Geese
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
End of the Road 2026 Lineup
Four days in a Victorian pleasure garden — peacocks, secret sets, and the most lovingly curated bill in Britain.
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 139 acts.
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 — 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.
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?
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.
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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.
Super Furry Animals
Wales's beloved psych-pop pranksters, reunited — techno tanks and golden melodies, national-treasure status long confirmed, Welsh weirdness in full bloom.
Fat Dog
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.
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band
Louisville's shaggy-dog cosmic country — novelistic songs that sneak up and floor you, Silver Jews wit with a road band's looseness.
Just Mustard
Irish shoegaze that scrapes and shivers — beauty engineered from dread, guitars processed until they sound like machinery grieving.
ØXN
Lankum-adjacent doom-folk coven — drones, dread, and gorgeous Irish gloom, traditional songs slowed to ritual pace.
Folk Bitch Trio
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists — three voices, one wicked sense of humor, close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
YHWH Nailgun
NYC's most confrontational new band — spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms in twenty-minute bursts, and nothing else sounds like it.
PVA
South London electro-punk — club pressure with live-band violence, synths and drums locked in a knife fight.
William Tyler
Nashville's cosmic guitar cartographer — instrumentals that feel like interstate sunsets, American primitive tradition with a widescreen lens.
Rostam
Ex-Vampire Weekend architect — ornate, warm-blooded pop as producer-auteur, harpsichords and 808s on equal footing, fingerprints all over a decade of indie.
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
Anatolian psych-folk revival — saz grooves and velvet vocals, Turkish songbook classics and originals worked into hypnotic slow-burn funk.
mark william lewis
Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE
Two generations of abstract rap in one set — smeared loops, mumbled brilliance, and the mentor-protégé chemistry that reshaped underground hip-hop.
Fine
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Philly's laconic guitar rambler — hazy, endless-highway rock, songs that amble past the seven-minute mark like it's nothing.
Ratboys
Chicago indie rock at its warmest — twangy, generous, quietly great, a band critics keep discovering all over again.
Ela Minus
Colombian synth auteur — protest songs you can dance to, built entirely on hardware and delivered with quiet, glowing defiance.
Kelly Lee Owens (DJ)
Welsh techno-pop shapeshifter behind the decks — ethereal textures traded for full club propulsion, art-techno rewired for peak hour.
Westerman
Talk Talk-schooled art-pop — pristine, searching, quietly devastating, songcraft that rewards stillness, every note deliberate.
The Felice Brothers
Catskills barn-band Americana — ragged, literate, and joyful, story-songs played like a family argument in the best way.
Rose of Nevada: Live Score by the Cornish Sound Unit
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.
Adult DVD
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.
Working Men's Club
Yorkshire synth-punk — New Order's chassis with a teenage engine, hacienda pulse rebuilt for new floors.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland
The rediscovered visionary behind 'Keyboard Fantasies' — transcendence, gently delivered, decades after a cassette nobody heard became the classic everybody needed.
Way Dynamic
Melbourne soft-pop sunshine — strings, Rhodes, and easy grace, '70s studio-pop craft revived gently, sunshine engineered in the studio.
Anna Von Hausswolff
Pipe-organ doom hymns — sacred music for the beautifully unwell, where cathedral drones meet gothic songcraft at genuinely tectonic volume.
GHOSTWOMAN
Cardinals
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
caroline
Eight-piece London chamber-rock swells — patient, communal, and overwhelming, songs that gather like weather until the whole room is inside them.
Angine de Poitrine
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Skye's smallpipes visionary — ancient Scottish drones made hypnotic and new, minimalist reeds that sit closer to modern drone music than trad-session nostalgia.
Milkweed
Hedge-folk miniatures — field recordings and old-weird-Britain magic, songs like pressed flowers found in a strange book.
White Denim
Austin's virtuosic boogie machine — prog chops, garage soul, and tempo changes played like party tricks.
BCUC
RÓIS
Sean-nós tradition spliced with electronics — Ireland's eeriest new voice, keening rendered as avant-garde ritual, old songs made newly unsettling.
Bassvictim
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.
Brakes
james K
keiyaA
Self-produced spiritual soul — prickly, gorgeous, sui generis, chopped loops and layered self-harmonies that answer to nobody.
Deary
Model/Actriz
Sweat-slicked industrial post-punk — menace, glamour, and whispered filth, a frontman who prowls the crowd like it's his living room.
Joshua Idehen
Wild Pink
Glowing heartland indie rock — War on Drugs warmth at bedroom scale, songs that expand like a slow sunrise.
Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage
NYC anti-folk lifer — comic-book songs with more ideas per verse than most careers, performed with hand-drawn visuals in tow.
Los Thuthanaka
Factory Floor
DFA's industrial techno machine, returned — relentless hardware grooves that grind post-punk down to pure repetition.
RIP Magic
The Space Lady
Casio-and-helmet street-performance legend — cosmic covers of pure innocence, outsider-music history glowing softly live, pure wonder with no irony.
Sydney Minsky Sargeant
Working Men's Club's leader gone solo — softer machines, same nerve, Yorkshire electronics with a songwriter's spine.
Mozart Estate
Lawrence (Felt, Denim) in his glam-pop era — Britain's greatest cult songwriter, still chasing the hit he has always deserved.
Bab L'Bluz
Moroccan-French power quartet electrifying Gnawa trance-blues — hypnotic guembri grooves plugged in and turned up into full-band psychedelic ecstasy.
S.G. Goodman
Kentucky drawl, punk heart — swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
Junior Brother
Kerry's warped folk bard — hurdy-gurdy strangeness and dark comic grace, trad music bent into confessional theater.
David Thomas Broughton
GNOD
Salford's shape-shifting psych-noise commune — heavy in every sense, a collective that reinvents its sound album to album and show to show.
Lily Seabird
Burlington's raw-hearted songwriter — cracked-open folk-rock with a voice that frays exactly where it counts, DIY-scene devotion well earned.
Hudson Freeman
GANS
TTSSFU
Modern Woman
Uncanny English art-folk — pastoral songs with teeth, violin scrape and strange narratives from London's experimental fringe.
Brother Wallace
Marisa Anderson
Guitar soli as landscape painting — blues, minimalism, and open air, the American primitive tradition carried gently forward.
Sheherazaad
Madra Salach
Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars
Morgan Nagler
Colossal Squid
Prewn
Izzy Hagerup's gnarled, gripping songs — beautiful and unsettling at once, a voice that turns rooms silent mid-chord.
Ezra Feinberg
deBasement
Širom
Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio — handmade instruments conjuring places that don't exist, ritual music from an invented tradition.
Sophia Stel
Nana Benz Du Togo
Togolese voodoo-pop — call-and-response trance over analog synth bass, women's voices carrying ritual into the club.
Tomo Katsurada
M(h)aol
Dublin feminist post-punk — spare, pointed, necessary, minimalism wielded like an argument, every word placed to cut.
Silver Gore
Snuggle
Alice Costelloe
Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness
pollyfromthedirt
Little Grandad
Shallowater
Fatboi Sharif
New Jersey's surrealist rap horror-show — gothic, hilarious, unforgettable, verses that play like fever dreams narrated with total calm.
Tsar B
Renny Conti
Misha Panfilov
Ohtis
Recovery-country — harrowing stories told with disarming sweetness, addiction and grace in the same easy melody.
Kiran Leonard
Manchester's restless polymath — sprawling, brainy guitar epics written like essays and played like exorcisms, cult-canon ambition on a DIY budget.
Vicky Farewell
Mac's Record Label signee — silky '70s keyboard-pop with jazz hands, soft-rock sincerity played straight, session-pop revived with love.
Tex Crick
Aussie piano-pop charmer from Mac DeMarco's label orbit — wonky lounge songs with a crooked grin.
Daryl Johns
Pedro Martins
DJ Crenshaw
Sex Mask
Alex Amen
Mia WIlson
Susannah Stark & Band
Green Star
Lamisi
SILVERWINGKILLER
June McDoom
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.
PISS
Nina Winder-Lind
Sword II
Ken Pomeroy
Cherokee songwriter with an old soul — quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep, lines that sound handed down rather than written.
Big Red
Dave Welder
Garrett T. Capps
Thredd
Jordan Patterson
Cleo Reed
Carson McHone
Austin honky-tonk poetry — classic country bones and a restless heart, songwriting sharp enough to cut through the barroom clatter.
Tommy Barlow
Jennifer Walton
Manchester's hyper-collage electronics — noise, pop, and motorsport samples spliced into club music with a crash-test thrill.
Lichen
Kloyd
Greazy Alice
SLAG
Expiry
Maddie Ashman
Another Country $$$$
big long sun
Yalla Miku
WARBY
Shaking Hand
Spanish Horses
Femur
Cowboy Hunters
Oldboy
Kitchen Lover
Al Cologne
multiscreen
Bug Teeth
