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End of the Road 2026 Lineup
Four days in a Victorian pleasure garden: peacocks, secret sets, and the most lovingly curated bill in Britain.
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About End of the Road 2026
End of the Road is the connoisseur's festival: four September days in Larmer Tree Gardens, a Victorian pleasure garden on the Dorset border where peacocks wander the site, the food is actually good, and the booking policy reads like a great record shop's staff picks. The 2026 edition pairs Pulp's late-career victory lap with Geese, CMAT, and Mac DeMarco up top. But the real currency here is depth: reunited cult heroes (Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band alumni energy), avant-legends, Irish doom-folk, Saharan guitar, and a Rising-stage undercard that has a habit of producing next year's headliners. Secret sets are a tradition. Bring wellies and trust the bookers.
Expect alternative, electronic, folk and rock across 144 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset, UK
- Lineup
- 144 acts
- Website
- Official site
End of the Road 2026 lineup & schedule: all 144 acts
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The gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop, with cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
Slacker rockSoft rock
Jarvis Cocker's common people, still uncommon. Britpop's sharpest wit in glorious late-era form, 'Common People' still detonating class rage.
Britpop
Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice, and a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
Alt-country-pop
Glowing heartland indie rock with War on Drugs warmth at bedroom scale, songs that expand like a slow sunrise.
Heartland indie
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
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
Eight-piece London chamber-rock swells that are patient, communal, and overwhelming, with songs that gather like weather until the whole room is inside them.
Post-rockChamber
Yorkshire synth-punk with New Order's chassis and a teenage engine, hacienda pulse rebuilt for new floors.
Synth-punk
Colombian synth auteur: protest songs you can dance to, built entirely on hardware and delivered with quiet, glowing defiance.
Electronic pop
Nashville's cosmic guitar cartographer, whose instrumentals feel like interstate sunsets, American primitive tradition with a widescreen lens.
American primitiveInstrumental
Irish shoegaze that scrapes and shivers, with beauty engineered from dread, guitars processed until they sound like machinery grieving.
ShoegazeNoise
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
The rediscovered visionary behind 'Keyboard Fantasies', offering transcendence, gently delivered, decades after a cassette nobody heard became the classic everybody needed.
New age soulAmbient
Two generations of abstract rap in one set: smeared loops, mumbled brilliance, and the mentor-protégé chemistry that reshaped underground hip-hop.
Abstract hip-hop
Welsh techno-pop shapeshifter behind the decks, where ethereal textures are traded for full club propulsion and art-techno is rewired for peak hour.
TechnoDJ set
Chicago indie rock at its warmest: twangy, generous, quietly great, a band critics keep discovering all over again.
Indie rock
Louisville's shaggy-dog cosmic country, with novelistic songs that sneak up and floor you, Silver Jews wit with a road band's looseness.
Cosmic country
Austin's virtuosic boogie machine, with prog chops, garage soul, and tempo changes played like party tricks.
Boogie-rockPsych
Catskills barn-band Americana that is ragged, literate, and joyful, with story-songs played like a family argument in the best way.
Americana
Wales's beloved psych-pop pranksters, reunited, with techno tanks and golden melodies, national-treasure status long confirmed, Welsh weirdness in full bloom.
Psych-popWelsh rock
Talk Talk-schooled art-pop that is pristine, searching, and quietly devastating, with songcraft that rewards stillness and every note deliberate.
Art-pop
Ex-Vampire Weekend architect (ornate, warm-blooded pop as producer-auteur), harpsichords and 808s on equal footing, fingerprints all over a decade of indie.
Indie popChamber pop
Philly's laconic guitar rambler, with hazy, endless-highway rock and songs that amble past the seven-minute mark like it's nothing.
Heartland psych
Pipe-organ doom hymns: sacred music for the beautifully unwell, where cathedral drones meet gothic songcraft at genuinely tectonic volume.
Organ droneGothic
multiscreen
Alternative
Perfect Binding
Alternative
Swiss collective braiding North and West African string instruments and vocals into long, hypnotic psychedelic rock grooves.
Punk
Bug Teeth
Alternative
Oldboy
Garage
Uncanny English art-folk: pastoral songs with teeth, violin scrape and strange narratives from London's experimental fringe.
Alternative
Nina Winder-Lind
Rock
Manchester's hyper-collage electronics: noise, pop, and motorsport samples spliced into club music with a crash-test thrill.
Electronic
Green Star
Alternative
NYC's most confrontational new band, spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms in twenty-minute bursts, and nothing else sounds like it.
Experimental punk
Dave Welder
Electronic
pollyfromthedirt
Alternative
Dublin feminist post-punk that is spare, pointed, and necessary, minimalism wielded like an argument, every word placed to cut.
Feminist post-punk
Casio-and-helmet street-performance legend, with cosmic covers of pure innocence, outsider-music history glowing softly live, pure wonder with no irony.
Outsider synth-pop
1000 Rabbits
Alternative
Al Cologne
Alternative
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
Cherokee songwriter with an old soul: quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep, lines that sound handed down rather than written.
Folk
Kerry's warped folk bard, with hurdy-gurdy strangeness and dark comic grace, trad music bent into confessional theater.
Irish folk
Adam Betts alone behind a kit wired into a bank of electronics, with live drumming and machine noise pushed together until the seams disappear.
IDM/experimental
Bedroom-scale songwriting with a soft, slightly woozy touch, featuring hushed vocals and guitar figures that unspool rather than build.
Alternative
Tommy Barlow
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics, Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
Indie rockIrish
Mac's Record Label signee with silky '70s keyboard-pop and jazz hands, soft-rock sincerity played straight, session-pop revived with love.
Soft popSoul
Silver Gore
Alternative
Thredd
Alternative
Anatolian psych-folk revival: saz grooves and velvet vocals, Turkish songbook classics and originals worked into hypnotic slow-burn funk.
Anatolian psych
Canadian psych project built on fuzz-caked riffs and lo-fi haze, playing motorik garage rock recorded rough and played tight.
Alternative
Aussie piano-pop charmer from Mac DeMarco's label orbit, with wonky lounge songs and a crooked grin.
Piano pop
Hedge-folk miniatures with field recordings and old-weird-Britain magic, songs like pressed flowers found in a strange book.
FolkExperimental
Justine Bourgeus's project out of Belgium, folding her classical violin training into brooding, percussive electronic pop.
Electronic
Brazilian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose writing folds MPB harmony and vocal textures into contemporary jazz.
Jazz
British indie rock outfit formed in 2003 from members of other Brighton bands, alternating brisk country-tinged songs with joke-length blasts of a few seconds.
Alternative
Tomo Katsurada
Traditional folk
Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
Math rockExperimentalProg-rock
Izzy Hagerup's gnarled, gripping songs are beautiful and unsettling at once, with a voice that turns rooms silent mid-chord.
Indie rock
Working Men's Club's leader gone solo, with softer machines and the same nerve: Yorkshire electronics with a songwriter's spine.
ElectronicSongwriter
Double-bass player with a jazz-prodigy background, better known as a sideman, stepping out front with woozy lounge-pop miniatures built on serious chops.
Alternative
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
Mia WIlson
Folk
London duo working in dream-pop haze, with breathy melodies laid over shoegaze guitar and skittering breakbeats borrowed from 90s club records.
Alternative
Self-produced spiritual soul that is prickly, gorgeous, and sui generis, with chopped loops and layered self-harmonies that answer to nobody.
Experimental soul
Togolese voodoo-pop: call-and-response trance over analog synth bass, with women's voices carrying ritual into the club.
Togolese voodoo-pop
Ninush
Alternative
Melbourne soft-pop sunshine with strings, Rhodes, and easy grace, '70s studio-pop craft revived gently, sunshine engineered in the studio.
Soft pop
deBasement
Electronic
A poet who performs like a frontman and is the voice on some of British jazz's biggest recent moments, funny and furious in the same breath.
Dance
GANS
Alternative
DJ Crenshaw
Greazy Alice
Rock
Rose of Nevada: Live Score by the Cornish Sound Unit
Jordan Patterson
Alternative
Jamaican-American folk-soul with tape-warm harmonies and reverie, layered vocals that float like heat haze, and '70s folk warmth with a dub producer's patience.
Folk-soul
Lichen
Metal
big long sun
Indie rock
British songwriter with a background in guitar-driven indie duos, now working in a sparer, more direct pop mode.
Rock
Slovenian 'imaginary folk' trio with handmade instruments conjuring places that don't exist, ritual music from an invented tradition.
Imaginary folk
Spanish Horses
Susannah Stark & Band
Electronica
Moroccan-French power quartet electrifying Gnawa trance-blues, with hypnotic guembri grooves plugged in and turned up into full-band psychedelic ecstasy.
Gnawa rock
Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness
Rock
Maddie Ashman
Folk
Lamisi
Ghanaian singer working in a northern-rooted strain of Afro-pop, singing in Gurune as often as English.
Afrobeats
NYC anti-folk lifer: comic-book songs with more ideas per verse than most careers, performed with hand-drawn visuals in tow.
Anti-folkComic-book rock
RIP Magic
Alternative
SLAG
Alternative
Skye's smallpipes visionary, who makes ancient Scottish drones hypnotic and new, with minimalist reeds that sit closer to modern drone music than trad-session nostalgia.
Scottish smallpipesDrone
New Jersey's surrealist rap horror-show is gothic, hilarious, and unforgettable, with verses that play like fever dreams narrated with total calm.
HorrorcoreAbstract rap
French ragga MC, once half of Raggasonic, who delivers patois-heavy toasting with sound-system authority.
Hip-hop
Sean-nós tradition spliced with electronics from Ireland's eeriest new voice, with keening rendered as avant-garde ritual and old songs made newly unsettling.
Irish experimentalSean-nós
BCUC
Worldwide
Songwriter behind Whispertown, whose sparse country-leaning rock has run alongside years of writing for other people.
Rock
Kloyd
Electronic
Madra Salach
Alternative
Shallowater
Alternative
Cleo Reed
Manchester's restless polymath writes sprawling, brainy guitar epics like essays and plays them like exorcisms, with cult-canon ambition on a DIY budget.
Experimental rock
South London electro-punk with club pressure and live-band violence, synths and drums locked in a knife fight.
Electro-punk
Austin honky-tonk poetry with classic country bones and a restless heart, and songwriting sharp enough to cut through the barroom clatter.
CountrySinger-songwriter
San Antonio songwriter working a spacey, hypnotic strain of Texas country, with honky-tonk roots stretched out toward something closer to krautrock repetition.
Country
SILVERWINGKILLER
Electronic
Salford's shape-shifting psych-noise commune, heavy in every sense, a collective that reinvents its sound album to album and show to show.
Psych-noise
Snarling internet-era electroclash with bratty vocals over blown-out bass, reviving the genre's trashy Berlin glamour for a generation that missed it the first time.
ElectroclashBass
Hudson Freeman
Brooklyn lo-fi folk songwriter, raised partly in Eswatini, writing about faith, belonging and anxiety in the vein of Sufjan Stevens.
Alternative
Kitchen Lover
Punk
Shaking Hand
Manchester group formed in 2024, pushing indie rock toward the long build and open space of post-rock.
Alternative
WARBY
Pop
Burlington's raw-hearted songwriter, with cracked-open folk-rock and a voice that frays exactly where it counts, DIY-scene devotion well earned.
Indie folk-rock
Another Country $$$$
Electronica
Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars
Traditional pop
Femur
Hip-hop
Brooklyn guitarist and composer working in patient, layered instrumentals where krautrock pulse meets pastoral drift.
Alternative
Kentucky drawl, punk heart: swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
Southern rockFolk
Sex Mask
Punk
The Cindys
Alternative
Brooklyn-based singer writing in Hindustani and Urdu, folding South Asian vocal tradition into spare, art-song arrangements.
WorldExperimental pop
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists: three voices, one wicked sense of humor, and close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
FolkHarmony
Little Grandad
Alternative
TTSSFU
Manchester songwriter Tasmin Stephens's project, setting hushed, half-buried vocals inside fuzzed-out guitars that lean toward shoegaze and grunge.
Alternative
Drook
Alternative
Cowboy Hunters
Punk
mark william lewis
London songwriter whose tape-blurred, reverb-heavy pop keeps its melodies half-submerged, with intimate recordings that feel overheard rather than presented.
Alternative
Recovery-country, with harrowing stories told with disarming sweetness, addiction and grace in the same easy melody.
Country-folk
Snuggle
Indie
PISS
Punk
Pop songs submerged and left there, with vocals dissolving into blur and structure implied rather than stated.
Electronic
Guitar soli as landscape painting, with blues, minimalism, and open air, the American primitive tradition carried gently forward.
American primitive
Vancouver-raised producer and singer with a full, low alto, writing post-genre songs that swing between club beats and electric-guitar confessionals.
Alternative
Lankum-adjacent doom-folk coven: drones, dread, and gorgeous Irish gloom, traditional songs slowed to ritual pace.
Doom-folk
DFA's industrial techno machine, returned, with relentless hardware grooves that grind post-punk down to pure repetition.
Industrial techno
David Thomas Broughton
Alternative folk
Japanese four-piece based in London, playing long, distortion-heavy psych rock with vocals delivered in Japanese at full shriek.
Alternative
Lawrence (Felt, Denim) in his glam-pop era, Britain's greatest cult songwriter, still chasing the hit he has always deserved.
Indie pop
Fine
Indie pop
Brother Wallace
R&B/soul
Expiry
Los Thuthanaka
Sword II
Alternative
Misha Panfilov
Rock
The headliners
Geese · Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Pulp · Jarvis Cocker's common people, still uncommon. Britpop's sharpest wit in glorious late-era form, 'Common People' still detonating class rage.
CMAT · Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice, and a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
Mac DeMarco · The gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop, with cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Fat Dog · South London's unhinged rave-punk cult: klezmer, techno, and total mayhem.
YHWH Nailgun · NYC's most confrontational new band: spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms.
Folk Bitch Trio · Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists: three voices, one wicked sense of humor.
Cardinals · Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics, Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast.RÓIS · Sean-nós tradition spliced with electronics: Ireland's eeriest new voice.
Ken Pomeroy · Cherokee songwriter with an old soul: quiet Oklahoma folk that cuts deep.
Other acts worth planning around
Super Furry Animals · Wales's beloved psych-pop pranksters, reunited: techno tanks and golden melodies.
Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE · Two generations of abstract rap in one set: smeared loops, mumbled brilliance.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland · Keyboard Fantasies' rediscovered visionary. Transcendence, gently delivered.
Anna Von Hausswolff · Pipe-organ doom hymns: sacred music for the beautifully unwell.
Ty Segall · Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer, with a new album every time you blink.
The Space Lady · Casio-and-helmet street-performance legend. Cosmic covers of pure innocence.
Mozart Estate · Lawrence (Felt, Denim) in his glam-pop era: Britain's greatest cult songwriter.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (September 3)
Geese, YHWH Nailgun, The Space Lady, Modern Woman, M(h)aol, pollyfromthedirt + 9 more
Thursday set times (15 sets)
- multiscreen · The Boat
- Perfect Binding · The Folly
- Yalla Miku · Woods
- Bug Teeth · The Folly
- Oldboy · The Boat
- Modern Woman · Woods
- Nina Winder-Lind · The Folly
- Jennifer Walton · The Boat
- YHWH Nailgun · Woods
- Green Star · The Folly
- Dave Welder · The Boat
- pollyfromthedirt · The Folly
- Geese · Woods
- The Space Lady · The Boat
- M(h)aol · The Folly
Friday lineup (September 4)
Mac DeMarco, Ela Minus, Ty Segall, Working Men's Club, caroline, Model/Actriz + 37 more
Friday set times (41 sets)
- Alex Amen · The Folly
- Ken Pomeroy · Garden
- Al Cologne · The Boat
- 1000 Rabbits · Big Top
- Junior Brother · Woods
- Colossal Squid · Big Top
- Renny Conti · The Folly
- Tommy Barlow · The Boat
- Wild Pink · Woods
- Cardinals · Big Top
- Vicky Farewell · The Folly
- Silver Gore · Garden
- Thredd · The Boat
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek · Woods
- GHOSTWOMAN · Big Top
- Tex Crick · The Folly
- Milkweed · Garden
- Tsar B · The Boat
- Pedro Martins · The Folly
- Brakes · Big Top
- Tomo Katsurada · Talking Heads
- Angine de Poitrine · Woods
- Sydney Minsky Sargeant · The Boat
- Prewn · Garden
- Daryl Johns · The Folly
- Adult DVD · Big Top
- Mia WIlson · Talking Heads
- Ty Segall · Woods
- keiyaA · The Boat
- Deary · The Folly
- Nana Benz Du Togo · Garden
- Model/Actriz · Big Top
- Way Dynamic · The Folly
- Ninush · Talking Heads
- deBasement · The Boat
- Mac DeMarco · Woods
- caroline · Garden
- Joshua Idehen · The Folly
- Working Men's Club · Big Top
- GANS · The Folly
- Ela Minus · Big Top
Saturday lineup (September 5)
Pulp, Fat Dog, Just Mustard, William Tyler, Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE, Kelly Lee Owens (DJ) + 34 more
Saturday set times (39 sets)
- Rose of Nevada: Live Score by the Cornish Sound Unit · Big Top
- June McDoom · The Folly
- Jordan Patterson · The Boat
- Lichen · Garden
- big long sun · Woods
- Širom · Garden
- Alice Costelloe · The Folly
- Susannah Stark & Band · The Boat
- Spanish Horses · Big Top
- Bab L'Bluz · Woods
- William Tyler · Garden
- Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness · Big Top
- Maddie Ashman · The Folly
- Lamisi · The Boat
- Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage · Woods
- RIP Magic · Big Top
- SLAG · The Folly
- Brìghde Chaimbeul · Garden
- Fatboi Sharif · The Boat
- RÓIS · Big Top
- Big Red · The Folly
- BCUC · Woods
- Morgan Nagler · Talking Heads
- Madra Salach · Garden
- Kloyd · The Boat
- Shallowater · The Folly
- Just Mustard · Big Top
- Fat Dog · Woods
- Cleo Reed · The Boat
- Kiran Leonard · The Folly
- Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland · Garden
- PVA · Big Top
- Carson McHone · Talking Heads
- SILVERWINGKILLER · The Boat
- Garrett T. Capps · The Folly
- Pulp · Woods
- Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE · Garden
- GNOD · The Folly
- Kelly Lee Owens (DJ) · Big Top
Sunday lineup (September 6)
CMAT, Super Furry Animals, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Rostam, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Ratboys + 39 more
Sunday set times (42 sets)
- Hudson Freeman · Garden
- WARBY · The Folly
- Shaking Hand · The Boat
- Kitchen Lover · Big Top
- Lily Seabird · Woods
- Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars · Garden
- Another Country $$$$ · Big Top
- Femur · The Folly
- Ezra Feinberg · The Boat
- Ratboys · Woods
- S.G. Goodman · Garden
- Sex Mask · Big Top
- The Cindys · The Folly
- Sheherazaad · The Boat
- Folk Bitch Trio · Woods
- TTSSFU · Big Top
- Little Grandad · The Folly
- Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band · Garden
- Drook · The Boat
- mark william lewis · Big Top
- Ohtis · Talking Heads
- Cowboy Hunters · The Folly
- White Denim · Woods
- The Felice Brothers · Garden
- Snuggle · The Boat
- PISS · The Folly
- james K · Big Top
- Super Furry Animals · Woods
- Marisa Anderson · Talking Heads
- Westerman · The Folly
- Sophia Stel · The Boat
- ØXN · Garden
- Factory Floor · Big Top
- Rostam · The Folly
- David Thomas Broughton · Talking Heads
- Bo Ningen · The Boat
- CMAT · Woods
- Kurt Vile & The Violators · Garden
- Mozart Estate · The Folly
- Anna Von Hausswolff · Big Top
- Fine · The Folly
- Brother Wallace · The Folly
End of the Road 2026 lineup FAQ
When is End of the Road 2026?
September 3–6, 2026, Thursday through Sunday.
Where does End of the Road take place?
Larmer Tree Gardens on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, a Victorian pleasure garden with resident peacocks.
Who is headlining End of the Road 2026?
Pulp, Geese, CMAT, and Mac DeMarco top the bill.
How many acts are playing?
139 music acts across four days, plus comedy, cinema, literature, and the traditional secret sets.
When do stage and day splits come out?
End of the Road publishes stage and day splits on its site closer to the festival. Save your acts on LineupScout and they'll become a personal schedule the moment times land.
How do I figure out which of the 139 acts I'd actually 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 End of the Road 2027?
End of the Road 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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