Neighbourhood Festival has announced its first wave of acts for 2026, led by Keo and Florence Road. Check out the line-up below.
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The event is due to take place across multiple venues on Manchester’s Oxford Road corridor on Saturday October 17. Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT next Friday (March 13) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.
Ahead of a sold-out headline show at the O2 Ritz tomorrow night (Saturday March 7), alt-rock band Keo have been confirmed to headline Neighbourhood ’26. This closing performance will mark their next major Manchester date.
They’ll be joined at the festival by NME 100 alumni and BBC Sound Of 2026 nominees Florence Road, following the Dublin outfit’s biggest UK tour yet this spring.
The current line-up is completed by Beaux, Brogeal, The Guest List, The North, Girl In Year Above, Abbie Piper, Amiify, August, Bella Barbe, Brooki, Fatale, Florentenes, Gossip Queens, Jamie McIntyre, Jos Rivers, Kate Couriel, Mên An Tol, My First Time, Pack Of Animals, Panicbaby, Pixie Mccann, Saint Clair, and Tooth.
Organisers have promised that there are “many more” names still to be announced in the coming weeks and months. Fans can access a pre-sale at 10am GMT next Tuesday (March 10) by signing up here.
Neighbourhood Festival, described as “the ultimate destination for music discovery”, is Manchester’s biggest multi-venue festival, and has served as a launchpad for new talent since 2016.
The festival’s ‘ones to watch’ alumni include BRIT-winners Sam Fender, Mabel and Holly
Humberstone, along with the likes of Yungblud, Declan McKenna, Mahalia, The Lathums and more.
Florence Road’s NME 100 entry hailed their “’90s-esque indie rock, cinematic choruses and confessional storytelling”. It added: “Their debut mixtape ‘Fall Back’ mixed youthful melancholy, bouncy riffs and an Irish lilt, while follow-up single – and one of our best songs of 2025 – ‘Miss’ plumbed emotional new depths. With all of their output so far, Florence Road have proved their knack for anthemic pop that’s both intimate and epic.”
The group will open for The Last Dinner Party on their North American tour this month and next. Both bands are scheduled to support Wolf Alice at their huge gig in London’s Finsbury Park this summer, alongside Keo and more.
Speaking to NME last year about their rapidly growing fanbase, Florence Road reflected on what it was like to achieve recognition.
“Obviously, we were quite wary of being seen as just a TikTok cover band or not a real band, and that was something we were nervous about,” singer Lily Aron said. “But since we’ve started releasing and doing a whole bunch of gigs, the response has been so wonderful and it’s been a nice sigh of relief.
“We played a headline gig for the EP release, and I took my ear out during ‘Heavy’, and people were screaming the lyrics. The feeling is so crazy, that we created these words, and people are really feeling them.”
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