Featured Festivals

Absolutely is making room for a little magic
Maisie Peters is already thinking about what comes next

All Points East 2026: Twenty One Pilots: The Big Dork Preview
A decade of lore leads to this weekend in a park in east London, at the only UK Twenty One Pilots show of the year. Plus Wunderhorse return - maybe with new material to show - and a lower order of some of the most engaging and exciting rock has to offer.
Reading & Leeds 2026: The Big Dork Preview
Two first-time headliners tonight, a secret set that honestly genuinely 100% got booked off an Instagram video (Glance to camera here - Ed), a redrawn site and a thunderstorm warning over both sites. That’ll be Reading & Leeds again, then.
All Points East 2026: Lorde: The Big Dork Preview
Latitude has confirmed its 2027 dates, with Early Bird tickets on sale now
All Points East 2026: Tyler, The Creator’s Two-Day Takeover: The Big Dork Preview

Nia Archives is bringing 'late night party energy' to an intimate All Points East afterparty
Boomtown 2026: Panic Shack: "That'll be PURE MAGIC"

In Photos: Olivia Rodrigo's first Daisy Chain Fields has raised $20 million
The one-day festival took place at Great Park in Irvine, California.

Absolutely is making room for a little magic
With her Reading Festival debut behind her, Absolutely finally feels like the universe she imagined with ‘Paracosm’ is fully alive.

Maisie Peters is already thinking about what comes next
Maisie Peters returns to Reading Festival with ‘Florescence’, huge ambitions and plenty of new music already taking shape.

All Points East 2026: Twenty One Pilots: The Big Dork Preview
A decade of lore leads to this weekend in a park in east London, at the only UK Twenty One Pilots show of the year. Plus Wunderhorse return - maybe with new material to show - and a lower order of some of the most engaging and exciting rock has to offer.

Reading & Leeds 2026: The Big Dork Preview
Two first-time headliners tonight, a secret set that honestly genuinely 100% got booked off an Instagram video (Glance to camera here - Ed), a redrawn site and a thunderstorm warning over both sites. That’ll be Reading & Leeds again, then.

All Points East 2026: Outbreak: The Big Dork Preview
Manchester's hardcore institution takes over Victoria Park with living icons Deftones fully at it. The loudest day of the east London fortnight, and one of the best.

All Points East 2026: Interpol's New York state of mind
More than two decades into their career, Interpol have returned home to New York with a renewed hunger to make their best music yet. For album eight, perfection is still the only goal.

All Points East 2026: Lorde: The Big Dork Preview
Ten days before the 'Ultrasound' tour ends, Lorde plays her only London show of the year as part of one of the best one-day festival line-ups in years.

Latitude has confirmed its 2027 dates, with Early Bird tickets on sale now
Suffolk festival opens 2027 sales following its 20th anniversary edition last month.

All Points East 2026: Tyler, The Creator’s Two-Day Takeover: The Big Dork Preview
Nobody has headlined All Points East two nights running before. Tyler, The Creator does it with two entirely different line-ups underneath him, both crawling with his own collaborators. Both days, one preview, because that’s plainly how he’d want it.

Nia Archives is bringing 'late night party energy' to an intimate All Points East afterparty
Bradford-born producer curates late-night jungle and techno session at east London venue.

Boomtown 2026: Panic Shack: "That'll be PURE MAGIC"
Nine years ago, Sarah Harvey worked Boomtown in fancy dress for a free ticket. This week Panic Shack play it twice. Cardiff's finest talk vans, pickles, mosh pits and the dream of finally quitting the day jobs, as Dork's latest festival guide cover stars prepare to give the fictional city a very real seeing to.
Florence Road are making every stage feel like home
Teddy Swims comes full circle at Latitude
All Points East 2026: Jorja Smith + Tems: The Big Dork Preview

All Points East rounds out this year's Jorja Smith and Tems bill with Katy B and more
Down With Boring reports in from Dork's Latitude 2026 takeover
Rockaway Beach has added Swim Deep, Master Peace and more to its 2027 line-up
All Points East 2026: NOAHFINNCE is overwhelmed, not defeated
LIDO 2026: Maribou State: The Big Dork Preview
Postponed from June out of respect for a lawn, LIDO’s Maribou State day lands on bank holiday Monday at the tired, blissful end of the Victoria Park fortnight. Kelis, Theo Parrish b2b Moodymann, DJ Koze and more. The summer’s gentlest great line-up, in full.

All Points East 2026: Honey Revenge are ready for their next chapter
With All Points East on the horizon and second album 'Loving and Losing' arriving soon after, Honey Revenge are entering a new phase shaped by life on the road.

All Points East 2026: supermodel* is ready for his second act
supermodel* might be a new project, but Frankie Beanie's been building towards it for years. With debut mixtape 'cupid!' - and an upcoming appearance at All Points East - the pieces have finally clicked into place.

Boomtown 2026: The Big Dork Preview
This year's Boomtown is dubbed Chapter 5: Radical Redesign; an invitation to rethink how we live, connect and create. Here's some of the stuff we'll be checking out.

Mutations Festival has added Dove Ellis, Working Men's Club, Walt Disco and more to its 2026 line-up
Brighton multi-venue weekender returns for eighth edition across ten grassroots spaces.

All Points East 2026: Honey Revenge are ready for their next chapter
With All Points East on the horizon and second album 'Loving and Losing' arriving soon after, Honey Revenge are entering a new phase shaped by life on the road.

LIDO 2026: Maribou State: The Big Dork Preview
Postponed from June out of respect for a lawn, LIDO’s Maribou State day lands on bank holiday Monday at the tired, blissful end of the Victoria Park fortnight. Kelis, Theo Parrish b2b Moodymann, DJ Koze and more. The summer’s gentlest great line-up, in full.

Rockaway Beach has added Swim Deep, Master Peace and more to its 2027 line-up
Britpop group headline latest additions to January's Bognor Regis weekender as 85% of tickets sell.

All Points East 2026: NOAHFINNCE is overwhelmed, not defeated
Burnt out, unable to safely travel to the country half his fanbase resides in and watching the news like the rest of us (through his fingers), NOAHFINNCE did the only sensible thing: turned the dread into a character, wrote him a banger, and got himself booked for one of the biggest bills of the year in London’s Victoria Park. All Points East, meet your new favourite anxiety.

Florence Road are making every stage feel like home
Fresh from a whirlwind festival run, Florence Road are looking ahead to new music, bigger shows and their debut album.

Teddy Swims comes full circle at Latitude
Three years after an early afternoon slot, Teddy Swims returns to Latitude as a headline act with fatherhood, heartbreak and a new album shaping his future.

All Points East 2026: Jorja Smith + Tems: The Big Dork Preview
Jorja Smith releases her third album on the morning of the show, co-headlines with Tems in the evening, and fills the rest of the day with her own label’s roster. The fammily business is doing alright.

All Points East rounds out this year's Jorja Smith and Tems bill with Katy B and more
SHY FX's Digital Soundboy takeover, Maverick Sabre and Katy B added to opening-day roster.

Down With Boring reports in from Dork's Latitude 2026 takeover
We're back with a brilliant but brief catch-up from our Henham Park adventure, featuring Friends of the Magazine Sports Team, Swim Deep and The Itch.

In Photos: Olivia Rodrigo's first Daisy Chain Fields has raised $20 million
The one-day festival took place at Great Park in Irvine, California.

Absolutely is making room for a little magic
With her Reading Festival debut behind her, Absolutely finally feels like the universe she imagined with ‘Paracosm’ is fully alive.

Maisie Peters is already thinking about what comes next
Maisie Peters returns to Reading Festival with ‘Florescence’, huge ambitions and plenty of new music already taking shape.

All Points East 2026: Twenty One Pilots: The Big Dork Preview
A decade of lore leads to this weekend in a park in east London, at the only UK Twenty One Pilots show of the year. Plus Wunderhorse return - maybe with new material to show - and a lower order of some of the most engaging and exciting rock has to offer.

Reading & Leeds 2026: The Big Dork Preview
Two first-time headliners tonight, a secret set that honestly genuinely 100% got booked off an Instagram video (Glance to camera here - Ed), a redrawn site and a thunderstorm warning over both sites. That’ll be Reading & Leeds again, then.

All Points East 2026: Outbreak: The Big Dork Preview
Manchester's hardcore institution takes over Victoria Park with living icons Deftones fully at it. The loudest day of the east London fortnight, and one of the best.

All Points East 2026: Interpol's New York state of mind
More than two decades into their career, Interpol have returned home to New York with a renewed hunger to make their best music yet. For album eight, perfection is still the only goal.

All Points East 2026: Lorde: The Big Dork Preview
Ten days before the 'Ultrasound' tour ends, Lorde plays her only London show of the year as part of one of the best one-day festival line-ups in years.

Latitude has confirmed its 2027 dates, with Early Bird tickets on sale now
Suffolk festival opens 2027 sales following its 20th anniversary edition last month.

All Points East 2026: Tyler, The Creator’s Two-Day Takeover: The Big Dork Preview
Nobody has headlined All Points East two nights running before. Tyler, The Creator does it with two entirely different line-ups underneath him, both crawling with his own collaborators. Both days, one preview, because that’s plainly how he’d want it.

Nia Archives is bringing 'late night party energy' to an intimate All Points East afterparty
Bradford-born producer curates late-night jungle and techno session at east London venue.

Boomtown 2026: Panic Shack: "That'll be PURE MAGIC"
Nine years ago, Sarah Harvey worked Boomtown in fancy dress for a free ticket. This week Panic Shack play it twice. Cardiff's finest talk vans, pickles, mosh pits and the dream of finally quitting the day jobs, as Dork's latest festival guide cover stars prepare to give the fictional city a very real seeing to.

All Points East 2026: supermodel* is ready for his second act
supermodel* might be a new project, but Frankie Beanie's been building towards it for years. With debut mixtape 'cupid!' - and an upcoming appearance at All Points East - the pieces have finally clicked into place.

Boomtown 2026: The Big Dork Preview
This year's Boomtown is dubbed Chapter 5: Radical Redesign; an invitation to rethink how we live, connect and create. Here's some of the stuff we'll be checking out.

Mutations Festival has added Dove Ellis, Working Men's Club, Walt Disco and more to its 2026 line-up
Brighton multi-venue weekender returns for eighth edition across ten grassroots spaces.

All Points East 2026: Honey Revenge are ready for their next chapter
With All Points East on the horizon and second album 'Loving and Losing' arriving soon after, Honey Revenge are entering a new phase shaped by life on the road.

LIDO 2026: Maribou State: The Big Dork Preview
Postponed from June out of respect for a lawn, LIDO’s Maribou State day lands on bank holiday Monday at the tired, blissful end of the Victoria Park fortnight. Kelis, Theo Parrish b2b Moodymann, DJ Koze and more. The summer’s gentlest great line-up, in full.

Rockaway Beach has added Swim Deep, Master Peace and more to its 2027 line-up
Britpop group headline latest additions to January's Bognor Regis weekender as 85% of tickets sell.

All Points East 2026: NOAHFINNCE is overwhelmed, not defeated
Burnt out, unable to safely travel to the country half his fanbase resides in and watching the news like the rest of us (through his fingers), NOAHFINNCE did the only sensible thing: turned the dread into a character, wrote him a banger, and got himself booked for one of the biggest bills of the year in London’s Victoria Park. All Points East, meet your new favourite anxiety.

Florence Road are making every stage feel like home
Fresh from a whirlwind festival run, Florence Road are looking ahead to new music, bigger shows and their debut album.









