{"id":100678,"date":"2025-10-30T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=100678"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:02:55","slug":"arctangent-festival-2026-first-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/arctangent-festival-2026-first-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"ArcTanGent Festival Unveils First Acts for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>ArcTanGent Festival<\/b> has revealed the first 37 names announced for next year&#8217;s festival. The announcement is led by French artist <strong>Igorrr<\/strong>, <b>Perturbator<\/b>, <b>Chat Pile<\/b>, <b>Alcest<\/b>, and the returning <b>Oathbreaker<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other notable names announced for <b>ATG 2026<\/b> include <b>TTNG<\/b>, <b>BRUIT \u2264<\/b>, <strong>Shearling<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Cera Palin<\/strong>, and <strong>Psychonaut<\/strong>. It will also see <b>HECK<\/b> reforming to mark the 10th anniversary show of <i>&#8216;Instructions&#8217;<\/i>, and <b>Humanfly<\/b> will be reforming for their first show in 13 years. While <b>Agent Fresco<\/b> will be playing their first UK date in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the Wednesday of <b>ArcTanGent<\/b> sees old favourites returning with <b>Svalbard<\/b> playing their final festival dates. It&#8217;ll also see the likes of <strong>Alpha Male Tea Party<\/strong>, <b>Overhead, The Albatross<\/b>, <b>Lost In Kiev<\/b>, <strong>Chalk Hands<\/strong>, <strong>Giant Walker<\/strong>, and more returning.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on today&#8217;s announcement, festival organiser James Scarlett shared; <em>&#8220;The demand for ArcTanGent 2026 tickets has truly been unprecedented, with over half our tickets sold in the first 2 weeks of them being on sale. Fans will have to wait a little bit longer before we can announce our headliners, but we\u2019re so excited for the exclusives, reformations and special sets we\u2019ve already cooked up &#8211; Early Bird tickets are running low so if you want to lock in for another vintage ArcTanGent, don\u2019t sleep!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ah-infobox\" style=\"max-width: 80%; margin: 0 auto 20px auto; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; text-align: center;\"><style>.ah-infobox p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }<\/style><p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-100681 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ATG-Poster-A4-2026-MK3-04.webp\" alt=\"ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2026 First announcement\" width=\"1250\" height=\"1768\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ATG-Poster-A4-2026-MK3-04.webp 1250w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ATG-Poster-A4-2026-MK3-04-212x300.webp 212w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ATG-Poster-A4-2026-MK3-04-566x800.webp 566w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ATG-Poster-A4-2026-MK3-04-768x1086.webp 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ATG-Poster-A4-2026-MK3-04-1086x1536.webp 1086w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" \/><br \/>\nIgorrr (UK Exclusive)<br \/>\nPerturbator (UK Exclusive)<br \/>\nChat Pile<br \/>\nAlcest (UK Exclusive)<br \/>\nOathbreaker (UK Exclusive)<br \/>\nAgent Fresco<br \/>\nTTNG<br \/>\nSvalbard*<br \/>\nBRUIT \u2264<br \/>\nAmplifier (Silent Disco Live Set)<br \/>\nHECK<br \/>\nAlpha Male Tea Party*<br \/>\nHumanfly<br \/>\nPsychonaut<br \/>\nLost In Kiev*<br \/>\nOverhead, The Albatross*<br \/>\nMichael Cera Palin<br \/>\nDarkher<br \/>\nShearling<br \/>\nTown Portal<br \/>\nBarrens<br \/>\nBlessings<br \/>\nBucket<br \/>\nChalk Hands*<br \/>\nDIMSC\u00dbA*<br \/>\nErotic Secrets of Pompeii<br \/>\nGiant Walker*<br \/>\nThe Grey*<br \/>\nHAAL<br \/>\nKL\u00c4MP<br \/>\nMeatdripper<br \/>\nNo Violet<br \/>\nSans Froid*<br \/>\nSwamp Coffin*<br \/>\nTanzana<br \/>\nZatokrev<br \/>\nSara Zozaya<br \/>\n*= Wednesday only<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ArcTanGent Festival 2026<\/strong>\u00a0will take place at Fernhill Farm near Bristol from Wednesday, 19th August to Saturday, 22nd August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arctangent.co.uk\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about\u00a0<strong>ArcTanGent Festival<\/strong>\u00a0on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arctangent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/atgfestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATGFestival\">X (Formerly Twitter)<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/arctangentfestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@arctangentfestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/arctangentfestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/atgfestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linktr.ee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igorr, Perturbator, Alcest, Chat Pile, Oathbreaker, HECK, and Svalbard are part of the first 37 bands announced for ATG 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-100678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arctangent-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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