Boardmasters has announced Lily Allen as its final headliner for 2026, while adding loads more acts to the line-up.
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The singer-songwriter will perform her acclaimed 2025 album ‘West End Girl’ in full at next year’s festival, which takes place in Newquay, Cornwall, between August 5 and 9. She’ll top the bill alongside Kasabian and Fatboy Slim.
Allen heads up the second wave of artists announced for Boardmasters ’26. Other new additions include Joy Crookes, BRITs Critics’ Choice winner Jacob Alon, Rose Gray, Lucy Spraggan, Chloe Qisha and more.
Check out the announcement posts below.
The full list of new additions for Boardmasters 2026 is:
Lily Allen performing West End Girl
Joy Crookes, Jacob Alon, Rose Gray, Keo, Hot 8 Brass Band, Chloe Qisha
Lucy Spraggan, Old Mervs, Radio Free Alice, Etta Marcus, Chartreuse, Meek, Beans On Toast, Oh My God! It’s The Church, K.O.G, Mr Bruce
Hamdi, Lens, Charlotte Plank, Sicaria, Fleetmac Wood, Atrip, The Trip, Basstripper, Jess Iszatt, Mia Lily, Jam & Meme, M’Lover, Gotham b2b Deekz
Jasper Hodges, Finn Forster, Rumac, Good Health Good Wealth, Girlintheyearabove, Pixie Mccann, Bella Barbe, Abbie Piper, Dermot Henry, Jos Rivers, Die Twice, Holysseus Fly, Dirty Nice, Basht, Jos Rivers
Liang Lawrence, Jamie Yost, Cosm, Ashley Harding, The Wad, Ben Kidson, Achilles Heel, Candar, Folked Up – Ceilidh Carnage, and Ronniee
The first names for this summer’s edition of Boardmasters were announced last November. These included The Kooks, Loyle Carner, Tash Sultana, The Darkness, Lambrini Girls, Florence Road, Tinie Tempah, Dizzee Rascal, Example and former NME cover star Alessi Rose.
Indie band The Royston Club will be performing at the Newquay festival this year, too, as will Asha Banks, James Arthur, Pendulum, Rudimental, REN, and Gene Gallagher’s band Villanelle.
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Boardmasters 2025 hosted headline performances from Central Cee, RAYE and The Prodigy.
Lily Allen was recently nominated for three BRIT Awards ahead of next month’s ceremony. She is up for Artist Of The Year, Mastercard Album Of The Year (‘West End Girl’) and Pop Act.
The singer is set to perform ‘West End Girl’ in full at a run of UK and Ireland arena shows this summer. These dates will follow a series of smaller live gigs in March. Find any remaining tickets here.
Last November, it was announced that the singer would also be headlining London’s Mighty Hoopla 2026 – a move that led to over 35,000 tickets being sold in just 30 minutes.
‘West End Girl’ landed at Number 13 in NME‘s 50 best albums of 2025 feature, with the track ‘Pussy Palace’ bagging the Number 21 spot on our 50 best songs of the year list.
The LP was written and recorded in a short period following the breakdown of Allen’s marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour, after he allegedly cheated on her. In a four-star review, NME described the project as a “vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback”.
Allen gave the explicit ‘Pussy Palace’ its live debut during an intimate LA performance earlier this month, along with some other cuts from the record. Elsewhere, she revealed that she had recently been “run off the road” by an HGV while driving her new Porsche.
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