Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 Lineup
One Sunday, five Edinburgh venues from Usher Hall to Sneaky Pete’s. Stereolab, Ty Segall and Angine de Poitrine close a three-city psych weekend.
Edinburgh Psych Fest is expected back September 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
Find the acts you'll love at Edinburgh Psych Fest
Name a few bands you love and we'll scout all 35 acts on the Edinburgh Psych Fest bill for the ones you shouldn't miss.
Get notified when Edinburgh Psych Fest announces 2027 dates
Free account — we'll email you the day it happens, and your saved festivals follow you to every device.
About Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026
Edinburgh Psych Fest runs one Sunday, 11am to 11pm, across five venues: the Usher Hall, The Queen's Hall, La Belle Angele, Summerhall and Sneaky Pete's. One wristband opens all of them, the first band is on at 1pm, and an 18+ afterparty carries on past 11. Thirty-four acts play.
Stereolab, Ty Segall and Angine de Poitrine share the top line. Below them the bill is deep for a one-day festival: Shame, Billy Nomates, Model/Actriz, Gwenno, Mandy, Indiana, Automatic, GHOSTWOMAN, The Belair Lip Bombs, Adult DVD, The KVB, Holy Wave, Lael Neale, GANS, Bleech 9:3 and The Dharma Chain. And then sixteen more acts fill the smaller rooms.
The venue range is the thing to plan around. The Usher Hall is a grand Victorian concert hall and Sneaky Pete's holds about a hundred people in a basement, with The Queen's Hall, Summerhall and La Belle Angele in between. Capacities are first come, first served, so the same wristband that walks you into the Usher Hall will not get you into a full basement.
This is the last of three: the same promoter runs Brighton on the Friday and Manchester on the Saturday, and twelve acts (Stereolab and Gwenno among them) play all three cities in three days. Ten acts here are on none of the other two, Shame the largest of them, so the Sunday is not simply the weekend repeating itself.
Expect alternative, post-punk, psych and dream-pop across 35 acts.
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 lineup & schedule: all 35 acts
Search it, filter by day, stage or genre. Save anything straight to your schedule.Browse all 35 acts →
Search it, filter by day, stage or genre. Save anything straight to your schedule.
Motorik repetition welded to lounge-pop sweetness — vintage Moog drone, Lætitia Sadier's bilingual cool, and a back catalogue that half of modern indie has quietly been mining for thirty years.
Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer — a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.
Leeds lads making hardware-driven post-punk bangers about mundane dread — deadpan vocals over squelching synths, pitched somewhere between a big night out and an existential crisis.
Minimalist LA synth-punk trio — icy grooves and motorik precision, like a security-camera feed of a party you're not cool enough to attend.
Tor Maries alone with a drum machine and a scalpel — deadpan, half-sung dispatches on class and burnout that swing from snarl to heartbreak inside a single verse.
Bleech 9:3
GANS
Canadian psych project built on fuzz-caked riffs and lo-fi haze — motorik garage rock recorded rough and played tight.
Welsh- and Cornish-language psych-pop with a krautrock pulse underneath — minority-language records that come out expansive and forward-looking rather than archival.
Austin psych with the tempo down and the reverb up — hazy, organ-lined grooves built for drifting rather than freaking out.
Omnichord hymns from rural Virginia — luminous, homespun minimalism, songs that glow like lamplight through gauze.
Corroded industrial noise with Valentine Caulfield's French-language vocals slicing through it — claustrophobic, physically loud, and recorded in places most bands would never think to track.
Sweat-slicked industrial post-punk — menace, glamour, and whispered filth, a frontman who prowls the crowd like it's his living room.
South London post-punk's sweatiest live act — communion by mosh, shirtless and crowd-borne by mid-set, 'One Rizla' to now, all sweat.
Melbourne guitar-pop with Strokes-y snap — Australia's word-of-mouth favorite, tight songs played loose, garage-pop craft beyond their years.
The Dharma Chain
A duo working the seam between shoegaze and cold wave — drum machines, black reverb, and hooks that surface slowly out of the murk.
Acolyte
Alex Amen
Curiosity Shop
Floral Image
Isabella Strange
Jill O'Sullivan's trio after Sparrow and the Workshop, setting her violin and voice against loose, hard-hitting drums.
Just Like Honey
Lucky Briar
Makeshift Art Bar
National Playboys
Puppy Teeth
Bedroom-scale songwriting with a soft, slightly woozy touch — hushed vocals and guitar figures that unspool rather than build.
Roller Disco Death Party
Sunstinger
Tanzana
The Heavenly Bodes
Water Machine
The headliners
Stereolab — Motorik repetition welded to lounge-pop sweetness — vintage Moog drone, Lætitia Sadier's bilingual cool, and a back catalogue that half of modern indie has quietly been mining for thirty years. Top-lining all three cities in three days, and closing the weekend here.
Ty Segall — Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer — a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them. Plays Manchester and Edinburgh but skips Brighton: one of the weekend's two-city acts.
Angine de Poitrine — Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story. Third on the poster in two cities this weekend, having been unknown here eighteen months ago.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Jill Lorean — One of the Scottish bookings the other two cities don't get.
Other acts worth planning around
Shame — The biggest name playing Edinburgh and neither of the other two.
Model/Actriz — On the Manchester bill too, and better suited to a small room than a concert hall.
Billy Nomates — Also plays Brighton: this is the second of her two on the weekend.
The lineup by day
Sunday lineup (September 6)
Stereolab, Ty Segall, Angine de Poitrine, Shame, Billy Nomates, Model/Actriz + 28 more
Sunday set times (34 sets)
- Automatic · Queen's Hall
- The Heavenly Bodes · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Lucky Briar · Sneaky Pete's
- Puppy Teeth · La Belle Angele
- Jill Lorean · Summerhall Main Hall
- Isabella Strange · Sneaky Pete's
- Gwenno · Usher Hall
- GHOSTWOMAN · Queen's Hall
- Just Like Honey · Summerhall Dissection Room
- The Dharma Chain · La Belle Angele
- Alex Amen · Summerhall Main Hall
- Sunstinger · Sneaky Pete's
- The KVB · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Billy Nomates · Queen's Hall
- Angine de Poitrine · Usher Hall
- National Playboys · La Belle Angele
- Curiosity Shop · Summerhall Main Hall
- Tanzana · Sneaky Pete's
- Lael Neale · Summerhall Dissection Room
- The Belair Lip Bombs · Queen's Hall
- Adult DVD · La Belle Angele
- Renny Conti · Summerhall Main Hall
- Ty Segall · Usher Hall
- Water Machine · Sneaky Pete's
- GANS · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Bleech 9:3 · La Belle Angele
- Model/Actriz · Queen's Hall
- Roller Disco Death Party · Sneaky Pete's
- Acolyte · Summerhall Main Hall
- Stereolab · Usher Hall
- Mandy, Indiana · La Belle Angele
- Holy Wave · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Shame · Queen's Hall
- Floral Image · Summerhall Main Hall
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026?
Sunday 6 September 2026, 11am to 11pm, with the first live band at 1pm and an 18+ afterparty running later.
Where does Edinburgh Psych Fest take place?
Five venues across Edinburgh: the Usher Hall, The Queen's Hall, La Belle Angele, Summerhall and Sneaky Pete's. One wristband gets you into all of them.
Who is headlining Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026?
Stereolab, Ty Segall and Angine de Poitrine, over a 34-act bill.
Are tickets still available?
Yes, £69.50 general admission is on sale. The early bird, NHS and under-24s tickets have sold out.
Where do I collect my wristband?
The box office and wristband collection are at Summerhall, open 11am to 9pm. You can't collect on someone else's behalf, and under-24s and NHS ticket holders need photo or NHS ID or they're charged £10.
What is the age limit?
The festival is 14+, with under-16s accompanied by an adult and offsite by 10.59pm. The afterparty is strictly 18+.
Is Edinburgh Psych Fest connected to the Brighton and Manchester festivals?
Yes: same banner, three cities on three consecutive days. Brighton is the Friday, Manchester the Saturday, Edinburgh the Sunday, and twelve acts play all three.
When do stage times come out?
Edinburgh hasn't published set times yet. Save your acts on LineupScout and they'll become a personal schedule as times are confirmed.
How do I figure out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love. It'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
Festivals like Edinburgh Psych Fest
More festivals
Festivals in September 2026 →Music festivals in the UK →Full festival calendar →