This August holds a pleasingly thrilling Arctangent Festival hosted in their usual spot in the outskirts of the bustling Bristol city in Fernhill Farm. They have just proudly announced a new selection of bands that have been added to their, already monumental, line up. The infamous festival will be running from the 16th August through to the 19th August.
The festival’s first ever edition was in 2013 and has made a good name for itself since. The event is known to be based on green fields and hosts a vast variety of acts ranging from small up and coming bands to well known artists within the rock scene. A community-based place in charge of making everyone feel at home.
In 2018 they won an award for the Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards and were shortlisted for Best Line-up Award that very same year. A binding project put together to bring the authentic rock/alternative artists of the industry to come together to create not just an event but a whole experience, in consequence, becoming the emerging UK rock festival in town.
This year’s edition includes over 100 acts and they have just announced a new batch including the Oklahoma band Chat Pile, the progressive metal band Sikth from Watford, the excitingly chaotic band Rolo Tomassi from Sheffield alongside Chinese Football, GGGOLDDD, HEALTH, Car Bomb, Caligula’s Horse, Apidae, Abraham, Burial Clouds, Hammok, Hypno5e, Pothamus, Death Goals, Lys Morke and WitchSorrow.
The selection of fresh new arrivals will be playing alongside the already announced headliners Heilung, an experimental folk band known for their time capsuling style of the Iron Age, the band Converge who maintain an important spot within the metalcore and extreme metal scene coming all the way from the US, Deafhaven playing their 2013 Sunbather album as a UK exclusive, the genre mashing French musician known as Igorrr, not to mention the well known Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, the English heavy metal band Loathe, described accurately by their name, as well as Opeth, Messhugah, Battles, Glassjaw, Explosions In The Sky, This Will Destroy You and many, many more.
They curate their line-ups, designed originally in order to not be found anywhere else on Earth. A fully independent project running solely off a passion toward the spreading of the industry’s music that deserves to be heard internationally, creating a beloved community giving unknown bands the opportunity to prove themselves to the outer world.
UPDATE 14th April 2023
The line up has been updated since, with massive new headliner, Devin Townsend, playing on the Saturday night amongst a selection of other new bands. These include the UK progressive rockers Haken, Aiming For Enrique, YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, Ashenspire, CLT DRP and the Guru Guru.
Tickets are live and available to buy here.
