Primavera Sound 2026

[Paul E]

Where do Primavera Sound report stuff like that Dijon change for Porto? I see the poster has changed but would expect some sort of comms on it?

[katyaz]

43 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

Mike D live, or a DJ set?

looks like live show

https://www.nme.com/news/music/beastie-boys-mike-d-announces-first-ever-uk-european-solo-shows-buy-tickets-3945080

Edited May 12 by katyaz

[Martin_89]

17 minutes ago, Paul E said:

Where do Primavera Sound report stuff like that Dijon change for Porto? I see the poster has changed but would expect some sort of comms on it?

They posted on the social channels for the Porto festival, so the best way is just to follow one of those.

[water.people]

Mike D is a legend, but I'd be gutted if Dijon cancels - he's absolutely class

[xxialac]

20 minutes ago, water.people said:

Mike D is a legend, but I'd be gutted if Dijon cancels - he's absolutely class

He won't cancel. He just wanted to get a payday elsewhere that clashed with Porto. 

[Gnarler]

Really hope you're right my friend. Dijon is my number 1 priority after I had tickets to see his Europe tour in January but had to work. Seems we may be safe so I'll try not to panic before they announce anything.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

Zach Bryan has a Copenhagen date on Saturday June 6th, hope that Dijon doesn't get offered a greater pay day there!

[Alella]

12 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

Zach Bryan has a Copenhagen date on Saturday June 6th, hope that Dijon doesn't get offered a greater pay day there!

 

I see that Ben Howard and Keenan O´Meara are opening for Zach Bryan in Copenhagen. 

[Johndenis]

On 11/05/2026 at 19:53, pipan said:

Oh no are they trying this again 🙂 - how does this work, do they just license the brand and also presumably "leverage" the relationships with the artists?  They're putting a lot of eggs in Strokes and Twigs shaped baskets - hope there's no weird cancellations!

[pipan]

1 hour ago, Johndenis said:

Oh no are they trying this again 🙂 - how does this work, do they just license the brand and also presumably "leverage" the relationships with the artists?  They're putting a lot of eggs in Strokes and Twigs shaped baskets - hope there's no weird cancellations!

 

Neither Yung Lean is the most reliable booking.

[BA_Barrabus]

I'm not seeing much craic from the PS social crew with their usual 'soon' banter re horarios. Have been trying to tempt something out of them with Succession gifs but naffin. Maybe I need a new show

[xxialac]

Lack of 'soon' means this week is definitely out then!

[BA_Barrabus]

10 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Lack of 'soon' means this week is definitely out then!

100%

[Etaish]

Sonar just released their horarios.

 

Will the good people at PS pls finish dotting the i's?

[Johndenis]

2 hours ago, pipan said:

 

Neither Yung Lean is the most reliable booking.

Did these foreign Primaveras work last time or were they all cancelled?  Was there a Madrid one that was a disaster?  I can't remember now.

[spacedementia]

44 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Lack of 'soon' means this week is definitely out then!

There was a 'soon' in the post about the opening day 😄

 

 

[pipan]

25 minutes ago, spacedementia said:

There was a 'soon' in the post about the opening day 😄

 

 

 So, the first phase is on! 

 

Just as a reminder:

 

Second phase: "very soon"

Third phase: *succession gif*

[FKA SOSOTWS]

1 hour ago, Johndenis said:

Did these foreign Primaveras work last time or were they all cancelled?  Was there a Madrid one that was a disaster?  I can't remember now.

 

Yes, https://www.google.com/amp/s/elpais.com/cultura/2024-09-02/primavera-sound-cancela-sus-festivales-de-2024-en-latinoamerica-por-dificultades-externas.html%3foutputType=amp

 

And Madrid was indeed a disaster. Not to mention that it wasn't even held in the actual city.

[xxialac]

2 hours ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

Yes, https://www.google.com/amp/s/elpais.com/cultura/2024-09-02/primavera-sound-cancela-sus-festivales-de-2024-en-latinoamerica-por-dificultades-externas.html%3foutputType=amp

 

And Madrid was indeed a disaster. Not to mention that it wasn't even held in the actual city.

Madrid was hilariously chaotic.

 

The first day was the omen of how it was all going to play out - torrential rain flooded the site and it was cancelled.

Then on day two they messed up on the coach system; it took ages to get there with the coaches getting stuck in motorway traffic and then even worse endless queues to get on buses with some people taking 2 hours or more to return.

Day three they improved the coaches but it was still such a long way to get there and back. 

It still gave some brilliant memories as the secondary stages had quite big names and yet you could stroll up to the front and was an extremely good lineup and a decent site (once you got there). 

[justsaying]

Here's what I wrote about Madrid back in the day. 🙂
 

Primavera Sound 2023 in Madrid was enjoyable once you finally made it to the site — and until it was time to leave again. Transportation to and from the city in particular descended into chaos, resulting in waiting times of several hours.

 

We had already pointed it out in our preview: the location of Primavera Sound 2023 “Madrid” was almost 40 kilometers outside the city, in a place with no accommodation, no public transport, and few official parking spaces. There was no campsite either, so the tens of thousands of visitors who didn’t arrive by car or taxi — and on Friday, people without a reserved parking spot were explicitly urged not to come by car — all had to rely on shuttle buses every day, at minimum 7.5 km away from the final tram stop in Arganda del Rey.

 

Because we left in the afternoon, the journey there went relatively smoothly. That is to say: after changing trams three times from the city center, for a trip of about an hour and a half, we were able to board the bus after roughly fifteen minutes. People who only arrived in the evening, we heard this morning, often already had to wait a very long time just to get onto the festival grounds.

 

On the way back on Friday we got lucky again, because we left at 2:45 a.m., before headliner Skrillex had finished. Thanks to the shuttle bus and then two consecutive night buses through the city center, we were back at the hostel by 4:15. Yes, we’re calling that luck — you read that correctly.

 

On Saturday we stayed until 5:30 a.m., since it was the final day after all, and when we exited we discovered thousands upon thousands of people waiting, standing in remarkably orderly lines despite there being no visible coordination whatsoever. It was obvious this was going to take hours.

 

Google Maps wasn’t much help at first, since it tried to send us onto a major highway where the security staff refused to let us walk — and we might well have perished in that muddy shoulder. So we chose the other direction instead: a deserted gravel road running along the fence surrounding the Ciudad del Rock. Eventually the app approved of that too — a “Camino de Primavera” of about an hour and a half straight through the scrubland to Arganda del Rey, where the first tram was already running.

 

All things considered, it was actually a rather pleasant walk at sunrise, though undoubtedly much more pleasant if you don’t already have twelve hours of festival in your legs. It also turned out not to be entirely without risk: on the edge of Arganda del Rey we were harassed by a group of drunk local teenagers gathered around a car blasting music at full volume. It quickly escalated from “come over here, loco” to “piece of sh*t,” possibly because of their appreciation for Primavera Sound’s diverse audience — who knows. This really could have ended badly.

 

It goes without saying that when an otherwise very enjoyable festival ends this way, it ruins the experience for visitors despite all the other efforts. The people who did wait for the buses weren’t much happier either, we can assure you. And this wasn’t the only logistical issue: there was poor internet reception exactly where everyone needed to show their digital tickets in the app, huge queues formed around 11 p.m. at the food stalls, and after midnight at least one toilet block had completely run out of toilet paper.

 

All this despite the fact that the festival had already been shortened by one day. On Wednesday evening we were informed that Wednesday and Thursday would not go ahead because of forecast thunderstorms. Flooding was feared, and we heard that parts of the site were already underwater due to the long drought followed by heavy rainfall that had hit the region this year. We could understand that decision — no respectable festival organizer takes such a choice lightly — although the fact that apparently very few day tickets had been sold for Thursday probably lowered the threshold somewhat.

 

In itself, the Ciudad del Rock is actually quite a nice festival location, with many stages surrounding a sort of oval-shaped field. As a result, there was less walking than in Barcelona, though the concerts interfered with one another more often. The audience had a wider age range of people who appeared somewhat less hip and diverse than the crowd in Barcelona — and who were somewhat louder and less attentive during performances.

 

Because yes, there was music too, with an identical lineup to Barcelona’s, and it was once again excellent, with many artists who had fully entered the Primavera mood over the course of the week and had nothing but praise for the atmosphere. We saw a beautiful set by James Ellis Ford, member of Simian Mobile Disco and The Last Shadow Puppets and producer of the new albums by Depeche Mode and Blur. We heard how The Mars Volta are sounding increasingly Latin-influenced. For the second time this week, the astonishingly eclectic set by Jockstrap gave us goosebumps. We once again fell head over heels for Rosalía. And we danced holes into the fake grass to the deep house of The Soft Pink Truth and an exuberant DJ set by Jayda G.

 

All truly wonderful, dear Primavera people, but next time could you please make sure that after it’s over we don’t spend hours feeling like we’ve ended up in Hotel California (“you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave”)? We genuinely could have predicted that the shuttle bus situation would end this way — in fact, we did predict it. If this is the best Madrid and its surroundings can offer in terms of infrastructure, then next year please just do two weekends in Barcelona again.

Edited May 13 by justsaying

[joselito]

14 hours ago, Johndenis said:

Oh no are they trying this again 🙂 - how does this work, do they just license the brand and also presumably "leverage" the relationships with the artists?  They're putting a lot of eggs in Strokes and Twigs shaped baskets - hope there's no weird cancellations!

 

I can speak from São Paulo. The two previous editions were a huge success with both the public and critics here.
In 2022, produced by Live Nation, 55,000 people attended. In 2023, by the local T4F, 50,000. What happened in 2024 was a decrease in projects from T4F, in addition to the difficulty of not doing the Chilean edition to dilute costs and some problems with headliners.
Now, the festival returns with a third production company, which is very large here, along with the Argentinian one.

The lineup is designed with a local perspective, both because of local artists, but there is a lot of control and input coming from Barcelona. It's not simply putting any band there (and it's possible to see this clearly, all the listed artists have the festival's signature).
Of course, there isn't a large number of artists because the logistics and costs here are much higher than in Europe.

[jbjb]

9 hours ago, joselito said:

 

I can speak from São Paulo. The two previous editions were a huge success with both the public and critics here.
In 2022, produced by Live Nation, 55,000 people attended. In 2023, by the local T4F, 50,000. What happened in 2024 was a decrease in projects from T4F, in addition to the difficulty of not doing the Chilean edition to dilute costs and some problems with headliners.
Now, the festival returns with a third production company, which is very large here, along with the Argentinian one.

The lineup is designed with a local perspective, both because of local artists, but there is a lot of control and input coming from Barcelona. It's not simply putting any band there (and it's possible to see this clearly, all the listed artists have the festival's signature).
Of course, there isn't a large number of artists because the logistics and costs here are much higher than in Europe.

I’ll be in Brazil just before this festival, so considering to extend my trip and go. Does the festInval run all night as it does in Barcelona? Do you have any recommendations as to where to stay in the city? It looks like there are not a whole lot of hotels around the circuit?

[justsaying]

In light of Madrid, I would recommend that anyone considering to go to Buenos Aires or Sao Paulo investigates and assesses the transport situation in advance, and considers what to do if they get stuck in the middle of the night.

 

Walking for an hour and a half may be kind of fine in Barcelona or Madrid, but you probably don't want to do that in or around Buenos Aires or Sao Paulo. 

Edited May 14 by justsaying

[xxialac]

3 hours ago, jbjb said:

I’ll be in Brazil just before this festival, so considering to extend my trip and go. Does the festInval run all night as it does in Barcelona? Do you have any recommendations as to where to stay in the city? It looks like there are not a whole lot of hotels around the circuit?

Finishes at a pathetic 11pm.

[justsaying]

5 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Finishes at a pathetic 11pm.

That might actually relate to my considerations above. 🙂