It’s go time! The lineup for #EOTR2024 is here. Explore the full lineup and book your tickets here: https://t.co/zGKGdovsd8
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— EndOfTheRoadFestival (@EOTR) February 7, 2024

The festival returns to Lamar Tree Gardens in Wiltshire and will take place from 29 August until 1 September 2024. One of Britain’s best alternative rock and folk festivals, it traces its roots back to 2006, and has since won a number of festival awards, including ‘Best Small Festival’ at the 2011 UK Festival Awards and ‘Best Small Festival’ at the NME Awards in 2016, 2017 and 2019.

Bristol rock favourites Idles will end their summer with an appearance at End Of The Road before jetting off for their second North American tour of the year later in September. The post-hardcore heavyweights return to Lamar Tree Gardens having performed at the Big Top stage back in 2018.

Shoegaze giants Slowdive will cap off a heavy summer schedule filled with European festival shows with a headline appearance at this year’s event. The group released their fifth studio Everything Is Alive last September, returning with their signature shoegaze sound that continues to delight fans new and old.

Watch the music video for “Sugar For The Pill” by Slowdive below:

Another headlining act is Swedish artist Fever Ray, AKA Karin Dreijer, formerly part of electronic music duo The Knife. Dreijer will bring their illuminating, experimental art-pop for all to witness next summer and will be joined by folk hero Will Oldham, better known professionally as Bonnie “Prince” Billy (or Palace in his formative years). Once labelled an ‘Appalachian post-punk solipsist’, the DIY folk singer is known for both his ability to transcend sub-genres of folk, making them his own, and for his enigmatic and wholly spiritual live shows. His upcoming first appearance at Britain’s premier folk festival is, therefore, long overdue.

Watch the music video for “I See A Darkness” by Bonnie “Prince” Billy below:

End Of The Road festival saw King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Allah-Las perform last year, and past years have seen acts like Jeffrey Lewis, Patti Smith, Tame Impala and Mac DeMarco play. Check out this year’s full line-up here.

Tickets are available to purchase now here.

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Extra UK dates…https://t.co/f4c8lw20aI
Our entire spring tour sold out very fast so book now to avoid disappointment.
See you all soon x
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— LANKUM (@LankumDublin) June 7, 2023

The Dublin based group will return to the UK following their last visit last month in Manchester, which in turn followed the release of the band’s most recent album, False Lankum, an LP that was released on March 24th via Rough Trade Records.

Our new album FALSE LANKUM is out today.
Massive love and thanks to all of you for the support over the last few years, and to everyone involved in the making of this album.
We're immensely proud of it.
See you along the road somewhere!
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— LANKUM (@LankumDublin) March 24, 2023

The group originated as a duo, consisting of brothers Ian and Darragh Lynch, and from their shared surname came the group’s original name, Lynched. The duo released their first album, Where Did We Go Wrong?!, in 2003, before being joined by Radie Peat and Cormac MacDiarmada, forming the quartet that have since released four albums and will tour the UK this winter.

The group, still known as Lynched but now a quartet, released their second album, Cold Old Fire, in 2014 to positive acclaim. By 2016 the group had decided to change their name in a bid to rid associations with the practice of lynching, landing on Lankum, from John Reilly’s folk ballad “False Lankum”, instead.

Lankum then joined Rough Trade Records, and subsequently released their third album, Between the Earth and Sky, in 2017 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Album of the Year, but the group had to wait until 2019 to claim the prize, as their fourth album, The Livelong Day, stole the show.

Listen to “Willow Garden“, a track off of Lankum’s third album, Between the Earth and Sky, below:

False Lankum is therefore the group’s fifth studio album, and fourth as a quartet, and will no doubt be doing most of the heavy lifting when the Dublin group visit the UK later this year.

Watch the music video for “Go Dig My Grave“, the lead single off of False Lankum, below:

The dates for the string of shows are as follows:

07/12/2023 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
09/12 – Hangar 34 – Liverpool
10/12 – Irish Centre – Leeds
12/12 – Chalk – Brighton
13/12 – Roundhouse – London
26/01/2024 – Albert Hall – Manchester
27/01 – Boiler Shop – Newcastle
01/02 – Beacon – Bristol
03/02 – Barrowlands – Glasgow

Order Lankum’s latest album, False Lankum, here.