Expected back August 2027 · Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK

Rebellion 2026 Lineup

Four days and nine indoor stages of punk in Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the genre's biggest annual gathering.

Rebellion is expected back August 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.

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About Rebellion 2026

Rebellion is punk's biggest annual gathering: four August days inside Blackpool's Winter Gardens, nine stages under one roof, and a 286-act bill that treats the genre as a half-century-deep family reunion. The Empress Ballroom closers set the tone: The Stranglers on Thursday, Sham 69 on Friday, Cock Sparrer on Saturday, Stiff Little Fingers on Sunday.

Every branch of the family is present. First-wavers run from Buzzcocks and 999 to Penetration and TV Smith; the oi! wing gets Cockney Rejects and The Business; anarcho history is covered by Steve Ignorant's Crass set, Subhumans and The Mob; American hardcore sends Cro-Mags, M.D.C. and The Adolescents; and the international class (Germany's stadium-scale Die Toten Hosen, Italy's Los Fastidios, Korea's Rumkicks, Japan's Mikabomb) proves the export took. The Opera House even runs a full post-punk-and-new-wave wing: The Chameleons, Bow Wow Wow, Au Pairs, Lene Lovich.

Days, stages and set times are all published: every act card below shows its slot.

Expect punk, rock, alternative and post-punk across 286 acts.

Lineup last updated August 1, 2026

Rebellion 2026 lineup & schedule: all 286 acts

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Show286 of 286 acts

Headliner · Friday · 00:10 · Arena

Bite Me Bambi

Horn-driven California ska with a frontwoman who commands a room from the first bar — Orange County third-wave revival with showtune-sized energy.

ska-punkthird wave ska

Headliner · Saturday · 23:25 · Empress Ballroom

Cock Sparrer

Fifty years of working-class anthems, and still the band that closes a punk festival better than anyone — 'Because You're Young' guarantees wet eyes in the pit.

oi!punk

Headliner · Sunday · 22:30 · Arena

One Way System

Blackpool's own UK82 veterans, closing a room in their home town — spiked-hair anthems played where they started.

punkuk82

Headliner · Saturday · 23:35 · Arena

Rubella Ballet

UV-painted anarcho-punk that insisted the movement didn't have to dress entirely in black — day-glo defiance since the Crass days.

anarcho-punkpost-punk

Headliner · Friday · 23:00 · Empress Ballroom

Sham 69

Terrace-chant punk built for a thousand people shouting the chorus back — the template for oi!, 'If the Kids Are United' still uniting.

punkoi!

Headliner · Thursday · 23:50 · Arena

Sick on the Bus

Fast, funny, thoroughly unserious London punk with a long back catalogue of bad decisions — proudly unreformed.

punkhardcore punk

Headliner · Sunday · 22:45 · Empress Ballroom

Stiff Little Fingers

Belfast punk written under the Troubles — Jake Burns's sandpaper roar over songs about getting out, 'Alternative Ulster' still the loudest exit plan.

punkpost-punk

Headliner · Thursday · 22:45 · Empress Ballroom

The Stranglers

Punk's most musically awkward first-wavers — swirling organ and sneering menace where their peers just went fast, 'Golden Brown' the elegant outlier.

punknew wave

Second stage · Saturday · 14:25 · Arena

4Ft Fingers

Channel Islands ska-punk veterans back together for the festival circuit — high-tempo, grin-first punk built for a beery mass singalong among the UK scene faithful.

ska-punkpunk

Second stage · Saturday · 14:35 · Empress Ballroom

999

First-wave London punk with a power-pop instinct that made them unusually durable — 'Homicide' and a catalog of sharp, hooky singles still delivered at full pelt.

punkpower-pop

Main stage · Friday · 21:30 · Empress Ballroom

Anti Nowhere League

Deliberately obnoxious, biker-adjacent punk that got its debut single seized under UK obscenity law — 'So What' remains the filthy standard Metallica couldn't resist covering.

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Thursday · 21:05 · Opera House

Au Pairs

Angular, politically pointed post-punk built on the tension between two vocalists and a very tight rhythm section — Birmingham's answer to Gang of Four, sharper on gender politics than anyone.

post-punkart-punk

Second stage · Thursday · 17:10 · Empress Ballroom

Bar Stool Preachers

Brighton ska-punk with a genuinely political heart and a frontman who works a crowd like a preacher — singalongs first, sermons snuck in after.

ska-punkpunk

Second stage · Thursday · 20:55 · Almost Acoustic

Beans on Toast

A man, an acoustic guitar, and a running commentary on the state of things, delivered pub-side — a new album every December and a grin through all of it.

folkanti-folk

Second stage · Friday · 21:45 · Club Casbah

Booze & Glory

London street-punk band with a following that runs deeper across mainland Europe than at home — singalong choruses delivered entirely without irony.

rock

Second stage · Thursday · 22:15 · Opera House

Bow Wow Wow

Malcolm McLaren's Burundi-beat pop project, all tribal drums and teenage swagger — 'I Want Candy' and a sound nobody has quite replicated since.

new wavepost-punk

Main stage · Thursday · 23:25 · Opera House

Buzzcocks

Manchester punk that invented lovesick pop-punk two decades early — 'Ever Fallen in Love' and a singles run where every hook still lands perfect.

punkpower-pop

Second stage · Sunday · 14:30 · Empress Ballroom

Channel 3

Early-'80s Southern California punk with more melody than their hardcore neighbours — first-generation SoCal scene veterans still swinging.

hardcore punkpunk

Second stage · Sunday · 15:30 · Empress Ballroom

Chelsea

First-wave London punk whose early lineup splintered into Generation X almost immediately — Gene October kept the flag up anyway, for decades.

punk

Second stage · Sunday · 14:40 · Arena

Choking Susan

Michigan punk with a confrontational frontwoman and a very short fuse — snarling, old-school defiance with no filler.

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Saturday · 17:55 · Empress Ballroom

Chron Gen

Second-wave UK punk with more melody than the leather-and-studs crowd usually allowed — UK82 veterans with genuine tunes under the spikes.

punkuk82

Main stage · Saturday · 21:55 · Empress Ballroom

Cockney Rejects

The band that gave oi! its name and its football-terrace singalong instincts — East End punk that never pretended to be anything else.

oi!punk

Second stage · Sunday · 17:35 · Empress Ballroom

Cro-Mags

NYHC founders whose 'Age of Quarrel' remains the crossover blueprint — hardcore fury and metal precision fused before the terms had settled.

hardcorecrossover thrash

Main stage · Friday · 23:00 · Arena

Cult Maniax

West Country punk that kept mutating between anarcho, psychobilly, and straight-up rock — Devon eccentrics who never fit the uniform.

punkanarcho-punk

Main stage · Saturday · 20:25 · Empress Ballroom

Die Toten Hosen

Germany's biggest punk band by a distance — stadium-scale at home, playing a Blackpool ballroom here, forty years of anthems compressed into one gleeful set.

punkpunk rock

Main stage · Sunday · 22:20 · Club Casbah

Dirtbox Disco

Silly, hook-stuffed UK punk that treats every show as a party first — glam-daft costumes, huge choruses, zero self-seriousness.

punkpop-punk

Main stage · Sunday · 18:45 · Empress Ballroom

Discharge

Invented an entire drumbeat and a genre named after it — nuclear-dread hardcore stripped to pure noise, and still the loudest warning siren in punk.

d-beathardcore punk

Main stage · Friday · 20:00 · Empress Ballroom

Ferocious Dog

Fiddle-led folk punk with a devoted following and a strong line in righteous anger — Levellers-lineage anthems built for muddy-boot dancing.

folk punkceltic punk

Second stage · Thursday · 17:10 · Arena

Foreign Legion

Straight-ahead oi! for the Empress Ballroom singalong — veteran terrace-chant punk played loud, proud, and without frills.

oi!punk

Main stage · Saturday · 19:10 · Empress Ballroom

GBH

Spiked-hair UK82 hardcore whose buzzsaw riffs fed directly into American thrash — Birmingham veterans still playing at full pelt.

hardcore punkuk82

Second stage · Saturday · 15:40 · Empress Ballroom

Gimp Fist

North East oi! with more melody and less posturing than the genre's reputation suggests — working-men's anthems from Hartlepool.

oi!punk

Main stage · Friday · 18:50 · Empress Ballroom

Goldblade

John Robb fronting high-energy punk'n'roll with the evangelism of a man who genuinely loves this music — part gig, part revival meeting.

punkgarage punk

Second stage · Sunday · 16:30 · Empress Ballroom

Haywire

Newer West Coast hardcore working the same fast, mean seam as its Bay Area peers — no-frills aggression built for short, violent sets.

hardcore

Second stage · Thursday · 18:05 · Arena

Headstone Horrors

Nottingham crew who have spent over a decade working the B-movie graveyard end of punk, with a frontwoman leading the shout-alongs.

punk

Second stage · Thursday · 19:00 · Arena

Janus Stark

Gizz Butt's post-Prodigy punk vehicle, faster and more melodic than the day job — guitar-hero chops in three-minute bursts.

punkalt-rock

Second stage · Friday · 22:10 · Opera House

Lene Lovich

New wave's great eccentric — yelps, trills, and a vocal style nobody has successfully copied, 'Lucky Number' still gloriously odd.

new waveart-pop

Second stage · Thursday · 12:45 · Arena

Litterbug

Blackpool punk lifers on genuinely home turf — scrappy, local, and louder for it, scene regulars with local bragging rights.

punk

Second stage · Saturday · 13:35 · Empress Ballroom

Los Fastidios

Italian antifascist oi! and ska with three decades of unambiguous politics behind it — terrace anthems for the right side of history.

oi!ska-punk

Second stage · Sunday · 21:00 · Club Casbah

M.D.C.

American hardcore's most reliably furious political band, name changing with each record — Millions of Dead Cops onward, rage undimmed.

hardcore punk

Second stage · Thursday · 22:25 · Club Casbah

Maid of Ace

Four sisters playing ferocious, unfussy punk with no gimmick beyond how hard they hit — Hastings family business, all fury.

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Sunday · 12:45 · Empress Ballroom

Mikabomb

Japanese garage-punk played at a giddy sprint with hooks buried in the fuzz — Tokyo-to-London racket with a grin.

punkgarage punk

Main stage · Saturday · 22:30 · Arena

Notsensibles

Lancashire punk best known for a satirical anthem people keep taking at face value — 'I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher', forever misread.

punkcomedy punk

Main stage · Saturday · 23:15 · Opera House

Penetration

Pauline Murray fronting first-wave punk with genuine melodic ambition underneath — 'Don't Dictate' still a landmark.

punkpost-punk

Second stage · Thursday · 14:15 · The Old Vic

Ramona's Tea Party

Norwegian outfit from Sandefjord playing power pop with the bite of punk — hooks delivered fast and without ceremony.

rock

Main stage · Friday · 23:30 · Opera House

Rezillos

Scottish sci-fi punk in matching outfits, playing everything at cartoon speed with a grin — 'Top of the Pops' irony fully intact.

punknew wave

Second stage · Friday · 13:35 · Empress Ballroom

Rumkicks

Korean street punk trio bringing genuine UK82 fidelity from the other side of the world — studs, speed, and total sincerity.

punkstreet punk

Second stage · Friday · 00:20 · After Dark In Pavilion

Screaming Dead

Early-eighties British horror punk turned goth, formed in Cheltenham in 1980 — B-movie imagery and graveyard theatrics played at punk speed.

alternative

Second stage · Saturday · 23:20 · Club Casbah

Skids

Richard Jobson's theatrical Scottish punk, with guitar lines that would later become Big Country — 'Into the Valley' still a rallying cry.

punkpost-punk

Main stage · Thursday · 21:15 · Empress Ballroom

Slaughter & The Dogs

Wythenshawe's glam-punk originals, on the bill at the gig that famously started Manchester punk — boot-boy anthems still swinging.

punkglam punk

Second stage · Friday · 23:00 · Conference Circle

Spear of Destiny

Kirk Brandon's grand, saxophone-flecked post-punk, built on conviction and reverb — cult-canon status long secured, 'Never Take Me Alive' still the rally cry.

post-punk

Second stage · Saturday · 20:45 · Opera House

Spizz Energi

Owner of the first-ever UK indie chart number one, and a band that has changed its name a dozen times since.

post-punknew wave

Second stage · Thursday · 15:15 · Arena

Splodgenessabounds

Novelty punk with a legendarily long song title and no pretensions whatsoever — two pints of lager and a packet of laughs.

punkcomedy punk

Second stage · Saturday · 16:45 · Empress Ballroom

Subhumans

Dick Lucas's rapid-fire wordplay over anarcho-punk that never lost its sense of rhythm or humour — four decades in, undimmed.

anarcho-punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Friday · 18:50 · Arena

The Baby Seals

Funny, furious feminist punk that says the quiet parts extremely loudly — body-positive anthems with proper hooks.

punkriot grrrl

Main stage · Thursday · 21:50 · Arena

The Bolokos

Punk trio out of Guadeloupe, playing fast melodic three-chord songs with an accent all their own.

punk

Second stage · Friday · 22:55 · Club Casbah

The Boys

First-wave punk with the melodic instincts of a lost power-pop band — London '77 played with a songwriter's care.

punkpower-pop

Main stage · Friday · 00:10 · Club Casbah

The Business

Oi! played straight down the middle — no politics beyond solidarity, no frills beyond the chorus, South London to the bone.

oi!punk

Second stage · Saturday · 21:50 · Club Casbah

The Chameleons

Cavernous, chiming post-punk that half of modern indie rock has quietly borrowed from — 'Script of the Bridge' the secret source text.

post-punkgoth rock

Second stage · Thursday · 16:10 · Empress Ballroom

The Courettes

Wall-of-sound '60s girl-group pop played by a two-piece with a fuzz pedal and no restraint — Danish-Brazilian duo, Spector-sized.

garage rockgirl group

Main stage · Sunday · 21:15 · Empress Ballroom

The Dickies

Cartoonishly fast California punk covers and originals, played entirely for the joke and entirely well — five decades of controlled silliness.

punkpop-punk

Second stage · Thursday · 14:15 · Empress Ballroom

The Dollheads

Las Vegas punk band formed in 2021, running on snotty hooks and a determinedly unpolished delivery.

punk

Main stage · Sunday · 20:00 · Empress Ballroom

The Godfathers

Sharp-suited, hard-driving rock'n'roll with punk's aggression and none of its scruffiness — 'Birth, School, Work, Death' still the résumé.

garage rockpost-punk

Second stage · Friday · 15:25 · Empress Ballroom

The Hotknives

Long-running Brighton ska with a brass section and zero interest in slowing down — Two Tone spirit kept warm for decades.

ska2 tone

Second stage · Thursday · 22:40 · Conference Circle

The Mob

Haunted, minimal anarcho-punk that traded rage for genuine melancholy — 'Let the Tribe Increase' still casts a long shadow.

anarcho-punkpost-punk

Second stage · Thursday · 19:55 · Opera House

The Primitives

C86 jangle-pop with a fuzz pedal and one perfect, permanently sunny single — 'Crash', still crashing.

indie popjangle pop

Second stage · Saturday · 20:20 · Club Casbah

The Wurzels

Somerset's cider-fuelled 'scrumpy and western' institution, booked entirely on purpose and greeted like heroes — 'Combine Harvester' guaranteed.

scrumpy and westernfolk

Second stage · Sunday · 19:55 · Club Casbah

Total Chaos

Liberty-spiked American street punk that took the UK82 sound and made it louder — Pomona's most committed mohawks.

street punkhardcore punk

Main stage · Sunday · 21:30 · Opera House

UK Decay

One of the bands that accidentally invented goth, still trading in cavernous, tribal post-punk — Luton's darkest export.

goth rockpost-punk

Main stage · Thursday · 18:20 · Empress Ballroom

UK Subs

Charlie Harper still fronting one of punk's most relentlessly touring institutions, an album for nearly every letter of the alphabet.

punk

Club show · Saturday · 17:30 · Opera House

Anderson from Crazyhead

Voice of Leicester's Crazyhead, the late-80s grebo outfit who welded garage-rock snarl to biker-rock riffs — that same growl, carried forward under his own name.

rock

Club show · Thursday · 17:45 · Club Casbah

Bad Cop Bad Cop

Fat Wreck melodic punk with four-part harmonies and no patience for anyone's nonsense — SoCal hooks carrying unapologetically feminist fire.

punkmelodic-punk

Club show · Thursday · 17:35 · Ris In Pavilion

Be N!Ce

London post-punk outfit formed in 2022, trading in wiry guitars and deadpan delivery.

punk

Club show · Thursday · 14:55 · Opera House

Blyth Power

Anarcho-punk about English history and cricket, sung by a drummer, and far better than that sounds — four decades of literate, galloping folk-punk devotion.

folk punkanarcho-punk

Club show · Friday · 15:15 · The Old Vic

Carol Hodge

British singer-songwriter with roots in the punk scene, writing piano-led songs that are candid about mental health and funnier than that suggests.

singer/songwriter

Club show · Thursday · 13:55 · Opera House

Carol Hodge Band

The full-band version of the British songwriter's piano-driven material, punk-schooled and unsparing in its lyrics.

singer/songwriter

Club show · Friday · 16:15 · Club Casbah

Citizen Fish

Long-running British ska-punk outfit fronted by Subhumans vocalist Dick Lucas, going since 1990 — upstroke guitars, horns and unrelenting political argument.

alternative

Club show · Sunday · 16:40 · Club Casbah

Culture Shock

The Subhumans' dub-and-ska-inflected sibling band, built for movement rather than confrontation — Dick Lucas leading the dance instead of the charge.

ska-punkanarcho-punk

Club show · Saturday · 18:10 · Club Casbah

Deadline

British punk band going since 2000, working the direct and unfussy end of the tradition.

punk

Club show · Friday · 21:40 · Conference Circle

Eater

Punk's original teenagers — the band members were barely fifteen when the first wave broke, and the songs still sound like a school-night escape.

punk

Club show · Thursday · 12:00 · Opera House

Hagar the Womb

Cheerfully shambolic anarcho-punk with several vocalists and no interest in being grim about it — the scene's most smiling veterans.

anarcho-punk

Club show · Saturday · 14:30 · Opera House

Heathen Apostles

Los Angeles outfit mining a gothic Americana seam — Mather Louth's vocals over upright bass and strings, murder-ballad tradition played with a theatrical streak.

rock

Club show · Friday · 15:25 · Almost Acoustic

Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls

blues

Club show · Saturday · 15:30 · Opera House

Johnny Moped

Shambolic first-wave punk once featuring Captain Sensible and Chrissie Hynde, still gloriously unpolished — Croydon legend status fully secured.

punkpub rock

Club show · Saturday · 16:10 · Club Casbah

Knock Off

London punk band going since 2013, dealing in short, shouted, unfussy songs with the terraces-and-pub-back-room bluntness of British street punk.

punk

Club show · Friday · 13:00 · Opera House

Marc Valentine

Glam-tinged power pop from the Last Great Dreamers singer, built on guitar hooks and choruses pitched for singing along.

rock

Club show · Thursday · 12:55 · Opera House

Menace

'GLC' and a lifetime of London punk delivered without a shred of nostalgia — first-wave veterans still swinging.

punkoi!

Club show · Friday · 17:20 · Club Casbah

Meryl Streek

Dublin one-man punk project built on sampled speech, spoken-word delivery and unfiltered fury at the Irish church and state — closer to protest document than song.

punk

Club show · Saturday · 15:10 · Club Casbah

Paranoid Visions

Ireland's long-running anarcho-punk agitators, still recording with their heroes — Dublin's conscience at full volume, four decades of righteous racket.

anarcho-punk

Club show · Thursday · 21:00 · After Dark In Pavilion

Pizzatramp

Welsh trio trading in very fast, very short hardcore with a broad comic streak — prolific DIY output and songs that rarely outstay a minute.

metal

Club show · Thursday · 15:45 · Club Casbah

Popes of Chillitown

UK ska-punk with heavy dub and reggae inflections and rapid-fire vocal delivery — grassroots lifers of the DIY circuit.

rock

Club show · Saturday · 15:50 · Almost Acoustic

Ricky Warwick

Frontman of The Almighty and later Black Star Riders, splitting his time between hard rock bite and stripped-back acoustic storytelling with a Celtic accent.

hard rock

Club show · Saturday · 18:35 · Opera House

Ruts D.C.

The Ruts' surviving members carrying forward punk that always had reggae in its bloodstream — 'Babylon's Burning' still smolders.

punkdub

Club show · Thursday · 20:30 · Conference Circle

The Carpettes

Tyne and Wear punk outfit going since 1977, back on the road decades later with the same terse, melodic three-chord urgency.

alternative

Club show · Sunday · 16:55 · Opera House

The Darling Buds

Newport indie-pop group from the late-eighties C86 aftermath, pairing bright guitar jangle with Andrea Lewis's unmistakable vocal.

alternative

Club show · Thursday · 18:50 · Club Casbah

The Drowns

American street-punk quartet with gang vocals and Thin Lizzy guitar leads — barroom rock'n'roll with a boot-stomp underneath.

rock

Club show · Friday · 18:20 · Club Casbah

The Kids

Belgian originals who started in 1976 and never much updated the formula — short, blunt, power-pop-tinged punk from the first wave.

punk

Club show · Saturday · 16:30 · Opera House

The Outcasts

Belfast punk from the Good Vibrations scene, rougher and funnier than their neighbours — Troubles-era grit with a smirk.

punk

Club show · Saturday · 23:35 · After Dark In Pavilion

The Restarts

London street-punk lifers going since the mid-90s — DIY squat-scene politics, breakneck tempos and a refusal to clean anything up.

rock

Club show · Saturday · 20:30 · Conference Circle

Theatre of Hate

Tribal drums and howling vocals — post-punk at its most operatic and least apologetic, 'Westworld' still towering.

post-punkgoth rock

Club show · Thursday · 18:50 · Opera House

Zion Train

UK dub soundsystem veterans providing the bass-heavy comedown to a weekend of guitars — echo chambers set to heal.

dubreggae

The headliners

  • The Stranglers Punk's most musically awkward first-wavers — swirling organ and sneering menace where their peers just went fast, 'Golden Brown' the elegant outlier.
  • Sham 69 Terrace-chant punk built for a thousand people shouting the chorus back — the template for oi!, 'If the Kids Are United' still uniting.
  • Cock Sparrer Fifty years of working-class anthems, and still the band that closes a punk festival better than anyone — 'Because You're Young' guarantees wet eyes in the pit.
  • Stiff Little Fingers Belfast punk written under the Troubles — Jake Burns's sandpaper roar over songs about getting out, 'Alternative Ulster' still the loudest exit plan.
  • Sick on the Bus Fast, funny, thoroughly unserious London punk with a long back catalogue of bad decisions — proudly unreformed.
  • Bite Me Bambi Horn-driven California ska with a frontwoman who commands a room from the first bar — Orange County third-wave revival with showtune-sized energy.
  • Rubella Ballet UV-painted anarcho-punk that insisted the movement didn't have to dress entirely in black — day-glo defiance since the Crass days.
  • One Way System Blackpool's own UK82 veterans, closing a room in their home town — spiked-hair anthems played where they started.

Up-and-comers to catch early

  • Rumkicks Seoul street punk with true UK82 fidelity, proof the spikes translate.
  • Haywire New-school West Coast hardcore crashing a heritage bill.
  • The Baby Seals Riot grrrl with punchlines: the funniest set with the sharpest point.
  • Riskee and the Ridicule Grime cadences over punk chords: what a modern UK punk band actually sounds like.
  • Millie Manders & The Shut Up The scene's next-generation standard-bearer.

Other acts worth planning around

  • Die Toten Hosen Germany's stadium-fillers in a Blackpool ballroom: the weekend's hottest ticket.
  • Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set The anarcho canon sung by its own voice. History, not nostalgia.
  • Buzzcocks The inventors of lovesick pop-punk, opening the Opera House.
  • Cro-Mags 'Age of Quarrel' New York hardcore, the hardest import on the bill.
  • The Chameleons The post-punk band half your favorite indie bands stole from.
  • The Wurzels Cider-powered comic relief, a Rebellion tradition unto themselves.
  • The Courettes Two people, one wall of sound: '60s girl-group pop at garage-punk pressure.

The lineup by day

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Thursday lineup (August 6)

The Stranglers, Sick on the Bus, Slaughter & The Dogs, Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set, UK Subs, Millie Manders & The Shut Up + 69 more

Thursday set times (75 sets)
  • 11:45 Thrown Away · Ris In Pavilion
  • 12:00 Hagar the Womb · Opera House
  • 12:15 The Liarbilitys · Club Casbah
  • 12:30 18 Fevers · Empress Ballroom
  • 12:35 Smoking Fingers · Ris In Pavilion
  • 12:45 Litterbug · Arena
  • 12:55 Menace · Opera House
  • 13:00 David Delinquent · Almost Acoustic
  • 13:05 Dog Rotten · Club Casbah
  • 13:20 Face Up · Empress Ballroom
  • 13:25 Aftrshocks · Ris In Pavilion
  • 13:35 Noose · Arena
  • 13:35 Nell Davies · The Old Vic
  • 13:40 In Evil Hour · Almost Acoustic
  • 13:55 Subalternos · Club Casbah
  • 13:55 Carol Hodge Band · Opera House
  • 14:15 The Dollheads · Empress Ballroom
  • 14:15 Ramona's Tea Party · The Old Vic
  • 14:15 Minimal Faff · Ris In Pavilion
  • 14:20 Kent Nielsen · Almost Acoustic
  • 14:25 Dead Dates · Arena
  • 14:50 Slackrr · Club Casbah
  • 14:55 Blyth Power · Opera House
  • 15:00 Henshaw · Almost Acoustic
  • 15:05 The Glitterbombs · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:10 The Good, The Bad and The Zugly · Empress Ballroom
  • 15:15 Splodgenessabounds · Arena
  • 15:40 Jess Silk · Almost Acoustic
  • 15:45 Popes of Chillitown · Club Casbah
  • 15:55 Molly Vulpyne Band · Opera House
  • 15:55 The Dollies · Ris In Pavilion
  • 16:10 The Courettes · Empress Ballroom
  • 16:20 Ambition Demolition · Arena
  • 16:45 Control · Club Casbah
  • 16:45 Black Water County · Opera House
  • 16:45 Hairdye · Ris In Pavilion
  • 17:10 Bar Stool Preachers · Empress Ballroom
  • 17:10 Foreign Legion · Arena
  • 17:10 Babar Luck · Almost Acoustic
  • 17:35 Be N!Ce · Ris In Pavilion
  • 17:45 Bad Cop Bad Cop · Club Casbah
  • 17:50 Light of Eternity · Opera House
  • 18:05 Headstone Horrors · Arena
  • 18:20 UK Subs · Empress Ballroom
  • 18:25 Grail Guard · Ris In Pavilion
  • 18:50 The Drowns · Club Casbah
  • 18:50 Zion Train · Opera House
  • 19:00 Janus Stark · Arena
  • 19:15 Red Moon Heroes · Ris In Pavilion
  • 19:45 Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set · Empress Ballroom
  • 19:55 The Adolescents · Club Casbah
  • 19:55 The Primitives · Opera House
  • 20:00 Kombi Killers · Arena
  • 20:05 Ex- · Ris In Pavilion
  • 20:10 Muddy Summers & the Dfws · Almost Acoustic
  • 20:30 The Carpettes · Conference Circle
  • 20:50 Bite Back · Arena
  • 20:55 Beans on Toast · Almost Acoustic
  • 21:00 Pizzatramp · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 21:05 Au Pairs · Opera House
  • 21:10 Scream · Club Casbah
  • 21:15 Slaughter & The Dogs · Empress Ballroom
  • 21:30 TV Smith · Conference Circle
  • 21:50 The Bolokos · Arena
  • 21:55 Deadbeat at Dawn · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 22:15 Bow Wow Wow · Opera House
  • 22:25 Maid of Ace · Club Casbah
  • 22:40 The Mob · Conference Circle
  • 22:45 The Stranglers · Empress Ballroom
  • 22:50 Riot City Radio · Arena
  • 22:50 Vomit · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 23:25 Buzzcocks · Opera House
  • 23:45 Millie Manders & The Shut Up · Club Casbah
  • 23:45 Drongos for Europe · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 23:50 Sick on the Bus · Arena

Friday lineup (August 7)

Sham 69, Bite Me Bambi, Anti Nowhere League, Ferocious Dog, Goldblade, The Business + 65 more

Friday set times (71 sets)
  • 12:30 R.P.C. · Ris In Pavilion
  • 12:45 The Whops · Empress Ballroom
  • 12:45 Spleen · Arena
  • 12:55 Battery Acid · Club Casbah
  • 13:00 Marc Valentine · Opera House
  • 13:15 Cryssis · Almost Acoustic
  • 13:20 Thronk! · Ris In Pavilion
  • 13:35 Rumkicks · Empress Ballroom
  • 13:35 Covid 21 · Arena
  • 13:45 Fantazmaz · Club Casbah
  • 13:55 50 Foot Woman · Opera House
  • 13:55 Emily Flea Plays the Damned · Almost Acoustic
  • 13:55 Bitzy · The Old Vic
  • 14:10 Malad · Ris In Pavilion
  • 14:25 Club Brat · Arena
  • 14:30 Split Dogs · Empress Ballroom
  • 14:35 Broken 3 Ways · Club Casbah
  • 14:35 Mauri Clash · The Old Vic
  • 14:50 Lost Cherrees · Opera House
  • 15:00 Wrishlas · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:15 Anti Virus · Arena
  • 15:15 Carol Hodge · The Old Vic
  • 15:25 The Hotknives · Empress Ballroom
  • 15:25 Unrivalled · Club Casbah
  • 15:25 Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls · Almost Acoustic
  • 15:50 Gypsy Pistoleros · Opera House
  • 15:50 Catfight · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:55 Christmas Kwon from 18 Fevers · The Old Vic
  • 16:05 Rivalry · Arena
  • 16:10 Menace with Leigh Heggarty Play G.L.C. Rip · Almost Acoustic
  • 16:15 Citizen Fish · Club Casbah
  • 16:25 Riskee and the Ridicule · Empress Ballroom
  • 16:40 Critical Candy · Ris In Pavilion
  • 16:50 Radical Architects · Opera House
  • 17:00 Bullitz 23 · Arena
  • 17:20 Meryl Streek · Club Casbah
  • 17:30 TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers · Empress Ballroom
  • 17:30 Versaints · Ris In Pavilion
  • 17:50 John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett · Opera House
  • 17:55 Spectrum 4 · Arena
  • 18:20 The Kids · Club Casbah
  • 18:20 Defused · Ris In Pavilion
  • 18:50 Goldblade · Empress Ballroom
  • 18:50 The Baby Seals · Arena
  • 18:55 Roman Jugg Band · Opera House
  • 19:10 A Murder of Crows · Ris In Pavilion
  • 19:30 Random Hand · Club Casbah
  • 19:50 Gatecrash · Arena
  • 20:00 Ferocious Dog · Empress Ballroom
  • 20:00 Mick Rossi's Gun St · Opera House
  • 20:00 The Coathanger Solution · Ris In Pavilion
  • 20:35 Skeptix · Club Casbah
  • 20:40 Guitar Gangsters · Conference Circle
  • 20:50 The Samples · Arena
  • 20:50 Tomorrow Burns · Ris In Pavilion
  • 21:30 Anti Nowhere League · Empress Ballroom
  • 21:40 Eater · Conference Circle
  • 21:40 The Puncturists · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 21:45 Booze & Glory · Club Casbah
  • 21:50 Special Duties · Arena
  • 22:10 Lene Lovich · Opera House
  • 22:30 Borrowed Time · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 22:55 The Boys · Club Casbah
  • 23:00 Sham 69 · Empress Ballroom
  • 23:00 Cult Maniax · Arena
  • 23:00 Spear of Destiny · Conference Circle
  • 23:25 Deaf Devils · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 23:30 Rezillos · Opera House
  • 00:10 Bite Me Bambi · Arena
  • 00:10 The Business · Club Casbah
  • 00:20 Screaming Dead · After Dark In Pavilion

Saturday lineup (August 8)

Cock Sparrer, Rubella Ballet, Cockney Rejects, Die Toten Hosen, GBH, Glam 45 + 72 more

Saturday set times (78 sets)
  • 12:30 Talllon · Ris In Pavilion
  • 12:35 Phat Problem · Club Casbah
  • 12:40 Pubic Enemy · Empress Ballroom
  • 12:40 Voodoo Radio · Opera House
  • 12:45 Under the Influence · Arena
  • 13:10 Jonny Robson · Almost Acoustic
  • 13:20 Bambees · Ris In Pavilion
  • 13:25 Spunk · Club Casbah
  • 13:30 I, Doris · Opera House
  • 13:35 Los Fastidios · Empress Ballroom
  • 13:35 Diaz Brothers · Arena
  • 13:50 Jessi Eastfield · Almost Acoustic
  • 13:55 Emily Flea · The Old Vic
  • 14:10 Skint Knees · Ris In Pavilion
  • 14:15 Hung Like Hanratty · Club Casbah
  • 14:25 4Ft Fingers · Arena
  • 14:30 Heathen Apostles · Opera House
  • 14:30 Cherry and Peesh · Almost Acoustic
  • 14:35 999 · Empress Ballroom
  • 14:35 Maisie Jo & the Rogans · The Old Vic
  • 15:00 Clitspit · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:10 Paranoid Visions · Club Casbah
  • 15:10 Music in Our Underpants · Almost Acoustic
  • 15:15 Shell the Alternative Folkie · The Old Vic
  • 15:20 Dead Pollys · Arena
  • 15:30 Johnny Moped · Opera House
  • 15:40 Gimp Fist · Empress Ballroom
  • 15:50 Wrex · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:50 Ricky Warwick · Almost Acoustic
  • 16:10 Knock Off · Club Casbah
  • 16:15 Fire Exit · Arena
  • 16:30 The Outcasts · Opera House
  • 16:30 Rev Peters · Almost Acoustic
  • 16:40 Bloody Benders · Ris In Pavilion
  • 16:45 Subhumans · Empress Ballroom
  • 17:05 Charlie Harper · Almost Acoustic
  • 17:10 Tear Up · Club Casbah
  • 17:15 The Gakk · Arena
  • 17:30 Anderson from Crazyhead · Opera House
  • 17:30 The Nanaz · Ris In Pavilion
  • 17:50 Nick Cash · Almost Acoustic
  • 17:55 Chron Gen · Empress Ballroom
  • 18:10 Deadline · Club Casbah
  • 18:15 Grippers · Arena
  • 18:20 The Jungles · Ris In Pavilion
  • 18:30 Dinner Ladies Disco · The Old Vic
  • 18:30 Helen Mccookerybook · Almost Acoustic
  • 18:35 Ruts D.C. · Opera House
  • 19:10 GBH · Empress Ballroom
  • 19:10 Spunk Volcano & the Eruptions · Club Casbah
  • 19:10 Nothing Thrives · Ris In Pavilion
  • 19:10 Mick Rossi · Almost Acoustic
  • 19:15 Liberty & Justice · Arena
  • 19:40 Salford Jets · Opera House
  • 20:00 Henry Cluney · Almost Acoustic
  • 20:00 River Ratts · Ris In Pavilion
  • 20:20 The Wurzels · Club Casbah
  • 20:25 Die Toten Hosen · Empress Ballroom
  • 20:25 Last Tree Squad · Arena
  • 20:30 Theatre of Hate · Conference Circle
  • 20:45 Spizz Energi · Opera House
  • 20:50 Cock-Batteth · Ris In Pavilion
  • 21:30 The Attack · Arena
  • 21:35 Ricky Warwick & the Fighting Hearts · Conference Circle
  • 21:40 Pussyliquor · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 21:50 The Chameleons · Club Casbah
  • 21:55 Cockney Rejects · Empress Ballroom
  • 22:00 Dave Formula & Noko · Opera House
  • 22:30 Notsensibles · Arena
  • 22:35 Resistance 77 · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 23:15 Penetration · Opera House
  • 23:15 EXTC · Conference Circle
  • 23:20 Skids · Club Casbah
  • 23:25 Cock Sparrer · Empress Ballroom
  • 23:35 Rubella Ballet · Arena
  • 23:35 The Restarts · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 00:35 Disorder · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 00:40 Glam 45 · Club Casbah

Sunday lineup (August 9)

Stiff Little Fingers, One Way System, The Dickies, The Godfathers, Discharge, Dirtbox Disco + 56 more

Sunday set times (62 sets)
  • 12:30 Violet Violet · Ris In Pavilion
  • 12:45 Mikabomb · Empress Ballroom
  • 13:00 All Coasted · Arena
  • 13:00 Segregates · Club Casbah
  • 13:00 Dash! · Opera House
  • 13:20 Hex Poseur · Ris In Pavilion
  • 13:35 Rat Hole · Empress Ballroom
  • 13:50 John E Vistic Rock N Roll Soundsystem · Arena
  • 13:50 On the Huh · Club Casbah
  • 13:50 The London Sewage Company · Opera House
  • 14:10 Gaydar · Ris In Pavilion
  • 14:20 Spizzology · The Old Vic
  • 14:30 Channel 3 · Empress Ballroom
  • 14:30 Millie Manders · Almost Acoustic
  • 14:40 Choking Susan · Arena
  • 14:45 Las Fokin Biches · Club Casbah
  • 14:45 Eastfield · Opera House
  • 15:00 Thwack! · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:00 Sally Pepper · The Old Vic
  • 15:30 Chelsea · Empress Ballroom
  • 15:30 Convict Class · Arena
  • 15:40 Mess · Club Casbah
  • 15:40 Molly Vulpyne · The Old Vic
  • 15:50 Mona Freaka · Ris In Pavilion
  • 15:55 Oorya · Opera House
  • 16:00 Jc Carroll · Almost Acoustic
  • 16:20 Threats · Arena
  • 16:20 Nye Foxx · The Old Vic
  • 16:30 Haywire · Empress Ballroom
  • 16:40 Culture Shock · Club Casbah
  • 16:40 Witch Spit · Ris In Pavilion
  • 16:55 The Darling Buds · Opera House
  • 17:15 Mc16 · Arena
  • 17:30 Wokerati Party · Ris In Pavilion
  • 17:30 Arturo Lurkers/999 Punktry Set · Almost Acoustic
  • 17:35 Cro-Mags · Empress Ballroom
  • 17:50 The Insane · Club Casbah
  • 18:00 Attila & Otway Present 'Cheryl - a Rock Opera · Opera House
  • 18:10 Black September · Arena
  • 18:20 Breakup Haircut · Ris In Pavilion
  • 18:45 Discharge · Empress Ballroom
  • 18:50 Shanghai Treason · Club Casbah
  • 19:00 Faebhean Kwest ( Feat Rachel Darq) · Almost Acoustic
  • 19:10 Pete Bentham & the Dinner Ladies · Arena
  • 19:10 The Members Play at the Chelsea Night Club · Opera House
  • 19:10 Yakkie · Ris In Pavilion
  • 19:45 The Antipoet · Almost Acoustic
  • 19:55 Total Chaos · Club Casbah
  • 20:00 The Godfathers · Empress Ballroom
  • 20:00 Whoremones · Ris In Pavilion
  • 20:15 Iconoclasts · Arena
  • 20:20 Gina Birch & the Unreasonables · Opera House
  • 20:50 Hawxx · Ris In Pavilion
  • 21:00 M.D.C. · Club Casbah
  • 21:15 The Dickies · Empress Ballroom
  • 21:20 Sensa Yuma · Arena
  • 21:30 UK Decay · Opera House
  • 21:40 Lady Lazarus · Ris In Pavilion
  • 22:20 Dirtbox Disco · Club Casbah
  • 22:30 One Way System · Arena
  • 22:35 Dummy Toys · After Dark In Pavilion
  • 22:45 Stiff Little Fingers · Empress Ballroom

Rebellion 2026 lineup FAQ

When is Rebellion 2026?

August 6–9, 2026: Thursday through Sunday.

Where does Rebellion take place?

The Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England: nine indoor stages, all under one roof, a short walk from the seafront.

Who is headlining Rebellion 2026?

The Empress Ballroom closers are The Stranglers (Thursday), Sham 69 (Friday), Cock Sparrer (Saturday) and Stiff Little Fingers (Sunday), with Die Toten Hosen, Cockney Rejects, Discharge and Buzzcocks among the top billing.

Are set times published?

Yes, days, stages and set times are live. Every act card shows its slot, and saving acts builds you a day-by-day schedule.

How many acts are playing Rebellion 2026?

286 acts across the four days and nine stages.

How do I work out which acts I'd like?

Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love. It'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.

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