Drum & Bass festivals
6 festivals still to come with Drum & Bass on the bill, carrying 12 of the 32 Drum & Bass acts we track. Every act has a page: which festivals they play, what time they go on once the festival says, and what they sound like if the name is new to you.
Drum & bass runs near 175 beats per minute, built on a chopped breakbeat and a bassline low enough to move air in your chest. On a big rig the kick and snare sit right up front, an MC works the mic over the top, and tracks mix straight through with no gaps.
Sets tend to land late, in a tent tuned for low end rather than on a mid-afternoon main stage. An hour passes as one continuous mix, broken by rewinds when a drop lands and the crowd shouts for it. Softer, sung liquid sets and rolling jungle often take the earlier slot.
Drum & Bass festivals in 2026
Every bill still ahead of you with real Drum & Bass on it, deepest first. A festival needs at least 2 Drum & Bass acts to be here, so one stray booking on a bill about something else does not count.
Who carries Drum & Bass this season
The Drum & Bass acts booked the most in 2026. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.
A Little SoundOne of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
BouManchester's jump-up juggernaut, bringing relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure as one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
Nia ArchivesLeeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival, with breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting and rave history reclaimed as diary.
WORSHIPDrum and bass supergroup of Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock and 1991, four UK producers trading tracks in one long, rolling back-to-back set built for big rooms.Chase & StatusTwo decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end, scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
KanineUK producer at the jump-up end of drum and bass, big, rowdy, and built for a rave, with double-drops thrown like confetti.
Ivy LabThe trio who effectively invented halftime: drum and bass slowed to a swaggering crawl, with sound design that rewards headphones and necks alike.
Sub FocusNick Douwma's melodic drum-and-bass is euphoric, precisely engineered, and built for a very large sound system: arena-rave architecture at its cleanest.
- Chase & Status LiveUK drum & bass institution in full live mode: twenty years of rave history delivered with a band's punch, still peerless at festival scale.
DirtyphonicsFrench crew who came up through drum and bass and never lost the punk energy, playing genre-hopping bass sets like a rock show.
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Drum & Bass festivals: common questions
What festivals have the most Drum & Bass in 2026?
Rhythm and Vines 2026 (3 Drum & Bass acts), Snow Machine Japan 2027 (3 Drum & Bass acts), EDC Thailand 2026 (2 Drum & Bass acts). We count the acts on each published lineup rather than going by how a festival bills itself, so this is the depth of the actual Drum & Bass booking.
Where can I see Drum & Bass live in 2026?
6 festivals still to come have Drum & Bass on the bill. The next is EDC Thailand 2026, December 18–20, 2026 at Rhythm Park, Phuket, Thailand, with 2 Drum & Bass acts playing.
Which Drum & Bass artists are playing the most festivals in 2026?
A Little Sound (6), Bou (6), Nia Archives (5), WORSHIP (5), Chase & Status (4). Counted per festival across the whole season, finished bills included.
How many Drum & Bass acts are playing festivals in 2026?
32 Drum & Bass acts appear on the lineups we track, across 6 festivals still to come. Each one has a page with its dates, stages and set times wherever the festival has published them.
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