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BBK Live 2027 Lineup
Three nights on Kobetamendi, the hill above Bilbao, with The xx, Teddy Swims, Pixies and The War on Drugs leading the first announcement.
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About BBK Live 2027
Bilbao BBK Live 2027 runs Thursday July 8 to Saturday July 10 on Kobetamendi, the green hill that looks down over Bilbao. The first announcement went up on November 6 with 38 acts: The xx, Teddy Swims, Pixies and The War on Drugs on top, then alt-J, Amelie Lens presents AURA, Bonobo, Jack Johnson, Two Door Cinema Club and Viva Suecia. DJ Shadow brings a set marking 30 years of Endtroducing....., and the festival says more names will follow in the coming months. No days yet.
This is the 21st edition. The festival started in 2006 and has spent two decades mixing an international indie and pop top line with a deep Spanish and Basque undercard, and 2027 keeps that shape: Alcalá Norte, Barry B, Sexy Zebras and Mala Gestión from across Spain, Merina Gris, Nøgen, SUA and Zeatikez from closer to home. The festival says Teddy Swims and The War on Drugs are both playing Spanish exclusives here, and it is The War on Drugs' first time on Kobetamendi.
Three-day passes are on sale through Fever, the official seller, at €175 plus fees in general sale, or €146 each when six friends buy together. Day tickets come later. The campsite sits on Monte Arraiz, about 3 km away, with free shuttles to the festival and into town, and costs €40 for four nights.
Expect alternative, pop, rock and soul across 38 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Saturday, three days
- Where
- Bilbao, Spain
- Lineup
- 38 acts
- Ages
- Under 11s get in free with an accompanying adult and a signed authorization form, under 16s need an adult and a signed form, and 16 to 18 year olds may enter alone with authorization.
- Passes
- Only three-day passes are on sale so far, through Fever: general sale €175 plus fees, the six-for-five group pass €146 each, and four nights of camping €40. Day tickets are not on sale yet.
- Website
- Official site
BBK Live 2027 lineup: all 38 acts
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A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
SoulPopR&B
Motorik heartland rock: Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.
Heartland rockIndie
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Indie electronicMinimal pop
Leeds band who turned close three-part harmony, lurching rhythms and Joe Newman's adenoidal delivery into arena-sized indie. 'Breezeblocks' still does the heavy lifting.
Alternative
Amelie Lens presents AURA
Simon Green's long-running project, threading found samples, strings and live percussion through downtempo and house. Played live with a full band, the records open into slow-building dance music.
Electronic
Former pro surfer from Oahu's North Shore whose unhurried acoustic songs, 'Better Together' and 'Banana Pancakes' among them, made beach-day folk a mainstream sound.
Singer-songwriterAcousticFolk-rock
Northern Irish trio whose Tourist History riffs still do the work, bright interlocking guitars built for a field at sunset.
Indie-rockIndie-pop
Murcia band fronted by Rafa Val, playing guitar-driven Spanish-language indie rock with wide, anthemic choruses and an emotional, earnest delivery.
Alternative
Madrid band with a gloomy, guitar-heavy post-punk sound and half-spoken Spanish lyrics.
Post-punkIndie rock
Manchester poet delivering wry, conversational spoken word over house and indie-dance beats, finding small everyday details inside big rave builds.
Alternative
Singer working in breathy, gothic-tinged dark pop, whose slow-burning 'BABYDOLL' found a huge audience online before the industry caught up.
Pop
Barry B
Pop latino
Josh Davis revisits his 1996 debut, an album assembled entirely from sampled vinyl that turned crate-digging into a compositional method of its own.
South London's unhinged rave-punk cult, with klezmer, techno, and total mayhem, a live show that feels like a cult initiation in the best way.
Rave-punk
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
Canberra artist folding funk, post-punk and hip-hop into one restless sound. 'Smiling with No Teeth' won him the ARIA for Album of the Year.
Alternative rap
Indabe
Rock
KEO
British band giving grunge-weight guitars and nineties indie rock a new run behind Finn Keogh's raw voice.
Pop
LAAZA
Pop
London band playing almost entirely instrumental party music, cumbia rhythms and twanging surf guitar under a haze of Anatolian psych. Debut album produced by Alex Kapranos.
Alternative
Mala Gestión
Punk
MARTIN
Merina Gris
Pop
mustbejohn
Dance
Nøgen
Alternative
Oxis
Alternative
Writes plainspoken, grunge-tinged rock songs and has been quietly building a real catalogue away from the surname, and the songs stand on their own.
Alternative rockIndie folk
Palestinian-French singer and rapper raised in Gaza and Jordan, switching between Arabic, French and English mid-verse. Velvet-voiced come-ons over Levantine R&B.
Hip-hop
Sexy Zebras
Madrid band playing loud, rowdy rock'n'roll with a punk edge and Spanish-language shout-along choruses.
Alternative
Sofia and the Antoinettes
Pop
Viral dark art-pop with spoken-word menace over strings, Gen Z's gothic conscience with a scalpel for a pen.
Dark art-pop
SUA
Los Angeles trio built on close family harmony and retro-leaning soul arrangements, carrying the Womack and Cooke songwriting line forward.
GospelSoul
TOC
Group from Mungia in Bizkaia, playing guitar rock together since 2016.
Rock
Yes, Dave's daughter, and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
Alt-rockSinger-songwriter
Zeatikez
Rock
The headliners
The xx · Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Teddy Swims · A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match. One of his few Spanish dates of 2027, a soul voice big enough to carry the whole of Kobetamendi.
Pixies · Loud-quiet-loud's inventors, the band your favorite band ripped off, with 'Debaser' through 'Where Is My Mind?' still setting the terms.
The War on Drugs · Motorik heartland rock: Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale. Adam Granduciel's band makes its Bilbao BBK Live debut with a Spanish exclusive, and the long, rolling songs suit an open hillside at dusk.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Fat Dog · London five-piece that plays dance-punk like a rave that got loose in a pub, one of the loudest live reputations on the bill.
- Los Bitchos · London band playing mostly instrumental cumbia, surf and psych guitar music, built for the hour when the sun goes down over the hill.
- Merina Gris · Basque act singing in Basque, part of the home contingent this festival always books deep.
Other acts worth planning around
- DJ Shadow celebrates 30 years of Endtroducing..... · The 1996 album built entirely from samples, played as a 30th anniversary set. The one for anyone who collects records.
BBK Live 2027 lineup FAQ
When is Bilbao BBK Live 2027?
July 8 to 10, 2027, Thursday through Saturday, on Kobetamendi in Bilbao, Spain. The festival has not published 2027 opening hours yet.
Who is playing Bilbao BBK Live 2027?
The first announcement has The xx, Teddy Swims, Pixies and The War on Drugs on top, then alt-J, Amelie Lens presents AURA, Bonobo, Jack Johnson, Two Door Cinema Club and Viva Suecia, with DJ Shadow, Fat Dog, Frost Children, Genesis Owusu, Los Bitchos and 23 more below. More acts are coming.
How much are tickets?
A three-day pass is €175 plus fees in general sale, and the group pass, six tickets for the price of five, works out at €146 each. Fever is the official seller. Day tickets are not on sale yet.
Is there camping at Bilbao BBK Live?
Yes. The campsite is on Monte Arraiz, about 3 km from the festival, with free shuttle buses to the site and into Bilbao. Four nights cost €40, and glamping is also offered.
Can kids go to Bilbao BBK Live?
Under 11s get in free with an adult and a signed authorization form. Under 16s need an adult and a signed form, and 16 and 17 year olds can enter alone with authorization.
How do I get up Kobetamendi?
Most people take the festival's shuttle buses from the city center, since the hill is a steep climb above Bilbao. The routes and times for 2027 are announced closer to July.
Are BBK Live 2027 set times out yet?
Not yet. The lineup is out with 38 acts, and the day-by-day schedule is still to come. The alert on this page emails you when it's out.
When is BBK Live 2028?
Not announced yet. This page carries BBK Live 2027 and will carry the 2028 edition as soon as the festival announces it.
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