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Even though it’s only been around a few years, RALLY is already one of the UK’s finest music festivals. Despite having battled named storms in its first two editions, the Southwark Park event has carved itself a niche within London’s day festival market – and RALLY’s fourth event is shaping up to be its best yet.
Back in November it was revealed that, for the first time, RALLY would be co-curated by a musician. None other than Blood Orange was confirmed to be headlining and helping to put together the lineup for the 2026 edition. Today (February 17) we know exactly who will be filling out the rest of the bill.
On the August Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday August 29, to be specific) RALLY will feature all kinds of on-trend and left-field pop, electronic and dance music. There’ll be Daniel Avery performing with a full band, Time Out 2025 album and song of the year favourite james K and the legendary Optimo (Espacio).
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RALLY 2026 will boast the first ever UK performance from Jump Source – the project of Montréal-based DJs and producers Priori and Patrick Holland – as well as sets from GENA (another new project from Liv.e & Karriem Riggins), out-there DJ and producer Parris, a special live show from Roman Flügel, and Pitchfork-approved artists like Norwegian slinky poppers Smerz and US experimental rockers YHWH Nailgun.
This year’s event theme is ‘Make Your Reality’, which will apparently see the festival ‘[foreground] the dancefloor as a space for collective release and shared artistic expression at a time of increasing digital saturation’.
RALLY 2026 full lineup
Here’s everyone that has been announced for RALLY 2026 (A-Z).
- Basic Chanel
- Ciel & DJ Voices
- Daniel Avery (live)
- dexter in the newsagent
- Gabi
- GENA
- Harri Pepper
- james K
- Jonny Rock
- Jump Source
- keiyaA
- Kiss Facility
- mark william lewis
- Nabihah Iqbal (DJ)
- Optimo (Espacio)
- Paquita Gordon
- Parris
- Roman Flügel
- Smerz
- spirit blue
- Tariq Al-Sabir
- thredd
- Voice Actor
- YWHW Nailgun
- Yuka Mizuhara
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Presale goes live on February 27 and general sale starts on March 2. You can register for presale on the RALLY website here.
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