2026 line-up speculation

[xxialac]

First Aid Kit are back. Could they be a final Garden headliner?

[accordionandvoice]

33 minutes ago, xxialac said:

First Aid Kit are back. Could they be a final Garden headliner?

hope not

[xxialac]

1 hour ago, accordionandvoice said:

hope not

They are playing London on 29 September.

Edited March 8 by xxialac

[SweepingTheNation]

23 hours ago, xxialac said:

First Aid Kit are back. Could they be a final Garden headliner?

 

They headlined Green Man last time they were over. Also the one date is three weeks later.

[Olshansky]

what if the final garden headliner is cameron winter solo?

[xxialac]

34 minutes ago, Olshansky said:

what if the final garden headliner is cameron winter solo?

Possible but far more likely he just does a short secret piano set

[carrierbagman]

Why is everyone convinced there is another garden headliner coming? could they not be all from existing list e.g the Lucinda Williams/Kurt Vile/Ty Segall level?

[SweepingTheNation]

20 minutes ago, carrierbagman said:

Why is everyone convinced there is another garden headliner coming? could they not be all from existing list e.g the Lucinda Williams/Kurt Vile/Ty Segall level?

Lucinda and Ty are both playing Friday, Kurt and SFA both Sunday, which of the second tier artists on the first poster leaves Fat Dog (who could certainly sub Woods but Garden headliner is less certain) and Beverly-Glenn Copeland, confirmed for Saturday but on the line-up page is listed below Working Men's Club who definitely aren't at that level.

[electronicfreq]

On 03/03/2026 at 12:36, accordionandvoice said:

Green Man has nothing on the EOTR line-up. EOTR undercard blows theirs out the water...

 

The second tier of names at GM maybe just pips EOTR (Beta Band, Sparks, Smerz) but the rest of the line-up nowhere near as good in my opinion! EOTR looking much more experimental and explorative 🙂

Both have great line-ups from top to bottom imo.  2 uniquely great festivals and in an ideal world I'd happily go to both.

[RedRockRick]

On 08/03/2026 at 15:25, accordionandvoice said:

hope not

Seconded.

[accordionandvoice]

On 09/03/2026 at 22:56, Olshansky said:

what if the final garden headliner is cameron winter solo?

it isn't

[Neville Street]

On 08/03/2026 at 15:25, accordionandvoice said:

hope not

Hope so! Can’t do London 29-30 and think they’d be a great headliner. Loved their garden stage set many years ago.

[SweepingTheNation]

Louder for those at the back - Green Man headliners First Aid Kit are not headlining the second stage at the smaller festival three and a half weeks before their only UK date.

[xxialac]

48 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

Louder for those at the back - Green Man headliners First Aid Kit are not headlining the second stage at the smaller festival three and a half weeks before their only UK date.

Ha I want to reach the same conclusion but now remember saying more or less the same thing about SFA (and I wasnt the only one)!

[SweepingTheNation]

2 hours ago, xxialac said:

Ha I want to reach the same conclusion but now remember saying more or less the same thing about SFA (and I wasnt the only one)!

SFA are British.

[xxialac]

1 hour ago, SweepingTheNation said:

SFA are British.

Yeah but the idea of them not being a headliner seemed ridiculous (to me at least). I mean we had Sleaford Mods as a headliner!

[paulwa]

12 hours ago, xxialac said:

Yeah but the idea of them not being a headliner seemed ridiculous (to me at least). I mean we had Sleaford Mods as a headliner!

It was a post-pandemic recovery year, short on international options.

[incident]

14 hours ago, xxialac said:

I mean we had Sleaf

 

Let us not talk of such evil.

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

Throwing out a wildcard for Garden headliner. Richard Dawson is beginning to turn up on festival lineups around late summer. He loves the festival, has appeared at different levels on the bill and would be a great counterpoint to the main stage headliner. Even better if he brings along Hen Ogledd and Rhodri Davies.

 

[xxialac]

21 minutes ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

Throwing out a wildcard for Garden headliner. Richard Dawson is beginning to turn up on festival lineups around late summer. He loves the festival, has appeared at different levels on the bill and would be a great counterpoint to the main stage headliner. Even better if he brings along Hen Ogledd and Rhodri Davies.

 

God I hope not. Would be a very stale booking - I think his 4th time in nine years.

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

41 minutes ago, xxialac said:

God I hope not. Would be a very stale booking - I think his 4th time in nine years.

'stale' seems an odd phrase. They've had multiple acts reappearing in multiple years. Yo la tengo are referred to as a house band. Cmat is there two years in a row. BC, NR are regulars. I'd rather someone with close links to the festival get elevated on the second stage than have a hyped Cameron Winter-style headliner who will be irrelevant to the festival in 2 years 

[xxialac]

2 hours ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

'stale' seems an odd phrase. They've had multiple acts reappearing in multiple years. Yo la tengo are referred to as a house band. Cmat is there two years in a row. BC, NR are regulars. I'd rather someone with close links to the festival get elevated on the second stage than have a hyped Cameron Winter-style headliner who will be irrelevant to the festival in 2 years 

Yo La Tengo have played twice (2) since 2018.

If as speculated Richard Dawson headlines he'll have played four times (4) since 2018.

 

Hope this helps.

 

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

9 hours ago, xxialac said:

Yo La Tengo have played twice (2) since 2018.

If as speculated Richard Dawson headlines he'll have played four times (4) since 2018.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Definitely helps thanks.  4 times out of 8 festivals would indeed be as stale as stale can be 🙄

Edited March 13 by noisenoiseandmorenoise
Correction for COVID cancellation

[SweepingTheNation]

12 hours ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

Cmat is there two years in a row.

Twice in three years, and I'd think it's for special reason given she's become an enormous deal since last playing. Also, "Cameron Winter will be irrelevant in two years' time" (about someone whose band played EOTR in 2022 and were just on SNL) is a very strange angle to take. This is the festival that nearly had Beirut headline in 2019.

Edited March 13 by SweepingTheNation

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

1 hour ago, SweepingTheNation said:

Twice in three years, and I'd think it's for special reason given she's become an enormous deal since last playing. Also, "Cameron Winter will be irrelevant in two years' time" (about someone whose band played EOTR in 2022 and were just on SNL) is a very strange angle to take. This is the festival that nearly had Beirut headline in 2019.

This is a misquote. I said "irrelevant to the festival" as in, it is highly unlikely that they will be back as they will be mega. My point being that the festival has a spirit of raising someone up if they feel it fits rather than picking the biggest name available.

Anyway, I thought this was a speculation thread not a sh*t on the speculation, so moving on...

 

Edited March 13 by noisenoiseandmorenoise