Motorik repetition welded to lounge-pop sweetness, with vintage Moog drone, Lætitia Sadier's bilingual cool, and a back catalogue that half of modern indie has quietly been mining for thirty years.
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Brighton Psych Fest 2026 Lineup
One Friday, seven Brighton venues, 1pm to 3am: Stereolab top a 41-act psych bill that runs from the Corn Exchange to a seafront arch.
Brighton Psych Fest 2026 has already wrapped, but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
Find the acts you'll love at Brighton Psych Fest
Name a few bands you love and we'll scout all 41 acts on the Brighton Psych Fest bill for the ones you shouldn't miss.
About Brighton Psych Fest 2026
Brighton Psych Fest runs one Friday, 1pm to 3am, across seven venues in the city centre and along the seafront: the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Concorde 2, Komedia, Patterns, The Hope & Ruin, Alphabet and Volks. One wristband opens all of them, and 41 acts play between the early afternoon and half past one in the morning.
Stereolab headline, alone at the top of the poster and closing the Corn Exchange. Below them the bill runs deep in a way the single headline slot doesn't advertise: White Denim, Allah-Las, Anna Von Hausswolff, Mandy, Indiana, Gwenno, Automatic, Night Tapes, The KVB, Holy Wave, mary in the junkyard, The Belair Lip Bombs and Lael Neale all play, and then another two dozen acts fill the smaller rooms until close.
This is the Friday half of a two-city weekend: 24 of these 41 acts play Manchester Psych Fest the following day, under the same banner. Doing both means 260 miles between Friday's last set and Saturday's first, so most people pick a city, but if you miss someone here, they may well be on the other bill.
The festival publishes its full stage times and venue map in advance, which is rarer than it should be and is what makes a day like this plannable. Venues fill first come, first served, and they are not the same size (the Corn Exchange is a hall, Alphabet and Volks are small rooms), so a must-see in a little venue means arriving well before the set. Age limits differ by venue too, from 14+ at the Corn Exchange and Concorde 2 up to 18+ at Patterns, The Hope & Ruin and Alphabet.
Expect alternative, rock, psych and dream-pop across 41 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- Friday
- Where
- Brighton, UK
- Lineup
- 41 acts
- Website
- Official site
Brighton Psych Fest 2026 lineup & schedule: all 41 acts
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Karma Sheen
Rock
Welsh- and Cornish-language psych-pop with a krautrock pulse underneath, where minority-language records come out expansive and forward-looking rather than archival.
Psych-popDream-pop
Hudson Freeman
Brooklyn lo-fi folk songwriter, raised partly in Eswatini, writing about faith, belonging and anxiety in the vein of Sufjan Stevens.
Alternative
Bleech 9:3
Alternative
A duo working the seam between shoegaze and cold wave: drum machines, black reverb, and hooks that surface slowly out of the murk.
DarkwaveShoegazePost-punk
Pipe-organ doom hymns: sacred music for the beautifully unwell, where cathedral drones meet gothic songcraft at genuinely tectonic volume.
Organ droneGothic
Minimalist LA synth-punk trio with icy grooves and motorik precision, like a security-camera feed of a party you're not cool enough to attend.
Post-punkSynth
Omnichord hymns from rural Virginia: luminous, homespun minimalism, songs that glow like lamplight through gauze.
Minimal folk-pop
Austin psych with the tempo down and the reverb up: hazy, organ-lined grooves built for drifting rather than freaking out.
PsychDream-pop
Melbourne guitar-pop with Strokes-y snap. Australia's word-of-mouth favorite, tight songs played loose, garage-pop craft beyond their years.
Indie rock
Los Angeles record-store clerks turned reverb evangelists, with sun-bleached jangle and surf-edged garage psych that sounds recorded in 1966 and mixed somewhere near the Pacific.
PsychGarage rockSurf
London trio who build songs out of near-silence and then let them fall apart, with Clari Freeman-Taylor's voice at the centre and guitars swinging between hush and squall with almost nothing in between.
Indie rockArt-rock
Gauzy London dream-pop: midnight-drive music, synths blurred to streetlight smears, soft-focus songs that glow in the dark.
Dream-pop
Austin's virtuosic boogie machine, with prog chops, garage soul, and tempo changes played like party tricks.
Boogie-rockPsych
Corroded industrial noise with Valentine Caulfield's French-language vocals slicing through it, claustrophobic and physically loud, and recorded in places most bands would never think to track.
IndustrialNoise rockElectronic
MAQUINA.
Rock
Floral Image
Rock
SLAG
Alternative
Knives
Lonnie Gunn
Alternative
Ellis D
Cordelia Gartside
Alternative
HIGHDRIVE
Indie rock
Annabelle Chairlegs
Austin garage-psych group working fuzzed guitar against 60s pop melody, loose enough live to let the songs sprawl.
Rock
Bones Ate Arfa
Rock
The Heavenly Bodes
Rock
Piss
Punk
Little Grandad
Alternative
Ringlets
Alternative
The Dharma Chain
Alternative
Martial Arts
Alternative
Motorik repetition with a psych haze on top, from a Swedish band that understands the value of staying on one chord for an uncomfortably long time.
Psych rockKrautrock
Thistle
Sex Mask
Punk
Formal Sppeedwear
Alternative
MORN
Alternative
LTTL MORT
Silverwingkiller
Electronic
LEMONSUCKR
Alternative
Swallowtail
Alternative
The headliners
Stereolab · Motorik repetition welded to lounge-pop sweetness, with vintage Moog drone, Lætitia Sadier's bilingual cool, and a back catalogue that half of modern indie has quietly been mining for thirty years. The only name on the top line of the poster, closing the Corn Exchange at 9:45pm.
Up-and-comers to catch early
mary in the junkyard · A 9:45pm slot at Concorde 2 for a band still early enough that the room will not be full when they start.
Other acts worth planning around
Anna Von Hausswolff · An hour in the Corn Exchange, the one room on the map built for what she does.
Mandy, Indiana · 22:00 at Komedia, which is a small room for a band this loud.
Les Big Byrd · A full hour at The Hope & Ruin, the longest club-tier slot on the bill.
Holy Wave · Early evening at Komedia rather than a late slot, which suits them better than it sounds.
The KVB · 5:30pm at Komedia: daylight outside, which is its own kind of joke for this band.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (September 4)
Stereolab, White Denim, Allah-Las, Anna Von Hausswolff, Mandy, Indiana, Gwenno + 34 more
Friday set times (40 sets)
- Karma Sheen · Concorde 2
- Gwenno · Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
- Hudson Freeman · Patterns
- SLAG · Komedia
- Floral Image · Alphabet
- Knives · Volks
- Lonnie Gunn · The Hope & Ruin
- Bleech 9:3 · Concorde 2
- Ellis D · Patterns
- The KVB · Komedia
- HIGHDRIVE · Alphabet
- Cordelia Gartside · The Hope & Ruin
- Annabelle Chairlegs · Volks
- Anna Von Hausswolff · Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
- Automatic · Concorde 2
- Lael Neale · Patterns
- The Heavenly Bodes · The Hope & Ruin
- Bones Ate Arfa · Alphabet
- Holy Wave · Komedia
- Piss · Volks
- The Belair Lip Bombs · Patterns
- Little Grandad · Alphabet
- Allah-Las · Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
- mary in the junkyard · Concorde 2
- Ringlets · The Hope & Ruin
- The Dharma Chain · Volks
- Night Tapes · Komedia
- Martial Arts · Alphabet
- Les Big Byrd · The Hope & Ruin
- Thistle · Patterns
- White Denim · Concorde 2
- Stereolab · Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
- Sex Mask · Volks
- Mandy, Indiana · Komedia
- Formal Sppeedwear · The Hope & Ruin
- MORN · Volks
- MAQUINA. · Komedia
- LTTL MORT · Volks
- Silverwingkiller · The Hope & Ruin
- LEMONSUCKR · Komedia
Brighton Psych Fest 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Brighton Psych Fest 2026?
Friday 4 September 2026, running from 1pm until 3am. Music starts at 3:30pm and the last set finishes at 1:30am.
Where does Brighton Psych Fest take place?
Seven venues across Brighton: the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Concorde 2, Komedia, Patterns, The Hope & Ruin, Alphabet and Volks. One wristband gets you into all of them.
Who is headlining Brighton Psych Fest 2026?
Stereolab, closing the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange at 9:45pm, over a 41-act bill.
Are tickets still available?
Yes, but only just: the £50 final release is the last tier and the festival says only a few remain. The £24.50, £30 and £40 releases have all sold out.
Where do I collect my wristband?
Upstairs at Patterns on Marine Parade, open 1pm to 10pm. You need your ticket to hand, wristbands must be collected in person, and groups have to arrive together. No venue will let you in without one.
What is the age limit?
It varies by venue. The Corn Exchange and Concorde 2 are 14+ with under-16s accompanied by an adult; Komedia is 16+; Volks is 14+ before 9:30pm and 18+ after; Patterns, The Hope & Ruin and Alphabet are 18+ all day.
Is Brighton Psych Fest connected to Manchester Psych Fest?
Yes: same banner, back-to-back days. Brighton runs the Friday and Manchester the Saturday, and 24 acts play both.
How do I figure out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love, and it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
When is Brighton Psych Fest 2027?
Brighton Psych Fest is expected back in September 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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