Punk's most musically awkward first-wavers had swirling organ and sneering menace where their peers just went fast, with 'Golden Brown' the elegant outlier.
PunkNew wave
Rebellion 2026 Lineup
Four days and nine indoor stages of punk in Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the genre's biggest annual gathering.
Rebellion is expected back August 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Rebellion 2026
Rebellion is punk's biggest annual gathering: four August days inside Blackpool's Winter Gardens, nine stages under one roof, and a 286-act bill that treats the genre as a half-century-deep family reunion. The Empress Ballroom closers set the tone: The Stranglers on Thursday, Sham 69 on Friday, Cock Sparrer on Saturday, Stiff Little Fingers on Sunday.
Every branch of the family is present. First-wavers run from Buzzcocks and 999 to Penetration and TV Smith; the oi! wing gets Cockney Rejects and The Business; anarcho history is covered by Steve Ignorant's Crass set, Subhumans and The Mob; American hardcore sends Cro-Mags, M.D.C. and The Adolescents; and the international class (Germany's stadium-scale Die Toten Hosen, Italy's Los Fastidios, Korea's Rumkicks, Japan's Mikabomb) proves the export took. The Opera House even runs a full post-punk-and-new-wave wing: The Chameleons, Bow Wow Wow, Au Pairs, Lene Lovich.
Days, stages and set times are all published: every act card below shows its slot.
Expect punk, rock, alternative and post-punk across 286 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK
- Lineup
- 286 acts
- Website
- Official site
Rebellion 2026 lineup & schedule: all 286 acts
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Fast, funny, thoroughly unserious London punk with a long back catalogue of bad decisions, and proudly unreformed.
PunkHardcore punk
Terrace-chant punk built for a thousand people shouting the chorus back, the template for oi!, with 'If the Kids Are United' still uniting.
PunkOi!
Horn-driven California ska with a frontwoman who commands a room from the first bar, bringing Orange County third-wave revival with showtune-sized energy.
Ska-punkThird wave ska
Fifty years of working-class anthems, and still the band that closes a punk festival better than anyone, where 'Because You're Young' guarantees wet eyes in the pit.
Oi!Punk
UV-painted anarcho-punk that insisted the movement didn't have to dress entirely in black, with day-glo defiance since the Crass days.
Anarcho-punkPost-punk
Blackpool's own UK82 veterans, closing a room in their home town with spiked-hair anthems played where they started.
PunkUK82
Belfast punk written under the Troubles, with Jake Burns's sandpaper roar over songs about getting out, 'Alternative Ulster' still the loudest exit plan.
PunkPost-punk
18 Fevers
Punk
Blackpool punk lifers on genuinely home turf, scrappy, local, and louder for it, scene regulars with local bragging rights.
Punk
Face Up
Punk
Noose
Hip-hop
Ramona's Tea Party
Norwegian outfit from Sandefjord playing power pop with the bite of punk, with hooks delivered fast and without ceremony.
Rock
The Dollheads
Las Vegas punk band formed in 2021, running on snotty hooks and a determinedly unpolished delivery.
Punk
Dead Dates
Punk
Norwegian punk with Turbonegro's swagger and a genuinely great line in song titles: Oslo irreverence at full speed.
PunkHardcore punk
Novelty punk with a legendarily long song title and no pretensions whatsoever, offering two pints of lager and a packet of laughs.
PunkComedy punk
Wall-of-sound '60s girl-group pop played by a two-piece with a fuzz pedal and no restraint (a Danish-Brazilian duo, Spector-sized).
Garage rockGirl group
Ambition Demolition
Punk
Brighton ska-punk with a genuinely political heart and a frontman who works a crowd like a preacher, with singalongs first and sermons snuck in after.
Ska-punkPunk
Straight-ahead oi! for the Empress Ballroom singalong: veteran terrace-chant punk played loud, proud, and without frills.
Oi!Punk
Nottingham crew who have spent over a decade working the B-movie graveyard end of punk, with a frontwoman leading the shout-alongs.
Punk
Charlie Harper still fronting one of punk's most relentlessly touring institutions, an album for nearly every letter of the alphabet.
Punk
Gizz Butt's post-Prodigy punk vehicle, faster and more melodic than the day job, with guitar-hero chops in three-minute bursts.
PunkAlt-rock
The voice of Crass performing the anarcho-punk canon that turned punk into a genuine political project: history, shouted live.
Anarcho-punk
The Adolescents
C86 jangle-pop with a fuzz pedal and one perfect, permanently sunny single: 'Crash', still crashing.
Indie popJangle pop
Kombi Killers
Punk
Ex-
Hip-hop
Bite Back
Punk
A man, an acoustic guitar, and a running commentary on the state of things, delivered pub-side, with a new album every December and a grin through all of it.
FolkAnti-folk
Angular, politically pointed post-punk built on the tension between two vocalists and a very tight rhythm section. Birmingham's answer to Gang of Four, sharper on gender politics than anyone.
Post-punkArt-punk
Scream
Rock
Wythenshawe's glam-punk originals, on the bill at the gig that famously started Manchester punk, with boot-boy anthems still swinging.
PunkGlam punk
The Bolokos
Punk trio out of Guadeloupe, playing fast melodic three-chord songs with an accent all their own.
Punk
Malcolm McLaren's Burundi-beat pop project, all tribal drums and teenage swagger, with 'I Want Candy' and a sound nobody has quite replicated since.
New wavePost-punk
Four sisters playing ferocious, unfussy punk with no gimmick beyond how hard they hit: a Hastings family business, all fury.
PunkHardcore punk
Haunted, minimal anarcho-punk that traded rage for genuine melancholy, where 'Let the Tribe Increase' still casts a long shadow.
Anarcho-punkPost-punk
Riot City Radio
Punk
Manchester punk that invented lovesick pop-punk two decades early, with 'Ever Fallen in Love' and a singles run where every hook still lands perfect.
PunkPower-pop
Drongos for Europe
Punk
Genre-hopping punk with a powerhouse vocal that swings from ska skank to full scream, with protest and party in one set.
Ska-punkPunk
Spleen
Metal
The Whops
Covid 21
Rock
Korean street punk trio bringing genuine UK82 fidelity from the other side of the world: studs, speed, and total sincerity.
PunkStreet punk
Club Brat
Indie rock
Split Dogs
Punk
Anti Virus
Alternative
Long-running Brighton ska with a brass section and zero interest in slowing down, keeping the Two Tone spirit warm for decades.
Ska2 tone
Christmas Kwon from 18 Fevers
Rivalry
Metal
Menace with Leigh Heggarty Play G.L.C. Rip
Punk spliced with grime cadences, a genuinely modern take on shouting about Britain, with both scenes' energy in one set.
PunkGrime-punk
Bullitz 23
Punk
The Adverts' songwriter playing his first-wave catalogue with a young band behind him, and 'Gary Gilmore's Eyes' is still unnerving.
Punk
Spectrum 4
John Robb fronting high-energy punk'n'roll with the evangelism of a man who genuinely loves this music, part gig and part revival meeting.
PunkGarage punk
Funny, furious feminist punk that says the quiet parts extremely loudly, with body-positive anthems and proper hooks.
PunkRiot grrrl
Roman Jugg Band
Rock
Gatecrash
Alternative
Fiddle-led folk punk with a devoted following and a strong line in righteous anger, with Levellers-lineage anthems built for muddy-boot dancing.
Folk punkCeltic punk
Mick Rossi's Gun St
Instrumental
Skeptix
The Samples
Rock
Tomorrow Burns
Alternative
Deliberately obnoxious, biker-adjacent punk that got its debut single seized under UK obscenity law, and 'So What' remains the filthy standard Metallica couldn't resist covering.
PunkHardcore punk
London street-punk band with a following that runs deeper across mainland Europe than at home, and singalong choruses delivered entirely without irony.
Rock
Essex oi! with an enduring grudge and the songs to back it, plus four decades of terrace snarl.
Oi!Punk
New wave's great eccentric, with yelps, trills, and a vocal style nobody has successfully copied, and 'Lucky Number' still gloriously odd.
New waveArt-pop
First-wave punk with the melodic instincts of a lost power-pop band: London '77 played with a songwriter's care.
PunkPower-pop
West Country punk that kept mutating between anarcho, psychobilly, and straight-up rock, from Devon eccentrics who never fit the uniform.
PunkAnarcho-punk
Kirk Brandon's grand, saxophone-flecked post-punk, built on conviction and reverb, with cult-canon status long secured and 'Never Take Me Alive' still the rally cry.
Post-punk
Scottish sci-fi punk in matching outfits, playing everything at cartoon speed with a grin, and with 'Top of the Pops' irony fully intact.
PunkNew wave
Oi! played straight down the middle, with no politics beyond solidarity, no frills beyond the chorus, and South London to the bone.
Oi!Punk
Early-eighties British horror punk turned goth, formed in Cheltenham in 1980, with B-movie imagery and graveyard theatrics played at punk speed.
Alternative
Pubic Enemy
Punk
Under the Influence
Pop
Diaz Brothers
Punk
Italian antifascist oi! and ska with three decades of unambiguous politics behind it: terrace anthems for the right side of history.
Oi!Ska-punk
Channel Islands ska-punk veterans back together for the festival circuit, bringing high-tempo, grin-first punk built for a beery mass singalong among the UK scene faithful.
Ska-punkPunk
First-wave London punk with a power-pop instinct that made them unusually durable, with 'Homicide' and a catalog of sharp, hooky singles still delivered at full pelt.
PunkPower-pop
Dead Pollys
Punk
North East oi! with more melody and less posturing than the genre's reputation suggests: working-men's anthems from Hartlepool.
Oi!Punk
Fire Exit
Punk
Dick Lucas's rapid-fire wordplay over anarcho-punk that never lost its sense of rhythm or humour, four decades in and undimmed.
Anarcho-punkHardcore punk
The Gakk
Rock
Second-wave UK punk with more melody than the leather-and-studs crowd usually allowed: UK82 veterans with genuine tunes under the spikes.
PunkUK82
Grippers
Punk
Dinner Ladies Disco
Spiked-hair UK82 hardcore whose buzzsaw riffs fed directly into American thrash, and these Birmingham veterans are still playing at full pelt.
Hardcore punkUK82
Liberty & Justice
Metal
Salford Jets
Rock
Henry Cluney
Rock
Somerset's cider-fuelled 'scrumpy and western' institution, booked entirely on purpose and greeted like heroes, and 'Combine Harvester' is guaranteed.
Scrumpy and westernFolk
Germany's biggest punk band by a distance: forty years of terrace-sized Düsseldorf anthems and a crowd that knows every word.
PunkPunk rock
Last Tree Squad
Hip-hop
Owner of the first-ever UK indie chart number one, and a band that has changed its name a dozen times since.
Post-punkNew wave
Cock-Batteth
Alternative
The Attack
Rock
Cavernous, chiming post-punk that half of modern indie rock has quietly borrowed from, with 'Script of the Bridge' the secret source text.
Post-punkGoth rock
The band that gave oi! its name and its football-terrace singalong instincts, East End punk that never pretended to be anything else.
Oi!Punk
Dave Formula & Noko
Alternative
Lancashire punk best known for a satirical anthem people keep taking at face value: 'I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher', forever misread.
PunkComedy punk
EXTC
Pauline Murray fronting first-wave punk with genuine melodic ambition underneath, and 'Don't Dictate' still a landmark.
PunkPost-punk
Richard Jobson's theatrical Scottish punk, with guitar lines that would later become Big Country, and 'Into the Valley' still a rallying cry.
PunkPost-punk
Disorder
Rock
Glam 45
Japanese garage-punk played at a giddy sprint with hooks buried in the fuzz: Tokyo-to-London racket with a grin.
PunkGarage punk
All Coasted
Rock
Rat Hole
Punk
John E Vistic Rock N Roll Soundsystem
Early-'80s Southern California punk with more melody than their hardcore neighbours, first-generation SoCal scene veterans still swinging.
Hardcore punkPunk
Michigan punk with a confrontational frontwoman and a very short fuse, offering snarling, old-school defiance with no filler.
PunkHardcore punk
First-wave London punk whose early lineup splintered into Generation X almost immediately, but Gene October kept the flag up anyway, for decades.
Punk
Convict Class
Punk
Nye Foxx
Threats
Hip-hop
Mc16
Punk
NYHC founders whose 'Age of Quarrel' remains the crossover blueprint: hardcore fury and metal precision fused before the terms had settled.
HardcoreCrossover thrash
Attila & Otway Present 'Cheryl - a Rock Opera
Black September
Metal
Invented an entire drumbeat and a genre named after it: nuclear-dread hardcore stripped to pure noise, and still the loudest warning siren in punk.
D-beatHardcore punk
Shanghai Treason
Punk
Pete Bentham & the Dinner Ladies
Punk
The Members Play at the Chelsea Night Club
The Antipoet
Hip-hop
Liberty-spiked American street punk that took the UK82 sound and made it louder, featuring Pomona's most committed mohawks.
Street punkHardcore punk
Sharp-suited, hard-driving rock'n'roll with punk's aggression and none of its scruffiness, with 'Birth, School, Work, Death' still the résumé.
Garage rockPost-punk
Iconoclasts
Alternative
Gina Birch & the Unreasonables
American hardcore's most reliably furious political band, name changing with each record, from Millions of Dead Cops onward, rage undimmed.
Hardcore punk
Cartoonishly fast California punk covers and originals, played entirely for the joke and entirely well, with five decades of controlled silliness.
PunkPop-punk
Sensa Yuma
Punk
One of the bands that accidentally invented goth, still trading in cavernous, tribal post-punk, and Luton's darkest export.
Goth rockPost-punk
Lady Lazarus
Punk
Silly, hook-stuffed UK punk that treats every show as a party first, with glam-daft costumes, huge choruses and zero self-seriousness.
PunkPop-punk
Dummy Toys
Punk
Thrown Away
Pop
Cheerfully shambolic anarcho-punk with several vocalists and no interest in being grim about it, the scene's most smiling veterans.
Anarcho-punk
The Liarbilitys
Punk
Smoking Fingers
Alternative
'GLC' and a lifetime of London punk delivered without a shred of nostalgia, from first-wave veterans still swinging.
PunkOi!
David Delinquent
Punk
Dog Rotten
Punk
Aftrshocks
Punk
Nell Davies
Alternative
In Evil Hour
Metal
The full-band version of the British songwriter's piano-driven material, punk-schooled and unsparing in its lyrics.
Singer/songwriter
Subalternos
Punk
Minimal Faff
Metal
Kent Nielsen
Slackrr
Punk
Anarcho-punk about English history and cricket, sung by a drummer, and far better than that sounds, with four decades of literate, galloping folk-punk devotion.
Folk punkAnarcho-punk
Henshaw
Hip-hop
The Glitterbombs
Metal
Jess Silk
Alternative
UK ska-punk with heavy dub and reggae inflections and rapid-fire vocal delivery, and grassroots lifers of the DIY circuit.
Rock
Molly Vulpyne Band
Alternative
The Dollies
Punk
Black Water County
Traditional folk
Control
Hairdye
Alternative
Babar Luck
Be N!Ce
London post-punk outfit formed in 2022, trading in wiry guitars and deadpan delivery.
Punk
Fat Wreck melodic punk with four-part harmonies and no patience for anyone's nonsense, with SoCal hooks carrying unapologetically feminist fire.
PunkMelodic-punk
Light of Eternity
Rock
Grail Guard
Punk
American street-punk quartet with gang vocals and Thin Lizzy guitar leads, plus barroom rock'n'roll with a boot-stomp underneath.
Rock
UK dub soundsystem veterans providing the bass-heavy comedown to a weekend of guitars, with echo chambers set to heal.
DubReggae
Red Moon Heroes
Punk
Muddy Summers & the Dfws
Tyne and Wear punk outfit going since 1977, back on the road decades later with the same terse, melodic three-chord urgency.
Alternative
Welsh trio trading in very fast, very short hardcore with a broad comic streak, plus prolific DIY output and songs that rarely outstay a minute.
Metal
TV Smith
Alternative
Deadbeat at Dawn
Punk
Vomit
Alternative
R.P.C.
Punk
Battery Acid
Rock
Glam-tinged power pop from the Last Great Dreamers singer, built on guitar hooks and choruses pitched for singing along.
Rock
Cryssis
Alternative
Thronk!
Punk
Fantazmaz
Punk
50 Foot Woman
Punk
Bitzy
Pop
Emily Flea Plays the Damned
Malad
Metal
Broken 3 Ways
Punk
Mauri Clash
Lost Cherrees
Rock
Wrishlas
British singer-songwriter with roots in the punk scene, writing piano-led songs that are candid about mental health and funnier than that suggests.
Singer/songwriter
Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls
Blues
Unrivalled
Rock
Catfight
Rock
Gypsy Pistoleros
Rock
Long-running British ska-punk outfit fronted by Subhumans vocalist Dick Lucas, going since 1990, with upstroke guitars, horns and unrelenting political argument.
Alternative
Critical Candy
Punk
Radical Architects
Dublin one-man punk project built on sampled speech, spoken-word delivery and unfiltered fury at the Irish church and state, closer to protest document than song.
Punk
Versaints
Rock
A double act built on genuine musicianship and total physical chaos, self-described as rock's great failure, and beloved precisely for it.
Comedy rockFolk rock
Defused
Punk
Belgian originals who started in 1976 and never much updated the formula: short, blunt, power-pop-tinged punk from the first wave.
Punk
A Murder of Crows
Metal
Random Hand
Punk
The Coathanger Solution
Punk
Guitar Gangsters
Alternative
Punk's original teenagers: the band members were barely fifteen when the first wave broke, and the songs still sound like a school-night escape.
Punk
The Puncturists
Punk
Borrowed Time
Rock
Deaf Devils
Rock
Talllon
Rock
Phat Problem
Punk
Voodoo Radio
Rock
Jonny Robson
Bambees
Spunk
Punk
I, Doris
Pop
Jessi Eastfield
Emily Flea
Skint Knees
Punk
Hung Like Hanratty
Punk
Cherry and Peesh
Los Angeles outfit mining a gothic Americana seam, with Mather Louth's vocals over upright bass and strings and murder-ballad tradition played with a theatrical streak.
Rock
Maisie Jo & the Rogans
Clitspit
Music in Our Underpants
Ireland's long-running anarcho-punk agitators, still recording with their heroes: Dublin's conscience at full volume, four decades of righteous racket.
Anarcho-punk
Shell the Alternative Folkie
Folk
Shambolic first-wave punk once featuring Captain Sensible and Chrissie Hynde, still gloriously unpolished, with Croydon legend status fully secured.
PunkPub rock
Frontman of The Almighty and later Black Star Riders, splitting his time between hard rock bite and stripped-back acoustic storytelling with a Celtic accent.
Hard rock
Wrex
Alternative
Knock Off
London punk band going since 2013, dealing in short, shouted, unfussy songs with the terraces-and-pub-back-room bluntness of British street punk.
Punk
Rev Peters
Belfast punk from the Good Vibrations scene, rougher and funnier than their neighbours: Troubles-era grit with a smirk.
Punk
Bloody Benders
Punk
Charlie Harper
Pop
Tear Up
Punk
Voice of Leicester's Crazyhead, the late-80s grebo outfit who welded garage-rock snarl to biker-rock riffs, with that same growl carried forward under his own name.
Rock
The Nanaz
Nick Cash
British punk band going since 2000, working the direct and unfussy end of the tradition.
Punk
The Jungles
Punk
Helen Mccookerybook
Singer/songwriter
The Ruts' surviving members carrying forward punk that always had reggae in its bloodstream, and 'Babylon's Burning' still smolders.
PunkDub
Mick Rossi
Instrumental
Nothing Thrives
Punk
Spunk Volcano & the Eruptions
Rock
River Ratts
Rock
Tribal drums and howling vocals: post-punk at its most operatic and least apologetic, with 'Westworld' still towering.
Post-punkGoth rock
Ricky Warwick & the Fighting Hearts
Pussyliquor
Punk
Resistance 77
Alternative
London street-punk lifers going since the mid-90s, with DIY squat-scene politics, breakneck tempos and a refusal to clean anything up.
Rock
Violet Violet
Alternative
Dash!
Hip-hop
Segregates
Hard rock
Hex Poseur
Rock
On the Huh
Punk
The London Sewage Company
Alternative
Gaydar
Punk
Spizzology
Millie Manders
Pop
Eastfield
Punk
Las Fokin Biches
Rock
Sally Pepper
Alternative
Thwack!
Alternative
Mess
Alternative
Molly Vulpyne
Alternative
Mona Freaka
Indie rock
Oorya
Punk
Jc Carroll
Alternative
The Subhumans' dub-and-ska-inflected sibling band, built for movement rather than confrontation, with Dick Lucas leading the dance instead of the charge.
Ska-punkAnarcho-punk
Witch Spit
Punk
Newport indie-pop group from the late-eighties C86 aftermath, pairing bright guitar jangle with Andrea Lewis's unmistakable vocal.
Alternative
Arturo Lurkers/999 Punktry Set
Wokerati Party
Punk
The Insane
Breakup Haircut
Alternative
Faebhean Kwest ( Feat Rachel Darq)
Yakkie
Rock
Whoremones
Alternative
Hawxx
Rock
The headliners
The Stranglers · Punk's most musically awkward first-wavers had swirling organ and sneering menace where their peers just went fast, with 'Golden Brown' the elegant outlier.
Sham 69 · Terrace-chant punk built for a thousand people shouting the chorus back, the template for oi!, with 'If the Kids Are United' still uniting.
Cock Sparrer · Fifty years of working-class anthems, and still the band that closes a punk festival better than anyone, where 'Because You're Young' guarantees wet eyes in the pit.
Stiff Little Fingers · Belfast punk written under the Troubles, with Jake Burns's sandpaper roar over songs about getting out, 'Alternative Ulster' still the loudest exit plan.
Sick on the Bus · Fast, funny, thoroughly unserious London punk with a long back catalogue of bad decisions, and proudly unreformed.
Bite Me Bambi · Horn-driven California ska with a frontwoman who commands a room from the first bar, bringing Orange County third-wave revival with showtune-sized energy.
Rubella Ballet · UV-painted anarcho-punk that insisted the movement didn't have to dress entirely in black, with day-glo defiance since the Crass days.
One Way System · Blackpool's own UK82 veterans, closing a room in their home town with spiked-hair anthems played where they started.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Rumkicks · Seoul street punk with true UK82 fidelity, proof the spikes translate.
- Haywire · New-school West Coast hardcore crashing a heritage bill.
The Baby Seals · Riot grrrl with punchlines: the funniest set with the sharpest point.
Riskee and the Ridicule · Grime cadences over punk chords: what a modern UK punk band actually sounds like.- Millie Manders & The Shut Up · The scene's next-generation standard-bearer.
Other acts worth planning around
Die Toten Hosen · Germany's stadium-fillers in a Blackpool ballroom: the weekend's hottest ticket.
Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set · The anarcho canon sung by its own voice. History, not nostalgia.
Buzzcocks · The inventors of lovesick pop-punk, opening the Opera House.
Cro-Mags · 'Age of Quarrel' New York hardcore, the hardest import on the bill.
The Chameleons · The post-punk band half your favorite indie bands stole from.
The Wurzels · Cider-powered comic relief, a Rebellion tradition unto themselves.
The Courettes · Two people, one wall of sound: '60s girl-group pop at garage-punk pressure.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (August 6)
The Stranglers, Sick on the Bus, Slaughter & The Dogs, Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set, UK Subs, Millie Manders & The Shut Up + 69 more
Thursday set times (75 sets)
- Thrown Away · Ris In Pavilion
- Hagar the Womb · Opera House
- The Liarbilitys · Club Casbah
- 18 Fevers · Empress Ballroom
- Smoking Fingers · Ris In Pavilion
- Litterbug · Arena
- Menace · Opera House
- David Delinquent · Almost Acoustic
- Dog Rotten · Club Casbah
- Face Up · Empress Ballroom
- Aftrshocks · Ris In Pavilion
- Noose · Arena
- Nell Davies · The Old Vic
- In Evil Hour · Almost Acoustic
- Subalternos · Club Casbah
- Carol Hodge Band · Opera House
- The Dollheads · Empress Ballroom
- Ramona's Tea Party · The Old Vic
- Minimal Faff · Ris In Pavilion
- Kent Nielsen · Almost Acoustic
- Dead Dates · Arena
- Slackrr · Club Casbah
- Blyth Power · Opera House
- Henshaw · Almost Acoustic
- The Glitterbombs · Ris In Pavilion
- The Good, The Bad and The Zugly · Empress Ballroom
- Splodgenessabounds · Arena
- Jess Silk · Almost Acoustic
- Popes of Chillitown · Club Casbah
- Molly Vulpyne Band · Opera House
- The Dollies · Ris In Pavilion
- The Courettes · Empress Ballroom
- Ambition Demolition · Arena
- Control · Club Casbah
- Black Water County · Opera House
- Hairdye · Ris In Pavilion
- Bar Stool Preachers · Empress Ballroom
- Foreign Legion · Arena
- Babar Luck · Almost Acoustic
- Be N!Ce · Ris In Pavilion
- Bad Cop Bad Cop · Club Casbah
- Light of Eternity · Opera House
- Headstone Horrors · Arena
- UK Subs · Empress Ballroom
- Grail Guard · Ris In Pavilion
- The Drowns · Club Casbah
- Zion Train · Opera House
- Janus Stark · Arena
- Red Moon Heroes · Ris In Pavilion
- Steve Ignorant Band Crass Set · Empress Ballroom
- The Adolescents · Club Casbah
- The Primitives · Opera House
- Kombi Killers · Arena
- Ex- · Ris In Pavilion
- Muddy Summers & the Dfws · Almost Acoustic
- The Carpettes · Conference Circle
- Bite Back · Arena
- Beans on Toast · Almost Acoustic
- Pizzatramp · After Dark In Pavilion
- Au Pairs · Opera House
- Scream · Club Casbah
- Slaughter & The Dogs · Empress Ballroom
- TV Smith · Conference Circle
- The Bolokos · Arena
- Deadbeat at Dawn · After Dark In Pavilion
- Bow Wow Wow · Opera House
- Maid of Ace · Club Casbah
- The Mob · Conference Circle
- The Stranglers · Empress Ballroom
- Riot City Radio · Arena
- Vomit · After Dark In Pavilion
- Buzzcocks · Opera House
- Millie Manders & The Shut Up · Club Casbah
- Drongos for Europe · After Dark In Pavilion
- Sick on the Bus · Arena
Friday lineup (August 7)
Sham 69, Bite Me Bambi, Anti Nowhere League, Ferocious Dog, Goldblade, The Business + 65 more
Friday set times (71 sets)
- R.P.C. · Ris In Pavilion
- The Whops · Empress Ballroom
- Spleen · Arena
- Battery Acid · Club Casbah
- Marc Valentine · Opera House
- Cryssis · Almost Acoustic
- Thronk! · Ris In Pavilion
- Rumkicks · Empress Ballroom
- Covid 21 · Arena
- Fantazmaz · Club Casbah
- 50 Foot Woman · Opera House
- Emily Flea Plays the Damned · Almost Acoustic
- Bitzy · The Old Vic
- Malad · Ris In Pavilion
- Club Brat · Arena
- Split Dogs · Empress Ballroom
- Broken 3 Ways · Club Casbah
- Mauri Clash · The Old Vic
- Lost Cherrees · Opera House
- Wrishlas · Ris In Pavilion
- Anti Virus · Arena
- Carol Hodge · The Old Vic
- The Hotknives · Empress Ballroom
- Unrivalled · Club Casbah
- Jo Carley and the Old Dry Skulls · Almost Acoustic
- Gypsy Pistoleros · Opera House
- Catfight · Ris In Pavilion
- Christmas Kwon from 18 Fevers · The Old Vic
- Rivalry · Arena
- Menace with Leigh Heggarty Play G.L.C. Rip · Almost Acoustic
- Citizen Fish · Club Casbah
- Riskee and the Ridicule · Empress Ballroom
- Critical Candy · Ris In Pavilion
- Radical Architects · Opera House
- Bullitz 23 · Arena
- Meryl Streek · Club Casbah
- TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers · Empress Ballroom
- Versaints · Ris In Pavilion
- John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett · Opera House
- Spectrum 4 · Arena
- The Kids · Club Casbah
- Defused · Ris In Pavilion
- Goldblade · Empress Ballroom
- The Baby Seals · Arena
- Roman Jugg Band · Opera House
- A Murder of Crows · Ris In Pavilion
- Random Hand · Club Casbah
- Gatecrash · Arena
- Ferocious Dog · Empress Ballroom
- Mick Rossi's Gun St · Opera House
- The Coathanger Solution · Ris In Pavilion
- Skeptix · Club Casbah
- Guitar Gangsters · Conference Circle
- The Samples · Arena
- Tomorrow Burns · Ris In Pavilion
- Anti Nowhere League · Empress Ballroom
- Eater · Conference Circle
- The Puncturists · After Dark In Pavilion
- Booze & Glory · Club Casbah
- Special Duties · Arena
- Lene Lovich · Opera House
- Borrowed Time · After Dark In Pavilion
- The Boys · Club Casbah
- Sham 69 · Empress Ballroom
- Cult Maniax · Arena
- Spear of Destiny · Conference Circle
- Deaf Devils · After Dark In Pavilion
- Rezillos · Opera House
- Bite Me Bambi · Arena
- The Business · Club Casbah
- Screaming Dead · After Dark In Pavilion
Saturday lineup (August 8)
Cock Sparrer, Rubella Ballet, Cockney Rejects, Die Toten Hosen, GBH, Glam 45 + 72 more
Saturday set times (78 sets)
- Talllon · Ris In Pavilion
- Phat Problem · Club Casbah
- Pubic Enemy · Empress Ballroom
- Voodoo Radio · Opera House
- Under the Influence · Arena
- Jonny Robson · Almost Acoustic
- Bambees · Ris In Pavilion
- Spunk · Club Casbah
- I, Doris · Opera House
- Los Fastidios · Empress Ballroom
- Diaz Brothers · Arena
- Jessi Eastfield · Almost Acoustic
- Emily Flea · The Old Vic
- Skint Knees · Ris In Pavilion
- Hung Like Hanratty · Club Casbah
- 4Ft Fingers · Arena
- Heathen Apostles · Opera House
- Cherry and Peesh · Almost Acoustic
- 999 · Empress Ballroom
- Maisie Jo & the Rogans · The Old Vic
- Clitspit · Ris In Pavilion
- Paranoid Visions · Club Casbah
- Music in Our Underpants · Almost Acoustic
- Shell the Alternative Folkie · The Old Vic
- Dead Pollys · Arena
- Johnny Moped · Opera House
- Gimp Fist · Empress Ballroom
- Wrex · Ris In Pavilion
- Ricky Warwick · Almost Acoustic
- Knock Off · Club Casbah
- Fire Exit · Arena
- The Outcasts · Opera House
- Rev Peters · Almost Acoustic
- Bloody Benders · Ris In Pavilion
- Subhumans · Empress Ballroom
- Charlie Harper · Almost Acoustic
- Tear Up · Club Casbah
- The Gakk · Arena
- Anderson from Crazyhead · Opera House
- The Nanaz · Ris In Pavilion
- Nick Cash · Almost Acoustic
- Chron Gen · Empress Ballroom
- Deadline · Club Casbah
- Grippers · Arena
- The Jungles · Ris In Pavilion
- Dinner Ladies Disco · The Old Vic
- Helen Mccookerybook · Almost Acoustic
- Ruts D.C. · Opera House
- GBH · Empress Ballroom
- Spunk Volcano & the Eruptions · Club Casbah
- Nothing Thrives · Ris In Pavilion
- Mick Rossi · Almost Acoustic
- Liberty & Justice · Arena
- Salford Jets · Opera House
- Henry Cluney · Almost Acoustic
- River Ratts · Ris In Pavilion
- The Wurzels · Club Casbah
- Die Toten Hosen · Empress Ballroom
- Last Tree Squad · Arena
- Theatre of Hate · Conference Circle
- Spizz Energi · Opera House
- Cock-Batteth · Ris In Pavilion
- The Attack · Arena
- Ricky Warwick & the Fighting Hearts · Conference Circle
- Pussyliquor · After Dark In Pavilion
- The Chameleons · Club Casbah
- Cockney Rejects · Empress Ballroom
- Dave Formula & Noko · Opera House
- Notsensibles · Arena
- Resistance 77 · After Dark In Pavilion
- Penetration · Opera House
- EXTC · Conference Circle
- Skids · Club Casbah
- Cock Sparrer · Empress Ballroom
- Rubella Ballet · Arena
- The Restarts · After Dark In Pavilion
- Disorder · After Dark In Pavilion
- Glam 45 · Club Casbah
Sunday lineup (August 9)
Stiff Little Fingers, One Way System, The Dickies, The Godfathers, Discharge, Dirtbox Disco + 56 more
Sunday set times (62 sets)
- Violet Violet · Ris In Pavilion
- Mikabomb · Empress Ballroom
- All Coasted · Arena
- Segregates · Club Casbah
- Dash! · Opera House
- Hex Poseur · Ris In Pavilion
- Rat Hole · Empress Ballroom
- John E Vistic Rock N Roll Soundsystem · Arena
- On the Huh · Club Casbah
- The London Sewage Company · Opera House
- Gaydar · Ris In Pavilion
- Spizzology · The Old Vic
- Channel 3 · Empress Ballroom
- Millie Manders · Almost Acoustic
- Choking Susan · Arena
- Las Fokin Biches · Club Casbah
- Eastfield · Opera House
- Thwack! · Ris In Pavilion
- Sally Pepper · The Old Vic
- Chelsea · Empress Ballroom
- Convict Class · Arena
- Mess · Club Casbah
- Molly Vulpyne · The Old Vic
- Mona Freaka · Ris In Pavilion
- Oorya · Opera House
- Jc Carroll · Almost Acoustic
- Threats · Arena
- Nye Foxx · The Old Vic
- Haywire · Empress Ballroom
- Culture Shock · Club Casbah
- Witch Spit · Ris In Pavilion
- The Darling Buds · Opera House
- Mc16 · Arena
- Wokerati Party · Ris In Pavilion
- Arturo Lurkers/999 Punktry Set · Almost Acoustic
- Cro-Mags · Empress Ballroom
- The Insane · Club Casbah
- Attila & Otway Present 'Cheryl - a Rock Opera · Opera House
- Black September · Arena
- Breakup Haircut · Ris In Pavilion
- Discharge · Empress Ballroom
- Shanghai Treason · Club Casbah
- Faebhean Kwest ( Feat Rachel Darq) · Almost Acoustic
- Pete Bentham & the Dinner Ladies · Arena
- The Members Play at the Chelsea Night Club · Opera House
- Yakkie · Ris In Pavilion
- The Antipoet · Almost Acoustic
- Total Chaos · Club Casbah
- The Godfathers · Empress Ballroom
- Whoremones · Ris In Pavilion
- Iconoclasts · Arena
- Gina Birch & the Unreasonables · Opera House
- Hawxx · Ris In Pavilion
- M.D.C. · Club Casbah
- The Dickies · Empress Ballroom
- Sensa Yuma · Arena
- UK Decay · Opera House
- Lady Lazarus · Ris In Pavilion
- Dirtbox Disco · Club Casbah
- One Way System · Arena
- Dummy Toys · After Dark In Pavilion
- Stiff Little Fingers · Empress Ballroom
Rebellion 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Rebellion 2026?
August 6–9, 2026: Thursday through Sunday.
Where does Rebellion take place?
The Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England: nine indoor stages, all under one roof, a short walk from the seafront.
Who is headlining Rebellion 2026?
The Empress Ballroom closers are The Stranglers (Thursday), Sham 69 (Friday), Cock Sparrer (Saturday) and Stiff Little Fingers (Sunday), with Die Toten Hosen, Cockney Rejects, Discharge and Buzzcocks among the top billing.
Are set times published?
Yes, days, stages and set times are live. Every act card shows its slot, and saving acts builds you a day-by-day schedule.
How many acts are playing Rebellion 2026?
286 acts across the four days and nine stages.
How do I work 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 the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
When is Rebellion 2027?
Rebellion is expected back in August 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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