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Rebellion 2026 Lineup

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

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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

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Headliner · Friday · 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.

From Orange County, CA · Sounds like The Interrupters, Save Ferris, Bar Stool Preachers

ska-punkthird wave ska

Headliner · Saturday · 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.

From East London, UK · Sounds like Sham 69, Cockney Rejects, The Business, Rancid

oi!punk

Headliner · Sunday · Arena

One Way System

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

From Blackpool, UK · Sounds like GBH, The Exploited, Chron Gen

punkuk82

Headliner · Saturday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like The Mob, Hagar the Womb, Poison Girls

anarcho-punkpost-punk

Headliner · Friday · 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.

From Hersham, UK · Sounds like Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, The Business

punkoi!

Headliner · Thursday · Arena

Sick on the Bus

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

From London, UK · Sounds like Peter and the Test Tube Babies, GBH, Dirtbox Disco

punkhardcore punk

Headliner · Sunday · 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.

From Belfast, Northern Ireland · Sounds like The Undertones, The Clash, Buzzcocks

punkpost-punk

Headliner · Thursday · 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.

From Guildford, UK · Sounds like Buzzcocks, The Damned, Magazine, Blondie

punknew wave

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Guernsey, UK · Sounds like Bar Stool Preachers, The Hotknives, Sensa Yuma

ska-punkpunk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like The Vibrators, Chelsea, The Boys

punkpower-pop

Main stage · Friday · 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.

From Tunbridge Wells, UK · Sounds like GBH, The Exploited, Discharge

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Thursday · 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.

From Birmingham, UK · Sounds like Gang of Four, The Raincoats, Delta 5

post-punkart-punk

Second stage · Thursday · 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.

From Brighton, UK · Sounds like The Interrupters, Rancid, Millie Manders & The Shut Up

ska-punkpunk

Second stage · Thursday · 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.

From Braintree, UK · Sounds like Frank Turner, Jeffery Lewis, Attila the Stockbroker

folkanti-folk

Second stage · Thursday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like Adam Ant, The Slits, Blondie

new wavepost-punk

Main stage · Thursday · 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.

From Manchester, UK · Sounds like The Undertones, 999, The Boys, Stiff Little Fingers

punkpower-pop

Second stage · Sunday · Empress Ballroom

Channel 3

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

From Cerritos, CA · Sounds like Adolescents, TSOL, Agent Orange

hardcore punkpunk

Second stage · Sunday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like 999, Generation X, The Boys

punk

Second stage · Sunday · Arena

Choking Susan

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

From Lansing, MI · Sounds like Maid of Ace, The Distillers, Total Chaos

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Hitchin, UK · Sounds like UK Subs, GBH, Chelsea

punkuk82

Main stage · Saturday · 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.

From East London, UK · Sounds like Cock Sparrer, Sham 69, The Business

oi!punk

Second stage · Sunday · 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.

From New York, NY · Sounds like Agnostic Front, Madball, Sick of It All

hardcorecrossover thrash

Main stage · Friday · Arena

Cult Maniax

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

From Lyme Regis, UK · Sounds like The Mob, Rubella Ballet, Chron Gen

punkanarcho-punk

Main stage · Saturday · 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.

From Düsseldorf, Germany · Sounds like The Ramones, Bad Religion, Sham 69

punkpunk rock

Main stage · Sunday · 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.

From Burton upon Trent, UK · Sounds like The Dickies, Splodgenessabounds, Goldblade

punkpop-punk

Main stage · Sunday · 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.

From Stoke-on-Trent, UK · Sounds like GBH, Anti Nowhere League, Doom

d-beathardcore punk

Main stage · Friday · 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.

From Warsop, UK · Sounds like The Levellers, Dropkick Murphys, Blyth Power

folk punkceltic punk

Second stage · Thursday · Arena

Foreign Legion

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

From UK · Sounds like The Business, Cock Sparrer, Special Duties

oi!punk

Main stage · Saturday · Empress Ballroom

GBH

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

From Birmingham, UK · Sounds like Discharge, The Exploited, UK Subs, Anti Nowhere League

hardcore punkuk82

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Hartlepool, UK · Sounds like The Business, Cock Sparrer, Foreign Legion

oi!punk

Main stage · Friday · 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.

From Manchester, UK · Sounds like The Stooges, Cock Sparrer, Sham 69

punkgarage punk

Second stage · Sunday · 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.

From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Sunami, Drain, Scowl, Pain of Truth

hardcore

Second stage · Thursday · 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.

From UK · Sounds like The Prodigy, Goldblade, Wildhearts

punkalt-rock

Second stage · Friday · Opera House

Lene Lovich

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

From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Nina Hagen, Kate Bush, Blondie

new waveart-pop

Second stage · Thursday · Arena

Litterbug

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

From Blackpool, UK · Sounds like One Way System, Dirtbox Disco, Sick on the Bus

punk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Verona, Italy · Sounds like Cock Sparrer, The Business, Sham 69

oi!ska-punk

Second stage · Sunday · 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.

From Austin, TX · Sounds like Dead Kennedys, Discharge, Cro-Mags

hardcore punk

Second stage · Thursday · Club Casbah

Maid of Ace

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

From Hastings, UK · Sounds like The Distillers, Maid of Ace, Petrol Girls

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Sunday · Empress Ballroom

Mikabomb

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

From Tokyo, Japan · Sounds like Shonen Knife, The Courettes, Rumkicks

punkgarage punk

Main stage · Thursday · Club Casbah

Millie Manders & The Shut Up

Genre-hopping punk with a powerhouse vocal that swings from ska skank to full scream — protest and party in one set.

From London, UK · Sounds like Bar Stool Preachers, The Interrupters, Skunk Anansie

ska-punkpunk

Main stage · Saturday · 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.

From Burnley, UK · Sounds like Splodgenessabounds, The Dickies

punkcomedy punk

Main stage · Saturday · Opera House

Penetration

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

From Ferryhill, UK · Sounds like Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits, X-Ray Spex

punkpost-punk

Main stage · Friday · 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.

From Edinburgh, Scotland · Sounds like The Dickies, Devo, The B-52's

punknew wave

Second stage · Friday · Empress Ballroom

Riskee and the Ridicule

Punk spliced with grime cadences — a genuinely modern take on shouting about Britain, both scenes' energy in one set.

From Chatham, UK · Sounds like Bar Stool Preachers, Slaves, Millie Manders & The Shut Up

punkgrime-punk

Second stage · Friday · Empress Ballroom

Rumkicks

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

From Seoul, South Korea · Sounds like Maid of Ace, The Courettes, Total Chaos

punkstreet punk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Dunfermline, Scotland · Sounds like Stiff Little Fingers, The Ruts, Big Country

punkpost-punk

Main stage · Thursday · 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.

From Manchester, UK · Sounds like The Damned, Sham 69, New York Dolls

punkglam punk

Second stage · Friday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like Theatre of Hate, The Alarm, Big Country

post-punk

Main stage · Friday · Arena

Special Duties

Essex oi! with an enduring grudge and the songs to back it — four decades of terrace snarl.

From Colchester, UK · Sounds like The Business, Cockney Rejects, Menace

oi!punk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Birmingham, UK · Sounds like Devo, The Rezillos, Wire

post-punknew wave

Second stage · Thursday · Arena

Splodgenessabounds

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

From London, UK · Sounds like The Dickies, Johnny Moped, Peter and the Test Tube Babies

punkcomedy punk

Main stage · Thursday · Empress Ballroom

Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set

The voice of Crass performing the anarcho-punk canon that turned punk into a genuine political project — history, shouted live.

From Dagenham, UK · Sounds like Subhumans, Hagar the Womb, Rubella Ballet, Discharge

anarcho-punk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Warminster, UK · Sounds like Culture Shock, Citizen Fish, Discharge

anarcho-punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Friday · Arena

The Baby Seals

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

From UK · Sounds like Maid of Ace, Bratmobile, Petrol Girls

punkriot grrrl

Second stage · Friday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like Buzzcocks, 999, The Ramones

punkpower-pop

Main stage · Friday · Club Casbah

The Business

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

From South London, UK · Sounds like Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, Sham 69

oi!punk

Second stage · Saturday · 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.

From Middleton, UK · Sounds like The Sound, Echo & the Bunnymen, Interpol

post-punkgoth rock

Second stage · Thursday · 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.

From Denmark · Sounds like The Primitives, The Ronettes, The Detroit Cobras

garage rockgirl group

Main stage · Sunday · Empress Ballroom

The Dickies

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

From San Fernando Valley, CA · Sounds like The Ramones, The Boys, Splodgenessabounds

punkpop-punk

Main stage · Sunday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like The Damned, Dr. Feelgood, The Godfathers

garage rockpost-punk

Second stage · Thursday · Empress Ballroom

The Good, The Bad and The Zugly

Norwegian punk with Turbonegro's swagger and a genuinely great line in song titles — Oslo irreverence at full speed.

From Oslo, Norway · Sounds like Turbonegro, Total Chaos, Dirtbox Disco

punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Friday · 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.

From Brighton, UK · Sounds like The Beat, Bad Manners, The Selecter

ska2 tone

Second stage · Thursday · Conference Circle

The Mob

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

From Yeovil, UK · Sounds like Zounds, Rubella Ballet, Blyth Power

anarcho-punkpost-punk

Second stage · Thursday · Opera House

The Primitives

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

From Coventry, UK · Sounds like The Shop Assistants, Blondie, The Darling Buds

indie popjangle pop

Second stage · Saturday · Club Casbah

The Wurzels

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

From Somerset, UK · Sounds like Splodgenessabounds

scrumpy and westernfolk

Second stage · Sunday · Club Casbah

Total Chaos

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

From Pomona, CA · Sounds like The Casualties, GBH, The Exploited

street punkhardcore punk

Second stage · Friday · Empress Ballroom

TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers

The Adverts' songwriter playing his first-wave catalogue with a young band behind him — 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' still unnerving.

From London, UK · Sounds like The Adverts, Stiff Little Fingers, Menace

punk

Main stage · Sunday · Opera House

UK Decay

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

From Luton, UK · Sounds like Bauhaus, The Chameleons, Theatre of Hate

goth rockpost-punk

Main stage · Thursday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like GBH, The Exploited, 999, Chron Gen

punk

Club show · Thursday · 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.

From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like The Interrupters, War On Women, Western Addiction, Nof X

punkmelodic-punk

Club show · Thursday · 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.

From Somerset, UK · Sounds like The Mob, Ferocious Dog, Zounds

folk punkanarcho-punk

Club show · Sunday · 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.

From Warminster, UK · Sounds like Subhumans, Citizen Fish, Los Fastidios

ska-punkanarcho-punk

Club show · Friday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like The Damned, Chelsea, 999

punk

Club show · Thursday · 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.

From London, UK · Sounds like Rubella Ballet, Poison Girls, The Mob

anarcho-punk

Club show · Friday · Opera House

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett

A double act built on genuine musicianship and total physical chaos — self-described as rock's great failure, and beloved precisely for it.

From Aylesbury, UK · Sounds like Splodgenessabounds, Johnny Moped

comedy rockfolk rock

Club show · Saturday · Opera House

Johnny Moped

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

From Croydon, UK · Sounds like The Damned, The Dickies, Splodgenessabounds

punkpub rock

Club show · Thursday · Opera House

Menace

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

From London, UK · Sounds like Sham 69, Cock Sparrer, The Business

punkoi!

Club show · Saturday · 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.

From Dublin, Ireland · Sounds like Subhumans, Steve Ignorant, The Mob

anarcho-punk

Club show · Saturday · Opera House

Ruts D.C.

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

From London, UK · Sounds like The Clash, Zion Train, Stiff Little Fingers

punkdub

Club show · Saturday · Opera House

The Outcasts

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

From Belfast, Northern Ireland · Sounds like Stiff Little Fingers, The Undertones, Rudi

punk

Club show · Saturday · Conference Circle

Theatre of Hate

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

From London, UK · Sounds like Spear of Destiny, The Cult, Killing Joke

post-punkgoth rock

Club show · Thursday · Opera House

Zion Train

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

From London, UK · Sounds like Dreadzone, Alpha Steppa, The Orb

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

  • Thursday, 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
  • Friday, August 7: Sham 69, Bite Me Bambi, Anti Nowhere League, Ferocious Dog, Goldblade, The Business + 65 more
  • Saturday, August 8: Cock Sparrer, Rubella Ballet, Cockney Rejects, Die Toten Hosen, GBH, Glam 45 + 72 more
  • Sunday, August 9: Stiff Little Fingers, One Way System, The Dickies, The Godfathers, Discharge, Dirtbox Disco + 56 more

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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