Founded in 2012, the festival has grown into a two-day celebration of electronic music and sound system culture, featuring house, techno, drum and bass, jungle, garage and hip-hop across multiple stages. From its early days in Castle Park through to Eastville Park, the festival eventually found a permanent home at the Ashton Court Estate where it hosts 860 acres on the edge of the city that has been visited by many, from Portishead to Robert Plant over the decades.  This year’s headliners included Sammy Virji, Confidence Man DJS, Chase and Status and more.

With Glastonbury taking a fallow year, Love Saves The Day has stepped up as the UK’s festival season opener, and the 2026 lineup reflected this. Temperatures hit 27°C across the weekend, and for the first time the main stage was powered entirely by solar energy. Saturday was headlined by Sub Focus, whose new audiovisual show drew in excited fans and festival goers. Sunday, last night, was handed to Sammy Virji to close up until next year.

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The Birmingham DJ and producer has spent the last two years converting underground credibility into a bigger discography and performance scale. His reputation was originally built in clubs where selection and timing matter, as well as dancers and dark rooms but the qualities he had in those spaces translate well to a main stage for his recent appearances at festivals over the years. He moves between drum and bass, jungle, and garage with beats that always keep the crowd moving. The DJ also came out with an album last year, ‘Same Day Cleaning’.

At Ashton Court on Sunday evening, Sammy Virji’s set rounded off the hot, summery weekend with some of his most famous bangers. His top charted songs include ‘Find My Way Home’, ‘Shella Verse’ and ‘Cops and Robbers’, where he merges his house music sound with garage and drum and bass genres. The closing act was the finish Love Saves The Day needed to complete the bank holiday weekend for Bristol.

Love Saves The Day has always paired big headliners with upcoming UK talent and local collectives, reflecting Bristol’s dance and techno heritage. Virji closing the weekend confirmed his place among the most compelling live draws in UK dance music right now and the continuation of dance anthems in the UK.

This time it will also make use of a new Bank Holiday on June 3, introduced to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee. This year’s edition took place at a postponed later date last month at Clifton Downs, envisaged as a one-off location. Before that, since 2015 it had been held at Eastville Park and first took place at Castle Park in 2012.

In a video shared on their social media showing off their new grounds, the festival runners made an announcement “2022 will be our most ambitious event to date, expect bigger lineups, increased production, even more stages, more work with local communities and everything in our hearts – because Love Saves The Day.”

A new home for 2022: Ashton Court
2nd & 3rd June Bank Holiday – 10 years of Love Saves The Day

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am pic.twitter.com/ECq5AHLGk7

— Love Saves The Day (@LSTDBristol) September 29, 2021

Ben Jackson part of the team who runs Love Saves the day added in an interview with Mixmag: “It’s going to allow us to really expand the event in so many ways; bigger and more spectacular stages, bigger capacities and the biggest line-ups we’ve ever had, and we get the bonus of an extra-long bank holiday.”

“The fact that the music and events industries have suffered so much over the past 18+ months has really made us think of ways that we can continue to support creatives and we endeavour to have that at the core of our mission and plans for the future.”

He then continued “That being said we are also striving to really draw focus and attention to doing more within our local community and really championing all the amazing music that is coming out of Bristol.”

This year’s edition of Love Saves The Day took place on September 4 and 5, and saw performances from acts such as Slowthai, Little Simz, Shy FX, Ben UFO, Honey Dijon, Hybrid Minds and Mella Dee and more to a crowd of 60,000.

Tickets for the newly located festival are already available for early bird release now. You can buy your tickets from the festival website here.