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E D I TO R ’ S LET TER It’s that time again! Muddy fields in the middle of the British countryside or sun-drenched parks across the mainland – there’s another summer jam-packed with the best live music just around the corner.

This year’s cover stars Biffy Clyro not only return with seventh studio album ‘Ellipsis’ in July, but there’s a small matter of a Reading & Leeds headline, with a smattering of further festival appearances across Europe.

There are a ton of killer comebacks – LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, Haim to name just three – exciting new headliners including The Maccabees stepping up at Latitude – and tons of your favourites appearing worldwide: Wolf Alice, Years & Years, Foals, Chvrches, Arcade Fire, Disclosure... there’s no shortage of excitement to be found.

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FESTIVAL HIGHS & LOWS Emma Swann Founding Editor FESTIVAL HIGH I ​FINALLY​ got to see Weezer live at Reading 2010. It was everything I’d dreamed of.

FESTIVAL LOW Too many freebie Bacardi Breezers at V Festival one year meant I passed out during The Streets, had to be carried back to my tent, and missed the rest of the night. .............................. jamie milton Editor FESTIVAL HIGH James Blake’s Park Stage-closing set at Glastonbury 2014.

FESTIVAL LOW Leaving Portishead at Latitude early to catch Thom Yorke’s secret set.

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FESTIVAL LOW Drinking three bottles of wine in an hour waiting for Foals at Glastonbury 2013, blacking out three songs in, crowdsurfing, losing everyone, stumbling across the site lost for around four hours, stealing a flower tiara from a

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FESTIVAL LOW A guy in a Macklemore coat sat next to me at Reading and asked if I had any ciggies. ..............................

Sarah Jamieson Deputy Editor FESTIVAL HIGH I actually got to meet My Chemical Romance (aka my heroes) when I went to my first EVER festival. Big up Leeds 2006! What a start.

FESTIVAL LOW Any time those bloody TV cameras have decided to zoom in on me singing along really embarrassingly. Which has been A LOT. ..............................

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FESTIVAL LOW Ed Sheeran stalking me with secret sets last year.

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20½ REASONS WHY 2016’S FESTIVALS WILL BE F**KING AMAZING From the returning heroes of LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead to the introduction of grime at Glastonbury via the hottest new acts, must-see performances and exciting new headliners, 2016’s festival season is set to be one of the best yet. So (obviously) we listed 20 (and ½) reasons why.

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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM ARE BACK! BACK!! BACK!!!

From the ultimate Christmas gift (sorry, Nan, you tried) to a summer-dwarfing reunion tour - James Murphy and co’s second round is seizing control.

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t’s set to be the bucket-list moment of thousands. LCD Soundsystem’s split might only have lasted five years, but it’s a half-decade that’s felt like millennia. Along the way, their flawless trio of albums picked up innumerable new followers - a whole new generation of fans emerged in the interim, steadily discovering James Murphy’s cupboard-full of bangers through ever-glowing word of mouth.

This year, they’re back, promises of a new, fourth record still sat on their lips. Confirmed for more festivals than pretty much anyone, ever, in the history of bands playing fields, they’re going all-in. This is no flash-in-the-pan, quick-buck runaround. It’s the return of the kings, and they’re bringing the party to all corners of the globe. Finally taking the step up to headliner status that stood just out of reach first time around, LCD Soundsystem are, at long last, on the home

straight to legendary status.

From the fist-pump inducing ‘Get Innocuous!’ and its breakthrough, bassy counterpart ‘Daft Punk Is Playing At My House’, to the ten-tins-of-cider-and-cry-on-your-mate’s-shoulder euphoria of tracks like ‘Someone Great’ and (of course) ‘All My Friends’, LCD’s is a catalogue primed for making ‘moments’.

And that’s before we even get to the prospect of new material being let loose upon foreign fields.

Ignore the naysayers and the reunion poo-pooers. Their surprise Webster Hall shows over Easter weekend proved they’ve still got the chops; Murphy’s open letter back in January proved their hearts are in the right place. From here on out, LCD Soundsystem are taking over.

• LCD Soundsystem play Primavera Sound (1st - 5th June), We Love Green (4th - 5th June), Bonnaroo (9th - 12th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), T In The Park (8th – 10th July), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Lovebox (15th - 16th July), Panorama (22nd - 24th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Outside Lands (5th 7th August), Pukkelpop (17th - 20th August), Paredes de Coura (17th - 20th August), Lowlands (19th - 21st August) FYF (27th - 28th August), and Electric Picnic (2nd 4th September).

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adele Rolling in the deep, deep mud at Worthy Farm (probably).

will not do festivals.”

That’s Adele, speaking in 2011 to Q magazine, presumably already sick of being asked if she fancied a short trip to Worthy Farm on a certain weekend in June.

“The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me,” she said. With a peak-capacity crowd of 120,000 people piling in front of the Pyramid Stage on Sunday afternoon last year for Lionel Richie’s record-breaking set, she’s probably got a point.

Still, after the completely surprising (not) success of album ‘25’ and the bazillion arena dates she’s playing across the spring (“I’d rather do 12 years at the Barfly than one night at the O2,” she quipped in that same interview. She’s done eight in 2016.), it makes perfect sense for her to headline Glastonbury this summer.

Kanye already proved a one-man (or woman) show can captivate a full field in the top spot (cherry picker and Justin Vernon aside) in 2015; Adele’s got more bangers. And, as her numerous TV appearances, award show acceptance speeches, or even tour announcement videos show, she’s genuinely funny.

She could easily entertain a Glastonbury headline crowd with her endearingly sweary self-deprecating humour alone.

But, the hits. The festival’s ‑so-called ‘legends slot’ might be the place designed for realising you’re more closely acquainted with an artist’s back catalogue than previously thought – but even if you’ve never listened to an Adele record, you’ve heard two.

Exhausted after nights without sleep, mornings without showers, teary after taking sips from a hip flask of gin all afternoon, who’s not gonna be swinging from their nearest neighbour’s shoulders full of emotion during that soaring chorus of ‘Hello’?

• Adele plays Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June).

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THE RETURN OF RADIOHEAD They’ve crawled out of their studio and they’ve taken the keys. Now Radiohead are ready to “present” their ninth studio album, whatever that means.

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arcelona’s Primavera Sound announced that by June, Radiohead would be playing the follow-up to ‘The King of Limbs’ live. Naturally, this has left fans in a tizz. Come to think of it, by the time this festival guide ends up on sunny fields everywhere, Thom Yorke and pals’ new album could be out in the big wide world.

Four years away from the stage is a long time. In between studio LPs, however, every member’s kept busy. Jonny Greenwood’s travelled the world and soundtracked Hollywood films. Colin Greenwood’s starred on fashion show catwalks for a reason we’ll never fully understand. Thom Yorke’s definite midlife crisis has continued - that ponytail isn’t going away anytime soon - but he’s delivered great music through Atoms For Peace and solo with ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’.

For all its strengths, ‘The King of Limbs’ wasn’t a classic Radiohead record. Diehards were pinning their hopes on there being a ‘TKOL pt. 2’ just days after the full thing emerged. If

ever you needed a sign the loyal fanbase weren’t satisfied, this was it.

Radiohead have plenty to prove, in that sense. And it’s a while since they’ve had to answer to anyone. ‘In Rainbows’’ grand internet experiment saved and killed the music industry, depending on who you ask. They’re not at the behest of labels, they can put out music however they please, but this ninth album needs to be right up there with their best, if they’re to have any hope of appearing exciting at the top of a festival bill.

A few surprises could be in store, too. There’s nothing stopping Radiohead from a sneaky secret set at Glastonbury, especially given their mate Stanley Donwood designed the official poster. They once headlined V Festival and opened with ‘Creep’, for crying out loud, so in the festival stakes this lot can do anything. As it stands, the ball begins rolling with “intimate”, multi-thousand capacity shows in the UK, before Primavera, Secret Solstice and NOS Alive open their grounds to Thom Yorke and his moody brigade. It’s been a long time coming, but Radiohead’s return will be worth the wait.

• Radiohead play Primavera Sound (1st - 5th June), Secret Solstice (17th - 19th June), OpenAir St. Gallen (30th June 3rd July), NOS Alive (7th - 9th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), Outside Lands (5th – 7th August), Summer Sonic (20th - 21st August) and Lollapalooza Berlin (10th - 11th September).

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THE ARCADE FIRE STILL BURNS

Get ready for the first glimpse of the transformative band’s next disguise.

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ithout making a big song and dance about it, Arcade Fire are getting ready to take their next step.

Just a handful of shows are lined up for this year’s festival season, and Win Butler and co have given no info on whether they see this as a chance to try out new material or an excuse to flex their bill-topping muscles. But it’s not like they’ll be disappearing from memory anytime soon.

Beyond playing basketball and brewing their own coffee (as you do), they’ve had nothing to do except stick to the studio. Everyone deserves a bit of time outdoors, though.

Last time round, with the stratospheric ‘Reflektor’ by their side, Arcade Fire embraced their role as A Gigantic Band. Headliners for life, they linked huge ambition with some of their biggest songs to date, matched with an explosive narrative that tackled paranoia and the great, scary digital world. Expect fireworks at the very least.

Chances are, if their fifth album is anywhere near complete, we’ll be seeing the first signs of their new incarnation. ‘Neon Bible’ was all gospel-inspired melodrama, ‘The Suburbs’ a lament on lost youth.

‘Reflektor’ was all the above and a whole lot more. Whatever comes next, don’t expect it to be an understated retreat into darkness. Arcade Fire are way beyond the point where they can dive into a self-obsessed, introverted state.

• Arcade Fire play NOS Alive (7th 9th July), Bilbao BBK Live (7th - 9th July), Panorama (22nd - 24th July) and WayHome (22nd - 24th July).

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‘MON THE BIFF

hile you can read LOADS MORE about the Scottish trio’s triumphant return later in this very magazine (p38), let us remember fondly the last time they graced festival fields - whether it’s the fire-tastic mayhem of Reading & Leeds 2013 or the literal fireworks of T in the Park the following year, they’ve a lot to live up to this summer.

• See p45 for Biffy Clyro’s festival appearances.

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FALL OUT BOY RISING LIKE A PHOENIX

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hen the boys were last at Reading & Leeds in 2013, they’d not long begun saving rock ‘n roll (don’t worry, they did it, it’s saved), and played two places below a certain Biffy Clyro, with just Trent Reznor’s black-clad pals sandwiched between the pair. Since then they’ve teamed up with Ryan Adams for some old school hardcore punk, recorded and released the brilliantly batshit ‘American Beauty / American Psycho’ LP (roping in some rappers to guest on remixes too), toured the US on a co-headline with Paramore and taken Professor Green (!) across the UK’s arenas.

• Fall Out Boy play Tennent’s Vital (25th August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Glasgow Summer Sessions (27th August).

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“It’s been a couple of years And we missed your sunny faces. Looking forward to finally playing festivals again!!!”

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THE TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

here were screams for miles after Two Door Cinema Club’s name started appearing on bills for this year’s festivals. After the last-minute cancellation of their 2014 Latitude headline set there’s been little from the Two Door camp, but not only are they confirmed for massive slots at Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Best Kept Secret and Lollapalooza, but they’ve finished work on their third album and follow-up to 2012’s ‘Beacon’.

• Two Door Cinema Club play Art Rock (12th - 15th May), Governors Ball (3rd - 5th June), Bonnaroo (16th - 18th June), Mad Cool (16th - 18th June), Firefly (16th - 19th June), Best Kept Secret (17th - 19th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Hurricane (24th - 26th June), Southside (24th - 26th June), OpenAir St. Gallen (30th June - 3rd July), NOS Alive (7th - 9th July), Out of the Woods (15th - 16th July), Melt! (15th - 17th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Arenal Sound (4th - 7th August), Summer Sonic (20th - 21st August), Rock en Seine (26th - 28th August), and Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August).

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IT’S HAIM TIME AGAIN!

f there’s one thing 2015 festival season was missing, it was bass face. Este Haim’s majestic facial expressions are just one reason to get excited about the return of California’s top siblings, along with the promise of new material, of course - they’ve already posted numerous snaps of themselves in the studio working on the follow-up to 2013 debut ‘Days Are Gone’. They’re sure to be one of the highlights of Reading & Leeds, for one.

• Haim play Hangout (20th - 22nd May), Boston Calling (27th - 29th May), Governors Ball (3rd - 5th June), Bunbury (3rd - 6th June), Bonnaroo (9th - 12th June), Beach Ball (16th – 17th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th July), MO POP (23rd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), FM4 Frequency (18th - 20th August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Electric Picnic (2nd - 4th September).

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hat’s right, dear reader, for what would a festival be without you, the fevered masses singing your collective hearts out for three days straight?! A band playing to an empty field would make for a sorry sight, after all.

Whether it’s the 100,000+ people in front of the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, the 17,000 inside Roskilde’s Arena tent (the biggest tent in Europe, fact fans), or a few hundred inside the venue of an all­dayer, there’s something a ‘bit different’ about a festival crowd.

Open to discovering their new obsession while excited to see old favourites; ready to sing along to just about anything in audible distance; hyped up on warm lager, greasy burgers and sheer adrenaline; it’s all about the music, but not JUST about the music.

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• Bring Me The Horizon play Welcome To Rockville (30th April - 1st May), Fort Rock (30th April - 1st May), Carolina Rebellion (6th - 8th May), Northern Invasion (14th - 15th May), Rock on the Range (20th - 22nd May), Pointfest (21st May), BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend (28th - 29th May), Rock im Park (3rd - 5th June), Rock am Ring (3rd - 5th June), Greenfield (8th - 11th June), Pinkpop (10th - 12th June), Aerodrome (15th June), Belsonic (17th June), Hellfest (17th - 19th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Amnesia Rockfest (23rd - 25th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Bråvalla (30th June - 2nd July), Provinssi (30th June - 2nd July), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), Resurrection Fest (7th - 9th July), Slottsfjell (13th - 16th July), Woodstock Poland (14th - 16th July), Electric Castle (14th - 17th July), Sziget (10th - 17th August), FM4 Frequency (18th - 20th August), and Rock en Seine (26th - 28th August).

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ew could’ve predicted this one. Go back and listen to Bring Me The Horizon’s debut album ‘Count Your Blessings’ (or if you’re brave enough, first EP ‘This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For’) and try to imagine it nestled among the green, rolling hills of Glastonbury. For years, Bring Me were the chalk to the cheese of those Somerset farmlands.

‘That’s The Spirit’, though, tore them away from that ever-insular metal scene. A crossover record like few others, it’s one that’s now set to take them to Worthy Farm, following the likes of Metallica, Marmozets and Royal Blood in bringing the ruckus to hippy-town.

Last year’s Reading & Leeds sub-headline set proved they were a band for everyone - their potentially huge Glasto slot will cement their place as one of the defining bands of this generation. That brolly artwork’s never looked so apt.

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MUD & GRIME

It’s been building for decades, but this year’s huge Glastonbury platform showcases grime’s firm place in the spotlight.

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alk of grime as something ‘underground’ is long past its sell-by date.

Skepta shifted from a 1Xtra concern to Radio 1’s daytime rotation months ago. It’s hopped the pond in recent weeks, too, Stormzy’s whistle-stop run of the US drawing both unprecedented media attention and the sweatiest crowds this side of a volcano-based circle pit (or something).

Recent festival seasons have seen step-ups from the genre at every turn.

Brotherly duo Skepta and JME owned The Great Escape 2015, before the whole Boy Better Know gang blew the lid off Reading’s closing night.

Roll around SXSW earlier this year, and those aforementioned Stormzy stateside appearances were top of the pile.

It’s never had a platform quite like Worthy Farm’s afforded Skepta and Stormzy this year though. The sibilancelover’s dream pairing are rocking up to Glastonbury with the world’s eyes upon them.

While it might previously have been the Silver Hayes stages that played host to grime’s shining stars, both are surely too big a prospect to squeeze under Sonic’s canopy.

Even more interestingly, attempting to decode the Glastonbury line-up poster appears to place Skepta on the Pyramid Stage, billed higher than The 1975 and, er, Grimes. It’s a platform that’ll surely rile the petitionwagging wankers of the world, but it’s one that Joseph Adenuga will easily make his home. Make no mistake, Glasto grime is here to stay.

• Stormzy plays The Great Escape (19th - 21st May), X Music (3rd – 4th June), Wild Life (11th - 12th June), Parklife (11th - 12th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), PITCH (1st - 2nd July), Dour (13th - 17th July), Lovebox (15th - 16th July), MADE (30th July), Øya (9th - 13th August), Way Out West (11th - 13th August), and Flow (12th - 14th August).

• Skepta plays Moogfest (19th - 22nd May), Field Day (11th 12th June), Wild Life (11th - 12th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), PITCH (1st - 2nd July), Melt!

(15th - 17th July), Ilosaarirock (15th - 17th July), and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• Boy Better Know play Wireless (8th - 10th July) and Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August).

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THE FUTURE IS NOW With Foals at Reading & Leeds, The Maccabees at Latitude and Disclosure just about everywhere going, there’s a whole load of acts breaking through to the top spot.

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ave Grohl’s broken leg. Yaaaawnnn.

The moment Florence Welch leapt barefoot on to the Pyramid Stage on Friday night at Glastonbury 2015, Florence + The Machine having been bumped up a place last-minute as a result of the Foo Fighters frontman’s recent injury, something changed.

We’re not talking about how it propelled her new-ish album, ‘How Big How Blue How Beautiful’ back to the Number One spot on the UK album chart, outselling Wolf Alice’s ‘My Love Is Cool’ by just 528 combined copies that week (bitter? us?), but that the boldness with which she embraced her newlycrowned Glasto headliner status felt to herald the arrival of a whole new generation of field-fillers.

on building headliners through the stages over the years,” explains music programmer Natasha Haddad) – gave Florence the keys in 2010, Foals in 2012, while last year saw Alt-J heading the bill. It’s The Maccabees’ turn this time around.

Foals are now headlining Reading & Leeds in August alongside relative newcomers Disclosure. While undeniably massive, Bastille, who headline Festival No. 6 in September, still have just one album to their name (at time of writing, anyway). There’s James Blake and Wild Beasts at Green Man, and even Wolf Alice have found themselves topping bills already, at Glass Butter Beach in North Wales in August.

How could something so drawn-out and uninteresting (‘man breaks leg, man carries on, man stops, man sits down to play guitar’) be so... important?

Latitude – a festival with a reputation for giving artists their first taste of headliner status (“Latitude prides itself

FOALS

As the band prepare to headline Reading & Leeds in August, guitarist Jimmy Smith looks ahead.

So... Reading & Leeds headliners! How far up the excite-o-meter are you all right now?

At the moment Reading & Leeds seem in the distant future, so I’m not really thinking about it too much but I’m sure closer to the day we’ll blow the top off the excite-o-meter.

It tops off a pretty excellent year or so, really, doesn’t it?

Yeah, it’s been a great year, and there’s more to come after Reading & Leeds as well, but right now sitting in a hotel room in Connecticut it all feels a bit surreal, like is it actually happening or is it a cruel prank?

Was headlining something that ever crossed your mind, way back when you began?

Absolutely not, we were just focused on trying to get shows and write the first album. As long as we had a fiver a day for food and cigs, that was as good as

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headlining to us!

Do you feel you’re ‘flying a flag’ as it were, for artists working their way up bills now?

I hope we can show that you can get far through hard work and touring. I think people can get jaded pretty quickly when they’re surrounded by pop stars pretending to be in a band or the other way ‘round. Everyone is cheating using backing tracks live. All that can get you down when you are just trying to do things naturally, but it’s worth it in the end.

Who do you think are most likely to make the same step up as you in future?

It’s impossible to predict, but I’d love to see Everything Everything, The Maccabees, Wolf Alice, Yak, Savages…

There seems to be a lot of powerful bands out there, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

• Foals play Edgefest (30th April), Shaky Knees (13th - 15th May), Hangout (20th - 22nd May), Rock im Park (3rd - 5th June), Rock am Ring (3rd - 5th June), This Is Not A Love Song (3rd - 5th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Belsonic (23rd June), Metronome (25th - 26th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Open’er (29th June - 2nd July), Rock Werchter (30th June – 3rd July), Eurockéennes (1st - 3rd July), Live At The Marquee (5th July), NOS Alive (7th - 9th July), Bilbao BBK Live (7th - 9th July), Musilac (8th - 10th July), Panorama (22nd - 24th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), Outside Lands (5th – 7th August), Øya (9th - 13th August), FM4 Frequency (18th - 20th August), Lowlands (19th - 21st August), Dockville (19th - 21st August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Rock en Seine (26th - 28th August).

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THE MACCABEES Guitarist Felix White reflects on the band’s journey to top spot at Latitude.

Latitude headliners! How does it feel?

It’s gonna be the culmination of not just this year, but almost the entire fourteen years of our band. Not to put too much pressure on that particular moment, but it does feel like a conclusion up to this point for us. It feels fantastic to be honest! I don’t really know how else to put it.

Does it seem like a natural progression, rising to the ranks of being a headliner?

It’s interesting, because we’ve been playing for so long and we’ve incrementally gone up festival bills every time we’ve done them. We were literally first on at the new bands tent at things like Reading and T in the Park ten years ago, so we’ve got to a point - to be honest - where I think we actually feel comfortable with doing it, whereas two or three years ago, we might not have done. I can imagine how bands might’ve felt when this sort of thing happened with their first or second album, but I think, in our heart of hearts, we’re ready to do it and we know how to do it, and it’s about time we did. I don’t think we feel overawed by the idea of it, but it’s gonna be a very special night.

Latitude also really feels to be a bill that’ll suit you as a band.

I think it does suit us, and I always think when you look at the bill for Latitude, it’s a real music lovers’ bill. You’ve got Beirut, Father John Misty, British Sea Power, Roots Manuva and Kurt Vile and god knows who else! Even seeing our name next to The National on the posters… It just feels really proper and for people who are into a specific kind of music, they’ll really appreciate most of the things on it. We feel proud to be on top of that line-up for sure.

And for the stage show, will you be pulling out all the stops?

No… I mean, I didn’t imagine I’d be saying this but probably not! The first time we did big shows was at Alexandra Palace about three or four years ago and I was super adamant that we needed to throw out all the stops. We spent the entire budget on these lasers that went fucking mental just for one song, for three minutes. I even remember, as it was going on, thinking ‘That was unnecessary!’ Live and learn. So we won’t have lasers. Plus, especially with the last tour, we started to realise how we make our band work in that situation, and that’s trying to engage people in an honest way, by making simple things really bold. We’ll be trying to make it, at times exciting and at times emotive but in a way that’s just between us. It’s just about watching five people playing in a band together, rather than all the stadium rock antics that suit other bands.

That’s actually something that feels to be really reflected in the new album, too.

Yeah, right. I think that was the nice thing about how this record’s gone. It’s not like it’s a really brave record or anything

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Does it feel like a good time to be taking that step up and proving that you don’t have to be a dinosaur to top a bill anymore?

Firstly, seeing Foals do it and do it so well, and take so comfortably to it, was pretty reassuring really - not just for us but for British music in general. There’s also quite a cool sense of sentimentality to watching bands like Foals play, because you remember when you first heard songs from their first record, and when you saw them play to 70 people ten years ago. There’s a different sort of affinity and meaning to bands like that, as opposed to big stadium acts that just get wheeled around. And because bands don’t sell as many records now, I can imagine it’s easy for people to say ‘Well, they haven’t sold ten million records so they’re not a big band.’ Yet, if you come and watch these shows, there’s a real sense of goodwill for a lot of groups and it just takes that leap of faith, to put bands right up there, and the whole industry will probably get a lot back from it. There’s a really cool story with bands like Foals and us because people have grown up alongside us.

• The Maccabees play Ahmad Tea (18th June), Benicàssim (14th - 17th July), and Latitude (14th - 17th July).

WILD BEASTS Wild Beasts don’t like to be disturbed when they’re ‘in the zone’. Making albums is a serious business for this lot. And given how magnificent previous LP ‘Present Tense’ ended up being, they’re right to shut the blinds. Still, there’s no point going full vampire this summer. They’re taking a quick break to headline Brecon Beacons’ Green Man. Chances are they’ll showcase a timely glimpse of the fifth album.

• Wild Beasts play Green Man (18th - 21st August), and Electric Picnic (2nd - 4th September).

JAMES BLAKE

There aren’t many acts who could feasibly play any corner of a festival site and thrive quite like James Blake. From dark and dingy club sets to huge, main-stage tearjerkers, attended by thousands who hang on his every looped croon, Blakey boy’s got unlimited guises hidden up his sleeves.

This year, he steps up to the top spot at Green Man and Field Day alike, both perfectly primed for different sides of his infinity-faced dice. Where the former, Brecon Beacons-based bash will surely fall for his softer charms, Victoria Park’s Field Day headline slot is perfectly primed for the more dance-leaning inflections of ‘CMYK’ and ‘200 Press’. Expect a few of those 1800-Dinosaur DJ sets to crop up in the far-flung bar tents of Glastonbury too. Maybe he’ll bring the banter of his must-listen Radio 1 Residency show to a comedy stage as well, best mate Stephen Merchant in tow.

• James Blake plays Field Day (11th - 12th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Fuji Rock (22nd - 26th July), Splendour In The Grass (22nd – 24th July), Eaux Claires (12th - 13th August), Green Man (18th - 21st August), Lowlands (19th - 21st August), and Lollapalooza Berlin (10th - 11th September).

WOLF ALICE “I can see why you might think they’re the best thing to happen to music. Great songs. Ellie is fantastic - she’s absolutely brilliant. Ultimately what’s amazing is the songs. Just fantastic songs.

People respond to it. Wolf Alice will be very high in the bill. Can I see them headlining Latitude? Yeah, I can.”

That’s what Festival Republic head honcho Melvin Benn said to us at Latitude last year (he’s also responsible for Reading & Leeds, among other things), and while the North London quartet aren’t quite at that point yet (let’s allow them a second album first, guys!) they have found themselves topping a bill this summer - at Glass Butter Beach in North Wales (19th - 21st August).

• See p48 for Wolf Alice’s festival appearances.

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ALL THE BEST NEW BANDS

Future headliners are in the mix at this year’s festivals, making exciting first steps before attention turns to the big guns. Looking beyond the endless buzz, here’s our pick of the new bands most definitely worth seeing, so you can say ‘I told you so’ in years to come, like a smug git.

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BLACK HONEY What’s the deal? They started out sending strange, private WhatsApp messages to fans. Now Black Honey are shunning mystery and embracing the spotlight.

With the unparalleled Izzy B. Phillips at the front, they bring a dark, ever-evolving and cinematic slant on pop. Festival season began swiftly with an appearance on DIY’s boat at Eurosonic back in January. Next on the agenda owning the summer.

Similar to: A cinematic odyssey.

• Black Honey play Handmade Festival (29th April - 1st May), FestEVOL (1st May), The Great Escape (19th - 21st May), Gold Sounds (21st May), Wychwood (3rd – 5th June), 2000trees (7th – 9th July), Bestival (8th - 11th September), and Rockaway Beach (7th-9th October).

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What’s the deal? It took seven barnstorming minutes for Pumarosa to make their mark. Debut single ‘Priestess’ was up there with 2015’s finest, and the London group’s perfect chasm of Kate Bush-style imagination and chart-ready heroics has put them firmly in the foreground. Latest triumph ‘Cecile’ is destined to top bills in the future. Festival bookers might as well get those 2020 headliner offers on the table already.

Similar to: Future Islands without the dancing.

• Pumarosa play Live at Leeds (30th April), Sounds From The Other City (1st May), The Great Escape (19th-21st May), Farmfest (29th30th July) and Visions (6th August).

GIRLI What’s the deal? This North Londoner splits opinion like Ernest Rutherford taking on an atom. Ask DIY, and we’ll tell you the score.

GIRLI is the don’t-give-a-shit thrillseeker pop needs right now, confronting insecurities and prejudice in the most fun, firework-filled way possible. She’s unmissable.

Similar to: Charli XCX jumping on an M.I.A. track.

• GIRLI plays The Great Escape (19th-21st May), LeeFest (28th-31st July), Bestival (8th-11th September

INHEAVEN What’s the deal? INHEAVEN pen skyrocketing anthems for a generation who couldn’t give two shits about shoegaze’s history. They’ve a debut album in the works, following headturning singles that merge purpose and politics. Nothing’s standing in the way of their grand, guitar-soaked crusade.

Expect appearances in some of the country’s biggest fests.

Similar to: My Bloody Valentine aiming for the charts.

• INHEAVEN play Live at Leeds (30th April), The Great Escape (19th-21st May), Liverpool Sound City (29th May), Wychwood Festival (3rd - 5th June), Bilbao BBK Live (7th-9th July) and Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August.)

TRUDY & THE ROMANCE

What’s the deal? They swoon and they croon like love-ravaged drunks, but Trudy & The Romance also pack tricks up their sleeves.

The Liverpool group sport tightly-wound guitar pop delivered at record speed, to the point where every attention-grabbing chorus rushes past at 100mph. If you blink, you miss them, but make no mistake - Trudy’s sweet, stumbling sound will be everywhere in no time.

Similar to: Sticking a love letter to a can of Buckfast.

• Trudy & The Romance play Stag & Dagger (1st May), The Great Escape (19th-21st May), Gold Sounds (21st May), Liverpool Sound City (29th May).and LIMF (21st 24th July).

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14 AND SOME (REALLY) OLD ONES TOO It’s no secret that our hard-working festival bookers are partial to a bit of mahogany. Wait, did we say that? We mean, er, um, there are ‘quite a few’ acts headlining this year’s events who are, um, towards the ‘experienced’ end of things.

THE WHO

The Who celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 2015. That makes them older as a band than the combined ages of Disclosure. In fact, most of our other ‘old geezers’ were being born while Roger, Pete and the gang were blasting out ‘My Generation’ the first time around.

• The Who headline Isle of Wight (9th - 12th June).

• The Cure headline Sasquatch! (27th - 30th May), Bestival Toronto

(11th - 12th June), Splendour In The Grass (22nd - 24th July) and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• The Stone Roses headline T in the Park (8th - 10th July).

• New Order headline Latitude (14th - 17th July), Øya (9th - 13th August), and Electric Picnic (2nd - 4th September), and play Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), Bilbao BBK Live (7th - 9th July), and Lollapalooza Berlin (10th - 11th September).

• Red Hot Chili Peppers headline Rock on the Range (20th - 22nd May), BottleRock (27th - 29th May), Rock im Park (3rd - 5th June), Rock am Ring (3rd - 5th June), Greenfield (8th - 11th June), Novarock (9th 12th June), Pinkpop (10th - 12th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Open’er (29th June - 2nd July), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), Ottawa Bluesfest (7th - 17th July), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Park Live (9th - 10th July), Fuji Rock (22nd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), Tennent’s Vital (25th August) and Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August).

THE CURE

Robert Smith and pals decided to be in a band in 1976, the same year Supergrass’ Gaz Coombes, Jenny Lewis, Chester Bennington and Tim from Keane were born (it’s just as well they didn’t all decide to group up, tbh). At the time of going to print, their combined age is 280.

THE STONE ROSES

Playing their first gig in October 1984 and with a combined age of 211, The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut album was released in 1989, which as the world knows, now belongs to Taylor Swift.

NEW ORDER

Are they cheating by having biggest hit ‘Blue Monday’ rereleased in 1988 and 1995 after its original issue in 1983? Will the campaign to have Keith Allen - and more importantly John Barnes - join the band at Glastonbury for ‘World in Motion’ win out? There’s one thing we do know, Really Famous Person Kim Kardashian West was born four days before the band newly crowned New Order played their first gig.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Can’t stop. No, really. The Californian cocks-out-rockers can’t stop. Or be stopped. They’ve got a combined age of 196, and we just read on Wikipedia one of frontman Anthony Kiedis’ babysitters was Actual Cher.

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THE HIVES STILL EXIST

he Hives have never flunked a festival set. Ever. Or any other set for that matter, but there’s nobody better at taking a crowd waiting for someone else’s slot later on and winning them over one stop-start riff at a time. Ever the perfect frontman, ‘Howlin’’ Pelle Almqvist’s scissor kick jumps, mic throws and repeated insistence that those in front of him have a great time can’t be beat.

• The Hives play Greenfield (8th - 11th June), Hurricane (24th - 26th June), Southside (24th - 26th June), Le Festival de Artefacts (25th June), Garorock (30th June - 3rd July), Kendal Calling (28th - 31st July), Y Not (29th - 31st July), and Standon Calling (29th - 31st July).

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Sometimes it’s all about that moment. You know, when a song kicks in at full pelt, you’re in the middle of a crowd losing its shit on every corner and everything in the world just feels right. These are the songs most likely to ‘go off’ this summer.

FOALS - WHAT WENT DOWN

You know the bit. Yannis going full throttle, his already raw vocals stretched beyond their limits, screaming “you’re the apple of my eye” repeatedly, sounding less a compliment, more a full-on threat. If you’re not forming a circle pit for it, you’re missing out.

WOLF ALICE - GIANT PEACH

Big, brutal and booming - the entire song builds to that one moment of cacophonous joy, and whether at Glastonbury, Bestival or that big set supporting Biffy Clyro in Glasgow, only the bravest will want themselves frontcentre when it all kicks off.

CHVRCHES - CLEAREST BLUE

ONE GREAT SONG

• See p21 for Foals’ festival appearances.

• See p48 for Wolf Alice’s festival appearances.

• See p34 for Chvrches’ festival appearances.

• See p11 for Radiohed’s festival appearances.

• Major Lazer plays Shaky Beats (20th - 22nd May), Sasquatch! (27th 30th May), Parklife (11th - 12th June), Firefly (16th - 19th June), Electric Forest (23rd - 26th June), Ruisrock (8th - 10th July), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Benicàssim (14th - 17th July), Lovebox (15th - 16th July), Longitude (15th - 17th July), Panorama (22nd - 24th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Outside Lands (28th - 31st July), Bestival (8th - 11th September), and Lollapalooza Berlin (10th - 11th September).

• MØ plays Shaky Beats (20th - 22nd May), Orange Warsaw (3rd 4th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), Latitude (14th 17th July), Lovebox (15th - 16th July), Longitude (15th - 17th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th July), Sziget (10th - 17th August), and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• Grimes plays Sweetlife (14th May), Moogfest (19th - 22nd May), Hangout (20th - 22nd May), Lightning in a Bottle (25th - 30th May), Sasquatch! (27th - 30th May), Bunbury (3rd - 6th June), Bestival Toronto (11th - 12th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Open’er (29th June - 2nd July), PITCH (1st - 2nd July), NOS Alive (7th - 9th July), Bilbao BBK Live (7th - 9th July), Slottsfjell (13th 16th July), Latitude (14th - 17th July), Positivus (15th - 17th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th 31st July), Outside Lands (5th - 7th August), and FYF (27th - 28th August.)

• See p7 for LCD Soundsystem’s festival appearances.

Whether the Glasgow trio have temporarily planted their pop bombast in a sweaty tent or on a massive main stage, the (probably) muddy countryside they’re in will be transformed to an open-air club once the synth riff fully kicks in on this one. Strobes, lasers, the light from a thousand mobile phones, even the fun-averse will rave on to this one.

RADIOHEAD - 2 + 2 = 5

There’s a theme here: the best songs at festivals are those which have a definitive moment everything kicks in, goes crazy, makes sense, however you want to put it. And this is probably the best Radiohead number for that (with the stop-start in ‘Just’ a near second). Fraught with anger brimming over, even the most chin-stroking ‘head head will be thrashing it out at this one.

MAJOR LAZER (AND MØ) LEAN ON

With no idea whether DJ Snake is following Diplo and pals on their worldwide jaunt this summer, it’s the possibility of our fave Dane joining in the fun that’s gonna make this one of the hottest tracks for a second summer running.

Get your worst pan flute impressions ready!

GRIMES - KILL V MAIM

That’s not forgetting the power of a singalong, and for those of us who can’t keep up with Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes on the deliciously dark ‘Scream’, there’s the wonderfully hedonistic refrain of “we don’t behave” on the equally dance-worthy ‘Kill v Maim’. Fists in the air.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - ALL MY FRIENDS

Every song James Murphy and his merry band perform during the summer’s festivals will be A Hit - whether the immediate ‘Daft Punk Is Playing At My House’ and ‘Drunk Girls’ or the easiest-singalong-ever ‘Yeah’. But it’s the gang’s most sentimental number that’ll easily be the star of the disco-ball starring show, as (happy, mostly) tears will inevitably be shed worldwide to this call to (swaying) arms.

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HELLO, MY ONLY ONE Some acts aren’t playing All The Festivals after all.

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very year festivals get their bragging rights ready in ever-more confusing ways. For example, Reading & Leeds is the only place to see Imagine Dragons’ festival set in Europe (imagine). The ‘UK Festival Exclusive’ banner is used for a whopping number of acts - The National at Latitude, The Who at Isle of Wight, Cat Power at End of the Road, plus Nas, Tonight Alive, The Internet, Fetty Wap, Parkway Drive, Eagles of Death Metal *and* the one-two of Fall Out Boy and Biffy Clyro at Reading & Leeds (even though the last two are also playing a Glasgow Summer Sessions event the same weekend).

But there’s more! LCD Soundsystem and Major Lazer at Lovebox and Sigur Rós and Caribou at Citadel are both London exclusives. Got that?

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It’s secret sets a-go-go all summer. Probably.

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he thrill’s in the chase when it comes to secret sets, but when last year gave us the killer onetwo of Ed Sheeran and Thom Yorke at Latitude, Bastille in the tiny William’s Green tent at Glastonbury, and brilliant extra performances from Wolf Alice and Peace at the BBC Introducing stage at Reading (to name just some we saw with our own eyes), there’s every reason to expect this year’s festivals will bring with them yet more. Not least ‘cause we’re planning some ourselves.

Keep your eyes peeled.

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hether it’s Field Day, Lovebox or the British Summer Time events in London, Parklife in Manchester, Live at Leeds in (duh) Leeds, The Great Escape in Brighton, Glasgow’s Summer Sessions, Dot to Dot in Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham, for those who’d rather not pack tents, wellies and sleeping bags there’s plenty of urban events this summer. Not just the UK either - Lollapalooza takes over a park in central Chicago, NOS Alive’s stellar line up visits the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, Bilbao

BBK Live’s mountain top home is close to the city centre, and Lollapalooza Berlin is, as its name suggests, well within the German capital’s borders. Not forgetting NYC’s aces; Governors Ball and the brand new Panorama.

Of course the pastoral life is what others deem festival season all about - whether it’s the brightly-coloured sheep at Latitude, the multi-farm takeover of Glastonbury, the hills of Green Man, the forest setting of End of the Road or the landscaped surroundings of the not-so Secret Garden Party.

Latvian festival Positivus boasts both forest AND beach, while Best Kept Secret gets back to nature with a lake and safari park.

Not to mention Wild Life, Melt! and Open’er on various airfields, Flow in a defunct power plant in Helsinki, and new London dance event Junction 2 boasts of being under the M4 motorway.

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ERRORS / GOGO PENGUIN SHILPA RAY / PUMAROSA THE HOT 8 BRASS BAND

SAN PROPER / LONE (LIVE) PEARSON SOUND B2B KOWTON / AUNTIE FLO

My Baby / Flamingods / Anchorsong Rachael Dadd /Plastic Mermaids Stuff / Roseau / Haiku Salut / Rhain Afriquoi djs / Peluché / Pete Josef...

Fleetmac Wood / Bentley Rhythm Ace Dj Format & Abdominal / Baba Stiltz Jon K / Lefto / Late Night Tales...

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here’s close to zero chance Disclosure’s Reading & Leeds headline won’t include a special guest or two; if Calvin Harris brought out Will Smith at T in the Park the other year, who’s up his Coachella sleeve? Not to mention MØ is featuring at nearly every event we’ve seen Major Lazer pop up at this summer. Festivals are prime candidates for acts popping up on stage with their pals - for one we’ll never forget when Drenge’s Eoin popped up for a rousing ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ at Wolf Alice’s secret Glastonbury set last year.

MOST LIKELY Lovebox, Bestival, Longitude, Lollapalooza… just four events this festival season that both Major Lazer and Danish pop maestro MØ are playing. Cue those signature pipe sounds of Most Streamed Song Ever, ‘Lean On’.

QUITE PROBABLE Jamie xx is playing a lot of Big Festival Slots this summer, so who’d bet against pals Romy, Oliver and everyone’s favourite drummer™ Stella From Warpaint making an appearance or two along the way?

HMM, MAYBE NOT Now he’s besties with James Blake, Frank Ocean braves the notorious Welsh weather and pops up at the Londoner’s Green Man headline set to debut tracks from his new album. In Welsh.

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PIGS WILL FLY FIRST After taking on the Pyramid solo last year, ‘Ye decides Adele could do wit‑h a partner in crime, and sends the star of his 2015 headline set to lend a hand. Yes, we’re talking the cherry picker.

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DISCLOSURE As the beat-lovin’ bros prepare to headline Reading & Leeds and curate Wild Life for a second year, they spill about planning your own festival.

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isclosure played a risky game last year when they decided to start a brand new festival. Wild Life their co-venture with drum ‘n bass phenomenon Rudimental - saw Guy and Howard Lawrence taking over Brighton City Airport for a weekend in June. Far from suffering under the weight of first year nerves, it was a blinding success.

The clever sods even used it as an opportunity to debut new album ‘Caracal’.

Technically, Disclosure and Rudimental are only in charge of picking the acts (“that’s what we’re most qualified to do,” says Howard). That’s assuming disaster doesn’t strike. “Unless something drastic happens and we need to step in, we stick to the line-up.”

2015 saw everything go to plan. Seaside sun was a permanent fixture, with George Ezra, Jamie xx and Skepta all getting involved in the first year celebrations. “This year, the line-up’s equally strong,” he claims. “Genuinely, we just went through our iTunes and gave a big list of the ideal acts. And the

“We could get some horses and parade through the airport like kings...”

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bookers smashed it - they got pretty much everyone.”

These aren’t just a bunch of Disclosure’s favourite acts. Half of them are close friends - expect the duo’s after-hours fun to go a few steps further. “We’ll be out in the crowd, potentially in disguises and without being recognised,” he says, shunning the Michael Eavis routine of driving through festivals on a giant tractor. “I mean, we could get some horses and parade through the airport like kings. We had this plane last year, which we squeezed onto with Rudimental and a camera crew.

It was potentially dangerous. Rudimental suggested we just stayed in the plane and circled round, but I was like, ‘I wanna be at the festival and having fun!’”

Outside of Wild Life, the duo are stepping up to co-headline Reading & Leeds with Foals. As young punters, pre-fame they would soak up these festivals (plus Bestival and The Big Chill) and attend every year. Today, they use them as a blueprint for their own. “Our favourite festivals - just ones that we’ve been

to - had an impact. We’re trying to have something in common with those. There’s a friendly vibe. We just wanna replicate that.”

Naturally, Disclosure are topping the Wild Life bill for a second year too. They’ve a few surprises “in the pipeline”, but don’t expect some grand new album unveiling in the style of 2015. “It won’t be a normal show for us,” he claims. They’re joined by Bastille, Aussie producer Flume, gadget-head warbler Jack Garratt, man-stuck-in-a-hat James Bay and exciting new acts GoldLink, Jorja Smith and Snakehips. Last year’s debut wasn’t a one-off, and these two are clearly expecting the event to continue for decades.

“We’re gonna slowly expand, but we still want it to feel cosy, so you don’t get that vibe of feeling like it’s empty even when it’s sold out. That’s the plan.” DIY

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Wild Life isn’t the only festival Disclosure headline this year, and they’re convinced there’s a new wave of bill-toppers pushing through.

“Bookers should always take risks, but that doesn’t always mean shunning old-school acts. There’s always space for them because they’ve got brilliant music and people wanna see it. But new headliners are coming through. Look at Sam Smith - he’s only had music out for two years and he’s headlining festivals everywhere. I can’t imagine Sam playing a festival and not headlining anymore, which is crazy.

Three years ago he was still working in a bar. It’s probably to do with how the Internet accelerates the rate people become huge.”

• Disclosure play Boston Calling (27th - 29th May), Sasquatch! (27th 30th May), Wild Life (11th - 12th June), Firefly (16th - 19th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Garorock (30th June - 3rd July), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), Eurockéennes (1st - 3rd July), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Melt! (15th - 17th July), Fuji Rock (22nd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), Lowlands (19th - 21st August), and Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August).

WIN Lowlands tickets We’ve got a pair of weekend tickets to give away - plus flights.

The Disclosure boys are just one act confirmed to play this year’s Lowlands festival, which takes place between 19th and 21st August in Biddinghuizen in the Netherlands (about an hour outside Amsterdam).

They’re joined by Muse and LCD Soundsystem as headliners, plus Foals, Chvrches, cover stars Biffy Clyro, James Blake, The Kills, Warpaint, and newcomers such as Dua Lipa, Pumarosa and Whitney.

We’ve got a pair of weekend tickets to give away (including ‘glamping’ accommodation) - plus flights. Head to diymag.com/ winlowlands to enter.

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The Big Moon’s Guide To

FESTIVAL FUN

Between the swamps of mud, the over-zealous alcohol searches, and the traumas of surviving the portaloos on Sunday morning, festivals can sometimes feel like an episode of The Island with Bear Grylls. With this in mind, we gave seasoned camping veterans The Big Moon a call. Luckily, vocalist Jules Jackson has got it covered.

Hello, Jules! Have you got any nifty tips for smuggling booze past security? There is a recession right now, after all.

Put it between your boobs. It depends very much on the size of your boobs whether it’s a hip flask or a flagon of cider. A big clay pot of scrumpy might be tricky. You can also put vodka into empty bottles of make-up remover.

That’s also made with alcohol, so it would smell like make-up remover, still.

That’s a whole other level up from using an empty Capri-Sun pouch!

Genius.

Yeah. I mean, how do you get the alcohol in there?! Through the tiny, tiny hole. You probably have to put

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the alcohol in your mouth and blow it down the straw into the pouch, and sort of sellotape it closed. Too elaborate for me.

On a related note – it’s important to save the pennies by taking food into festivals. What’s your favourite staple to cook up at camp?

I’m a big believer in cans of cold things at festivals for sustenance. Remember to take things that have ring-pulls, though. Don’t end up hitting cans with a rock. Honestly, at festivals, let’s face it, you don’t eat very much. You really need one meal a day. Wake up around 1pm, and then create one dish out of all the strange items that you have.

Something bread based, with a can of

something on top, and perhaps some mayonnaise. You can compile it that way. And then when you get home, have a week of eating leafy greens and Spirulina.

Talking of which – besides a leafy green diet - what else do you recommend preparing in advance to ensure a stress free return to civilisation?

Don’t go to work that next week, or you’ll cry. Sort out a dark, cool room before you go, so that you can cocoon yourself when you return.

When it comes to those ridiculous Festival Fashion guides filled with fringed suede jackets and bedazzled

spoil the mood a little bit....

“I broke a tooth having sex in a tent.”

Jules Jackson leotards, and all the other impractical shit you’d trash in two seconds at a festival, what are the actual essentials? Let’s be real here.

That’s Kate Moss’ fault, isn’t it? Festivals are not a fashion parade! I think you should take your shittiest clothes, with a couple of things that are either really sparkly, or really hilarious. Some kind of big hat you can pass around, or use as a beacon so your friends can find you. A sequinned jacket, too! When you’re out dancing, then you feel less like a mum. You feel like you can do the splits cos you’re wearing sparkly clothes.

A divisive topic next – bumbags. What’s the verdict?

Bumbags are the only way you don’t lose everything you own. Let’s face it, you won’t have a working phone, so the only things you have to lose are your drugs, or your money. Or cigarettes. A bumbag is the absolute best place to store those things.

If you can bear to revisit the haunting memories – what is the worst portaloo you’ve ever encountered?

Last year at Festival No. 6 I had a terrible hangover at the time. I went to do a hangover poo, and it was Sunday morning, so the toilet was still full from Saturday night. It was full to the brim with soggy tissue,

and diarrhoea, and that weird blue liquid. There was shit on the seat and on the walls. No loo roll. I just ended up doing a squat.

My friend once told me that a festival toilet is the only place where you can go and have a wank. So disgusting!

Standing in a portaloo and tossing one off! That’s real desperation. I wouldn’t do that.

Have you ever invested in a shewee*? Would you recommend them?

No, I haven’t. I’ve thought about it, but one of my friends got one, and when she tried to use one at a festival, we all watched her.

We were very excited, but the wee just went all down her leg, into her shoe.

Moving away from toilet-related mishaps specifically, what other festival disasters have you faced in your time?

I broke a tooth having sex in a tent. One of my molars.

I got shouldered in the chin and then half of one of my back teeth fell out! It did

Do you have any advice when it comes to campsite flooding situations, and how to avoid them?

I’m pretty good at hooking up with the person who has the best tent. You really have to buddy up with the most practical friend that you have, and use their leak-proof tent. Last year we played at Secret Garden Party, and it was a washout – everyone was just walking around looking so wet and sad! You’d see people’s tents that hadn’t been pegged down properly blowing across the field like tumbleweed.

WIN Rock En Seine Camping Tickets We’ve got a pair to give away.

As a seasoned attendee, you’re probably well aware of festivals running this scheme where you can pick up plastic cups off the floor, and trade them in for a pint. Quite a few people really go for it, scavenging for cups. Do you think they’re onto something?

I think they’re wasting time, unless they’re really desperate.... but just ask someone! Everyone’s in a good mood, so just go up and say ‘Hi, I haven’t got any money, and I’ve been picking up cups for half an hour and I can’t get enough to get a beer. Can you please buy me a beer?’. Or say ‘Have you got a flagon of cider hidden between your boobs?’ I don’t think it’s worth it.

This year the event takes place between 26th and 28th August (Bank Holiday weekend for us Brits), and hosts (deep breath) Foals, Bring Me The Horizon, Chvrches, Iggy Pop, Sigur Rós, The Last Shadow Puppets, Massive Attack and lots more across its three days.

*it’s a sort of funnel thing, designed so women can (they claim) pee standing up and use special ladies’ urinals. Er… no thanks.

We have a pair of weekend camping tickets to give away.

Head to diymag.com/ winrockenseine to enter.

Have you ever wondered, dear reader, why French festival Rock en Seine is called such a thing? Well, let us tell you. It’s because it quite literally takes place on the banks of the river Seine, at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris (it’s still within reach of the city’s Métro).

• The Big Moon play Sounds From The Other City (1st May), The Great Escape (19th - 21st May) Sound City (28th - 29th May), Latitude (15th - 17th July), Kendal Calling (28th - 31st July), Leefest (28th - 31st July), Boardmasters (10th - 14th August), and End of the Road (2nd - 4th September).

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CHVRCHES

From being Class of 2013 stars to headlining the Hydro in their home city Glasgow, over the past few years Chvrches have gone from strength to almighty strength. With a fevered fanbase both sides of the Atlantic (and most other places too), there’s little wonder the trio - Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty - have a jam-packed summer ahead of them. Glowsticks at the ready: wherever the band’s mammoth light show and even bigger songs find themselves, you can be sure they’ll transform it to a mega-disco.

Ahead of a stint that’s got them playing massive stages at the likes of Latitude, Glastonbury, and Reading & Leeds, and shortly after having joined in the fun on Paramore’s cruise, Parahoy, we spoke to vocalist Lauren.

• You’ve just been sailing the seven seas with Paramore – how was that?

It was great! We really love Paramore’s music and the vibe was really awesome – from the bands to the other crews and their fanbase. It’s nice to play with bands who try to create a community around what they do.

• Are festivals on a boat the way forward?

There was a lot of sea sickness involved so I think that would pose a problem if all festivals became sea-based…

• There’s also the not-so-small matter of a co-headline in the States with Death Cab For Cutie...

Death Cab were a very formative band for me in terms of songwriting, especially when it came to lyrics, so it is a real honour to be able to play with them.

• Do you plan your festival set any differently to a regular one?

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You can’t control the environment of the show at a festival in the same way you can at your own headline shows, but there is a different kind of positive energy that comes along with that. The sets are often shorter too so we need to think carefully about what songs to keep in and what to drop.

It will definitely be a mixed summer of sunhats and sun screen, then raincoats and wellies when we get back to the UK. One of the rainiest festivals we’ve ever played was in America though - a really beautiful one in Washington called Sasquatch! – so it’s not all sunshine and palm trees.

How does moving to bigger and bigger tents (and then those giant outside spaces) work?

We always want to put a lot of energy into our shows, regardless of the location, but in some ways you do need to work harder at festivals as the people watching might not have come to see you specifically. But that also has the upside of new people discovering your band, and we always love finding new bands at festivals too.

• And... you’re gonna have practised this one, right? Your #1 top festival tip. Yes, we hear you groan.

Hand sanitiser. All day.

• You’ve played a lot of festivals in the States, how odd is it to play somewhere outside when it’s dry, sunny, and you’ve no need for jumpers, let alone wellies?

• Chvrches play Governors Ball (3rd - 5th June), Bonnaroo (9th - 12th June), Firefly (16th - 19th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Roskilde (25th June - 2nd July), Open’er (29th June - 2nd July), Latitude (14th - 17th July), Longitude (15th - 17th July), Melt! (15th - 17th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th July), Øya (9th 13th August), Sziget (10th - 17th August), Way Out West (11th - 13th August), Flow (12th - 14th August), Pukkelpop (17th - 20th August), Lowlands (19th - 21st August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Rock en Seine (26th - 28th August).

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It was

three short years ago that Biffy Clyro took on the biggest challenge of their careers so far, and strode defiantly on stage to meet the expansive crowds lying in wait as they headlined Reading & Leeds. It both feels like a lifetime ago and just a blink of an eye. Now, in 2016, they’re back on home turf - where it all began - getting ready to face their next challenge.

Hardened Scotsmen they may be, but after six months spent in Los Angeles, it’d be fair to say that the Ayrshire weather is taking some getting used to. The band have only just recently put seventh album ‘Ellipsis’ to bed over on the other side of the world, and the Scottish version of spring is, unsurprisingly, a little more nippy than California’s. They’re back at their base – a rehearsal space simply known as their “farm” in the middle of who knows where – and have already had one practice. The results were, let’s say, interesting...

“I mean, we were in here yesterday and we played through the entire new album...” offers frontman Simon Neil, who pauses to glance at his bandmates.

“It sounded awful.” The trio erupt with laughter. “We’d been in the studio for six months and it all sounded amazing, there were so many beautiful textures, and then we came in here!” The comforts of home weren’t giving Biffy any illusions. “So, we got a wee fright yesterday!”

The band’s last record helped them reach a new peak: ‘Opposites’, a hefty double-album that wrapped up their second musical trilogy, was about as huge as they come. With a phenomenal touring schedule topped off with headliner slots at festivals worldwide, they found themselves playing to tens of thousands of people every night. By the time things slowed to a halt and they got back to the farm, it was a bit of a shock to the system.

“I don’t write songs on the road, so we came home,” explains Simon, “we came in, we were jamming some ideas and I think I just had this hurdle in my mind, and I was just expecting

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everything to be amazing from the get-go.” When a little panic started to set in, it was time to get away. “I went off to LA with my Mrs, and just wrote a bunch of music. For some reason, going over there kinda lifted the lid off what I was containing. I think we probably all just needed time off actually. We’ve been inhabiting our roles in this band for fifteen years and last year was probably the first time we could turn away from the band for a wee while, and not feel really guilty about it. We are naturally guilt-laden people!” he laughs as an aside. “But we realised that, if we went straight back in and we were playing really shit, maybe we just weren’t ready.

Maybe it wasn’t wrong to go away.”

“You need to live a bit of a normal life,” adds bassist James Johnston. “You have to have perspective - and this definitely helps, coming here,” he gestures around the room, with festival flags from all over the world pinned to its walls, amps and guitars stacked against the walls, all mementos from across the past decade.

“Just being in the same place for any period of time, you get the chance to think a little bit. Think about yourself, the people around, who you are as a person when you come off the road. Sometimes you feel like a robot after two years of doing the same thing every day.”

It was after some distance – moments of actually living life – that the wheels began to turn again. After the grandiose sonics of their last albums, they wanted to shake things up.

Rip it up and start again. “You’re in such a bubble,” says Simon, of their lives in the band, “and especially for a band going on to their seventh record, you’re normally just in the routine. I don’t think we’ve ever just wanted to be a routine band - you know, reliable old Biffy Clyro! We’d rather be completely unreliable and have people think we’ve lost the plot. Either love it or hate it, that’s what we want, that’s what we’ve always kind of wanted.”

Whether or not they’ve lost the plot is yet to be determined, but they’ve certainly gone all out. Recruiting “mad professor” Rich Costey for production, ‘Ellipsis’ was about pairing beauty and grit, taking left turns and surrendering themselves to giving anything a go. “With Rich, the modus operandi was gorgeousness with real trash,” Simon confirms with a grin of glee. “If the drums sounded amazing, we wanted a really dirty,

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smelly sounding guitar. If the vocals were really angelic, we wanted to distort the drums.”

It’s an approach clear from lead track ‘Wolves of Winter’, which packs distorted vocal effects, raw guitars and manic drum parts alongside a rousing chorus. “If we hadn’t made six records previously with the matter-of-fact sound of our instruments, then we would never have wanted to make this record, so it’s definitely a reaction.

A grand trifecta “It’ll be the first part of a new trilogy. It feels like we’ve only scratched the surface of what we can do with Rich as well. We unlearnt everything we learned with Garth [‘Puzzle’, ‘Only Revolutions’ and ‘Opposites’ producer GGGarth Richardson] - it felt like we’d never worked in a studio before. That was the way we felt when we first worked with Garth as well, like there was so much more to say as a team.

The options with Rich are wild and we could end up making any kind of record with him and I think that’s really exciting for the next couple of records. It’s easier for us to visualise the movement and motion of the band too, if I’m thinking two or three records at a time.

We’ve got a lot to say artistically and we’ve got a lot of imagination and you can’t always say that in one record. If you try to, it can be too much for the listener or a lot gets missed and I think we’re getting better at knowing what [to include].

With this album, we’ve kept it really short – 38 or 39 minutes and it’s our shortest album by a mile, which was informed off the back of ‘Opposites’. Everything you do informs the next thing, but equally, you have to kind of revolt against it. So yeah, I would say we’re in our third trilogy. If we’re still signed!”

“Rich would just plug in shit all the time,” he laughs. “You’d be sitting playing and hit a brilliant sound, but you’d not care how you got there, or if it’s too loud or going out through an exhaust in the carpark! It was just like, ‘It sounds good so let’s do it’. That was quite liberating.” It wasn’t just a habit that Costey would indulge in his own studio: when he first visited the band at their space, he gave experimentation a go too.

“The first day he came in here,” James continues, gesturing to the huge drum kit set up in the middle of the room, “it was just for some pre-production and to get to know each other, and he was trying to put the kick drum through a guitar pedal to distort it. It was like, ‘what are you trying to do?!’”

After relocating to work at Costey’s Eldorado studios last autumn, the band also hit upon the realisation that the room itself could become an instrument: “We’ve never done anything like that before,” drummer Ben Johnston admits, “and we’ve always known exactly what was happening.

That was exciting: to hear a sound and then get a new idea of how the song might end up entirely. It was brand new waters for us and it was terrifying. Usually we would just knuckle down and tick the boxes and get everything done, but when you’re not sure where the next box is…”

“You’ve got to have faith in the idea behind a record as well,” Simon adds, defiantly. “It doesn’t make it any easier but we all went in very much sure

of what we wanted to do, or rather, what we didn’t want to do. It doesn’t make it easier to change but we knew that this was what we had decided to do, so we were fully committed.

You can’t half-arse it. I think the spirit of what we do is entirely throughout the record. It couldn’t be anyone other than us that made this record but it just so happens that it doesn’t sound like any other Biffy record.”

While their time in California saw them throw out the rulebook, there are, of course, pitfalls to completely deconstructing the recording process. Without any definite touchstones to reach, the temptation to stay locked up could’ve easily mounted. And while the frontman readily admits “deadlines are good”, there is a certain comfort there, too. “The final listen of a record, when you go to sign off, is always so terrifying,” he confirms. “The fear of missing something, it can be hard, but we needed a deadline because we’d probably still be tweaking it... Then, I was writing a few songs in the studio, and we could potentially still be going - it could’ve been ‘The Life Of Biffo’!”

While ‘Ellipsis’ might not quite be the next great ‘living’ album, it is a record the band are proud of. Three months ahead of its release, they’re already desperate to get it out in the open, but have conceded to learning a bit of patience.

“This record feels like the most important record we’ve ever made,” the frontman confirms, “and it kinda feels like we’re starting again. I think that’s why we’re quite nervous but excited.

Things that we’d do on previous records and stuff, we just broke all our rules. It’s a different sounding Biffy album and I do think we’re saying something new with it, so I’m just excited for people to hear it. It’s really weird, we’re sitting here almost three months away from it. It’s fucking excruciating!”

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the band are looking ahead to taking their new beast on the road, which happens to be a massive run of festival appearances, including a return to top billing at Reading & Leeds. “I think we’re trying to put it out of our heads,” laughs Ben. Luckily, they’ve got a few other things to get out of the way first. “Yeah, I think we’d be crazy not to be nervous but those nerves will serve us well. They always do help a bit, but our heads aren’t quite there just yet.”

“James summed it up really well,” Simon joins in. “He said that last time was amazing because we had no idea about whether we could do it, or whether we were out of our depth. I guess the difference is this time that we know we can do it, so, as much as there’s an added pressure, we do have slightly more inner confidence.” “We’ve got a benchmark,” the bassist confirms. “We have to be better than last time. We have to keep improving and make sure that people don’t think it was a fluke. At least we know that we’ve got something to aim for.” They may be twisting perceptions, fucking with their own system and starting afresh with ‘Ellipsis’, but if Biffy Clyro can do anything, they can take on the festival circuit and win all over again.

Biffy Clyro’s new album ‘Ellipsis’ is out on 8th July via Warner Bros. Records / 14th Floor Recordings. DIY

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fter fifteen years in the game, the Biff’ have played their fair share of festivals (and then some), but Reading & Leeds has always been close to their hearts. As they prep for their second headline appearance this summer, they’ll also be gearing up for their tenth(!) time at the weekender.

“It’s our tenth appearance at Reading & Leeds,” confirms James, “so that is something that we’re really proud of. I don’t think there are many bands that get to ten appearances and have worked their way up the way we have.”

“I think I said that we’ve basically spewed in every corner of both Reading and Leeds!” laughs Simon. “We’ve been there with friends who’ve broken collar bones, we’ve shaved mullets, we’ve partied with Primal Scream, we’ve laughed at Axl Rose.

We watched Hell Is For Heroes, thinking it was the biggest gig of all time. We watched Hundred Reasons from thousands of yards away. It’s such an important part of the summer, and growing up it was always like, ‘Who’s playing Reading & Leeds?’ It was such an education. It’s really weird coming back for a second time to headline because it still feels like we’ve learned a lot there; it’s strange to think that festival’s taught us a lot, yet we’re headlining. I still picture us playing the second stage in 2001 at midday and no one was there!”

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Simon Neil • Biffy Clyro play Rock in Vienna (3rd - 5th June), Download France (10th - 12th June), Belsonic (25th June), Benicàssim (14th - 17th July), Pukkelpop (17th - 20th August), Open Air Gampel (18th - 21st August), Lowlands (19th - 21st August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August) and Glasgow Summer Sessions (27th August).

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WOLF ALICE Drummer Joel Amey calls the North Londoners’ past twelve months “a bit of a whirlwind”. In reality that doesn’t even come close. Having barely stopped for breath since the release of stunning Number Two debut ‘My Love Is Cool’, from endless tour dates, glitzy award ceremonies both sides of the Atlantic and - of course - breakthrough appearances at all the world’s top festivals, Wolf Alice are stepping up to even bigger stages this time around. We spoke to Joel shortly before the quartet’s sun-soaked sets at this year’s Coachella.

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How’s Theo (the bassist was forced to sit out a handful of live dates after suffering a nasty infection to his elbow)?

He’s fully back into bassboozing action mode now, but it was quite serious at one point and I was sad, but now I’m happy.

The last year or so has been ‘quite something’ hasn’t it?

You could say that yeah. It’s been a bit nuts - the touring and the album and all the fun, but we feel incredibly lucky and just can’t wait to get back into the studio.

Were there any points you stepped back and thought ‘holy shit’?

Every five minutes or so.

Glastonbury was super fun though, as were the American shows, and Brixton [a sold-out night

at the 5,000-capacity Academy]. It’s all been a bit of a whirlwind, I think I need to decompress properly when I get a moment to sit down.

What’s been the biggest thing that’s happened to you so far?

It’s been lots of tiny moments that make a bigger one really. Picking one thing would be tricky!

Did you ever expect the amount of attention you’ve had so far?

Well I’m sure most people in bands would like their music to be heard and appreciated by as many people as possible. I wouldn’t say we were arrogant enough to expect it, but we feel very grateful for everyone that’s supporting lil’ ol’ Wolf Alice so far.

Is there a festival you’re yet to play that you’d love to?

We’re about to do Coachella, that was on my bucket list.

We’re not cool enough for Primavera but that always looks incredible.

Do you have favourites you’re excited to visit/return to?

I’m ready to get spacey at Glasto again (er, not Kevin, we don’t think - Ed).

Have you ever forgotten which city/country you’re in after travelling through so many in such a short period of time?

The USA is very big, it takes me a while to get my bearings. But I’ve got lost in a lift before so it doesn’t surprise me.

There are loads of new, or at least not old artists headlining festivals now. That’s good, isn’t it?

I think Latitude always brings its A-game in headliners, it’s a very positive festival. Disclosure and Foals at Reading & Leeds is a good sign too, for sure.

Do you think (hope?) you’ll be one of them, and who else do you think has a shot?

Why not? There are lots of bands I feel have as much chance as us though, I cannae wait for fezzie season to see what everyone brings.

“It’s been a bit nuts.”

Joel Amey

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From being tricked out of a Kendrick set to warning wealthy festival-goers off bodies of water, the foursome took on our festival-themed Q&A. Which is your favourite festival to play (and why)?

Theo: Latitude is pretty good.

Joel: I really enjoyed Latitude.

Theo: Reading was amazing last year.

Ellie: I don’t have a favourite festival, to be fair.

Theo: Yeah – they all have their different charm.

What was the one festival you’d go to growing up regularly (if any)?

Theo: Reading was the one that I went to the most when I was growing up.

Joel: Yeah, same.

Ellie: I didn’t really go to any, I wasn’t allowed to.

Has there been one particular set you saw at a festival that was lifechanging (or just, like, particularly memorable for whatever reason)?

Theo: Beck at Electric Picnic two year ago was incredible.

Kendrick Lamar – I really wanted to see Kendrick at Reading but it got cancelled.

Joel: I thought it didn’t?!

Somebody made that up.

Jono [White, photographer] watched it.

Theo: Oh. Yeah, wish I’d seen that then.

Joel: Pond at Splendour In The Grass in Australia, I thought that was amazing.

“Oh, I’ve got a million pounds, gone swimming – FUCKED IT.” Theo Ellis

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What’s the best thing about playing to a festival crowd?

Theo: Theo: It’s an opportunity to play to people who don’t necessarily know you. It’s a level playing field of people just going by, so you have to keep it energetic. It’s just a completely different opportunity.

Do you feel yourself winning people over?

Theo: Yeah – fingers crossed!

And... you’re gonna have practised this one, right? Your #1 top festival tip.

Theo: Bring loads of money. Then you can do whatever the fuck you want – you’re in a field with millions of pounds.

Pretty sure you can get whatever you need. That’d be wicked if you’ve got loads of cash... but then again it’s quite hard to achieve.

Is that not quite good advice for almost any situation?

Theo: No – swimming. Swimming is an awful place to have a million pounds. ‘Oh, I’ve got a million pounds, gone swimming – FUCKED IT.’ Don’t take your cash to the beach either.

• Wolf Alice play Shaky Knees (13th - 15th May), Sweetlife (14th May), Sasquatch!

(27th - 30th May), Parklife (11th - 12th June), Bergenfest (15th - 18th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), OpenAir St. Gallen (30th June - 3rd July), NOS Alive (7th - 9th July), Bilbao BBK Live (7th - 9th July), BST Hyde Park (8th July), Slottsfjell (13th 16th July), Positivus (15th - 17th July), Ilosaarirock (15th - 17th July), Boardmasters (10th - 14th August), Glasgow Summer Sessions (28th August), Electric Picnic (2nd - 4th September), and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

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2015 was the year of Years & Years. From chart-topping debut album ‘Communion’ to frontman Olly Alexander becoming one of the year’s defining faces, the pop trio took on everything those twelve months threw at them - and conquered the lot.

“It’s been a year of firsts,” keyboardist Emre Turkmen described at the end of last year, “Jools Holland to Glastonbury, it’s been amazing.”

Naturally a killer 2015 means they’re spending most of Summer 2016 festival-hopping, from the beast of Glastonbury to pop’s favourite, V Festival, via the dance-tastic Shaky Beats over in the States.

Bassist Mikey Goldsworthy faced our festival-focused Q&A.

• Which is your favourite festival to play (and why)?

We’ve only been around the festival scene once but we would have to say our favourite to play is Glastonbury. Probably the biggest festival in the world, it’s every band’s dream to go and play there. It’s wild! It’s literally the size of a small city, hundreds of bands play and we had one of the best crowds we’ve ever experienced. We had the best feeling coming off stage. Then went and saw Kanye! What’s not to love?

• What was the one festival you’d go to growing up regularly (if any)?

I grew up in Australia, so I went to Big Day Out festival every year in High School. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist anymore but if they start it up again it be a dream to go back and play.

• Has there been one particular set you saw at a festival that was life-changing?

Flying Lotus at Way Out West festival - it was so amazing. The best lighting show I’ve ever seen! Got to meet him afterwards and he was super cool. That’s probably one of the best things about festivals is that you get to meet other artists and pick their brains.

• What’s the best thing about playing to a festival crowd?

The audience is usually waiting for Ed Sheeran or Mumford & Sons to come on so it’s really nice when they get into your set. It’s a bit tougher than playing to your own people and you don’t usually get a soundcheck but you do get to play to much bigger crowds and the atmosphere is always amazing.

•What’s the worst thing to have happened to you at a festival?

The worst thing that has happened is when we played Splendour in the Grass. None of instruments turned up!

They were being flown from Canada and didn’t quite make it. We thought we should still go ahead with the show but could only play around four songs. I used a MIDI keyboard I borrowed from another band and Emre used an iPad. As soon as we went on stage Olly [Alexander, frontman] explained the situation, the crowd seemed ok about it and it ended up being a really fun show.

• And... you’re gonna have memorised this one, right?

Your #1 top festival tip.

Don’t try and have a big group of people! Pick a team of three or four who want to see the same stuff and stick with them. You’ll meet other people and probably bump into your other friends!

• Years & Years play Shaky Beats (20th - 22nd May), Governors Ball (3rd - 5th June), Parklife (11th - 12th June), Bergenfest (15th - 18th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Tinderbox (23rd - 25th June), OpenAir St. Gallen (30th June - 3rd July), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), NOS Alive (7th - 9th July), Bilbao BBK Live (7th - 9th July), Ruisrock (8th - 10th July), Positivus (15th - 17th July), Fuji Rock (22nd - 24th July), Splendour in the Grass (22nd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), Outside Lands (5th - 7th August), Sziget (10th - 17th August), Summer Well (13th - 14th August), V Festival (20th - 21st August), Electric Picnic (2nd - 4th September), Sundown (2nd - 4th September), Bestival (8th - 11th September), and Lollapalooza Berlin (10th - 11th September).

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WORST. FESTIVAL. EVER. All the best bands at every turn there may be, but festivals are also prime spots for disaster to strike.

Amber Bain, The Japanese House At a festival in Spain somebody punched me in the face on my 16th birthday.

It was during Radiohead’s set; I’d had an argument with a friend and they stormed off. Probably in the middle of ‘High and Dry’ or something. As I was chasing after her through the crowd, I saw some guy grab her top knot (haha) and sort of shake her head about. I can’t remember what I said, but I shouted at him.

He proceeded to grab my head and punch me straight in the jaw, knocking me out. I had to get the first flight home the next day, and couldn’t really speak or eat anything for a week. Plus I could tell my mum was finding it very hard not to laugh at my swollen face.

Radiohead were great though.

Becky Blomfield, Milk Teeth I got so wasted I thought it was a great idea to cartwheel over a mile back from the Reading arena to our campsite. The next day I blacked out in the queue for water. To my credit I didn’t walk a single step, cartwheels are my speciality.

Theresa Jarvis, Yonaka I arrived at the festival a day after my friends. Went to the tent once to drop my stuff of and then decided to run off and do my own thing until 4am by that time everyone went back to the tent and I had no idea where it was after forty-five minutes of trying to find it I had to ask a passer by if I could stay in their tent. They gave me my own sleeping bag and pillow. It worked out. I didn’t cry.

Rachel Goswell, Minor Victories

Oscar At the BST Blur gig I had loads of beer bottles in my bag and got a bit overexcited during ‘Parklife’ and they all smashed in my bag and I got covered in sticky London Pride. It was perfect.

John Victor, Gengahr I was very unprepared for my first Reading, I pitched my tent in what soon became a small lake and had to sleep in a bin bag.

Zac Carper, FIDLAR Lost a game of foosball to these Canadian weirdos called METZ. Jake Bugg kicked our ass in ping pong. Chester from Linkin Park cut in line when I was waiting for food in Japan.

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We [Rachel’s ‘other band’, Slowdive] headlined the tent at Green Man last year on Saturday night and twenty minutes before I had to go on stage I started showing signs of dysentery that went on for a week post that show. I was very ill and consequently had to pack up my tent the following morning (or rather my other half did) while I ran to the pretty foul loos every ten minutes…

Jimmy Smith, Foals I fell down some sort of sewer at the really wet Glastonbury a few years ago.

My welly filled up with turds, and this was five minutes after I’d crawled out of my tent. Some of my friends got actual trench foot.

Theo Ellis, Wolf Alice I couldn’t talk for about seven hours at Glastonbury, once. That was bad.

• The Japanese House plays Dot To Dot (27th - 29th May), This Must Be The Place (30th May), X&Y (9th - 10th June), Best Kept Secret (17th - 19th June), 110 Above (17th - 19th June), Secret Garden Party (21st - 24th July), Visions (6th August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• Oscar plays Handmade (29th April - 1st May), Sounds From The Other City (1st May), Sasquatch!

(27th - 30th May), Latitude (14th 17th July), MS Dockville (21st - 24th July), Secret Garden Party (21st - 24th July), and End of the Road (2nd - 4th September).

• Gengahr play Visions (6th August) and Green Man (18th 21st August).

• FIDLAR play Governors Ball (3rd - 5th June), Bonnaroo (9th 12th June), Levitation Vancouver (16th - 18th June), NASS (8th - 10th July), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Benicàssim (14th - 17th July), Super Bock Super Rock (14th - 16th July), Les Vieilles Charrues (14th - 17th July), WayHome (22nd - 24th June), MO POP (23rd - 24th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), OFF (5th - 7th August), Øya (9th - 13th August), La Route du Rock (11th - 14th August), and Sziget (10th 17th August).

• Milk Teeth play Live at Leeds (30th April), Stag & Dagger (1st May), The Great Escape (19th - 21st May), Download (10th - 12th June), 2000trees (7th - 9th July), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• Yonaka play The Great Escape (19th - 21st May), Beat-Herder (15th - 17th July), and Truck (15th - 17th July).

• Minor Victories play Best Kept Secret (17th - 19th June), Latitude (14th - 17th July), Ypsigrock (4th - 7th August), OFF (5th - 7th August), La Route du Rock (11th - 14th August), and Pukkelpop (17th - 20th August).

• See p21 for Foals’ festival appearances.

• See p48 for Wolf Alice’s festival appearances.

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We’ve all got one: from discovering your new favourite band to falling in love all over again with your faves, there’s something a little special about a festival set that gives it some added magic.

Dan Smith, Bastille

Jack Flanagan, Mystery Jets

Seeing Jay Z headline Glastonbury was pretty cool. When he walked out strumming a guitar along to ‘Wonderwall’ it was a pretty awesome ‘fuck you’ to all the rubbish talk that precluded it, and then he powered through a set of undeniable songs. It’s mad to think that it was ever thought of as questionable to have hip hop acts headlining UK festivals.

Radiohead at Reading. It was the year that they opened with Creep [2009], seeing them there also completely made me re-connect with ‘Kid A’ which is now one of my all time favourite records.

John Victor, Gengahr Regina Spektor at V Festival. I saw her having no idea who she was, she was sitting playing a piano and hitting a chair, that was all I needed. The fact I was surrounded by ‘emo’ men all crying just made it all the more memorable.

Mattie Vant, VANT The Prodigy at Leeds Festival 2009. They managed to make the Arctic Monkeys look like a very average band, probably the hardest act to follow in the world.

Izzy B. Phillips, Black Honey Rage Against The Machine at Reading [2008], they were absolutely incredible.

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Scott Hutchison, Frightened Rabbit Doves at T In The Park, probably around 1998 or so. There were maybe only 30 people in the tent but it didn’t matter, I was completely absorbed. I had never heard any of their songs before but there was this instant connection to what was going on in front of me.

I’ve also since come to appreciate how amazing it was that they gave so much for only 30 people. That’s the way it should be.

Becky Blomfield, Milk Teeth Deftones at Reading. I don’t think my guts are in the same position since they were so fucking loud and everything I wanted them to be. One of the best live bands I’ve seen.

Will Ritson, Formation Nine Inch Nails at Reading during their ‘Lights In The Sky’ tour.

If you saw it you’ll know why.

• Bastille play SunFest (27th April - 1st May), Beale Street (29th April - 1st May), Edgefest (30th April), Pinkpop (10th 12th June), Wild Life (11th - 12th June), Parklife (11th - 12th June), Mad Cool (16th - 18th June), Glastonbury (22nd - 26th June), Open’er (29th June - 2nd July), Bråvalla (30th June - 2nd July), EXIT (7th - 10th July), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Electric Castle (14th - 17th July), Gurten (14th - 17th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), Sziget (10th - 17th August), MS Dockville (19th - 21st August), V Festival (20th - 21st August), RakettNatt (26th - 29th August), Festival No. 6 (1st - 4th September) and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• VANT play The Great Escape (19th 21st May), Gold Sounds (21st May), Lost Village (27th - 30th May), X&Y (9th - 10th June), Best Kept Secret (17th - 19th June), Bushstock (18th June), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Slottsfjell (13th - 16th July), Truck (15th - 17th July), Leefest (28th - 31st July), Øya (9th - 13th August), Boardmasters (10th - 14th August), Reading & Leeds (26th - 28th August), and Bestival (8th - 11th September).

• See p24 for Black Honey’s festival appearances.

• Mystery Jets play City Sound Project (30th April - 1st May), Live at Leeds (30th April), The Great Escape (19th - 21st May), Dot To Dot (27th - 29th May), Field Day (11th - 12th June) Godiva (1st - 3rd July), BST Hyde Park (8th July), Truck (15th 17th July), Tramlines (22nd - 24th July), and Boardmasters (10th - 14th August).

• Frightened Rabbit play Shaky Knees (13th - 15th May), Sasquatch! (27th - 30th May), Belsonic (23rd June), Down The Rabbit Hole (24th - 26th June), Rock Werchter (30th June - 3rd July), T in the Park (8th - 10th July), Latitude (14th 17th July), Lollapalooza (28th - 31st July), Osheaga (29th - 31st July), and Haldern Pop (11th - 13th August).

• Formation play Live at Leeds (30th April), Stag & Dagger (1st May), Lost Village (27th - 30th May), Field Day (11th - 12th June), Parklife (11th - 12th June), Beat-Herder (15th - 17th July), Lovebox (15th - 16th July), Truck (15th - 17th July), Valkhof (16th - 22nd July), Secret Garden Party (21st - 24th July), Leefest (28th - 31st July), Boardmasters (10th - 14th August), Green Man (18th - 21st August), Soundrive (1st - 3rd September), and LOFTAS (2nd - 3rd September).

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1. Which member of Wolf Alice worked as a model, pre-infamy?

2. Which member of Years & Years used to be a chef?

3. Which member of Yak is so serious about antiques he once appeared on daytime telly show ‘Flog It!’?

4. Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig recently revealed the band turned down a last-minute offer to cover The Monkees’ ‘I’m A Believer’ for the Shrek: Forever After soundtrack when the original act were injured in a bus crash. Who didn’t they replace?

5. Which band cut a gig short in 2010 after a pigeon shat in their bassist’s mouth?

6. Which member of Alt-J recently opened a fancy restaurant a stone’s throw from DIY HQ? 7. Whose birth name is Vernor Winfield Macbriare Smith IV? 8. How did The Cribs meet?

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ANSWERS 1.Theo Ellis 2.Mikey Goldsworthy 3.Oli Burslem 4.Weezer 5.Kings of Leon 6.Gus UngerHamilton 7.Mac DeMarco 8.Er, they’re brothers. Duh.

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= Tickets available via Sunfest 27th April - 1st May West Palm Beach, FL Alabama Shakes, Death Cab For Cutie, Bastille, The Joy Formidable, The Roots, Duran Duran sunfest.com a Palm Beach Beale Street Music Festival 29th April - 1st May Tom Lee Park, Memphis, TN Bastille, Weezer, Beck, Panic!

At The Disco, Modest Mouse, Violent Femmes, Courtney Barnett, The Joy Formidable memphisinmay.org/music a Memphis Groezrock 29th - 30th April Meerhout, Belgium Sum 41, Letlive., Rancid, Modern Baseball, Juliette and the Licks, Four Year Strong, Less Than Jake groezrock.be a Brussels South Charleroi, Antwerp, Brussels Zaventem Handmade 29th April - 1st May O2 Academy Leicester Swim Deep, Black Honey, The Magic Gang, Los Campesinos!, Big Deal, Oscar, We Are Scientists, Theo Verney, Deaf Havana, Lonely The Brave, The Xcerts handmadefestival.co.uk r Leicester FestEVOL 1st May Camp and Furnace, Liverpool Juliette and the Licks, Steve Mason, Hooton Tennis Club, Poltergeist, Helen Marnie clubevol.co.uk r Liverpool Central Sounds from the Other City 1st May Various venues, Salford The Big Moon, Tacocat, Oscar, Pumarosa, Beaty Heart, Gwenno, Joey Fourr, Meilyr Jones soundsfromtheothercity.com r Salford Central Stag and Dagger 1st May Various venues, Glasgow Deaf Havana, Band of Skulls, Milk Teeth, Formation, Slow Club, We Are Scientists, Emma Pollock, Fews, Francis Lung staganddagger.co.uk r Glasgow Central, Glasgow Queen Street

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Focus Wales 12th - 15th May Various venues, Wrexham The Joy Formidable, Los Campesinos!, God Damn, Kagoule, The Magic Numbers, The Sunshine Underground, H. Hawkline focuswales.com r Wrexham General Art Rock 13th - 15th May Various venues, Saint-Brieuc Two Door Cinema Club, Jeanne Added, Pumarosa, The Shoes, Louise Attaque artrock.org a Dinard-Pleurtuit-SaintMalo Shaky Knees 13th - 15th May Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, GA Florence + The Machine, At The Drive-In, Deftones, The Kills, Savages, Foals, Wolf Alice, Parquet Courts, The Vaccines, The Orwells, Hop Along, Diet Cig, The Japanese House shakykneesfestival.com a Atlanta Sweetlife 14th May Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD Grimes, Blondie, Shamir, Wolf Alice, Mac DeMarco, DIIV, Halsey, The 1975, Flume sweetlifefestival.com a Washington Dulles Moogfest 19th - 22nd May Various venues, Durham, NC Grimes, Miike Snow, Blood Orange, Skepta, Julia Holter, HEALTH, Gary Numan, Explosions in the Sky, Empress Of moogfest.com a Raleigh-Durham Hangout 20th - 22nd May Gulf Shores, AL Florence + The Machine, Alabama Shakes, Haim, Panic!

At The Disco, Grimes, Run The Jewels, Foals, Lizzo, Bully hangoutmusicfest.com a Pensacola Shaky Beats 20th - 22nd May Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, GA Major Lazer, Chromeo, Duke Dumont, Years & Years, MØ, AlunaGeorge, Yeasayer, Floating Points, Nas, A$AP Ferg shakybeatsfestival.com a Atlanta

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30th April 2016 Various venues, Leeds Rat Boy, Mystery Jets, Milk Teeth, Spring King, Blood Red Shoes, Kagoule, Los Campesinos!, Pumarosa, Slutface, Shura, Sundara Karma, Blaenavon, Catholic Action, Circa Waves, Jess Glynne liveatleeds.com r Leeds The urban extravangaza is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2016, taking over Leeds city centre not just for a host of buzzy newcomers alongside such stalwarts as Blood Red Shoes, Los Campesinos! and We Are Scientists, but they’re also partnering with neighbours Leeds Digital Festival for some high-falutin’ biz talk too. We’ll be taking over Brudenell Social Club on the day, hosting both the main and games room stages.

DIY Stage Brudenell Social Club Rat Boy, Loyle Carner, Vitamin, Beach Baby, Island, Declan McKenna, Estrons, Alibis, Demob Happy, Kagoule, Narcs, Sympathiser NEU Stage Games Room, Brudenell Social Club Miamigo, Anteros, Sweat, Avante Black, Wesley Gonzalez, Stevie Parker, Dahlia Sleeps, Tempesst, The Velveteens, Tusk, Party Hardly

Gold Sounds 21st May Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Yuck, VANT, Black Honey, SWMRS, Trudy, Gillbanks, Homeshake twitter.com/goldsoundsfest r Burley Park Lightning in a Bottle 25th - 30th May Lake San Antonio Recreation Area, Bradley, CA Grimes, Jamie xx, Moderat, Ibeyi, Four Tet, Cashmere Cat, Hundred Waters, Chet Faker lightninginabottle.org a Fresno Yosemite Bearded Theory 26th - 29th May Catton Hall, Derbyshire Public Image Ltd, Wilko Johnson, The Tuts, Stiff Little Fingers, Levellers, Squeeze, Arrested Development, The King Blues, Reverend & The Makers, Turin Brakes, Jack Savoretti, Beans on Toast, Wonk Unit beardedtheory.co.uk r Lichfield Trent Valley, Burton-on-Trent Rock im Revier 26th - 28th May Westfalenhalle, Dortmund Iron Maiden, Slayer, Mando Diao, Garbage, Ghost, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Nightwish rock-im-revier.de a Dortmund

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19th - 21st May Various venues, Brighton Mystery Jets, INHEAVEN, Stormzy, Black Honey, The Big Moon, Girli, Spring King, Dilly Dally, VANT, The Joy Formidable, Diet Cig, Eagulls, Muncie Girls, SWMRS, Oh Wonder, Pumarosa, Telegram, Tigercub greatescapefestival.com r Brighton Announcing bands hundreds at a time, if Brighton’s annual shindig of discovery isn’t where you find your new favourite band, at least there’s a chance for fish ‘n chips on the beach.

Practically the whole of DIY’s Class of 2016 will make an appearance over the event’s three days, while there’s room for returning heroes The Joy Formidable and Mystery Jets too.

DIY Stage Brudenell Social Club Horatio’s Bar, Thursday 19th - Friday 21st GIRLI, Eagulls, Bleached, Liss, Cullen, Drones Club, Day Wave, Declan McKenna, Trudy, Jodie Abacus, Beach Baby, Love Ssega, LCMDF and more.

Boston Calling 27th - 28th May Boston City Hall Plaza Sia, Courtney Barnett, Lizzo, The Vaccines, City and Colour, Disclosure, Haim, Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queens, Battles, Robyn bostoncalling.com a Boston Logan Bottlerock 27th - 29th May Napa Valley, California Florence + The Machine, Stevie Wonder, Deap Vally, Death Cab For Cutie, The Orwells, The Joy Formidable, Lenny Kravitz, Cold War Kids, SOAK, Grouplove, San Fermin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gogol Bordello bottlerocknapavalley.com a Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento Dot To Dot 27th - 29th May Various venues, Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham Mystery Jets, Rat Boy, The Japanese House, Sundara Karma, Ekkah, The Temper Trap, Ardyn, Liss, Lewis Del Mar, Estrons, Trevor Sensor

dottodotfestival.co.uk r Manchester Piccadilly, Bristol Temple Meads, Nottingham Lost Village 27th - 29th May Secret Location, Lincolnshire Fatboy Slim, Jack Garratt, Loyle Carner, VANT, Liss, Brolin lostvillagefestival.com r Newark Northgate Sasquatch!

27th - 30th May Gorge Amphitheatre, Washington Florence + The Machine, Wolf Alice, Disclosure, Grimes, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Major Lazer, Jamie xx, Savages, The Cure, Shamir, Speedy Ortiz, Bully, Tacocat, Hop Along, BAIO, Leon Bridges sasquatchfestival.com a Tri-Cities Common People 28th - 29th May South Park, Oxford / Southampton Common Primal Scream, Public Enemy, Gaz Coombes, Katy B, Ghostpoet, Craig David’s TS5, The Sugarhill Gang, Don Broco, Mr Motivator commonpeople.net r Oxford, Southampton Central Liverpool Sound City 28th - 29th May Docklands, Liverpool The Coral, Young Fathers, Palma Violets, INHEAVEN, The Big Moon, Kagoule, Novelist, Dilly Dally, Shura, Leftfield, Circa Waves, The Dandy Warhols, Sleaford Mods, Band of Skulls, Georgia, Trudy liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk r Sandhills Love Saves The Day 28th - 29th May Eastville Park, Bristol Hot Chip, Dizzee Rascal, Everything Everything, Stormzy, Shura, Mura Masa, Hudson Mohawke, Loyle Carner lovesavestheday.org r Stapleton Road BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 28th - 29th May Powderham Castle, Devon Bring Me The Horizon, Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, The 1975, Craig David, Chase & Status bbc.co.uk/radio1 r Starcross Slam Dunk 28th - 30th May Leeds, Birmingham and

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Hatfield Panic! At The Disco, Gnarwolves, Of Mice & Men, New Found Glory, Moose Blood, Young Guns, Every Time I Die, Issues, Real Friends, Roam slamdunkmusic.com r Leeds, Birmingham International, Hatfield We Are FSTVL 28th - 29th May Airfield of Dreams, Upminster Fatboy Slim, Craig David presents TS5, Steve Angello, DJ Snake, Danny Howard, Mistajam, Hannah Wants, Armand Van Helden, Shy FX wearefstvl.com r Upminster This Must Be The Place 30th May Various venues, Leeds The Wytches, The Japanese House, Dilly Dally, Diet Cig, Harkin, Pixx, Kero Kero Bonito superfriendz.com r Leeds Caribana Verbier, Switzerland 1st - 5th June Garbage, Primal Scream, Jungle, Crystal Fighters, James Bay, The Kooks, Amy Macdonald, The Bohicas, James Morrison caribana-festival.ch a Geneva Primavera Sound 1st - 5th June Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós, Brian Wilson, Parquet Courts, Savages, Air, Suede, Beirut, Animal Collective, Chairlift, Wild Nothing, Beach House primaverasound.com a Barcelona-El Prat Mountain Jam 2nd - 5th June Hunter Mountain, NY Beck, Courtney Barnett, Wilco, The Avett Brothers, Jason Isbell, Gary Clark Jr, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats mountainjam.com a Albany Temples 2nd - 5th June Motion, Bristol Weekend Nachos, All Pigs Must Die, Iron Reagan, Groundhogs, Sheer Terror, Arabrot, Primitive Ma templesfestival.co.uk r Bristol Temple Meads Bunbury 3rd - 5th June Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove, Cincinnati, OH 62

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At The Disco, Major Lazer, The 1975, Black Sabbath, Korn rock-am-ring.com a Frankfurt Am Main, Cologne

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Rock im Park 3rd - 5th June Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg Biffy Clyro, Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, Foals, Panic!

At The Disco, Major Lazer, The 1975, Black Sabbath, Korn rock-im-park.com a Nuremberg

11th - 12th June Brighton City Airport Disclosure, Rudimental, Skepta, Bastille, Jack Garratt, Flume, Four Tet, Stormzy, Rat Boy, Julio Bashmore, Jamie Woon, Mura Masa, Novelist, Frances, Jorja Smith wildlifefestival.com r Shoreham-by-Sea

Rock in Vienna 3rd - 5th June Donauinsel, Vienna Rammstein, Iron Maiden, Biffy Clyro, Iggy Pop, Anthrax, Slayer, Ghost, Mando Diao rockinvienna.at a Vienna

Making its debut last year, Wild Life is a collaborative effort between headliners Disclosure and Rudimental (and, we’d assume, a lot of very organised people), and returns to its not-quite-Brighton home for a second go. Drawing from the head honchos’ respective dance-led backgrounds, it’s hosting newcomers like much-hyped Walsall star Jorja Smith and chart-topping beasts Bastille alongside the world-conquering Stormzy.

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This Is Not A Love Song 3rd - 5th June Paloma, Nîmes Foals, Parquet Courts, METZ, Dilly Dally, Girl Band, Yak, Battles, Protomartyr, Explosions in the Sky thisisnotalovesong.fr a Nîmes

Belsonic 9th - 29th June Titanic, Belfast Bring Me The Horizon, Biffy Clyro, Foals, Ellie Goulding, David Guetta, The Chemical Brothers, The Vaccines belsonic.com r Titanic Quarter

Wychwood 3rd - 5th June Cheltenham Racecourse Black Honey, Idlewild, Peter Hook & The Light, Haelos, Honne, Ms Dynamite, Matt Berry & The Maypoles, Cash + David, Justin Fletcher wychwoodfestival.com r Cheltenham Spa

Bonnaroo 9th - 12th June Great Stage Park, Manchester, Tennessee LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, Chvrches, Haim, Blood Orange, Bully, FIDLAR, Daughter, Two Door Cinema Club, Ellie Goulding, Pearl Jam, M83, Halsey, Death Cab For Cutie, Leon Bridges, Purity Ring, Tyler, The Creator bonnaroo.com a Nashville

Camden Rocks 4th June Various venues, London Young Guns, We Are The Ocean, Creeper, Samoans, The Tuts, Billy Bragg, Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind, Sikth, Carl Barat and the Jackals camdenrocksfestival.com r Camden Town Junction 2 4th June Boston Manor Park, London Nina Kraviz, Carl Craig, Pan-Pot, Ida Engberg, Marcel Dettmann, Adam Beyer, me, Boxia junction2.london r Boston Manor Free Press Summer Festival 4th - 5th June Eleanor Tinsley Park, Houston, TX The National, Deadmau5, Modest Mouse, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco, Refused, Against Me!, Leon Bridges, Matt and Kim, Violent Femmes, Børns, Yung Lean, Plague Vendor fpsf.com a Houston We Love Green 4th - 5th June Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris LCD Soundsystem, Air, Diplo, Hudson Mohawke, Hot Chip, Kelela, Floating Points, welovegreen.fr a Paris Charles de Gaulle Greenfield 8th - 11th June Interlaken Airfield, Interlaken Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Prodigy, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, The Hives, Cancer Bats, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes greenfieldfestival.ch a Bern

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10th - 19th June Southbank Centre, London Guy Garvey, Laura Marling, The Staves, Femi Kuti, I Am Kloot southbankcentre.co.uk r Waterloo Following in the footsteps of the likes of Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie, Yoko Ono and more, Elbow main man Guy Garvey curates this year’s bill, with Laura Marling, The Staves, Femi Kutie and Mancunian bezzies, I Am Kloot all making appearances over the event’s ten-day takeover of the renowned arts space.

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Isle of Wight 9th - 12th June Seaclose Park, Newport The Kills, Everything Everything, The Cribs, Twin Atlantic, Iggy Pop, Queen + Adam Lambert, Stereophonics, Faithless isleofwightfestival.com r Southampton Central, Portsmouth & Southsea NOS Primavera Sound 9th - 11th June Parque da Cidade, Porto Savages, Brian Wilson, Air, Sigur Rós, Battles, Chairlift, PJ Harvey, Animal Collective, Parquet Courts, Shellac, Protomartyr, Dinosaur Jr nosprimaverasound.com a Porto Novarock 9th - 12th June Pannonia Fields, Nickelsdorf Korn, Deftones, Garbage, Editors, Slaves, Beartooth, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes novarock.at a Vienna X&Y 9th - 10th June & 8th - 10th July Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool Frank Turner, VANT, Basement, Theme Park, The Japanese House, Babeheaven iloveliveeents.co.uk r St Michaels Download 10th - 12th June Donington Park, Derbyshire Rammstein, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Deftones, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Billy Talent, Twin Atlantic, Milk Teeth, All Time Low, Ho99o9, Muncie Girls

We gave the Elbow frontman a buzz to find out how he got involved.

Hello Guy! How exactly were approach to get involved with this year’s Meltdown?

They approached me and said it was obviously because of Elbow but also my programme on BBC 6 Music, and the fact that, at the time they asked me, I was making Music Box, a BBC iPlayer programme that I produced and presented. They know I’m all about helping out where I can with new talent, but also drawing to attention to music that’s changed and doesn’t get as much exposure as it should. Plus, I think, through my radio programme I’m constantly being taught about new music from my listeners, through the A Song for Guy feature, where I get people to recommend things they think I won’t know.

The line-up seems to reflect a lot of different elements: did you go in with quite a broad approach when it came to curating?

I did. First and foremost, I wanted the line-up to be good.

I asked all sorts of different acts and those that came back and yes, I was overjoyed about. There were a few that got away, who I wish could’ve been available for one reason or another. There’s a couple of genres that I’m interested in – it’s maybe not immediately apparent from the headline acts, but it’s really quite a diverse bill. A lot of the stuff that I’m really into will be on the smaller stages, the Brian Glancy stage. I think it’s a case of coming down to see the breadth of music that I’ve chosen.

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Friday Tame Impala, M83, Skepta, Boys Noize (live), Sleaford Mods, Ben Klock, DJ Koze, Maya Jane Coles, Jamie Woon, Mano LeTough,

Andhim, Andy Stott (live), Black Coffee, Black Cracker, Cosmin TRG, Damian Lazarus, Dekmantel Soundsystem, Fritz Helder, George FitzGerald, Gold Panda, Graham Candy, Helena Hauff, Horse Meat Disco, JD Samson, La Fleur, Laurel Halo, Leon Vynehall, Liss, Makam, Marco Resmann, Matthias Meyer, Mura Masa, Noah Kin, Partok, Peak & Swift, Pev & Kowton (Livity Sound), Roosevelt, Sango, Sarah Farina, Say Yes Dog, Shifted, Sophie, Still Parade, Vater&Sohn, Vessels, Vril (live), Zed Bias, Zomby

Saturday Deichkind, Two Door Cinema Club, Jamie xx, Jean-Michel Jarre, Solomun, Modeselektor (DJ-Set), Maceo Plex, Peaches, Stephan Bodzin (live), Kollektiv Turmstrasse (live),

Acid Arab, Andy C, Benjamin Damage, Blind Observatory, Cormac, DJ Phono, Dr. Rubinstein, Drangsal, Ed Davenport, Fatima Yamaha (live), Floating Points (live), Freddy K, Gunjah, Hard Ton, Hi Fashion, Ho99o9, Isolation Berlin, Kobosil, Kode9, Kytes, Lady Leshurr, Magdalena, Mind Against, Oddisee & Good Company, Peggy Gou, Renato Ratier, Shed, Stimming (live), Tom Trago, Virginia (live) feat. Steffi & Dexter, Woman

Sunday Disclosure, Chvrches, Tiga (live), Digitalism, Ellen Allien, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Pan-Pot,

Bob Moses, Bomba Estéreo, Boris, Circa Waves, Coma, Heidi, Honey Dijon, Josh Wink, Kim Ann Foxman, Klyne, Kuriose Naturale, Lea Porcelain, Muallem, Ø [Phase], SG Lewis, The Black Madonna, Tijana T

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downloadfestival.co.uk r East Midlands Parkway Download Paris 10th - 12th June Hippodrome de Longchamp, Paris Deftones, Biffy Clyro, Iron Maiden, Korn, Rammstein, Twin Atlantic, Arcane Roots, Babymetal, Beartooth downloadfestival.fr a Paris Charles de Gaulle Heartland 10th - 11th June Egeskov Castle, Funen The Flaming Lips, Editors, Mercury Rev, Mark Ronson (DJ), Låpsley, Michael Kiwanuka, Susanne Sundfør heartlandfestival.dk a Odense Long Division 10th - 12th June Various venues, Wakefield Field Music, Gang of Four, Los Campesinos!, Johnny Foreigner, Malcolm Middleton, Emma Pollock, Man Made longdivisionfestival.co.uk r Wakefield Westgate Pinkpop 10th - 12th June Megaland, Landgraaf Paul McCartney, Major Lazer, Rammstein, Lionel Richie, Bastille, Bring Me The Horizon, Years & Years, Lianne La Havas, All Time Low, Slaves, Parquet Courts, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Skunk Anansie pinkpop.nl a Maastricht Aachen Bestival Toronto 11th - 12th June Woodbine Park, Toronto The Cure, Tame Impala, Grimes, Jamie xx, Swim Deep, Daughter, The Wombats, Madeon, The Twilight Sad, Odesza, Porter Robinson bestival.ca a Toronto Pearson Field Day 11th - 12th June Victoria Park, London James Blake, PJ Harvey, Four Tet, Deerhunter, Skepta, SOAK, Air, Dilly Dally, Formation, Girl Band, Mystery Jets, Parquet Courts, METZ, fielddayfestivals.com r Mile End Parklife 11th - 12th June Heaton Park, Manchester Wolf Alice, Jamie xx, Bastille, Years & Years, Skepta, Katy B, Stormzy, The Chemical

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Brothers, Major Lazer, Diplo, Circa Waves, Mura Masa, Formation, Jack Garratt parklife.uk.com r Heaton Park Bergenfest 15th - 18th June Bergen, Norway Biffy Clyro, Years & Years, Wolf Alice, Låpsley, Ezra Furman, Yeasayer, Sigur Rós, Wilco, Mercury Rev bergenfest.no a Bergen Firefly 16th - 19th June The Woodlands, Dover, Delaware Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon, Florence + The Machine, Swim Deep, Blink-182, Death Cab For Cutie, Tame Impala, Chvrches, Circa Waves, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Jack Garratt, MØ, Wet, Pvris fireflyfestival.com a Philadelphia Mad Cool 16th - 18th June Caja Mágica, Madrid Bastille, Biffy Clyro, Two Door Cinema Club, Diiv, Lucy Rose, Temples, Twin Atlantic, The Kills, Django Django, Rat Boy, Låpsley, The Who, Garbage, The Prodigy, Neil Young, madcoolfestival.es a Madrid Secret Solstice 16th - 19th June Laugardalur, Reykjavík Radiohead, Deftones, Of Monsters and Men, Róisín Murphy, Novelist, Kelela secretsolstice.is a Reykjavík-Keflavík Sónar 16th - 18th June Various venues, Barcelona Skrillex, The Chemical Brothers, FKA twigs, Hot Chip, Jamie xx, Duran Duran, Flying Lotus, A$AP Rocky, Róisín Murphy, Owen Pallett, Kindness, Hudson Mohawke, Annie Mac, Holly Herndon sonar.es a Barcelona-El Prat 110 Above 17th - 19th June Gopsall Hall Farm, Leicestershire DID, Vaults, Sundara Karma, The Japanese House, Theme Park, Clean Cut Kid, Fatherson, Dahlia Sleeps 110above.com r Polesworth

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17th - 19th June Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands Beck, Jamie xx, The Japanese House, Rat Boy, VANT, Mystery Jets, Two Door Cinema Club, Editors, Bloc Party, Dinosaur Jr, Wilco, Air, Glass Animals, Sleaford Mods, Ezra Furman, Ho99o9 bestkeptsecret.nl r Eindhoven We’re still trying to find out what exactly the “secret” here is, given we know when and where the Dutch event takes place - and who’s playing. Relive Beck’s greatest hits alongside the returns of Two Door Cinema Club and Bloc Party, or brand new Brits Rat Boy, VANT and The Japanese House - all pretty much in the forest.

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Body & Soul 17th - 19th June Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath Santigold, Mercury Rev, Ho99o9, Floating Points, St. Germain, Junior Boys, Wolf Parade, NAH, Bitch Falcon bodyandsoul.ie a Dublin Northside 17th - 19th June Ådalen, Aarhus Beck, Jamie xx, Deftones, Iggy Pop, The Chemical Brothers, Bloc Party, C Duncan, Caribou, Beach House, Yeasayer, Sigur Rós northside.dk a Aarhus Sideways 17th - 18th June Teurastamo, Helsinki Peaches, PJ Harvey, Susanne Sundfør, Mykki Blanco, Ty Segall & The Muggers, Kelela, Explosions in the Sky sidewayshelsinki.fi a Helsinki-Vantaa Ahmad Tea 18th June Muzeon Park, Moscow PJ Harvey, The Maccabees, Django Django ahmadteafest.ru a Moscow Bushstock 18th June Shepherd’s Bush, London Bear’s Den, Charlie Cunningham, Chartreuse, Dean Lewis, Gillbanks, Harry Foxx, Hidden Charms, Joseph J. Jones, Marthagunn, Safia, Seramic, Tempesst, Tom Prior bushstock.co.uk r Shepherd’s Bush

Barnett, Flume, Mura Masa, Ty Segall and the Muggers, Kelela downtherabbithole.nl a Eindhoven Fold 24th - 26th June Fulham Palace, London Beck, Chic ft. Nile Rodgers, Anne-Marie, Grace, Labrinth, Angie Stone, Alison Moyet, John Newman foldfestival.com r Putney Bridge Hurricane 24th - 26th June Eichenring, Scheessel Mumford & Sons, Rammstein, Bloc Party, Rat Boy, The Hives, Ho99o9, Maximo Park, Courtney Barnett, Poliça, Yeasayer, Oh Wonder, Digitalism hurricane.de a Bremen, Hamburg Southside 24th - 26th June Neuhausen ob Eck Mumford & Sons, Rammstein, Bloc Party, Rat Boy, The Hives, Ho99o9, Maximo Park, Courtney Barnett, Poliça, Yeasayer, Oh Wonder, Digitalism southside.de a Zürich

Maxidrom 19th June Toshino Airfield, Moscow Editors, Rammstein, Crazytown, IAMX maximum.ru/maxidrom a Moscow Tinderbox 23rd - 25th June Tusindårsskoven, Odense The National, Rammstein, Suede, Years & Years, Band of Horses, The 1975, Of Monsters and Men tinderbox.dk a Odense

Hideout 26th - 30th June Zrce Beach, Novalja Jamie xx, Skepta, Stormzy, Julio Bashmore, Toddla T, Skream, Gorgon City (DJ Set), Jamie Jones, Steve Lawler hideoutfestival.com a Zadar, Split, Zagreb

Down The Rabbit Hole 24th - 26th June Groene Heuvels, Beuningen The National, Savages, PJ Harvey, Mac DeMarco, Courtney

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Whether it’s Adele’s star turn as headliner, Bring Me The Horizon causing the muddiest circle pits the event’s ever seen or the (re?) introduction of grime to Pilton Farm, if there’s gonna be a talking point during the summer’s festivities it’s bound to be at Glastonbury. The world’s biggest festival will also host faves Foals, Wolf Alice, Bastille, Grimes and Beck.

Metronome 25th - 26th June Výstaviště Holešovice, Prague Foals, Iggy Pop, The Kooks, Crystal Fighters, Ella Eyre, Ghost of You metronomefestival.cz a Prague Roskilde 25th June - 2nd July Roskilde, Denmark LCD Soundsystem, Foals, MØ, Savages, Tame Impala, Bring Me The Horizon, Chvrches, Mac DeMarco, Skepta, Cate Le Bon, The Last Shadow Puppets, Courtney Barnett, Ho99o9, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Letlive. roskilde-festival.dk a Copenhagen

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22nd - 26th June Pilton Farm, Somerset Adele, Muse, Coldplay, Grimes, Beck, Foals, Wolf Alice, Bring Me The Horizon, Skepta, Bastille, AlunaGeorge, Sigur Rós, Disclosure glastonburyfestivals.co.uk r Castle Cary

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Garorock 30th June - 3rd July Parc des Expositions, Marmande Muse, Disclosure, Yak, Jamie xx, M83, Flume, Slaves, Ratatat, Boys Noize, Yelawolf garorock.com a Bergerac Dordogne

Eurockéennes 1st - 3rd July Malsaucy, Belfort Disclosure, The Last Shadow Puppets, Foals, Mac DeMarco, Courtney Barnett, Caribou, Ty Segall and the Muggers, Mr. Oizo, M83 eurockeennes.fr a Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg

Openair St. Gallen 30th June - 3rd July St. Gallen, Switzerland Radiohead, Mumford & Sons, Two Door Cinema Club, Years & Years, Wolf Alice, Caribou, Sunset Sons, The Very Best openairsg.ch a Zürich

Godiva 1st - 3rd July War Memorial Park, Coventry The Charlatans, Mystery Jets, The Subways, Space, The Boomtown Rats, Scouting For Girls, The Pigeon Detectives godivafestival.com r Coventry

Bråvalla 30th June - 2nd July Bråvalla Flygfält, Norrköping Biffy Clyro, Mumford & Sons, Rammstein, Bastille, Bring Me The Horizon, Angel Haze, Hinds bravallafestival.se a Stockholm

Main Square 1st - 3rd July Citadel, Arras Disclosure, Iggy Pop, Jeanne Added, Ellie Goulding, Flume, Years & Years, Editors mainsquarefestival.fr a Lille-Lesquin

Rock Werchter 30th June - 3rd July Werchter, near Leuven Rammstein, Florence + The Machine, Bring Me The Horizon, Jamie xx, Courtney Barnett, MØ, PJ Harvey, Paul McCartney, Ellie Goulding, Disclosure, Years & Years, Kaiser Chiefs, Tame Impala, Beck, Foals, MØ rockwerchter.be a Brussels

PITCH 1st - 2nd July Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam Grimes, Soulwax, Santigold, Skepta, Stormzy, Yung Lean, Floating Points, Jamie Woon, The Field, Haelos pitchfestival.nl a Amsterdam

ATP Iceland 1st - 3rd July Ásbrú, Keflavik Les Savy Fav, The Oh Sees, Angel Olsen, Ty Segall and the Muggers, Blanck Mass, Stewart Lee atpfestival.com a Reykjavík-Keflavík Barn on the Farm 1st - 3rd July Over Farm, Gloucestershire Black Honey, Jack Garratt, Oh Wonder, Honne, Frances, Billie Marten, Flyte, Clean Cut Kid, Rationale barnonthefarm.co.uk r Gloucester Blissfields 1st - 2nd July Vicarage Farm, near Winchester Everything Everything, Dizzee Rascal, Spring King, Sundara Karma, Loyle Carner, Frances, Billie Marten, Jones, Shy FX, Roni Size & Dynamite MC blissfields.co.uk

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British Summer Time 2nd - 10th July Hyde Park, London Mumford & Sons, Florence + The Machine, Take That, Wolf Alice, Jamie xx, Kendrick Lamar, TV on the Radio, Massive Attack, Patti Smith, Warpaint, Cat Power, Blood Orange, Carole King, Stevie Wonder, Mystery Jets bst-hydepark.com r Hyde Park Corner Rock For People 3rd - 5th July Hradek Králové Chvrches, Ho99o9, The Offspring, Bullet For My Valentine, The 1975, Enter Shikari, Anti-Flag, Turbowolf, Arcane Roots rockforpeople.cz a Pardubice Les Ardentes 6th - 10th July Les Ardentes, Liège Cat Power, Flying Lotus, Suede, Mark Ronson (DJ Set), Tyler, The

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Bilbao BBK Live

7th - 9th July Kobetamendi, Bilbao Arcade Fire, Wolf Alice, Grimes, Chvrches, Foals, Years & Years, INHEAVEN, Pixies, Hot Chip, New Order, Courtney Barnett, Jagwar Ma, Tame Impala, Slaves, Editors bilbaobbklive.com a Bilbao Arcade Fire, Grimes, Chvrches and Wolf Alice at the top of a mountain sounds pretty great, right? Bilbao BBK Live attendees are in luck, then as that’s precisely where this one happens. Then by day there’s the high culture of the city’s Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum, too.

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Laura Jones, Krysko, Maribou State (DJ) electricelephant.co.uk a Zadar, Split

2000trees 7th - 9th July Upcote Farm, Withington Twin Atlantic, Refused, Moose Blood, Kagoule, Muncie Girls, Tigercub, Bellevue Days twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk r Cheltenham

EXIT 7th - 10th July Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad Bastille, Stormzy, Ms. Dynamite, Ellie Goulding, Anti-Flag, Wiz Khalifa, Hurts exitfest.org a Belgrade, Budapest, Split

Electric Elephant 7th - 11th July The Garden-Tisno Optimo, Todd Terry, Secretsundaze, Andrew Weatherall, HVOB, Jane Fitz,

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Door Cinema Club, Father John Misty, Courtney Barnett, Jagwar Ma, M83 nosalive.com a Lisbon Ottawa Bluesfest 7th - 17th July Lebreton Flats, Ottawa Death From Above 1979, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Alessia Cara, City and Colour, DZ Deathrays, Earl Sweatshirt ottawabluesfest.ca a Ottawa BSTK 8th - 10th July Morris Farm, Essex Katy B, Mark Ronson (DJ Set), Mike Skinner, Annie Mac, Fuse ODG, Wretch 32, Big Narstie, Mistajam, Izzy Bizu, Ms Dynamite, Charlie Sloth brownstock.co.uk r South Woodham Ferrers

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Latitude

14th - 17th July Henham Park, Suffolk The Maccabees, The National, New Order, Grimes, Chvrches, Perfume Genius, Of Monsters and Men, MØ, Poliça, Rat Boy, Låpsley, Frightened Rabbit, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Daughter, John Grant latitudefestival.com r Diss, Halesworth

Musilac 8th - 10th July Lac du Bourget, Aix-les-Bains Elton John, Foals, Courtney Barnett, Josef Salvat, Editors, Boys Noize musilac.com a Geneva Ruisrock 8th - 10th July Ruissalo, Turku Jack Ü, Air, Major Lazer, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Years

& Years, Zara Larsson ruisrock.fi a Turku Splash 8th - 10th July Ferropolis, Gräfenhainchen Ty Dolla $ign, Yung Lean, Anderson .Paak, Die Beginner, Azad splash-festival.de a Berlin Schönefeld T in the Park 8th - 10th July Strathallan Castle, Perthshire Calvin Harris, Red Hot Chili Peppers, LCD Soundsystem, Bastille, Jamie xx, Disclosure, Rat Boy, Maximo Park, FIDLAR, Jack Garratt, Frightened Rabbit, The Coral, Kaiser Chiefs tinthepark.com r Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth Wireless 8th - 10th July Finsbury Park, London Boy Better Know, Calvin Harris, Chase & Status, The 1975, Miguel, Kwabs, Vic Mensa, Craig David’s TS5, A$AP Ferg, Jess Glynne, Action Bronson, Yelawolf, Ty Dolla $ign wirelessfestival.co.uk r Finsbury Park Rock-A-Field 9th - 10th July Roeser, Luxembourg Bring Me The Horizon, Pixies,

If it’s not The Maccabees making that step up to headliner status that’s pitting Latitude one of the summer’s highlights, it’s the promise of brightly-coloured sheep, hidden stages in the woods, or the potential of secret sets after last year’s Ed Sheeran and Thom Yorke double-header. Or how about a main stage set from Chvrches as the sun goes down? Grimes headlining a sweaty, packed-out tent?

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Melt!

15th - 17th July Ferropolis, Gräfenhainchen Chvrches, Disclosure, Two Door Cinema Club, Jamie xx, Ho99o9, Jamie Woon, Sleaford Mods, M83, Circa Waves, Skepta, Tame Impala meltfestival.de a Berlin Schönefeld

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Tyler, The Creator, The 1975 rockafield.lu a Luxembourg

Cut Kid beatherder.co.uk r Hellifield

Fresh Island 12th - 14th July Zrce Beach, Novalja Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Tim Westwood, Statik Selektah, DJ Premier, Logan Sama fresh-island.org a Zadar

Ilosaarirock 15th - 17th July Laulurinne, Joensuu Wolf Alice, Skepta, The 1975, Ellie Goulding, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Tesseract ilosaarirock.fi a Joensuu

Dour 13th - 17th July Pleine de la Machine à Feu, Dour Sigur Rós, Pixies, Stormzy, Four Tet, Poliça, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Ho99o9, Mac DeMarco, The Vaccines dourfestival.eu a Brussels, Lille

Longitude 15th - 17th July Marlay Park, Dublin Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, The National, Jamie xx, Chvrches, Tyler, The Creator, Courtney Barnett, MØ, Father John Misty, A$AP Ferg longitude.ie a Dublin

Slottsfjell 13th - 16th July Slottsfjell Tower, Tønsberg Grimes, Wolf Alice, Bring Me The Horizon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, John Grant, Milk Teeth, The Thurston Moore Band, The 1975 slottsfjell.no a Torp, Rygge

Lovebox 15th - 16th July Victoria Park, London LCD Soundsystem, Major Lazer, Run The Jewels, MØ, Stormzy, Jungle, Jamie Woon, Jack Garratt, Miike Snow, Oh Wonder loveboxfestival.com r Mile End

Benicàssim 14th - 17th July Benicàssim, Spain Muse, Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, The Maccabees, Bloc Party, Mac DeMarco, Hinds, Massive Attack, Disclosure, The Vaccines, The Chemical Brothers, The 1975 fiberfib.com a Barcelona, Valencia Larmer Tree 14th - 19th July Larmer Tree Gardens, Salisbury Clean Bandit, Melt Yourself Down, Jane Weaver, Lanterns on the Lake, The Wave Pictures, Jamie Cullum, Cosmo Sheldrake, Calexico, Rozi Plain, This Is The Kit, Ethan Johns & the Black Eyed Dogs larmertreefestival.co.uk r Salisbury Les Vieilles Charrues 14th - 17th July Carhaix-Plouguer Disclosure, Pharrell Williams, Lana Del Rey, The Kills, Major Lazer, Pixies, FIDLAR, Ibeyi vieillescharrues.asso.fr a Brest Beat-Herder 15th - 17th July The Ribble Valley, Lancashire Primal Scream, Donovan, Riton, Cash + David, Formation, Clean

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Out of the Woods 15th - 16th July Ottakringer Arena, Wiesen Two Door Cinema Club, Little May, Steaming Satellites, Postal arcadia-live.com a Vienna Pitchfork Music Festival 15th - 17th July Union Park, Chicago, IL Brian Wilson, FKA twigs, Savages, Shamir, Blood Orange, Girl Band, Super Furry Animals, NAO, Beach House, Broken Social Scene, The Hotelier, Miguel pitchforkmusicfestival.com a Chicago O’Hare Positivus 15th - 17th July Salacgriva, Latvia Years & Years, Grimes, Wolf Alice, Ellie Goulding, Iggy Pop, M83, Ho99o9, Hot Chip, Richard Hawley, C Duncan positivusfestival.com a Riga Sion sous les Étoiles 15th - 18th July Stade du Tourbillon, Sion Editors, Johnny Hallyday, UB40, Alice on the Roof, Pony Pony Run Run sionsouslesetoiles.ch a Bern

DIY FESTIVAL Citadel

17th July Victoria Park, London Sigur Rós, Caribou, Lianne La Havas, Calexico, Cat’s Eyes, Andrew Weatherall, The 2 Bears, Billie Marten, Tinariwen, Gillbanks citadelfestival.com r Mile End Yoga? At a festival? Whether it’s the laid-back nature of the music on offer at this East London one-dayer or the extra-curricular activities on site, Citadel are making one bumper claim to being the summer’s most relaxed festival.

Art classes, Sunday Papers Live and Michelin-starred chefs appear alongside sets from Sigur Rós, Lianne La Havas, Cat’s Eyes and more.

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Truck 15th - 16th July Hill Farm, Oxfordshire Manic Street Preachers, Everything Everything, Rat Boy, Young Fathers, The Magic Gang, Sundara Karma, Formation, Moose Blood, Gnarwolves, Big Narstie, Circa Waves truckfestival.com r Didcot Parkway LIMF 21st - 24th July Various venues, Liverpool Sigma, Lianne La Havas, Kwabs, Ms. Dynamite, The Wombats, Netsky, Maverick Sabre, Frances, Gilles Peterson limfestival.com r Liverpool Lime Street Secret Garden Party 21st - 24th July Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon Swim Deep, The Japanese House, Caribou, Air, Primal Scream, Field Music, Teleman, Money, Sundara Karma, Band of Skulls, C Duncan, Rae Morris secretgardenparty.com r Huntingdon Siren 21st - 24th July Various venues, Costa dei Trabocchi Editors, The Notwist, I Cani sirenfest.com a Abruzzo Acoustic Lakeside 22nd - 23rd July Sonnegger See, Sittersdorf Calexico, Seinabo Sey, Dan Mangan, We Were Promised Jetpacks acousticlakeside.com a Klagenfurt Chagstock 22nd - 23rd July Whiddon Down, nr Chagford, Devon The Stranglers, Donovan, Cattle & Cane, The Blockheads chagstock.info r Exeter Deer Shed 22nd - 24th July Baldersby Park, Topcliffe Everything Everything, Beth Orton, Richard Hawley, Rae Morris, Eagulls, Money, Tuff Love, Declan McKenna, Amber Arcades, Anna Calvi, Field Music deershedfestival.com r Thirsk Fuji Rock 22nd - 24th July Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawacho

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Beck, Sigur Rós, Battles, Babymetal, Bo Ningen, James Blake, Deafheaven, Years & Years fujirock-eng.com a Tokyo Newport Folk Festival 22nd - 24th July Fort Adams State Park, RI Flight of the Conchords, Norah Jones, Father John Misty, Villagers, The Staves, Raury, Ruby Amanf newportfolk.org a Boston Logan Nozstock 22nd - 24th July Bromyard, Herefordshire Jurassic 5, Gentlemans Dub Club, Foreign Beggars, Son of Dave, Slamboree, The Stiff Joints nozstock.com r Hereford, Worcester Tramlines 22nd - 24th July Various venues, Sheffield Mystery Jets, Dizzee Rascal, Gaz Coombes, Field Music, Hinds, Jurassic 5, Kelis, Novelist, Sundara Karma, Young Fathers tramlines.org.uk r Sheffield Underneath The Stars 22nd - 24th July Cannon Hall Farm, Barnsley Kate Rusby, Dervish, Declan O’Rourke, Vieux Farka Touré, Olivia Chaney, The Demon Barbers XI, Blue Rose Code underthestarsfest.co.uk r Barnsley Wayhome 22nd - 24th July Oro-Medonte, Ontario LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Haim, Chvrches, FKA twigs, Foals, Mac DeMarco, MØ, Savages, FIDLAR, Dilly Dally, White Lung, Major Lazer, Kurt Vile and the Violators wayhome.com a Toronto Xponential 22nd - 24th July Camden Waterfront, NJ Alabama Shakes, Ryan Adams, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Father John Misty, The Districts, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Gary Clark Jr. xpnfest.org a Philadelphia Amphi 23rd - 24th July Tanzbrunnen, Cologne Editors, Nosferatu, Dive, Bloodsucking Zombies from

DIY FESTIVAL Standon Calling

29th - 31st July Standon, Hertfordshire Suede, Kelis, The Hives, Everything Everything, Swim Deep, Ghostpoet, The Thurston Moore Band, Declan McKenna, Adam Green, Gold Panda, Anna Calvi, Teleman standon-calling.com r Bishop’s Stortford

This year’s theme is ‘Legend of the Lost Seas’ which makes complete sense as the festival’s location of Hertfordshire isn’t at all near the coast. Headline sets this time around will come from Suede, Kelis and disco warbler Jess Glynne, with Swim Deep, The Hives and Ghostpoet also appearing.

Outer Space amphi-festival.de a Cologne MO POP 23rd - 24th July West Riverfront Park, Detroit, MI Him, Mac DeMarco, FIDLAR, M83, Matt and Kim, Father John Misty, Glass Animals mopopfestival.com a Detroit Camp Bestival 28th - 31st July Lulworth Castle, Dorset Fatboy Slim, Katy B, Loyle Carner, Tears For Fears, Jess Glynne, Squeeze, KT Tunstall, Turin Brakes, Jamie Lawson, Bananarama campbestival.net r Wareham, Wool Kendal Calling 28th - 31st July Lowther Deer Park, Cumbria Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Charlatans, Everything Everything, Kelis, Sugarhill Gang, The Hives, Maximo Park, Rat Boy, The Big Moon, Hooton Tennis Club, Ash kendalcalling.co.uk r Penrith Leefest 28th - 30th July ‘Top Secret Location’ Lianne La Havas, Ghostpoet, Roots Manuva, The Big Moon, Spring King, Formation, Big Deal, Demob Happy, Oscar, GIRLI leefest.org r Choose one at will

Womad 28th - 31st July Charlton Park, Malmesbury George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic, Baaba Maal, Tetish, Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band, Muzykanci, Moh! Kouyate, Lula Pena, Ibrahim Maalouf womad.co.uk r Chippenham

Shopping, Two White Cranes, Flowers, Pete Green indietracks.co.uk r Derby Lollapalooza 29th - 31st July Grant Park, Chicago, IL Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Grimes, Lana Del Rey, Bastille, Haim, Foals, Years & Years, MØ, Leon Bridges, Wolf Alice, Skepta, Pvris lollapalooza.com a Chicago O’Hare Indiependence 29th - 31st July Deer Farm, Mitchelstown Editors, Ash, Bell X1, The Kooks, Idlewild, Coasts, Walking On Cars indiependencefestival.com a Cork Osheaga 29th - 31st July Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal Radiohead, Grimes, Lana Del Rey, Disclosure, Haim, Bastille, Foals, Years & Years, MØ, Skepta, Dilly Dally, Bloc Party, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Leon Bridges, Daughter osheaga.com a Montreal Y Not 29th - 31st July Pikehall, Derbyshire Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Cribs, The Hives, Editors, Everything Everything, Lucy Rose, Rat Boy, Eagulls, Kelis, Moose Blood, Creeper, Sundara Karma, The Magic Gang, Milk Teeth ynotfestivals.co.uk r Buxton MADE Birmingham 30th July Digbeth Triangle, Birmingham Rudimental, Stormzy, Mike Skinner, Redlight, Noisia, Andy C madebirmingham.com r Birmingham New Street

Farmfest 29th - 30th July Gilcombe Farm, Somerset Young Fathers, Errors, Pumarosa, Ardyn, Flamingods, Haiku Salut farmfestival.co.uk r Bruton

Arenal Sound 4th - 7th August Borriana, Castellón Two Door Cinema Club, The 1975, Kaiser Chiefs, Crystal Castles, The Hives arenalsound.com a Valencia

Indietracks 29th - 31st July Midland Railway Centre, Derbyshire Saint Etienne, The Spook School, The Aislers Set,

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Brakes, C. Duncan, Billie Marten, Wilko Johnson tartanheartfestival.co.uk r Inverness Soundwave Croatia 4th - 8th August The Garden, Tisno Pharoahe Monch, Calibre, Mala, Gentlemans Dub Club, Akala, Normanton Street, Taste The Difference, So Fresh So Clean, Tuckshop, Plates soundwavecroatia.com a Zada, Split Wilderness 4th - 7th August Oxfordshire The Flaming Lips, Crystal Fighters, Lianne La Havas, Robert Plant and the Sensational Shape Shifters, Glass Animals, Shura, Georgia, Rosie Lowe wildernessfestival.com r Charlbury Forgotten Fields 5th - 7th August Eridge Deer Park, East Sussex Suede, Dizzee Rascal, Kelis, Maximo Park, Sugarhill Gang, Ibibio Sound Machine forgottenfields.co.uk r Tunbridge Wells Off 5th - 7th August Dolina Trzech Stawow, Katowice The Kills, Lush, Mudhoney, Show Me The Body, Napalm Death, Liima, FIDLAR, Anohni, Sleaford Mods, Beach Slang off-festival.pl a Katowice Outside Lands 5th - 7th August Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey, Grimes, Foals, Years & Years, Poliça, Peaches, Låpsley, DIIV, The Last Shadow Puppets sfoutsidelands.com a San Francisco Caught By The River Thames 6th - 7th August Fulham Palace, London Low, Super Furry Animals, Temples, Ryley Walker, Sun Ra Arkestra, Beth Orton, Stealing Sheep caughtbytheriverthames.com r Putney Bridge Visions 6th August Various venues, London Young Fathers, Gengahr,

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The Japanese House, Elf Kid, Lightning Bolt, Anna Calvi, Pumarosa, Mykki Blanco, Ulrika Spacek visionsfestival.com r London Fields, Cambridge Heath Øya 9th - 13th August Tøyenparken, Oslo Chvrches, Jamie xx, Foals, PJ Harvey, Stormzy, Massive Attack and Young Fathers, Eagles of Death Metal, The Last Shadow Puppets, Savages, The Kills, Rat Boy, NAO, VANT oyafestivalen.com a Oslo Boardmasters 10th - 14th August Cornwall Primal Scream, Kaiser Chiefs, Wolf Alice, Foxes, Mystery Jets, Rat Boy, Soak, Big Deal, Formation, VANT, Spring King, Lianne La Havas, Craig David’s TS5 boardmasters.co.uk r Newquay Sziget 10th - 17th August Óbuda-sziget, Budapest Bastille, Bring Me The Horizon, Muse, Rihanna, Years & Years, Sia, Chvrches, MØ, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Bloc Party Szigetfestival.com a Budapest Liszt Ferenc Haldern Pop 11th - 13th August Rees-Halpern Frightened Rabbits, Daughter, Arthur Beatrice, Izzy Bizu, Jack Garratt, Julia Holter, Låpsley haldernpop.com a Düsseldorf Way Out West 11th - 13th August Slottskogen, Gothenburg Chvrches, Jamie xx, PJ Harvey, M83, Stormzy, Sia, Haim, The Kills, Skepta, Daughter, Dua Lipa, Yung Lean, Thundercat, Massive Attack and Young Fathers Wayoutwest.se a Gothenburg Eaux Claires 12th - 13th August Eau Claire, WI James Blake, Bon Iver, Deafheaven, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Jenny Lewis, LNZNDRF eauxclaires.com a Minneapolis-Saint Paul

Flow 12th - 14th August Parrukatu, Helsinki Sia, Iggy Pop, Jamie xx, Sleaford Mods, Stormzy, The Last Shadow Puppets, Chvrches, The Kills, New Order, Descendents, Daughter, Thundercat flowfestival.com a Helsinki-Vantaa Paredes de Coura 17th - 20th August Taboão River Beach, Valença do Minho LCD Soundsystem, Chvrches, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Sleaford Mods, Suuns, Thee Oh Sees, Sharon Jones & The DapKings, The Tallest Man On Earth paredesdecoura.com a Oporto Pukkelpop 17th - 20th August Hasselt, Kiewit LCD Soundsystem, Biffy Clyro, Chvrches, The Kills, Rihanna, Warpaint, Sleaford Mods, Refused, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, M83, The Chemical Brothers pukkelpop.be a Brussels Charleroi ArcTanGent 18th - 21st August Fernhill Farm, Somerset American Football, La Dispute, Meet Me In St Louis, Errors, Three Trapped Tigers, Rolo Tomassi, Talons, Tangled Hair, Svalbard, Yndi Halda arctangent.co.uk r Bristol Temple Meads Frequency 18th - 20th August Green Park, St. Pölten Bring Me The Horizon, Foals, Haim, Limp Bizkit, Jack Garratt, The Kills, The Last Shadow Puppets frequency.at a Vienna Green Man 18th - 21st August Glanusk Park, Usk Valley James Blake, Wild Beasts, Warpaint, Gengahr, Formation, Sunflower Bean, Belle & Sebastian, Battles, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Songhoy Blues, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard greenman.net r Abergavenny Pstereo 18th - 20th August Marinen, Trondheim Sigur Rós, Deafheaven, Hinds, Hudson Mohawke, The Thurston Moore Band, Beach Slang

pstereo.no a Trondheim Vaernes Dockville 19th - 21st August Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg Bastille, Foals, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Hinds, Oscar msdockville.de a Hamburg Doune The Rabbit Hole 19th - 21st August Cardross Estate, Stirling Admiral Fallow, Blanck Mass, Bossy Love, C Duncan, Rozi Plain, Cate Le Bon, Emma Pollock, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts dounetherabbithole.co.uk r Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth Glass Butter Beach 19th - 21st August Abersoch, Gwynedd Wolf Alice, Katy B, Mystery Jets, Goldierocks, Rukhsana Merrise, BB Diamond, Kyko glassbutterbeach.com r Pwllheli Summer Sonic 20th - 21st August Chiba / Osaka Radiohead, Panic! At The Disco, Two Door Cinema Club, Weezer, MØ, Rat Boy, Pvris, Sunflower Bean, Mark Ronson summersonic.com a Narita, Kansai V Festival 20th - 21st August Weston Park, Shropshire / Hylands Park, Chelmsford Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Sia, Little Mix, Kaiser Chiefs, Bastille, Years & Years, Halsey, Katy B, All Saints, Foxes, Lethal Bizzle, Craig David’s TS5, Travis vfestival.com r Stafford, Wolverhampton, Chelmsford Sonus 21st - 25th August Zrce Beach, Novalja The Martinez Brothers, Seth Troxler, Jackmaster, Dixon, Luciano, Sonja Moonear, tINI, Praslesh, ZIP sonus-festival.com a Zadar, Split AMA 23rd - 28th August Asolo City Park, Asolo Foals, Thee Oh Sees, Funeral Suits, Vitalic, Soviet Soviet, Gazebo Penguins amamusicfestival.com a Venice Zürich Openair 24th - 27th August

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FYF 27th - 28th August Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, DIIV, Hot Chip, Jaguar Ma, Head Wound City, Alex G fyffest.com a Los Angeles SW4 27th - 28th August Clapham Common, London Rudimental, Dizzee Rascal, Bondax, Four Tet, The Chemical Brothers, Armand Van Helden, Blonde, Boys Noize, Nero southwestfour.com r Clapham Common Festival No. 6 1st - 4th September Portmeirion Bastille, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Hot Chip, Super Furry Animals, Django Django, Eagulls, Formation, Lucy Rose, Oscar, Temples festivalnumber6.com r Bangor Outlook 1st - 5th September Stinjan Stormzy, Angel Haze, Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley, Andy C, Joey Bada$$, Kano, Rejjie Snow, Goldie MBE, Lady Leshurr outlookfestival.com a Pula Soundrive 1st - 3rd September B90, Gdansk Formation, Hinds, Liss, Pixx, Petite Noir, Honne, Júniús Meyvant festival.soundrive.pl a Gdansk Unaltrofestival 1st - 2nd September Magnolia Estate, Milan Daughter, Editors, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros unaltrofestival.it a Milan Bingley Music Live 2nd - 4th September Myrtle Park, Bingley Tinie Tempah, Travis, Sigma, Echo and the Bunnymen bingleymusiclive.com r Bingley Electric Picnic 2nd - 4th September Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey,

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19th - 21st August Biddinghuizen, Netherlands Muse, LCD Soundsystem, Disclosure, Foals, Sigur Rós, Chvrches, M83, Sum 41, James Blake, Biffy Clyro, Dua Lipa, lowlands.nl a Amsterdam Schiphol

One of the Netherlands’ largest festivals with a 55,000 capacity, this year Lowlands has not only snagged the circuit’s hottest property of LCD Soundsystem, but also riffs aplenty with Muse, Foals and Biffy Clyro bringing the screams to Biddinghuizen.

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Haim, Years & Years, Wolf Alice, Wild Beasts, Savages, Glass Animals, NAO, New Order, The Chemical Brothers, Super Furry Animals electricpicnic.ie a Dublin End of the Road 2nd - 4th September Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset Animal Collective, Bat For Lashes, Joanna Newsom, Cat Power, Savages, Money, Sunflower Bean, The Big Moon, Oscar, Devendra Banhart, Local Natives endoftheroadfestival.com r Salisbury Sundown 2nd - 4th September Norfolk Showground, Norwich Years & Years, Jason Derulo, Fleur East, Jaguar Skills, Dizzee Rascal, My Nu Leng, Jess Glynne sundownfestival.co.uk r Norwich

Jersey Live 3rd - 4th September The Royal Jersey Showground, Trinity Disclosure, Richard Ashcroft, Madness, Sigma jerseylive.org.uk a Jersey Bestival 8th - 11th September Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight The Cure, Hot Chip, Major Lazer, Diplo, Fatboy Slim, Bastille, Wolf Alice, Years & Years, Skepta, MØ, Katy B, Ghostpoet, Jagwar Ma bestival.net r Southampton Central, Portsmouth & Southsea Lollapalooza Berlin 10th - 11th September Tempelhof Airport, Berlin Radiohead, Kings of Leon, James Blake, Years & Years, Major Lazer, New Order, The 1975, Jess Glynne, Aurora lollapaloozade.com a Berlin Tegel, Schönefeld

Reading & Leeds

26th - 28th August Richfield Avenue, Reading / Bramham Park, Leeds Foals, Disclosure, Biffy Clyro, Fall Out Boy, Chvrches, Haim, Boy Better Know, The Vaccines, A$AP Rocky, Savages, Rat Boy, Hinds, Jack Ü, INHEAVEN, Sundara Karma readingfestival.com / leedsfestival.com r Reading, Leeds

The year’s biggest adrenaline rush of a weekend has DIY faves Foals stepping up to headliner status, the return of Biffy Clyro (remember those fireworks last time?!), plus bound-to-be-awesome sets from Chvrches, Haim, Fall Out Boy and super troupe Boy Better Know, plus relative newbies INHEAVEN, Rat Boy, Creeper, Hinds and Sundara Karma.

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Reeperbahn 21st - 24th September Various venues, Hamburg Dilly Dally, Moose Blood, Jeanne Added, Isaac Gracie, Declan McKenna, Jodie Abacus reeperbahnfestival.com a Hamburg Rockaway Beach 7th - 10th October Butlin’s Bognor Regis Suede, St. Etienne, Black Honey, Jane Weaver, Man Made, Bill Ryder-Jones, Kagoule rockawaybeach.co.uk r Bognor Regis Iceland Airwaves 2nd - 6th November Various venues, Reykjavik PJ Harvey, Lush, Múm, Julia Holter, Kronos Quartet, Reykjavíkurdaetur Icelandairwaves.is a Reykjavík-Keflavík Oasis 16th - 18th September The Source Music Resort, Marrakech Amine K, B.Traits, Booka Shade, George Fitzgerald, Lindstrøm,

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