Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice — a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
End of the Road 2027 Lineup
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About End of the Road 2026
End of the Road is the connoisseur's festival: four September days in Larmer Tree Gardens, a Victorian pleasure garden on the Dorset border where peacocks wander the site, the food is actually good, and the booking policy reads like a great record shop's staff picks. The 2026 edition pairs Pulp's late-career victory lap with Geese, CMAT, and Mac DeMarco up top. But the real currency here is depth: reunited cult heroes (Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band alumni energy), avant-legends, Irish doom-folk, Saharan guitar, and a Rising-stage undercard that has a habit of producing next year's headliners. Secret sets are a tradition. Bring wellies and trust the bookers.
Expect alternative, electronic, folk and rock across 144 acts.
End of the Road 2026 lineup & schedule: all 144 acts
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Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
The gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop — cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
Jarvis Cocker's common people, still uncommon — Britpop's sharpest wit in glorious late-era form, 'Common People' still detonating class rage.
Pipe-organ doom hymns — sacred music for the beautifully unwell, where cathedral drones meet gothic songcraft at genuinely tectonic volume.
The rediscovered visionary behind 'Keyboard Fantasies' — transcendence, gently delivered, decades after a cassette nobody heard became the classic everybody needed.
Eight-piece London chamber-rock swells — patient, communal, and overwhelming, songs that gather like weather until the whole room is inside them.
Two generations of abstract rap in one set — smeared loops, mumbled brilliance, and the mentor-protégé chemistry that reshaped underground hip-hop.
Colombian synth auteur — protest songs you can dance to, built entirely on hardware and delivered with quiet, glowing defiance.
South London's unhinged rave-punk cult — klezmer, techno, and total mayhem, a live show that feels like a cult initiation in the best way.
Irish shoegaze that scrapes and shivers — beauty engineered from dread, guitars processed until they sound like machinery grieving.
Welsh techno-pop shapeshifter behind the decks — ethereal textures traded for full club propulsion, art-techno rewired for peak hour.
Philly's laconic guitar rambler — hazy, endless-highway rock, songs that amble past the seven-minute mark like it's nothing.
Sweat-slicked industrial post-punk — menace, glamour, and whispered filth, a frontman who prowls the crowd like it's his living room.
Chicago indie rock at its warmest — twangy, generous, quietly great, a band critics keep discovering all over again.
Ex-Vampire Weekend architect — ornate, warm-blooded pop as producer-auteur, harpsichords and 808s on equal footing, fingerprints all over a decade of indie.
Louisville's shaggy-dog cosmic country — novelistic songs that sneak up and floor you, Silver Jews wit with a road band's looseness.
Wales's beloved psych-pop pranksters, reunited — techno tanks and golden melodies, national-treasure status long confirmed, Welsh weirdness in full bloom.
Catskills barn-band Americana — ragged, literate, and joyful, story-songs played like a family argument in the best way.
Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer — a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.
Talk Talk-schooled art-pop — pristine, searching, quietly devastating, songcraft that rewards stillness, every note deliberate.
Austin's virtuosic boogie machine — prog chops, garage soul, and tempo changes played like party tricks.
Glowing heartland indie rock — War on Drugs warmth at bedroom scale, songs that expand like a slow sunrise.
Nashville's cosmic guitar cartographer — instrumentals that feel like interstate sunsets, American primitive tradition with a widescreen lens.
Yorkshire synth-punk — New Order's chassis with a teenage engine, hacienda pulse rebuilt for new floors.
1000 Rabbits
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.
Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness
Al Cologne
Alex Amen
British songwriter with a background in guitar-driven indie duos, now working in a sparer, more direct pop mode.
Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
Another Country $$$$
Moroccan-French power quartet electrifying Gnawa trance-blues — hypnotic guembri grooves plugged in and turned up into full-band psychedelic ecstasy.
Snarling internet-era electroclash — bratty vocals over blown-out bass, reviving the genre's trashy Berlin glamour for a generation that missed it the first time.
BCUC
big long sun
French ragga MC, once half of Raggasonic — patois-heavy toasting delivered with sound-system authority.
Japanese four-piece based in London, playing long, distortion-heavy psych rock with vocals delivered in Japanese at full shriek.
Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars
British indie rock outfit formed in 2003 from members of other Brighton bands, alternating brisk country-tinged songs with joke-length blasts of a few seconds.
Skye's smallpipes visionary — ancient Scottish drones made hypnotic and new, minimalist reeds that sit closer to modern drone music than trad-session nostalgia.
Brother Wallace
Bug Teeth
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
Austin honky-tonk poetry — classic country bones and a restless heart, songwriting sharp enough to cut through the barroom clatter.
Cleo Reed
Adam Betts alone behind a kit wired into a bank of electronics — live drumming and machine noise pushed together until the seams disappear.
Cowboy Hunters
Double-bass player with a jazz-prodigy background, better known as a sideman, stepping out front with woozy lounge-pop miniatures built on serious chops.
Dave Welder
David Thomas Broughton
London duo working in dream-pop haze — breathy melodies laid over shoegaze guitar and skittering breakbeats borrowed from 90s club records.
deBasement
Anatolian psych-folk revival — saz grooves and velvet vocals, Turkish songbook classics and originals worked into hypnotic slow-burn funk.
DJ Crenshaw
Drook
Expiry
Brooklyn guitarist and composer working in patient, layered instrumentals where krautrock pulse meets pastoral drift.
DFA's industrial techno machine, returned — relentless hardware grooves that grind post-punk down to pure repetition.
New Jersey's surrealist rap horror-show — gothic, hilarious, unforgettable, verses that play like fever dreams narrated with total calm.
Femur
Fine
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists — three voices, one wicked sense of humor, close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
GANS
San Antonio songwriter working a spacey, hypnotic strain of Texas country — honky-tonk roots stretched out toward something closer to krautrock repetition.
Canadian psych project built on fuzz-caked riffs and lo-fi haze — motorik garage rock recorded rough and played tight.
Salford's shape-shifting psych-noise commune — heavy in every sense, a collective that reinvents its sound album to album and show to show.
Greazy Alice
Green Star
Hudson Freeman
Pop songs submerged and left there — vocals dissolving into blur, structure implied rather than stated.
NYC anti-folk lifer — comic-book songs with more ideas per verse than most careers, performed with hand-drawn visuals in tow.
Manchester's hyper-collage electronics — noise, pop, and motorsport samples spliced into club music with a crash-test thrill.
Jordan Patterson
A poet who performs like a frontman — the voice on some of British jazz's biggest recent moments, funny and furious in the same breath.
Jamaican-American folk-soul — tape-warm harmonies and reverie, layered vocals that float like heat haze, '70s folk warmth with a dub producer's patience.
Kerry's warped folk bard — hurdy-gurdy strangeness and dark comic grace, trad music bent into confessional theater.
Self-produced spiritual soul — prickly, gorgeous, sui generis, chopped loops and layered self-harmonies that answer to nobody.
Cherokee songwriter with an old soul — quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep, lines that sound handed down rather than written.
Manchester's restless polymath — sprawling, brainy guitar epics written like essays and played like exorcisms, cult-canon ambition on a DIY budget.
Kitchen Lover
Kloyd
Lamisi
Ghanaian singer working in a northern-rooted strain of Afro-pop, singing in Gurune as often as English.
Lichen
Burlington's raw-hearted songwriter — cracked-open folk-rock with a voice that frays exactly where it counts, DIY-scene devotion well earned.
Little Grandad
Los Thuthanaka
Dublin feminist post-punk — spare, pointed, necessary, minimalism wielded like an argument, every word placed to cut.
Maddie Ashman
Madra Salach
Guitar soli as landscape painting — blues, minimalism, and open air, the American primitive tradition carried gently forward.
mark william lewis
London songwriter whose tape-blurred, reverb-heavy pop keeps its melodies half-submerged — intimate recordings that feel overheard rather than presented.
Mia WIlson
Hedge-folk miniatures — field recordings and old-weird-Britain magic, songs like pressed flowers found in a strange book.
Misha Panfilov
Uncanny English art-folk — pastoral songs with teeth, violin scrape and strange narratives from London's experimental fringe.
Songwriter behind Whispertown, whose sparse country-leaning rock has run alongside years of writing for other people.
Lawrence (Felt, Denim) in his glam-pop era — Britain's greatest cult songwriter, still chasing the hit he has always deserved.
multiscreen
Togolese voodoo-pop — call-and-response trance over analog synth bass, women's voices carrying ritual into the club.
Nina Winder-Lind
Ninush
Recovery-country — harrowing stories told with disarming sweetness, addiction and grace in the same easy melody.
Oldboy
Lankum-adjacent doom-folk coven — drones, dread, and gorgeous Irish gloom, traditional songs slowed to ritual pace.
Brazilian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose writing folds MPB harmony and vocal textures into contemporary jazz.
Perfect Binding
PISS
pollyfromthedirt
Izzy Hagerup's gnarled, gripping songs — beautiful and unsettling at once, a voice that turns rooms silent mid-chord.
South London electro-punk — club pressure with live-band violence, synths and drums locked in a knife fight.
Bedroom-scale songwriting with a soft, slightly woozy touch — hushed vocals and guitar figures that unspool rather than build.
RIP Magic
Sean-nós tradition spliced with electronics — Ireland's eeriest new voice, keening rendered as avant-garde ritual, old songs made newly unsettling.
Rose of Nevada: Live Score by the Cornish Sound Unit
Kentucky drawl, punk heart — swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
Sex Mask
Shaking Hand
Manchester group formed in 2024, pushing indie rock toward the long build and open space of post-rock.
Shallowater
Brooklyn-based singer writing in Hindustani and Urdu, folding South Asian vocal tradition into spare, art-song arrangements.
Silver Gore
SILVERWINGKILLER
Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio — handmade instruments conjuring places that don't exist, ritual music from an invented tradition.
SLAG
Snuggle
Sophia Stel
Spanish Horses
Susannah Stark & Band
Sword II
Working Men's Club's leader gone solo — softer machines, same nerve, Yorkshire electronics with a songwriter's spine.
Aussie piano-pop charmer from Mac DeMarco's label orbit — wonky lounge songs with a crooked grin.
The Cindys
Casio-and-helmet street-performance legend — cosmic covers of pure innocence, outsider-music history glowing softly live, pure wonder with no irony.
Thredd
Tommy Barlow
Tomo Katsurada
Justine Bourgeus's project out of Belgium, folding her classical violin training into brooding, percussive electronic pop.
TTSSFU
Mac's Record Label signee — silky '70s keyboard-pop with jazz hands, soft-rock sincerity played straight, session-pop revived with love.
WARBY
Melbourne soft-pop sunshine — strings, Rhodes, and easy grace, '70s studio-pop craft revived gently, sunshine engineered in the studio.
Swiss collective braiding North and West African string instruments and vocals into long, hypnotic psychedelic rock grooves.
NYC's most confrontational new band — spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms in twenty-minute bursts, and nothing else sounds like it.
The headliners
Geese — Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Pulp — Jarvis Cocker's common people, still uncommon — Britpop's sharpest wit in glorious late-era form, 'Common People' still detonating class rage.
CMAT — Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice — a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
Mac DeMarco — The gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop — cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Fat Dog — South London's unhinged rave-punk cult: klezmer, techno, and total mayhem.
YHWH Nailgun — NYC's most confrontational new band: spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms.
Folk Bitch Trio — Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists: three voices, one wicked sense of humor.
Cardinals — Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics, Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast.RÓIS — Sean-nós tradition spliced with electronics: Ireland's eeriest new voice.
Ken Pomeroy — Cherokee songwriter with an old soul: quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep.
Other acts worth planning around
Super Furry Animals — Wales's beloved psych-pop pranksters, reunited: techno tanks and golden melodies.
Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE — Two generations of abstract rap in one set: smeared loops, mumbled brilliance.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland — Keyboard Fantasies' rediscovered visionary. Transcendence, gently delivered.
Anna Von Hausswolff — Pipe-organ doom hymns: sacred music for the beautifully unwell.
Ty Segall — Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer, with a new album every time you blink.
The Space Lady — Casio-and-helmet street-performance legend. Cosmic covers of pure innocence.
Mozart Estate — Lawrence (Felt, Denim) in his glam-pop era: Britain's greatest cult songwriter.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (September 3)
Geese, YHWH Nailgun, The Space Lady, Modern Woman, M(h)aol, pollyfromthedirt + 9 more
Thursday set times (15 sets)
- multiscreen · The Boat
- Perfect Binding · The Folly
- Yalla Miku · Woods
- Bug Teeth · The Folly
- Oldboy · The Boat
- Modern Woman · Woods
- Nina Winder-Lind · The Folly
- Jennifer Walton · The Boat
- YHWH Nailgun · Woods
- Green Star · The Folly
- Dave Welder · The Boat
- pollyfromthedirt · The Folly
- Geese · Woods
- The Space Lady · The Boat
- M(h)aol · The Folly
Friday lineup (September 4)
Mac DeMarco, Ela Minus, Ty Segall, Working Men's Club, caroline, Model/Actriz + 37 more
Friday set times (41 sets)
- Alex Amen · The Folly
- Ken Pomeroy · Garden
- Al Cologne · The Boat
- 1000 Rabbits · Big Top
- Junior Brother · Woods
- Colossal Squid · Big Top
- Renny Conti · The Folly
- Tommy Barlow · The Boat
- Wild Pink · Woods
- Cardinals · Big Top
- Vicky Farewell · The Folly
- Silver Gore · Garden
- Thredd · The Boat
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek · Woods
- GHOSTWOMAN · Big Top
- Tex Crick · The Folly
- Milkweed · Garden
- Tsar B · The Boat
- Pedro Martins · The Folly
- Brakes · Big Top
- Tomo Katsurada · Talking Heads
- Angine de Poitrine · Woods
- Sydney Minsky Sargeant · The Boat
- Prewn · Garden
- Daryl Johns · The Folly
- Adult DVD · Big Top
- Mia WIlson · Talking Heads
- Ty Segall · Woods
- keiyaA · The Boat
- Deary · The Folly
- Nana Benz Du Togo · Garden
- Model/Actriz · Big Top
- Way Dynamic · The Folly
- Ninush · Talking Heads
- deBasement · The Boat
- Mac DeMarco · Woods
- caroline · Garden
- Joshua Idehen · The Folly
- Working Men's Club · Big Top
- GANS · The Folly
- Ela Minus · Big Top
Saturday lineup (September 5)
Pulp, Fat Dog, Just Mustard, William Tyler, Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE, Kelly Lee Owens (DJ) + 34 more
Saturday set times (39 sets)
- Rose of Nevada: Live Score by the Cornish Sound Unit · Big Top
- June McDoom · The Folly
- Jordan Patterson · The Boat
- Lichen · Garden
- big long sun · Woods
- Širom · Garden
- Alice Costelloe · The Folly
- Susannah Stark & Band · The Boat
- Spanish Horses · Big Top
- Bab L'Bluz · Woods
- William Tyler · Garden
- Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness · Big Top
- Maddie Ashman · The Folly
- Lamisi · The Boat
- Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage · Woods
- RIP Magic · Big Top
- SLAG · The Folly
- Brìghde Chaimbeul · Garden
- Fatboi Sharif · The Boat
- RÓIS · Big Top
- Big Red · The Folly
- BCUC · Woods
- Morgan Nagler · Talking Heads
- Madra Salach · Garden
- Kloyd · The Boat
- Shallowater · The Folly
- Just Mustard · Big Top
- Fat Dog · Woods
- Cleo Reed · The Boat
- Kiran Leonard · The Folly
- Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland · Garden
- PVA · Big Top
- Carson McHone · Talking Heads
- SILVERWINGKILLER · The Boat
- Garrett T. Capps · The Folly
- Pulp · Woods
- Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE · Garden
- GNOD · The Folly
- Kelly Lee Owens (DJ) · Big Top
Sunday lineup (September 6)
CMAT, Super Furry Animals, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Rostam, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Ratboys + 39 more
Sunday set times (42 sets)
- Hudson Freeman · Garden
- WARBY · The Folly
- Shaking Hand · The Boat
- Kitchen Lover · Big Top
- Lily Seabird · Woods
- Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars · Garden
- Another Country $$$$ · Big Top
- Femur · The Folly
- Ezra Feinberg · The Boat
- Ratboys · Woods
- S.G. Goodman · Garden
- Sex Mask · Big Top
- The Cindys · The Folly
- Sheherazaad · The Boat
- Folk Bitch Trio · Woods
- TTSSFU · Big Top
- Little Grandad · The Folly
- Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band · Garden
- Drook · The Boat
- mark william lewis · Big Top
- Ohtis · Talking Heads
- Cowboy Hunters · The Folly
- White Denim · Woods
- The Felice Brothers · Garden
- Snuggle · The Boat
- PISS · The Folly
- james K · Big Top
- Super Furry Animals · Woods
- Marisa Anderson · Talking Heads
- Westerman · The Folly
- Sophia Stel · The Boat
- ØXN · Garden
- Factory Floor · Big Top
- Rostam · The Folly
- David Thomas Broughton · Talking Heads
- Bo Ningen · The Boat
- CMAT · Woods
- Kurt Vile & The Violators · Garden
- Mozart Estate · The Folly
- Anna Von Hausswolff · Big Top
- Fine · The Folly
- Brother Wallace · The Folly
End of the Road 2026 lineup FAQ
When is End of the Road 2026?
September 3–6, 2026, Thursday through Sunday.
Where does End of the Road take place?
Larmer Tree Gardens on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, a Victorian pleasure garden with resident peacocks.
Who is headlining End of the Road 2026?
Pulp, Geese, CMAT, and Mac DeMarco top the bill.
How many acts are playing?
139 music acts across four days, plus comedy, cinema, literature, and the traditional secret sets.
When do stage and day splits come out?
End of the Road publishes stage and day splits on its site closer to the festival. Save your acts on LineupScout and they'll become a personal schedule the moment times land.
How do I figure out which of the 139 acts I'd actually like?
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