Malvern

EXIT

6th - 9th July

PETROVADIN FORTRESS, NOVI SAD

Skrillex, Viagra Boys, The Prodigy exitfest.org

a Belgrade

Festival d’été de Québec

6th - 16th July

VARIOUS VENUES, QUEBEC

The Smile, Alvvays, Lana Del Rey, Green Day, Weezer feq.ca

a Quebec City

Les Ardentes

6th - 9th July

LES ARDENTES, LIÈGE

Ice Spice, Kendrick Lamar lesardentes.be

a Brussels

Love Trails

6th - 9th July

GOWER PENINSULA

Biig Piig, Hollie Cook, High Contrast lovetrailsfestival.co.uk

r Swansea

Mouth of the Tyne

6th - 9th July

TYNEMOUTH PRIORY AND CASTLE

Siouxsie, Gabrielle, LYR mouthofthetynefestival.com

r North Shields

NASS

6th - 9th July

ROYAL BATH & WEST SHOWGROUND, SHEPTON MALLET

Biig Piig, Berwyn, Greentea Peng, Little Simz, Easy Life nassfestival.com

r Castle Cary

NOS Alive

6th - 8th July

PASSEIO MARÍTIMO DE ALGÉS

Rina Sawayama, Sam Smith, Arctic Monkeys, Angel Olsen, Lizzo nosalive.com

a Lisbon

Ottawa Bluesfest

6th - 16th July

LEBRETON FLATS, OTTAWA

Declan McKenna, Alvvays, Orville Peck, Thundercat, Weezer ottawabluesfest.ca

a Ottawa

Rochester Castle Concerts

6th - 9th July

ROCHESTER CASTLE

Rina Sawayama, Sam Smith, Arctic Monkeys, Angel Olsen, Lizzo rochestercastleconcerts.com

a Lisbon

Somerset House Summer Series

6th - 16th July

SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON

Gabriels, Interpol, Beabadoobee, Young Fathers, Greentea Peng somersethouse.org.uk

r Embankment

Cactus

7th - 9th July

MINNEWATERPARK, BRUGES

Róisín Murphy, The Vaccines, Kim Gordon, Shame, The Comet Is Coming cactusfestival.be

a Brussels

Community

7th July

CRYSTAL PALACE PARK, LONDON

Baby Queen, The Vaccines, Two Door Cinema Club, The Wombats communityfestival.london

r Crystal Palace

North Sea Jazz

7th - 9th July

AHOY CENTRE, ROTTERDAM

Olivia Dean, Fergus McCreadie, Loyle Carner, Sampa The Great, Stormzy northseajazz.com

r Rotterdam

Rock Zottegem

7th - 9th July

ZOTTEGEM

slowthai, Skrillex, Yung Lean, Lil Nas X, PinkPantheress rock-zottegem.be

a Brussels

Ruisrock

7th - 9th July

RUISSALO, TURKU

slowthai, Skrillex, Yung Lean, Lil Nas X, PinkPantheress ruisrock.fi

a Turku

Sjock

7th - 9th July

POEYELHEI, GIERLE

The Bronx sjock.com

a Antwerp

TRNSMT

7th - 9th July

GLASGOW GREEN

The 1975, Sam Fender, Lauran Hibberd, The Big Moon, Pulp trnsmtfest.com

r Bridgeton

Wireless

7th - 9th July

Finsbury Park, London FLO, Ice Spice, Latto, 50 Cent wirelessfestival.co.uk

r Finsbury Park

Dour

12th - 16th July

PLAINE DE LA MACHINE À FEU, DOUR

Phoenix, Yung Lean, Caribou, Denzel Curry dourfestival.eu

a Brussels

Gurtenfestival

12th - 16th July

GURTEN, BERN

Phoenix, Rosalía, Genesis Owusu, Lil Nas X, Sampa The Great gurtenfestival.ch

a Zurich

Beat-Herder

13th - 16th July

THE RIBBLE VALLEY, LANCASHIRE

Alison Goldfrapp, Piri, Peter Hook & The Light, I. Jordan, Gok Wan beatherder.co.uk

r Clitheroe

Benicàssim

13th - 16th July

RECINTO DE CONCIERTOS DE BENICÀSSIM

Franz Ferdinand, Nova Twins, Zara Larsson, Sports Team, Bastille fiberfib.com

a Valencia

Mad Cool

6th - 8th July

ESPACIO MAD COOL, MADRID

There’ll be banger after banger in the Spanish sun as Robbie Williams heads to Madrid, with Lizzo, Sam Smith, The 1975 and Rina Sawayama also among those performing. madcoolfestival.es

a Madrid

Happiness

13th - 15th July

SCHWANN, BADEN-WÜRTTTEMBERG

happiness-festival.de

a Munich

HarleyDavidson Homecoming

13th - 16th July

VETERANS PARK, MILWAUKEE, WI

Green Day, Foo Fighters, KennyHoopla, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Phantogram harley-davidson.com

a Milwaukee

Les Vieilles Charrues

13th - 17th July

CARHAIX, BRITTANY

Robbie Williams, Blur, Easy Life, IDLES, Phoenix vieillescharrues.asso.fr

a Quimper

Ilosaarirock

14th - 16th July

LAULURINNE, JOENSUU

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Years & Years, The Prodigy ilosaarirock.fi

a Helsinki

Positivus

14th - 15th July

LUCAVSCALA, RIGA

Sam Smith positivusfestival.com

a Riga

Rock Herk

14th - 15th July

HERK-DE-STAD, LIMBURG

Mura Masa, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Warmduscher rockherk.be

a Brussels

Super Bock Super Rock

14th - 16th July

MECO BEACH, SESIMBRA

The 1975, Sampa The Great, L'Impératrice, Franz Ferdinand superbocksuperrock.pt

a Lisbon

Higher Ground

15th July

ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON

The Staves, The Orielles, Aoife Nessa

Frances, Tawiah

r Chalk Farm

Kaleidoscope

15th July

ALEXANDRA PARK & PALACE, LONDON

Gaz Coombes, Hot Chip kaleidoscope-festival.com

r Alexandra Palace

Colours of Ostrava

19th - 22nd July

DOLNÍ VÍTKOVICE

Interpol, Burna Boy colours.cz

a Ostrava

Summer Sonic

19th - 20th July

ZOZOMARINE STADIUM & MAKUHARI

MESSE, TOKYO / MAISHIMA SONIC PARK, OSAKA

Kendrick Lamar, Blur, Fall Out Boy, Nova Twins, Thundercat summersonic.com

a Tokyo / Osaka

Bukta

20th - 22nd July

TELEGRAFBUKTA, TROMSØ

Aurora, Bob Vylan, Susanne Sundfør, Joe & The Shitboys bukta.no

a Tromsø

Bluedot

20th - 23rd July

JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY

Young Fathers, Grace Jones, Pavement, Big Joanie, Black Country New Road discoverthebluedot.com

r Macclesfield

Deichbrand

20th - 23rd July

CUXHAVEN / NORDHOLZ

You Me At Six, The Wombats, Tones and I deichbrand.de

a Hamburg

Latitude

20th - 23rd July

HENHAM PARK, SUFFOLK

Young Fathers, George Ezra, Pulp, The Big Moon, Black Midi latitudefestival.com

r Diss

Nozstock

20th - 23rd July

BROMYARD, HEREFORDSHIRE

Grandmaster Flash, The Wailers, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Shy FX, David Rodigan nozstock.com

r Hereford

Secret Garden Party

20th - 23rd July

NEAR HUNTINGDON

Dream Wife, Gengahr, The Libertines, Peaches, Lime Garden secretgardenparty.com

r Huntingdon

Standon Calling

20th - 23rd July

STANDON LORDSHIP, HERTFORDSHIRE

Lynks, Bloc Party, Years & Years, Bob Vylan, Katy B standon-calling.com

r Ware

Junction 2

21st - 22nd July

BOSTON MANOR PARK, LONDON

Underworld junction2.london

r Boston Manor

On The Beach

21st - 30th July

BRIGHTON BEACH

Royal Blood, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Vaccines, The Coral onthebeachbrighton.com

r Brighton

PennFest

21st - 22nd July

THE BIG PARK, PENN

Johnny Marr, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Gaz Coombes, Bastille pennfest.net

r High Wycombe

Rolling Loud

21st - 23rd July

HARD ROCK STADIUM, MIAMI, FL

A$AP Rocky, Ice Spice, PinkPantheress, Turnstile, Coi Leray rollingloud.com

a Miami

Tramlines

21st - 23rd July

HILLSBOROUGH PARK, SHEFFIELD

Sam Fender, Alfie Templeman, The Vaccines, Kasabian, Orla Gartland tramlines.org.uk

r Hillsborough Park

Pohoda

6th - 8th July

TRENČÍN AIRPORT

Wet Leg, Jamie xx, slowthai, Dry Cleaning and Yard Act are among those headed to Slovakia this summer, alongside PVA , Arca, Rico Nasty and more. pohodafestival.sk

a Bratislava

Truck

21st - 23rd July

HILL FARM, OXFORDSHIRE

Kasabian, Jade Bird, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Moon, Sam Fender truckfestival.com

r Didcot Parkway

Super Bock Super Rock

13th - 15th Juy

MECO, SESIMBRA

The 1975, Steve Lacy and The Offspring top the bill at the Portuguese event, which will also host Franz Ferdinand, WuTang Clan and more. superbocksuperrock.pt a Lisbon

YNot

28th - 30th July

PIKEHALL, DERBYSHIRE

Royal Blood, Crawlers, Mystery Jets, Lime Garden and Panic Shack are among the rock-leaning bill for this year’s event. ynotfestival.com

r Buxton

elrow Town

22nd July

PARSLOES PARK, DAGENHAM

Gorgon City, Armand Van Helden, Patrick Topping elrowtown.com

r Becontree

Splendour

22nd - 23rd July

WOLLATON HALL & DEER PARK

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Sugababes, The Vaccines, Divorce, Sam Ryder splendourfestival.com

r Nottingham

Visions

22nd July

VARIOUS VENUES, LONDON

Spiritualized, Just Mustard, Modern Woman, Katy J Pearson, Scalping visionsfestival.com

r Hackney Central

Belladrum

27th - 29th July

BELLADRUM

Sigrid, Lauran Hibberd, Olivia Dean, Bastille, The Xcerts tartanheartfestival.co.uk

r Inverness

Camp Bestival

Dorset

27th - 30th July

LULWORTH CASTLE

The Kooks, Caity Baser, Melanie C, Grace Jones, Confidence Man campbestival.net

r Wool

Kendal Calling

27th - 30th July

LOWTHER DEER PARK, LAKE DISTRICT

Lime Garden, Royal Blood, Beabadoobee, Rachel Chinouriri, The Murder Capital kendalcalling.co.uk

r Penrith

Tsunami Xixón

27th - 29th July

GIJÓN, ASTURIAS

You Me At Six, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Shame, Deadletter, Bob Vylan tsunamixixon.com

a Asturias

Deer Shed

28th - 31st July

BALDERSBY PARK, TOPCLIFFE Panic Shack, Gaz Coombes, Dream Wife, Grove, The Big Moon deershedfestival.com

r Thirsk

Fuji Rock

28th - 30th July

NAEBA SKI RESORT, YUZAWA-CHO

The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lizzo, Weezer, Balming Tiger fujirockfestival.com

a Tokyo

Low

29th - 31st July

CIUDAD DEPORTIVA GUILLERMO

AMOR, BENIDORM

Placebo, Interpol, Bombay BIcycle Club, Lynks lowfestival.es

a Alicante

Maha

28th - 29th July

STINSON PARK, OMAHA, NE

Big Thief, Turnstile, Alvvays, Black Belt

Eagle Scout, Peach Pit mahafestival.com

a Omaha

Morriña Fest

28th - 29th July

PORTO DE A CORUÑA

Two Door Cinema Club, Jason Derulo morrinafestival.com

a A Coruña

Radar

28th - 30th July

VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER

Sleep Token, Loathe, Igorrr, Periphery, God Is An Astronaut radarfestival.co.uk

r Deansgate

South Facing

28th July - 13th August

CRYSTAL PALACE BOWL, LONDON

Johnny Marr, First Aid Kit, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Craig David southfacingfestival.com

r Crystal Palace

AUGUST Rockstadt

Extreme

2nd - 6th August

RÂȘNOV

Architects, Employed to Serve, While She Sleeps, rockstadtextremefest.com

a Brașov

Wacken Open Air

2nd - 5th August

WACKEN, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN

Empire State Bastard, While She Sleeps, Employed to Serve, Megadeth wacken.com

a Hamburg

Lollapalooza

3rd - 6th August

GRANT PARK, CHICAGO, IL

Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975, Lana Del Rey, Rina Sawayama lollapalooza.com

a Chicago

Rebellion

3rd - 6th August

WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL

The Damned, Bob Vylan, Opus Kink, Brix Smith, Noah and the Loners rebellionfestivals.com

r Blackpool North

Valley Fest

3rd - 6th August

CHEW VALLEY LAKE, BRISTOL

Ibibio Sound Machine, The Kooks valleyfest.co.uk

r Bristol Temple Meads

Wilderness

3rd - 6th August

CORNBURY PARK, OXFORDSHIRE

Sugababes, Fatboy Slim, Arlo Parks, Christine and The Queens, Joesef wildernessfestival.com

r Charlbury

All Together Now

4th - 6th August

CURRAGHMORE ESTATE, CO. WATERFORD

Jamie xx, Daniel Avery, Jessie Ware, Sugababes, Iggy Pop alltogethernow.ie

a Cork

Bingley Weekender

4th - 6th August

BRADFORD & BINGLEY RUGBY CLUB

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Kate Nash, Sleeper, The Cribs, Razorlight bingleyweekender.co.uk

r Bingley

Edinburgh International

4th - 27th August

VARIOUS VENUES, EDINBURGH

Alison Goldfrapp, John Cale, Lankum, Jake Bugg, eif.co.uk

r Edinburgh Waverley

Indie

4th - 13th August

MITCHELSTOWN, CO. CORK

Raye, Two Door CInema Club, Anne-Marie, Joesef, Nell Mescal indiependencefestival.com

a Cork

Lokerse Feesten

4th - 13th August

LOKEREN

Blur, Placebo lokersefeesten.be

a Brussels

OFF

4th - 6th August

DOLINA TRZECH STAWOW, KATOWICE

Balming Tiger, Melody's Echo Chamber, Tropical Fuck Storm, Gilla Band, Big Joanie off-festival.pl

a Katowice

Osheaga

4th - 6th August

PARC JEAN-DRAPEAU, MONTREAL

Rina Sawayama, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, JPEGMAFIA, Soccer Mommy, The National osheaga.com

a Montreal

Øya

8th - 12th August

TØYENPARKEN, OSLO

Devo, Caroline Polachek, FKA Twigs, Blur, Sigrid oyafestivalen.no

a Oslo

Boardmasters

9th - 13th August

FISTRAL BEACH, WATERGATE BAY Cassyette, Bob Vylan, Florence + the Machine, Liam Gallagher, Little Simz boardmasters.com

r Newquay

Boomtown

9th - 13th August

MATTERLEY ESTATE NEAR WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE boomtownfair.co.uk

r Winchester

All Points East

18th - 28th August

VICTORIA PARK, LONDON

Stormzy, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Haim and Jungle are among the bill-toppers this time around. Here’s hoping they’ve turned the amps to eleven.

allpointseastfestival.com

r Mile End

110 Above

10th - 12th August

GOPSALL HALL FARM, LEICESTERSHIRE

Caity Baser, Twin Atlantic, Jack Garratt, Circa Waves, Walt Disco 110above.com

r Poleswort

Bloodstock

10th - 13th August

WALTON-ON-TRENT, DERBYSHIRE

Bury Tomorrow bloodstock.uk.com

r Lichfield City

Lakefest

10th - 13th August

EASTNOR CASTLE DEER PARK, HEREFORDSHIRE

Johnny Marr, McFly, Clean Bandit, Gaz Coombes lakefest.co.uk

r Ledbury

Sziget

10th - 15th August

ÓBUDA ISLAND, BUDAPEST

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Easy Life, Billie Eilish, Sam Fender, Mimi Webb szigetfestival.com

a Budapest

Way Out West

10th - 12th August

SLOTTSKOGEN, GOTHENBURG

Devo, Blur, Amyl & The Sniffers, Caroline Polachek, Shygirl wayoutwest.se

a Gothenburg

Ypsigrock

10th - 13th August

CASTELBUONO, SICILY

Young Fathers, Just Mustard, Slowdive, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, TRAAMS ypsigrock.it

a Palermo

Flow

11th - 13th August

SUVILAHTI, HELSINKI

FKA Twigs, Blur, Devo, Shygirl, Tove Lo flowfestival.com

a Helsinki

Four Chord

12th - 13th August

WILD THINGS PARK, PA

Taking Back Sunday, The Gaslight Anthem, Alkaline Trio, American Football, Yellowcard fourchordmusicfestival.com

a Pittsburgh

ArcTanGent

16th - 19th August

FERNHILL FARM NEAR BRISTOL

Deafheaven, SCALPING, And So I Watch You From Afar, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Converge arctangent.co.uk

r Bristol Temple Meads

La Route Du Rock

16th - 19th August

SAINT-MALO

Jamie xx, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Young Fathers, Flohio, Special Interest laroutedurock.com

a Rennes

Summer Breeze

16th - 19th August

DINKELSBÜHL, BAVARIA

Megadeth, While She Sleeps summer-breeze.de

a Nuremberg

Cabaret Vert

17th - 20th August

CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES

Ashnikko, Calvin Harris, KennyHoopla, Turnstile, Christine and the Queens cabaretvert.com

a Brussels

Camp Bestival Shropshire

17th - 20th August

WESTON PARK, SHROPSHIRE

Primal Scream, Rudimental, Melanie C, Confidence Man campbestival.net

r Telford

Green Man

17th - 20th August

CRICKHOWELL, BRECON BEACONS

Young Fathers, Snail Mail, Michael Kiwanuka, First Aid Kit greenman.net

r Abergavenny

Openair Gampel

17th - 20th August

GAMPEL-BRATSCH

Years & Years, Nova Twins, You Me At Six, Cypress Hill, Macklemore openairgampel.ch

a Geneva

Pukkelpop

17th - 20th August

HASSELT, KIEWIT

Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, Bring Me The Horizon, George Ezra, Slipknot pukkelpop.be

a Brussels

Reload

17th - 19th August

SULINGEN

Sleep Token, While She Sleeps, Skindred reload-festival.de

a Bremen

Lowlands

18th - 20th August

WALIBIHOLLAND, BIDDINGHUIZEN

Florence + The Machine, Billie Eilish, Boygenius, Foals and Turnstile are among those who’ll need to watch out for the treewielding masses at the Dutch event. lowlands.nl a Amsterdam

Beautiful Days

18th - 20th August

ESCOT PARK, DEVON

Suede, Grandmas House, Primal Scream, KEG, Elvana beautifuldays.org

r Feniton

Core

18th - 20th August

VARIOUS VENUES, GLASGOW

Deafheaven, Rolo Tomassi, cumgirl8, corethefestival.com

r St George’s Cross

Hardwick

18th - 20th August

HARDWICK HALL, CO. DURHAM

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Cribs, The Vaccines, Melanie C, Chilli Jesson hardwickfestival.co.uk

r Newton Aycliffe

Highfield

18th - 20th August

LAKE STÖRMTHAL GROSSPÖSNA, LEIPZIG

You Me At Six, Dropkick Murphys, Enter Shikari, Anti-Flag, Pennywise highfield.de

a Leipzig

Field Day

19th August

VICTORIA PARK, LONDON

Aphex Twin, Fever Ray, Arca, Bonobo, Jon Hopkins fielddayfestivals.com

r Mile End

AMA

23rd - 27th August

VILLA CA’CORNARO, ROMANO D’EZZELINO

Turnstile, Cypress Hill, White Lies, Yungblud amamusicfestival.com

a Venice

Rock En Seine

23rd - 27th August

PARC DE SAINT-CLOUD, PARIS

The Strokes, Angel Olsen, Billie Eilish, Turnstile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs rockenseine.com

a Paris

Lost Village

24th - 27th August

LINCOLNSHIRE

Róisín Murphy, Peggy Gou, Bonobo, Ibibio Sound Machine, Four Tet lostvillagefestival.com

r Newark Northgate

Beach Road

Weekend

25th - 27th August

VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK, MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MA

Bon Iver, Alvvays, Leon Bridges, Japanese Breakfast, Regina Spektor beachroadweekend.com

a Martha’s Vineyard

Big Feastival

25th - 27th August

ALEX JAMES’ FARM, OXFORDSHIRE

Sugababes, The Human League, Lola Young, Alfie Templeman, The Futureheads thebigfeastival.com

r Kingham

Feelings

25th - 26th August

BERGENHUS FESTNING, BERGEN

Yung Lean, Tove Lo, Anna of the North feelingsfestival.no

a Bergen

Victorious

25th - 27th August

SOUTHSEA SEAFRONT, PORTSMOUTH

Amyl & The Sniffers, Katy B, Beabadoobee, The Vaccines, Sigrid victoriousfestival.co.uk

r Portsmouth & Southsea

We Are FSTVL

25th - 27th August

CENTRAL PARK, DAGENHAM

The Prodigy wearefstvl.com

r Dagenham East

Foolhardy Folk

27th August

NOTTINGHAM ARBORETUM

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage, Honeymoon, Skinny Lister, Beans on Toast r High School

Cala Mijas

31st August - 2nd September

COSTA DEL SOL, MÁLAGA

The Strokes, Florence + The Machine, Arca, slowthai, Siouxsie calamijas.com

a Málaga

End of the Road

31st August - 3rd September

LARMER TREE GARDENS, WILTSHIRE Lucy Dacus, Perfume Genius, Pixies, Kurt Vile, Bright Eyes endoftheroadfestival.com

r Salisbury

Reading & Leeds

SEPT Electric Picnic

1st - 3rd September

STRADBALLY HALL, CO. LAOIS

Steve Lacy, Amyl & The Sniffers, The Killers, Billie Eilish, Fred again.. electricpicnic.ie

a Dublin

FORWARDS

1st - 2nd September

BRISTOL DOWNS

Erykah Badu, RAYE, Aphex Twin, Arlo Parks, Biig Piig forwardsbristol.co.uk

r Bristol Temple Meads

Jazz Aspen

Snowmass Experience

1st - 3rd September

SNOWMASS TOWN PARK, SNOWMASS, CO

Foo Fighters, James Bay, Billy Idol, The Lumineers jazzaspensnowmass.org

a Denver

Creation Day

2nd - 3rd September

WEST PARK, WOLVERHAMPTON

Grandmas House, IDLES, Happy Mondays, Ash, Friendly Fires creationdayfestival.com

r Wolverhampton

Manchester

Psych Fest

2nd September

VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER

Sorry, Heartworms, Ulrika Spacek, Crocodiles, Panic Shack manchesterpsychfest.com

r Manchester Oxford Road

Blue Ridge Rock

7th - 10th September

VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, ALTON, VA

Limp Bizkit, Cypress Hill, Babymetal, Soulja Boy, Corey Taylor blueridgerockfest.com

a Raleigh-Durham

Whitehaven Alive

8th - 10th September

WHITEHAVEN HARBOUR

The Vaccines, Jake Bugg, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tinie whitehavenalive.com

r Whitehaven

Lollapalooza Berlin

9th - 10th September

OLYMPIASTADION & OLYMPIAPARK, BERLIN

Zara Larsson, Rina Sawayama, Sam Fender, Moonchild Sanelly, Mimi Webb lollapaloozade.com

a Berlin

Riot Fest

15th - 17th September

DOUGLASS PARK, CHICAGO riotfest.org

a Chicago

Sea.Hear.Now

16th - 17th September

ASBURY PARK, NJ

The Killers, Weezer, Royal Blood, Sunflower Bean, The Breeders seahearnowfestival.com

a Newark

Reeperbahn Festival

20th - 23rd September

VARIOUS VENUES, HAMBURG

86 TVs, Big Joanie, Art School Girlfriend, Egyptian Blue, KEG reeperbahnfestival.com

a Hamburg

Louder Than Life

21st - 24th September

HIGHLAND FESTIVAL GROUNDS, LOUISVILLE, KY

Weezer, Royal Blood, You Me At Six, Turnstile, Green Day louderthanlifefestival.com

a Louisville

Life Is Beautiful

22nd - 24th September

DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS, NV

The Killers, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rina Sawayama lifeisbeautiful.com

a Las Vegas

Pop Montréal

27th September - 1st October

VARIOUS VENUES, MONTRÉAL

Candi Staton, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Junglepussy popmontreal.com

a Montreal

Ohana

30th September

DOHENY STATE BEACH, DANA POINT, CA

The Killers, Haim, Japanese Breakfast, Shame, Big Joanie ohanafest.com

a Los Angeles

Gathering Sounds

30th September

VARIOUS VENUES, STOCKTON-ON-TEES thegatheringsounds.co.uk

r Stockton

Sound on Sound

30th September - 1st October

BRIDGEPORT, CT

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hozier, Margo Price, Cautious Clay, Mt. Joy soundonsoundct.com

a Bradley

OCTOBER Aftershock

5th - 8th October

DISCOVERY PARK, SACRAMENTO, CA

Turnstile, Deafheaven, You Me At Six, Bob Vylan, Korn aftershockfestival.com

a Sacramento

Mondo.NYC

10th - 13th October

VARIOUS VENUES, NEW YORK CITY mondo.nyc

a New York

Twisterella

14th October

VARIOUS VENUES, MIDDLESBROUGH

Cathy Jain, CIEL, Opus Kink, Humour, Cherym twisterella.co.uk

r Middlesbrough

Swn

20th - 22nd October

VARIOUS VENUES, CARDIFF

Heartworms, Jessica Winter, Lynks, Westerman, O. swnfest.com

r Cardiff Central

When We Were Young

21st October

LAS VEGAS FESTIVAL GROUNDS

Turnover, Joyce Manor, Jean Dawson, Green Day whenwewereyoungfestival.com

a Las Vegas

NOVEMBER

Iceland Airwaves

2nd - 4th November

Various venues, Reykjavík is flag Blondshell, Yard Act, Balming Tiger, Squid, Lime Garden icelandairwaves.is

a Reykjavík

C2C

2nd - 5th November

Various venues, Turin

Flying Lotus, Caroline Polachek, King Krule, Yves Tumor clubtoclub.it

a Turin

Pitchfork Music Festival Paris

6th - 13th November

VARIOUS VENUES, PARIS

Weyes Blood

pitchforkmusicfestival.fr

a Paris

Pitchfork Music Festival London

8th - 13th November

VARIOUS VENUES, LONDON

Sleater-Kinney, Just Mustard, Yaeji, Weyes Blood, Porridge Radio pitchforkmusicfestival.co.uk

r Various

Primavera Buenos Aires

25th - 26th November

PARQUE SARIMENTO, BUENOS AIRES primaverasound.com

a Buenos Aires

Le Guess Who?

9th - 12th November

VARIOUS VENUES, UTRECHT

Gustaf, Black Country New Road, Pa Salieu

leguesswho.nl

a Amsterdam

DECEMBER Clockenflap

1st - 3rd December

CENTRAL HARBOURFRONT, HONG KONG

clockenflap.com

a Hong Kong

Primavera São Paulo

2nd - 3rd December

AUTÓDROMO DE INTERLAGOS, SÃO PAULO

primaverasound.com

a São Paulo

JANUARY Rockaway Beach

5th - 7th January

BUTLIN’S, BOGNOR REGIS rockawaybeach.co.uk

r Bognor Regis

ESNS

17th - 20th January

VARIOUS VENUES, GRONINGEN esns.nl

a Amsterdam

Mighty Hoopla Weekender

26th - 29th January

BUTLIN’S, BOGNOR REGIS

Charlotte Church, Sophie Ellis Bextor mightyhoopla.com/weekender

r Bognor Regis

16th September

BOILER SHOP, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE

The North East showcase event will feature sets from acts including Avalanche Party, Dylan Cartlidge, Little Comets, Benefits and Lizzie Esau generatorlive.org.uk

r Newcastle