Latitude 2026 Lineup

Headliner · Friday · 21:30 – 23:00 · Obelisk Arena

David Byrne

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The Talking Heads frontman has spent his solo decades turning the concert itself into choreography — marching bands, mobile ensembles, no cables.

art rocknew wave

Headliner · Sunday · 21:30 – 23:00 · Obelisk Arena

Lewis Capaldi

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Scotland's self-deprecating balladeer — arena-filling heartbreak delivered between stand-up-quality banter.

pop

Headliner · Saturday · 21:15 – 22:45 · Obelisk Arena

Teddy Swims

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A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.

soulpopr&b

Main stages · Friday · 20:20 – 21:20 · Second Stage

Alessi Rose

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Diaristic pop with the edges left sharp — songs about wanting someone written with enough self-awareness to make the wanting funny.

popindie pop

Blur's bassist putting the Britpop songbook through a full orchestra, which lands better than it has any right to.

britpoporchestral

Main stages · Friday · 15:25 – 16:20 · Obelisk Arena

Alice Phoebe Lou

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Berlin-via-Cape Town dream-folk — honeyed, unhurried songs that grew from street-performance beginnings into a quietly devoted worldwide fanbase.

indie-folkdream-pop

Main stages · Sunday · 15:05 – 16:00 · Second Stage

Beth Orton

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The folk singer who first put her voice over breakbeats, still writing crooked, searching songs three decades on.

folkelectronic

Main stages · Saturday · 13:45 – 14:30 · Obelisk Arena

BIIRD

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soul

Main stages · Saturday · 18:00 – 19:00 · Obelisk Arena

Billy Ocean

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Trinidad-born and London-raised, with a run of eighties soul pop singles that have never once left the radio.

soulpop

Main stages · Saturday · 15:00 – 16:00 · Obelisk Arena

Cian Ducrot

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An Irish songwriter with a conservatoire training behind him and a plain, enormous ballad voice in front.

popsinger-songwriter

Main stages · Sunday · 17:45 – 19:00 · Obelisk Arena

David Gray

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White Ladder sold itself by word of mouth and never really stopped, and the head-shaking delivery is fully intact.

folk-rocksinger-songwriter

Main stages · Friday · 14:00 – 15:00 · Obelisk Arena

Diles Que No Me Maten

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experimental

Main stages · Friday · 16:50 – 17:45 · Obelisk Arena

Dry Cleaning

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Deadpan spoken-word over wiry post-punk — Florence Shaw's found-text poetry delivered motionless while the band churns behind her.

post-punkart rock

Main stages · Sunday · 20:00 – 21:00 · Second Stage

English Teacher

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Leeds art-rock that won the Mercury Prize with its debut — wry, literate songs that change shape mid-verse.

alternative

Main stages · Sunday · 12:00 – 12:35 · Obelisk Arena

Everything Everything

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Manchester art rock built on falsetto and dense, tumbling wordplay, cleverer than it has any need to be.

art-rockindie-rock

Two founding drum and bass DJs playing the jungle canon with a full orchestra reading the breaks.

drum-and-bassorchestral

Main stages · Friday · 17:00 – 18:00 · Second Stage

Florence Road

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Irish indie four-piece — harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.

indie rock

The choirmaster from British television, turning a field into a four-part singalong on the spot.

choralpop

The television stylist with a real second career behind the decks, playing precisely the disco set you would hope for.

housedisco

Main stages · Friday · 18:15 – 19:15 · Obelisk Arena

Jalen Ngonda

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Sixties soul sung straight, with no wink — a falsetto so period-correct that the Daptone-school arrangements almost feel like the modern part.

soulR&B

Main stages · Saturday · 18:40 – 19:40 · Second Stage

James Marriott

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YouTuber-turned-legitimate indie rocker — wry, anthemic, and self-aware, with a built-in audience now singing real choruses.

indie rock

Main stages · Saturday · 17:00 – 18:00 · Second Stage

Just Mustard

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Irish shoegaze that scrapes and shivers — beauty engineered from dread, guitars processed until they sound like machinery grieving.

shoegazenoise

Main stages · Friday · 15:20 – 16:20 · Second Stage

Lime Garden

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Brighton's wonky-pop quartet — groove-led indie with a wink, disco basslines under deadpan observations, art-school playfulness with proper hooks.

indie pop

The Scottish postman whose sea shanty took over the internet, now out in front of a full band.

folk-popsea-shanty

Main stages · Friday · 13:40 – 14:40 · Second Stage

Overpass

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Birmingham lads making festival-ready indie rock singalongs — lager-in-the-air choruses in the great British tradition, a rising band already at home on big stages.

indie rock

Main stages · Sunday · 13:30 – 14:25 · Second Stage

Panic Shack

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Cardiff's funniest, fiercest punks — group-chat energy with riffs, in-jokes sharpened into anthems, the funniest serious band in Wales.

punk

Main stages · Sunday · 16:40 – 17:40 · Second Stage

Peter Hook & The Light

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Joy Division and New Order's bass player performing those albums whole, with the melody lines he wrote pushed to the front.

post-punknew-wave

Main stages · Sunday · 18:20 – 19:20 · Second Stage

Saint Etienne

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Thirty-five years of pop about London — house records, sixties girl-group melody and a fan's archive habit, all in the same song.

indie popdance-pop

Main stages · Sunday · 19:30 – 20:30 · Obelisk Arena

Self Esteem

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Rebecca Lucy Taylor's solo turn after Slow Club — big-chorus, choir-backed alt-pop about womanhood, staged with deliberately theatrical choreography.

alternative

Main stages · Saturday · 13:40 – 14:40 · Second Stage

Temples

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English psychedelia with the reverb high and the hooks intact, and a fair amount of glam in the shoulders.

psych-rockneo-psychedelia

Main stages · Saturday · 20:20 – 21:20 · Second Stage

The Beta Band

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Scotland's beloved kitchen-sink psychedelicists, reunited — 'Dry the Rain' at last, and the High Fidelity scene made flesh.

folktronicapsych

Main stages · Sunday · 21:45 – 23:00 · Second Stage

The Flaming Lips

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Confetti cannons, giant balloons, and Wayne Coyne's cracked falsetto — a live show engineered as a sensory event, 'Do You Realize??' as the group hug.

psych-rockart-rock

Main stages · Friday · 19:45 – 20:45 · Obelisk Arena

The Last Dinner Party

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Theatrical London five-piece who arrived fully formed — corsetry, harpsichord flourishes, and songs big enough to justify both, 'Nothing Matters' the proof.

baroque popart rock

Main stages · Saturday · 12:00 – 13:00 · Second Stage

The Lilacs

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indie rock

Main stages · Sunday · 14:45 – 15:45 · Obelisk Arena

The Undertones

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Derry's greatest export — two-minute punk-pop about chocolate and girls, and 'Teenage Kicks' remains the most perfect single of its era.

punkpower pop

Main stages · Friday · 22:00 – 23:00 · Second Stage

Tom Grennan

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A rasping pop voice out of Bedford that went festival-sized quickly and now plays like it always was.

popblue-eyed-soul

Main stages · Saturday · 19:30 – 20:45 · Obelisk Arena

Tom Odell

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Piano ballads sung at full throat — one enormous heartbreak single and a catalogue that keeps getting starker, braver by the record.

singer-songwriterpop

Main stages · Saturday · 16:30 – 17:30 · Obelisk Arena

Vanessa Carlton

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Piano pop with a long tail: 'A Thousand Miles' is inescapable, and the records after it went quieter and stranger.

poppiano-pop

Main stages · Saturday · 15:20 – 16:20 · Second Stage

Westside Cowboy

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Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang — scrappy, hook-first, rising fast on word of mouth, and the hype is earning itself.

indie rock

Main stages · Saturday · 22:00 – 23:00 · Second Stage

Wet Leg

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Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk — the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.

post-punkindie rock

On the bill · Saturday · 16:00 – 16:35 · The Alcove

1000 Rabbits

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alternative

praise & worship

On the bill · Friday · 19:00 – 19:45 · Sunrise Arena

Adult DVD

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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.

alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 16:20 – 17:00 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Aine Deane

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pop

On the bill · Sunday · 16:15 – 17:00 · Sunrise Arena

Arkayla

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alternative

On the bill · Friday · 12:30 – 13:10 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Ayanna Witter-Johnson

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singer/songwriter

On the bill · Friday · 16:35 – 17:15 · Sunrise Arena

Bleech 9:3

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 22:10 – 22:50 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Clamber

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pop

On the bill · Sunday · 17:30 – 18:10 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Declan J Donovan

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pop

On the bill · Friday · 01:15 – 02:30 · Trailer Park

Dog Show

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electronic

On the bill · Saturday · 13:30 – 14:10 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Eleni Drake

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 13:45 – 14:30 · Sunrise Arena

Elle Coves

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pop

On the bill · Friday · 13:40 – 14:40 · Trailer Park

FFTP

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techno

On the bill · Saturday · 16:00 – 17:00 · Trailer Park

Flats and Sharps

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folk-rock

On the bill · Saturday · 22:00 – 23:00 · Sunrise Arena

Getdown Services

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Bristol's absurdist funk-punk duo — crisps, capitalism, and cowbell, mundane British life set to grooves that genuinely slap.

comedy funk-punk

On the bill · Sunday · 18:45 – 19:30 · Sunrise Arena

Good Health Good Wealth

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 17:00 – 17:35 · The Alcove

Gracie Friel

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house

On the bill · Thu, Jul 23 · 20:45 – 21:45 · Trailer Park / Fri, Jul 24 · 21:15 – 22:00 · Trailer Park

Grooveline

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alternative

On the bill · Friday · 23:20 – 00:30 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Hidden Orchestra

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Edinburgh's studio project turned live band — two drummers, layered strings and field recordings built into something cinematic.

electronicjazzinstrumental

On the bill · Friday · 17:30 – 18:10 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

i.am.afiya

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alternative

On the bill · Friday · 21:30 – 22:30 · Sunrise Arena

Joe Armon-Jones

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Keys player at the centre of London's jazz scene — dub weight and hip-hop swing under long, unhurried solos.

jazzdub

On the bill · Friday · 18:40 – 19:20 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Josh Tenor

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r&b/soul

disco

On the bill · Saturday · 16:45 – 17:30 · Sunrise Arena

Keo

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pop

On the bill · Thursday · 21:45 – 22:30 · The Alcove

Kuleeangee

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 19:00 – 19:35 · The Alcove

Lemonsuckr

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alternative

r&b/soul

On the bill · Friday · 19:50 – 20:30 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

LFAY

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jungle/drum'n'bass

On the bill · Saturday · 13:00 – 13:45 · Sunrise Arena

Linka Moja

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pop

On the bill · Saturday · 17:00 – 17:35 · The Alcove

Little Grandad

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alternative

classical

On the bill · Friday · 17:45 – 18:30 · Sunrise Arena

Madra Salach

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alternative

On the bill · Saturday · 19:50 – 20:30 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Mama Oh No

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r&b/soul

On the bill · Saturday · 19:15 – 20:00 · Sunrise Arena

Maria Somerville

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West-of-Ireland dream-pop — mist, radio static, and 4AD hush, Connemara landscape rendered as sound, songs that drift in like weather.

ambient dream-pop

On the bill · Friday · 11:30 – 12:10 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Matt Carmichael

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jazz

On the bill · Friday · 14:40 – 15:20 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Mesadorm

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 17:30 – 18:15 · Sunrise Arena

Militarie Gun

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Ian Shelton's band bolting hardcore urgency onto power pop choruses, shouting hooks you catch yourself humming later.

post-hardcorepunk

On the bill · Friday · 20:00 – 20:45 · The Alcove

Mustbejohn

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dance

On the bill · Saturday · 20:20 – 21:15 · Trailer Park

My First Time

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rock

On the bill · Thursday · 18:55 – 19:35 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

My Precious Bunny

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indie pop

On the bill · Thursday · 22:00 – 23:00 · Sunrise Arena

Mystery Jets

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alternative

On the bill · Thu, Jul 23 · 19:15 – 20:00 · Sunrise Arena / Sun, Jul 26 · 19:50 – 20:30 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Nadia Kadek

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alternative

On the bill · Friday · 21:00 – 21:40 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Native James

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hip-hop

On the bill · Thursday · 17:45 – 18:25 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Neil Cowley Trio

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jazz

On the bill · Friday · 20:15 – 21:00 · Sunrise Arena

Olympia Vitalis

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West London singer whose full-bodied tone came up through gospel choirs — soul phrased like jazz, timed like hip-hop, and a debut EP that arrived fully formed.

soulr&b

On the bill · Sunday · 15:00 – 15:25 · The Alcove

Pixie McCann

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pop

On the bill · Saturday · 11:30 – 12:30 · Sunrise Arena

Pollyfromthedirt

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 10:50 – 11:30 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Poppy Ackroyd

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classical

On the bill · Sunday · 15:00 – 15:45 · Sunrise Arena

Raynor

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alternative

On the bill · Sunday · 12:00 – 12:40 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Seckou Keita

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worldwide

On the bill · Saturday · 20:00 – 20:45 · The Alcove

Solya

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alternative

On the bill · Friday · 13:30 – 14:10 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Tessa Rose Jackson

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pop

afrobeats

On the bill · Sunday · 20:00 – 20:45 · The Alcove

The Guest List

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indie

On the bill · Friday · 17:00 – 17:35 · The Alcove

The Heart Shaped Aces

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indie rock

On the bill · Saturday · 19:00 – 19:35 · The Alcove

The North

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indie

On the bill · Friday · 16:00 – 16:35 · The Alcove

Theatre

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indie rock

On the bill · Sunday · 13:00 – 13:35 · The Alcove

Tracey Nelson

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country

On the bill · Thursday · 20:05 – 20:45 · Faber Alt x BBC Introducing stage

Wyldest

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pop