Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
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Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 Lineup
One Sunday, 11am to 11pm, five Edinburgh venues from Usher Hall to Sneaky Pete's, and a 35-act psych bill that closes a three-city weekend.
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 has already wrapped, but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
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About Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026
Edinburgh Psych Fest runs one Sunday, 11am to 11pm, across five venues: the Usher Hall, The Queen's Hall, La Belle Angele, Summerhall and Sneaky Pete's. One wristband opens all of them, the first band is on at 1pm, and an 18+ afterparty carries on past 11. Thirty-four acts play.
Stereolab, Ty Segall and Angine de Poitrine share the top line. Below them the bill is deep for a one-day festival: Shame, Billy Nomates, Model/Actriz, Gwenno, Mandy, Indiana, Automatic, GHOSTWOMAN, The Belair Lip Bombs, Adult DVD, The KVB, Holy Wave, Lael Neale, GANS, Bleech 9:3 and The Dharma Chain. And then sixteen more acts fill the smaller rooms.
The venue range is the thing to plan around. The Usher Hall is a grand Victorian concert hall and Sneaky Pete's holds about a hundred people in a basement, with The Queen's Hall, Summerhall and La Belle Angele in between. Capacities are first come, first served, so the same wristband that walks you into the Usher Hall will not get you into a full basement.
This is the last of three: the same promoter runs Brighton on the Friday and Manchester on the Saturday, and twelve acts (Stereolab and Gwenno among them) play all three cities in three days. Ten acts here are on none of the other two, Shame the largest of them, so the Sunday is not simply the weekend repeating itself.
Expect alternative, post-punk, psych and dream-pop across 35 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- Sunday
- Where
- Edinburgh, UK
- Lineup
- 35 acts
- Website
- Official site
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 lineup & schedule: all 35 acts
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Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer, with a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.
Garage rockPsych
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.
KrautrockIndie popLounge
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
Canadian psych project built on fuzz-caked riffs and lo-fi haze, playing motorik garage rock recorded rough and played tight.
Alternative
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
The Dharma Chain
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
Tor Maries alone with a drum machine and a scalpel, delivering deadpan, half-sung dispatches on class and burnout that swing from snarl to heartbreak inside a single verse.
Post-punkArt-pop
Omnichord hymns from rural Virginia: luminous, homespun minimalism, songs that glow like lamplight through gauze.
Minimal folk-pop
Leeds lads making hardware-driven post-punk bangers about mundane dread, with deadpan vocals over squelching synths, pitched somewhere between a big night out and an existential crisis.
Alternative
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
GANS
Alternative
Bleech 9:3
Alternative
Sweat-slicked industrial post-punk with menace, glamour, and whispered filth, and a frontman who prowls the crowd like it's his living room.
Industrial post-punk
Austin psych with the tempo down and the reverb up: hazy, organ-lined grooves built for drifting rather than freaking out.
PsychDream-pop
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
South London post-punk's sweatiest live act: communion by mosh, shirtless and crowd-borne by mid-set, 'One Rizla' to now, all sweat.
Post-punk
Lucky Briar
Indie rock
The Heavenly Bodes
Rock
Puppy Teeth
Alternative
Jill O'Sullivan's trio after Sparrow and the Workshop, setting her violin and voice against loose, hard-hitting drums.
Alternative
Isabella Strange
Punk
Just Like Honey
Alex Amen
Houston-born songwriter, raised on jazz piano, who started out in an Anaheim commune with the psych-folk band American Slang before going solo.
Folk
Sunstinger
Alternative
National Playboys
Alternative
Curiosity Shop
Tanzana
Alternative
Bedroom-scale songwriting with a soft, slightly woozy touch, featuring hushed vocals and guitar figures that unspool rather than build.
Alternative
Water Machine
Alternative
Acolyte
Roller Disco Death Party
Electronic
Floral Image
Rock
Makeshift Art Bar
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. Top-lining all three cities in three days, and closing the weekend here.
Ty Segall · Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer, with a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them. Plays Manchester and Edinburgh but skips Brighton: one of the weekend's two-city acts.
Angine de Poitrine · Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story. Third on the poster in two cities this weekend, having been unknown here eighteen months ago.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Jill Lorean · One of the Scottish bookings the other two cities don't get.
Other acts worth planning around
Shame · The biggest name playing Edinburgh and neither of the other two.
Model/Actriz · On the Manchester bill too, and better suited to a small room than a concert hall.
Billy Nomates · Also plays Brighton: this is the second of her two on the weekend.
The lineup by day
Sunday lineup (September 6)
Stereolab, Ty Segall, Angine de Poitrine, Shame, Billy Nomates, Model/Actriz + 28 more
Sunday set times (34 sets)
- Automatic · Queen's Hall
- The Heavenly Bodes · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Lucky Briar · Sneaky Pete's
- Puppy Teeth · La Belle Angele
- Jill Lorean · Summerhall Main Hall
- Isabella Strange · Sneaky Pete's
- Gwenno · Usher Hall
- GHOSTWOMAN · Queen's Hall
- Just Like Honey · Summerhall Dissection Room
- The Dharma Chain · La Belle Angele
- Alex Amen · Summerhall Main Hall
- Sunstinger · Sneaky Pete's
- The KVB · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Billy Nomates · Queen's Hall
- Angine de Poitrine · Usher Hall
- National Playboys · La Belle Angele
- Curiosity Shop · Summerhall Main Hall
- Tanzana · Sneaky Pete's
- Lael Neale · Summerhall Dissection Room
- The Belair Lip Bombs · Queen's Hall
- Adult DVD · La Belle Angele
- Renny Conti · Summerhall Main Hall
- Ty Segall · Usher Hall
- Water Machine · Sneaky Pete's
- GANS · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Bleech 9:3 · La Belle Angele
- Model/Actriz · Queen's Hall
- Roller Disco Death Party · Sneaky Pete's
- Acolyte · Summerhall Main Hall
- Stereolab · Usher Hall
- Mandy, Indiana · La Belle Angele
- Holy Wave · Summerhall Dissection Room
- Shame · Queen's Hall
- Floral Image · Summerhall Main Hall
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026?
Sunday 6 September 2026, 11am to 11pm, with the first live band at 1pm and an 18+ afterparty running later.
Where does Edinburgh Psych Fest take place?
Five venues across Edinburgh: the Usher Hall, The Queen's Hall, La Belle Angele, Summerhall and Sneaky Pete's. One wristband gets you into all of them.
Who is headlining Edinburgh Psych Fest 2026?
Stereolab, Ty Segall and Angine de Poitrine, over a 34-act bill.
Are tickets still available?
Yes, £69.50 general admission is on sale. The early bird, NHS and under-24s tickets have sold out.
Where do I collect my wristband?
The box office and wristband collection are at Summerhall, open 11am to 9pm. You can't collect on someone else's behalf, and under-24s and NHS ticket holders need photo or NHS ID or they're charged £10.
What is the age limit?
The festival is 14+, with under-16s accompanied by an adult and offsite by 10.59pm. The afterparty is strictly 18+.
Is Edinburgh Psych Fest connected to the Brighton and Manchester festivals?
Yes: same banner, three cities on three consecutive days. Brighton is the Friday, Manchester the Saturday, Edinburgh the Sunday, and twelve acts play all three.
When do stage times come out?
Edinburgh hasn't published set times yet. Save your acts on LineupScout and they'll become a personal schedule as times are confirmed.
How do I figure out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love. It'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
When is Edinburgh Psych Fest 2027?
Edinburgh 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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