Boomtown has dropped the primary wave of its 2026 lineup and it’s a wild glimpse for his or her subsequent chapter “Chapter 5: Radical Redesign.” Set for August 12-16 at Matterley Property in Hampshire, the lineup spans digital, dwell bands, rap, dub and extra, all pointing to a model of the pageant that’s equal components immersive city-world and sound-system riot.
On the invoice that features 40+ dwell and digital acts that deliver collectively legends and trailblazers throughout genres and generations, is Belfast political-rap trio Kneecap; glam-pop and drag-infused legends Scissor Sisters; ska-funk heroes Insanity (returning to the Lion’s Den stage a decade after their 2016 set). On the digital entrance, Skrillex and 4 Tet deliver dance ground muscle whereas Faithless mark their thirtieth anniversary look, plus Boomtown royalty Shy FX returns, marking a real homecoming second for the pageant. Upping the tempo comes German happy-hardcore outfit Scooter, Jamaican party-shouter Shaggy, and boundary-breaking rap icons Ashnikko and Eve.
Moreover, Boomtown has stacked every thing from drum & bass heavyweights Camo & Krooked B2B Mefjus, Kings of the Rollers: Royal Rumble, exhausting techno agitators Brutalismus 3000, UKG / bass pair Kilimanjaro B2B Oppidan, to the live-band grit of Skindred, Excessive Vis and Massive Particular. Big legendary hip-hop billing Havoc of Mobb Deep will carry out, add in dub/reggae crews Mungo’s Hello Fi Allstars and Alborosie & Shengen Clan, and also you’ve obtained one pageant that’s unafraid to blur scenes.
Co-founder Luke Mitchell says the transfer is about increasing past Bass per se and re-embracing what Boomtown started as: “Musically, whereas bass music has dominated in recent times and can all the time be at our core, we’re making a aware transfer to maintain Boomtown musically various and unpredictable. Count on extra dwell bands and extra cross-genre adventures. That’s the place Boomtown started, and it’s what retains us on the truest path ahead.”
The positioning can be getting a significant overhaul. The famed Lion’s Den stage returns to the Temple Valley amphitheater. Hilltop turns into the pageant’s inventive core, full of theatre and efficiency. Downtown plunges deeper into dance euphoria, and the Hydro stage turns into “Hydro XL” – double the dimensions, greener manufacturing, leaner on waste. Mitchell says the thought is “extra nature, extra woodland, extra hidden locations in all places.”
Tickets are already shifting quick and Boomtown experiences over half of capability offered earlier than this iteration of the lineup drop went public. Public-transport tickets go on sale October 30, normal pageant entry tickets October 31.
With extra artists nonetheless to return, Boomtown’s 2026 version guarantees to be a richly layered world of its personal: a city inside a nationwide park, 5 days of sound, theatre, road artwork, bass and celebration, the form of pageant that works as vacation, rave and escape abruptly.
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