Drum & Bass festivals

3 festivals still to come with Drum & Bass on the bill, carrying 13 of the 25 Drum & Bass acts we track. Every act has a page: which festivals they play, what time they go on once the festival says, and what they sound like if the name is new to you.

Drum & bass runs near 175 beats per minute, built on a chopped breakbeat and a bassline low enough to move air in your chest. On a big rig the kick and snare sit right up front, an MC works the mic over the top, and tracks mix straight through with no gaps.

Sets tend to land late, in a tent tuned for low end rather than on a mid-afternoon main stage. An hour passes as one continuous mix, broken by rewinds when a drop lands and the crowd shouts for it. Softer, sung liquid sets and rolling jungle often take the earlier slot.

Drum & Bass festivals in 2026

Every bill still ahead of you with real Drum & Bass on it, deepest first. A festival needs at least 2 Drum & Bass acts to be here, so one stray booking on a bill about something else does not count.

Who carries Drum & Bass this season

All 25 acts we have tagged Drum & Bass, sorted six ways. The lists disagree with each other, and the names they disagree about are usually the ones worth hearing.

Booked the most in 2026

The Drum & Bass acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

  1. 1A Little Sound5One of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
  2. 2Bou5Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
  3. 3Chase & Status3Two decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end — scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
  4. 4Nia Archives3Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival — breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting, rave history reclaimed as diary.
  5. 5Sub Focus3Nick Douwma's melodic drum-and-bass — euphoric, precisely engineered, and built for a very large sound system, arena-rave architecture at its cleanest.
  6. 6Chase & Status Live2UK drum & bass institution in full live mode — twenty years of rave history delivered with a band's punch, still peerless at festival scale.
  7. 7Dirtyphonics2French crew who came up through drum and bass and never lost the punk energy — genre-hopping bass sets played like a rock show.
  8. 8Ivy Lab2The trio who effectively invented halftime — drum and bass slowed to a swaggering crawl, sound design that rewards headphones and necks alike.
  9. 9Kanine2UK producer at the jump-up end of drum and bass — big, rowdy, and built for a rave, double-drops thrown like confetti.

Most upcoming bookings

Everything still ahead of us, for anyone with festivals left on the calendar.

  1. 1A Little Sound4One of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
  2. 2Bou2Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
  3. 3Ivy Lab2The trio who effectively invented halftime — drum and bass slowed to a swaggering crawl, sound design that rewards headphones and necks alike.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Chase & Status Live2UK drum & bass institution in full live mode — twenty years of rave history delivered with a band's punch, still peerless at festival scale.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1A Little Sound5One of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
  2. 2Bou5Manchester's jump-up juggernaut — relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure from one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
  3. 3Chase & Status3Two decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end — scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
  4. 4Nia Archives3Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival — breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting, rave history reclaimed as diary.
  5. 5Sub Focus3Nick Douwma's melodic drum-and-bass — euphoric, precisely engineered, and built for a very large sound system, arena-rave architecture at its cleanest.
  6. 6Dirtyphonics2French crew who came up through drum and bass and never lost the punk energy — genre-hopping bass sets played like a rock show.
  7. 7Ivy Lab2The trio who effectively invented halftime — drum and bass slowed to a swaggering crawl, sound design that rewards headphones and necks alike.
  8. 8Kanine2UK producer at the jump-up end of drum and bass — big, rowdy, and built for a rave, double-drops thrown like confetti.

All 25 Drum & Bass acts

A Little SoundBouChase & StatusNia ArchivesSub FocusChase & Status LiveDirtyphonicsIvy LabKanine4AM KruDelta HeavyDieselboyDJ FlightFrictionImanuJustin HawkesMefjusMuzzPendulumReid SpeedRoni Size + MC FearlessShy FXSigmaStar EyesSumthin Sumthin

Drum & Bass festivals: common questions

What festivals have the most Drum & Bass in 2026?

Lost Lands 2026 (8 Drum & Bass acts), Nocturnal Wonderland 2026 (3 Drum & Bass acts), Escape Halloween 2026 (2 Drum & Bass acts). We count the acts on each published lineup rather than going by how a festival bills itself, so this is the depth of the actual Drum & Bass booking.

Where can I see Drum & Bass live in 2026?

3 festivals still to come have Drum & Bass on the bill. The next is Lost Lands 2026, September 18–20, 2026 at Legend Valley, Thornville, OH, with 8 Drum & Bass acts playing.

Which Drum & Bass artists are playing the most festivals in 2026?

A Little Sound (5), Bou (5), Chase & Status (3), Nia Archives (3), Sub Focus (3). Counted per festival across the whole season, finished bills included.

How many Drum & Bass acts are playing festivals in 2026?

25 Drum & Bass acts appear on the lineups we track, across 3 festivals still to come. Each one has a page with its dates, stages and set times wherever the festival has published them.

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