Author: Jack Needham

Foo Fighters, Florence + The Machine, Twenty One Pilots, Pulp and more have been announced for Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival. The Spanish festival has also added Wolf Alice, Lorde, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Jennie, The War on Drugs, Halsey and David Byrne to the four-day event. It’s latest edition will take place from 8-11 July at Iberdrola Music in Villaverde, Madrid, in what will mark its 10th anniversary. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mad Cool Festival (@madcoolfestival) The new acts join the likes of Kasabian, Teddy Swims, Sigrid, The Vaccines and many more across…

Pop star CMAT, UK rave duo Underworld and singer-songwriter Sombr have been added to next year’s Øya Festival. The new announcements join the The Cure, Amyl & The Sniffers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Lambrini Girls and more for next year’s festival edition, which is set to take place 12-15 August 2026 at Tøyenparken, Oslo. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Øyafestivalen (@oyafestivalen) Tickets for Øya Festival 2026 are on sale now and available here. 

Alkaline Trio, Lambrini Girls, Glassjaw and Cancer Bats have been announced as some of the first acts for Cheltenham’s 2000trees. Taking place from 8-11 July 2026, the first announcement for next year’s edition also includes Dinosaur Pile-Up, Free Throw, Superheaven and Bad Nerves. More line-up announcements are yet to come. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 2000trees Festival (@2000trees_festival) Known for bringing big names in pop-punk, rock and everything else disruptive to Cheltenham, 2000trees’ 2025 edition included Irish rap group Kneecap, New York’s Coheed and Cambria and emo stalwarts Taking Back Sunday. Tickets for 2000trees 2026 are…

The multi-city festival Slam Dunk has added Knocked Loose, Boston Manor, State Champs and more to its line-up. The festival, which will celebrate its 20th year in 2026, has also announced Comeback Kid, Currents, Hands Like Houses and more to next year’s two-day celebration of everything pop-punk, metal and rock. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Slam Dunk Festival (@slamdunkmusic) The new line-up addiotions join a previously announced stacked roster that includes Good Charlotte, Sublime, Dashboard Confessional and more. Slam Dunk Festival will take place in Hatfield Park, nr London on 23 May and Temple Newsam, Leeds on 24…

Latitude Festival is heading back to Henham Park, Suffolk, from 23-26 July 2026 with David Byrne, Lewis Capaldi, and Teddy Swims as its headliners. The Flaming Lips, The Last Dinner Party, Self Esteem, Billy Ocean, Tom Grennan, Wet Leg and more have also been added to the line-up. For what will be the festival’s 20th anniversary, Latitude brings David Byrne to Suffolk for what will be an a UK festival exclusive in 2026. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Latitude Festival (@latitudefest) Melvin Benn, Latitude Founder and Festival Director, says: “Twenty years of Latitude feels like both a moment and…

The South London-based electronic music festival GALA will return to Peckham Rye Park in 2026. Held across the May bank holiday weekend, 22-24 2026, the festival has unveiled that DJs Palms Trax, Antal and HUNEE will perform a rare B2B set, and will be joined by the likes of Benji B & Judah, Chaos In The CBD, Call Super and more across the weekend. CC:DISCO!, Job Jobse, Peach, Prosumer, Mia Koden, Moxie and more will also appear over the three-day celebration. GALA partners include the UK-based DJ Peach who will bring her Dreamland project to the streets of South London. The Dutch label and record Rush Hour, London-based radio station NTS and more will each host stage takeovers. View…

As reliably as day turns to night, it seems with each passing week comes the expected news that at least one UK music festival has shuttered its doors. This week, that comes in the celebration of LGBTQ+ culture that is Manchester Pride, alongside the Hertfordshire-based Standon Calling. Over the past seven days, both festivals have entered liquidation. There are some circumstantial differences in to how both festivals ended, at least for now. As reported by the BBC, “after 17 Standon Callings the 2023 Standon Calling will now prove to have been the last,” the festival said. The news came after…

Over 40 acts have been announced for Boomtown 2026, in what the festival says will usher in a new, “radically redesigned” chapter for the Hampshire-based festival. Belfast rap trio Kneecap join New York glam-pop stars Scissor Sisters as headline acts, alongside ska legends Madness and dubstep innovator Skrillex.  They join the likes of Four Tet, Faithless, Scooter, Shaggy and many more across the festival, which takes place 12-16 August 2026. Across those five days, festival-goers will also discover DJ and live sets from the likes of DnB duo Camo & Krooked B2B Mefjus, Berlin trance from Marlon Hoffstadt, a UKG and bass set from Kilimanjaro B2B Oppidan, alongside…

After closing doors on its “record breaking edition” from 22-25 October 2025, Amsterdam Dance Event has announced it will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2026 from 21 – 25, October. The conference, live music event and celebration of dance music culture recently welcomed 600,000 visitors and nearly 3,500 artists across over 1,200 events, says the organisation. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amsterdam Dance Event (@amsterdamdanceevent) Events at this year’s ADE included the ‘black queer church’ dubbed PRAISE by Honey Dijon x Audio Obscura at Nieuwe Kerk, alongside expansive experiences such as Klangkuenstler at Ziggo Dome and Awakenings…

Environmental charity onboard:earth has launched a Green Travel Toolkit for Events in Wales which aims at educate event organisers in measuring and reducing their carbon footprint. onboard:earth’ says the new set of guidelines is designed to “help organisations measure and reduce travel impacts,” and is formed of two main guides: The Green Travel Guide for Welsh Events, and A Quick Guide to Collecting Quality Travel Data. The toolkit covers many different aspects of festival and event sustainability, including spreadsheets for accurately recording and understanding vehicle miles and emissions, policy templates, ways to collect data from third party transport providers and…