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.
From Dublin, IE · Sounds like Self Esteem, Kacey Musgraves
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.
End of the Road 2026 lineup: all 139 acts
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Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Black Midi, Wet Leg, Parquet Courts, King Krule
The gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop — cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
From Edmonton, AB · Sounds like Kurt Vile, Homeshake, Ariel Pink
Jarvis Cocker's common people, still uncommon — Britpop's sharpest wit in glorious late-era form, 'Common People' still detonating class rage.
From Sheffield, UK · Sounds like Blur, Suede, The Divine Comedy
Pipe-organ doom hymns — sacred music for the beautifully unwell, where cathedral drones meet gothic songcraft at genuinely tectonic volume.
From Gothenburg, SE · Sounds like Chelsea Wolfe, Sunn O))), Emma Ruth Rundle, Zola Jesus
The rediscovered visionary behind 'Keyboard Fantasies' — transcendence, gently delivered, decades after a cassette nobody heard became the classic everybody needed.
From Ontario, CA · Sounds like Arthur Russell, Alice Coltrane, Laraaji
Eight-piece London chamber-rock swells — patient, communal, and overwhelming, songs that gather like weather until the whole room is inside them.
From London, UK · Sounds like Black Country, New Road, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Talk Talk
Two generations of abstract rap in one set — smeared loops, mumbled brilliance, and the mentor-protégé chemistry that reshaped underground hip-hop.
From Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY · Sounds like MF DOOM, Navy Blue, Mavi
Colombian synth auteur — protest songs you can dance to, built entirely on hardware and delivered with quiet, glowing defiance.
From Bogotá, CO · Sounds like Austra, Fever Ray, Robyn, Kelly Lee Owens
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.
From London, UK · Sounds like black midi, Squid, black country, new road
Irish shoegaze that scrapes and shivers — beauty engineered from dread, guitars processed until they sound like machinery grieving.
From Dundalk, IE · Sounds like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins
Welsh techno-pop shapeshifter behind the decks — ethereal textures traded for full club propulsion, art-techno rewired for peak hour.
From Wales, UK · Sounds like Jon Hopkins, Caribou, The Chemical Brothers, Four Tet
Philly's laconic guitar rambler — hazy, endless-highway rock, songs that amble past the seven-minute mark like it's nothing.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like The War on Drugs, Steve Gunn
Sweat-slicked industrial post-punk — menace, glamour, and whispered filth, a frontman who prowls the crowd like it's his living room.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like HEALTH, Gilla Band, METZ
Chicago indie rock at its warmest — twangy, generous, quietly great, a band critics keep discovering all over again.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Waxahatchee, Illuminati Hotties, Jay Som
Ex-Vampire Weekend architect — ornate, warm-blooded pop as producer-auteur, harpsichords and 808s on equal footing, fingerprints all over a decade of indie.
From Washington, DC · Sounds like Vampire Weekend, Blood Orange, Sufjan Stevens
Louisville's shaggy-dog cosmic country — novelistic songs that sneak up and floor you, Silver Jews wit with a road band's looseness.
From Louisville, KY · Sounds like Silver Jews, Bill Callahan, Jason Molina
Wales's beloved psych-pop pranksters, reunited — techno tanks and golden melodies, national-treasure status long confirmed, Welsh weirdness in full bloom.
From Cardiff, UK · Sounds like The Flaming Lips, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Mercury Rev
Catskills barn-band Americana — ragged, literate, and joyful, story-songs played like a family argument in the best way.
From Catskills, NY · Sounds like The Avett Brothers, The Tallest Man on Earth, Deer Tick, Bob Dylan
Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer — a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Thee Oh Sees, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, White Fence, Fuzz
Talk Talk-schooled art-pop — pristine, searching, quietly devastating, songcraft that rewards stillness, every note deliberate.
From London, UK · Sounds like Talk Talk, Steve Lacy, Sampha, Blood Orange
Austin's virtuosic boogie machine — prog chops, garage soul, and tempo changes played like party tricks.
From Austin, TX · Sounds like The Black Keys, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Wilco, My Morning Jacket
Glowing heartland indie rock — War on Drugs warmth at bedroom scale, songs that expand like a slow sunrise.
From New York, NY · Sounds like The War on Drugs, Hovvdy, The National
Nashville's cosmic guitar cartographer — instrumentals that feel like interstate sunsets, American primitive tradition with a widescreen lens.
From Nashville, TN · Sounds like John Fahey, Steve Gunn, Ryley Walker
Yorkshire synth-punk — New Order's chassis with a teenage engine, hacienda pulse rebuilt for new floors.
From Todmorden, UK · Sounds like New Order, LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Soft Cell
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.
From Leeds, UK · Sounds like Squid, black midi, Yard Act, Shame
Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness
Al Cologne
Alex Amen
Alice Costelloe
Angine de Poitrine
Another Country $$$$
Moroccan-French power quartet electrifying Gnawa trance-blues — hypnotic guembri grooves plugged in and turned up into full-band psychedelic ecstasy.
From Marrakech, MA / Lyon, FR · Sounds like Tinariwen, Bombino, Songhoy Blues
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.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Peaches, Uffie, Crystal Castles
BCUC
Sounds like Fela Kuti, Konono N°1
big long sun
Big Red
Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars
Sounds like Vashti Bunyan, Shirley Collins, Sandy Denny
Brakes
Sounds like British Sea Power, The Futureheads, Art Brut
Skye's smallpipes visionary — ancient Scottish drones made hypnotic and new, minimalist reeds that sit closer to modern drone music than trad-session nostalgia.
From Isle of Skye, UK · Sounds like Lankum, Colin Stetson
Brother Wallace
Bug Teeth
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
From Cork, IE · Sounds like Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital
Austin honky-tonk poetry — classic country bones and a restless heart, songwriting sharp enough to cut through the barroom clatter.
From Austin, TX · Sounds like Margo Price, Nikki Lane, Kacey Musgraves
Cleo Reed
Colossal Squid
Cowboy Hunters
Daryl Johns
Dave Welder
David Thomas Broughton
Sounds like Richard Dawson, Bill Callahan
Deary
Sounds like Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Beach House
deBasement
Anatolian psych-folk revival — saz grooves and velvet vocals, Turkish songbook classics and originals worked into hypnotic slow-burn funk.
From Hamburg, DE · Sounds like Altın Gün, Khruangbin, BaBa ZuLa
DJ Crenshaw
Expiry
Ezra Feinberg
DFA's industrial techno machine, returned — relentless hardware grooves that grind post-punk down to pure repetition.
From London, UK · Sounds like Cabaret Voltaire, Liars, The Soft Moon
New Jersey's surrealist rap horror-show — gothic, hilarious, unforgettable, verses that play like fever dreams narrated with total calm.
From Rahway, NJ · Sounds like billy woods, MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, JPEGMAFIA
Femur
Fine
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists — three voices, one wicked sense of humor, close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
From Melbourne, AU · Sounds like boygenius, The Staves, First Aid Kit
GANS
Garrett T. Capps
Sounds like Kevin Fowler, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen
GHOSTWOMAN
Salford's shape-shifting psych-noise commune — heavy in every sense, a collective that reinvents its sound album to album and show to show.
From Salford, UK · Sounds like Hawkwind, Boris, Swans
Greazy Alice
Green Star
Hudson Freeman
james K
Sounds like Grouper, Julianna Barwick
NYC anti-folk lifer — comic-book songs with more ideas per verse than most careers, performed with hand-drawn visuals in tow.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Daniel Johnston, The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green
Manchester's hyper-collage electronics — noise, pop, and motorsport samples spliced into club music with a crash-test thrill.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like SOPHIE, Iglooghost, Arca
Jordan Patterson
Joshua Idehen
Sounds like Sault, Kae Tempest
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.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Sade, Cassandra Jenkins, Angel Olsen
Kerry's warped folk bard — hurdy-gurdy strangeness and dark comic grace, trad music bent into confessional theater.
From Kerry, IE · Sounds like Lankum, John Francis Flynn
Self-produced spiritual soul — prickly, gorgeous, sui generis, chopped loops and layered self-harmonies that answer to nobody.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Solange
Cherokee songwriter with an old soul — quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep, lines that sound handed down rather than written.
From Moore, OK · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker, Gillian Welch
Manchester's restless polymath — sprawling, brainy guitar epics written like essays and played like exorcisms, cult-canon ambition on a DIY budget.
From Manchester, UK · Sounds like Bill Callahan, Richard Dawson, Field Music
Kitchen Lover
Kloyd
Lamisi
Lichen
Burlington's raw-hearted songwriter — cracked-open folk-rock with a voice that frays exactly where it counts, DIY-scene devotion well earned.
From Burlington, VT · Sounds like Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker, Angel Olsen
Little Grandad
Los Thuthanaka
Dublin feminist post-punk — spare, pointed, necessary, minimalism wielded like an argument, every word placed to cut.
From Dublin, IE · Sounds like Dry Cleaning, Gilla Band, Wet Leg, Sleater-Kinney
Maddie Ashman
Madra Salach
Guitar soli as landscape painting — blues, minimalism, and open air, the American primitive tradition carried gently forward.
From Portland, OR · Sounds like Daniel Bachman, John Fahey, Jack Rose
mark william lewis
Mia WIlson
Hedge-folk miniatures — field recordings and old-weird-Britain magic, songs like pressed flowers found in a strange book.
From UK · Sounds like Shirley Collins, Vashti Bunyan, The Unthanks
Misha Panfilov
Uncanny English art-folk — pastoral songs with teeth, violin scrape and strange narratives from London's experimental fringe.
From London, UK · Sounds like black midi, Black Country, New Road, Squid, Dry Cleaning
Morgan Nagler
Lawrence (Felt, Denim) in his glam-pop era — Britain's greatest cult songwriter, still chasing the hit he has always deserved.
From Birmingham, UK · Sounds like Felt, Denim
multiscreen
Togolese voodoo-pop — call-and-response trance over analog synth bass, women's voices carrying ritual into the club.
From Lomé, TG · Sounds like Tinariwen, Ibibio Sound Machine, Bombino
Nina Winder-Lind
Recovery-country — harrowing stories told with disarming sweetness, addiction and grace in the same easy melody.
From Illinois · Sounds like Bonny Prince Billy, Silver Jews, Jason Molina
Oldboy
Lankum-adjacent doom-folk coven — drones, dread, and gorgeous Irish gloom, traditional songs slowed to ritual pace.
From Dublin, IE · Sounds like Lankum, The Bug, Chelsea Wolfe
Pedro Martins
Sounds like Kurt Rosenwinkel
Perfect Binding
PISS
pollyfromthedirt
Izzy Hagerup's gnarled, gripping songs — beautiful and unsettling at once, a voice that turns rooms silent mid-chord.
From Western Massachusetts · Sounds like Palehound, Angel Olsen, Adrianne Lenker, Snail Mail
South London electro-punk — club pressure with live-band violence, synths and drums locked in a knife fight.
From London, UK · Sounds like Squid, LCD Soundsystem
Renny Conti
RIP Magic
Sean-nós tradition spliced with electronics — Ireland's eeriest new voice, keening rendered as avant-garde ritual, old songs made newly unsettling.
From Fermanagh, IE · Sounds like Lankum, Lisa O'Neill
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.
From Hickman, KY · Sounds like Waxahatchee, Drive-By Truckers
Sex Mask
Shaking Hand
Shallowater
Sheherazaad
Silver Gore
SILVERWINGKILLER
Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio — handmade instruments conjuring places that don't exist, ritual music from an invented tradition.
From Slovenia · Sounds like Colin Stetson, Tinariwen, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
SLAG
Snuggle
From UK
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.
From Todmorden, UK · Sounds like LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip
Aussie piano-pop charmer from Mac DeMarco's label orbit — wonky lounge songs with a crooked grin.
From Sydney, AU · Sounds like Connan Mockasin, Kirin J Callinan
Casio-and-helmet street-performance legend — cosmic covers of pure innocence, outsider-music history glowing softly live, pure wonder with no irony.
From San Francisco, CA · Sounds like Daniel Johnston, Jandek
Thredd
Tommy Barlow
Tomo Katsurada
Tsar B
TTSSFU
Mac's Record Label signee — silky '70s keyboard-pop with jazz hands, soft-rock sincerity played straight, session-pop revived with love.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Connan Mockasin, Weyes Blood
WARBY
Melbourne soft-pop sunshine — strings, Rhodes, and easy grace, '70s studio-pop craft revived gently, sunshine engineered in the studio.
From Melbourne, AU
Yalla Miku
NYC's most confrontational new band — spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms in twenty-minute bursts, and nothing else sounds like it.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Liars, Death Grips, Black Dice, Black Midi
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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