End Of The Road has published the stage times for its 2026 edition, the festival's 20th, which opens at Larmer Tree Gardens on 3 September and runs to 6 September. The site sits on the border of Dorset and Wiltshire, and the anniversary edition keeps the same scale the festival has held for years rather than expanding for the occasion.
Pulp, CMAT, Mac DeMarco and Geese top the bill. Beneath them the programme runs to Super Furry Animals, Kurt Vile, Fat Dog, Just Mustard, Working Men's Club, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland, Ty Segall, Adult DVD, Lucinda Williams, Cardinals, Folk Bitch Trio, Cowboy Hunters, S.G. Goodman, Jeffrey Lewis and The Voltage, The Felice Brothers and Ohtis.
For the most part the schedule avoids collisions, which is one of the things the festival's audience tends to praise it for. Two clashes stand out. Pulp's Saturday headline set on the Woods Stage runs against Earl Sweatshirt on the Garden Stage, and CMAT's Sunday headline set overlaps with Kurt Vile and The Violators.
Pulp are playing the festival for the first time, and have already suggested the set will be an unusual performance rather than a straight run through the album cycle for 2025's More. That record has kept the band on the road for over a year, and their live shows have leaned into the sense of an event rather than a routine festival slot.
The band also have a concert film arriving. What Do You Do For An Encore?, directed by Garth Jennings, who made the videos for Help The Aged and A Little Soul, plays UK and Irish cinemas for one night on 18 September, then Canada on 23 September and the United States on 24 September before streaming on MUBI from 25 September.
Last year's edition featured Father John Misty, Caribou, Self Esteem, Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory, Matt Berninger, Viagra Boys and Katy J Pearson, which gives a fair sense of the indie territory the anniversary bill is working in. Times and stage splits are published in full, and the event sits alongside the rest of the season on the festival tracker.
The facts
- The festival runs at Larmer Tree Gardens from 3 to 6 September 2026.
- It marks End Of The Road's 20th anniversary.
- Pulp, CMAT, Mac DeMarco and Geese are the headliners.
- Pulp's Saturday Woods Stage set clashes with Earl Sweatshirt on the Garden Stage.
- CMAT's Sunday headline set clashes with Kurt Vile and The Violators.
- Super Furry Animals, Ty Segall and Lucinda Williams are also on the bill.
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