In a normal year, ESNS is a yearly excuse for Europe's music industry to decamp to the Netherlands, jump out of the way of a city packed with more bicycles than seems strictly realistic, stick fritessaus on its chips and check out the most exciting new bands for the year ahead.

Like 2021, though, 2022 is anything but normal. For the second year in a row, our not-so-good friend Covid has sent ESNS online. But rejoice, all is not lost. Last year's edition was one of the best digital festivals of a year packed with them - and with a line-up rammed to the rafters with some of the best new voices around, there's loads to get excited about without ever needing to get the train from Schiphol.

We've picked out fourteen names from the bill you should make sure you catch when the festival kicks off on Wednesday, 19th January 2022. Want to delve deeper? You can find the timetable for all the live music - which you can check out free(!) - here.

With a Mercury Prize nomination already under his belt for debut mixtape 'DEMOTAPE/VEGA', BERWYN isn't so much on his way to big things but already basically there. One of two mixtapes released in just under a year and with a top-three BBC Sound Of poll placing under his belt, he's the kind of artist you shouldn't pass up the chance to catch.