2026 line-up speculation

[SweepingTheNation]

It's Geese. Who'd have thought?

[SweepingTheNation]

Splits next Wednesday, says Simon.

[accordionandvoice]

On 10/12/2025 at 20:14, accordionandvoice said:

It's not Interpol or anyone else, it's Geese

Cheers 👍

[xxialac]

1 hour ago, SweepingTheNation said:

It's Geese. Who'd have thought?

In other breaking news today, water is wet.

[Brave Sir Robin]

As in previous years, I've compiled a big playlist for this, covering the whole lineup with the songs each act has performed most over the past year or so (so far as possible). I'll share it here in case anyone finds it useful:

 

 

(And I'd had the foresight to include Geese even before today's announcement!)

 

 

[SweepingTheNation]

For what it's worth, this is the current speculative clashfinder (don't take it entirely as read but...) with the acts we have day confirmations for highlighted.

 

Thursday

 

Friday

 

Saturday

 

Sunday

Edited Wednesday at 17:32 by SweepingTheNation

[LalanaCat]

3 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

For what it's worth, this is the current speculative clashfinder (don't take it entirely as read but...) with the acts we have day confirmations for highlighted.

 

Thursday

 

Friday

 

Saturday

 

Sunday

 

Ah brilliant, cheers! I was thinking of asking if you could highlight the confirmed ones but then I thought it would be too much hassle. It's looking fairly close now isn't it... still wouldn't be surprised if Mac Demarco and CMAT are the other way round though.

[xxialac]

I saw Caroline last week who were ace.

Edited Wednesday at 18:33 by xxialac

[paulwa]

Personal Trainer start a UK tour on 6 Sept and have featured a few times. They were kind of there last year in the form of Long Fling (a great set in the Tipi). I could see them being a secret set in the Tipi again. I don’t remember the Bollox new name for the Tipi and never will. 

Edited Wednesday at 20:44 by paulwa

[xxialac]

1 hour ago, paulwa said:

Personal Trainer start a UK tour on 6 Sept and have featured a few times. They were kind of there last year in the form of Long Fling (a great set in the Tipi). I could see them being a secret set in the Tipi again. I don’t remember the Bollox new name for the Tipi and never will. 

It should forever be the Tipi.

 

Just as the news about Geese was shared on Twitter.

[Hinn]

TVOD are playing Blue Basement in London 2/9 with a complete EOTR/Psych Fest shaped hole before their next gig in Lyon on 8/9. Well received in the Big Top last year, reckon they're nailed on for a secret set in the Tipi.

[closedForRepair]

8 hours ago, paulwa said:

Personal Trainer start a UK tour on 6 Sept and have featured a few times. They were kind of there last year in the form of Long Fling (a great set in the Tipi). I could see them being a secret set in the Tipi again. I don’t remember the Bollox new name for the Tipi and never will. 

Personal Trainer played last year too!

[closedForRepair]

11 hours ago, SweepingTheNation said:

For what it's worth, this is the current speculative clashfinder (don't take it entirely as read but...) with the acts we have day confirmations for highlighted.

 

Thursday

 

Friday

 

Saturday

 

Sunday

Mac has confirmed for Friday on his site.

[airwaves]

14 hours ago, SweepingTheNation said:

For what it's worth, this is the current speculative clashfinder (don't take it entirely as read but...) with the acts we have day confirmations for highlighted.

 

Thursday

 

Friday

 

Saturday

 

Sunday

I have visions of Garden Stage being rammed for AdP to the same level as Fleet Foxes dimensions 

(for those of you who weren't there it was the last no-Woods stage festival and the Garden Stage was "closed" rammed) 

[xxialac]

They'll surely put AdP on Woods. They are aware of the off the scale level of hype.

[SweepingTheNation]

3 hours ago, closedForRepair said:

Mac has confirmed for Friday on his site.

He's still got the whole festival period on his tour dates list. The 4th is given as the Mac's Record Label showcase, which was separately announced for that date (obviously it's unlikely Mac would be on a different date to his own project)

 

29 minutes ago, xxialac said:

They'll surely put AdP on Woods. They are aware of the off the scale level of hype.

 

I had AdP third down on Woods but Lucinda Williams pulling out and her de facto replacement playing a different day mixed things up, coupled with Ty Segall playing Garden solo last year.

[airwaves]

AdP are just a novelty act and as such should barely be headlining The Folly let alone Garden or Woods. 

Discuss... 

[xxialac]

11 minutes ago, airwaves said:

AdP are just a novelty act and as such should barely be headlining The Folly let alone Garden or Woods. 

Discuss... 

If a band has enormous demand you don't put it on a stage too small to contain the people that want to see them, it simply boils down to that!

[Hinn]

Personal preference is irrelevant. With that level of hype, the only slot that makes sense crowd management-wise is Woods headline. 

 

They were shifted late on just before The Great Escape from Thurs to Weds. A bunch of people on day tickets missed out, but even factoring that in TGE still had to close off their big tent with PLENTY of time before the set starting. 

 

That kind of music doesn't translate well for me for spaces bigger than the Tipi but that's just my own preference.

[xxialac]

The solution is obviously to make them a Woods sub. AND give them a secret Tipi set.

[Justiceforcedave]

5 minutes ago, xxialac said:

The solution is obviously to make them a Woods sub. AND give them a secret Tipi set.

This.

[xxialac]

6 minutes ago, Justiceforcedave said:

This.

That said they're playing the festival on the Friday and need to play Manchester Psych Fest the next day. 

 

Could they play late at night and still make it comfortably in time...hmmm

[SweepingTheNation]

It's been pointed out to me that Just Mustard have issued a new graphic with all their summer dates including the Saturday of EOTR, where I had them down for Friday. I can see AdP subbing or third down Woods in that case, but then (and remembering we lost one potential name in Lucinda Williams) that leaves a gap for a good Garden headliner...

[The Nal]

1 hour ago, airwaves said:

AdP are just a novelty act and as such should barely be headlining The Folly let alone Garden or Woods. 

Discuss... 

 

2 really good albums IMO. Fun, really good musicians, energetic, can dance to it. 

 

I'd take that over the couple of dozen twee ernest singer songwriter 2 chord dross acts on the bill most years. 

[accordionandvoice]

7 hours ago, airwaves said:

I have visions of Garden Stage being rammed for AdP to the same level as Fleet Foxes dimensions 

(for those of you who weren't there it was the last no-Woods stage festival and the Garden Stage was "closed" rammed) 

I have visions of going nowhere near AdP during their set......