Lambrini Girls, Philip Selway And Honesty Among New Acts Announced For Cardiff’s Sŵn Festival

Further acts have been announced for this year’s Sŵn festival.

The Cardiff event will return between October 17 – 19, with shows taking place across multiple city centre venues on all three days for the first time since the pandemic.

On the Thursday, the festival will take over Womanby Street with stages confirmed at Clwb Ifor Bach, Tiny Rebel, The Moon and Fuel. The Friday and Saturday will see Sŵn expand with extra stages at Tramshed, Jacob’s Antique Market, Cornerstone and Porter’s (Saturday only).

Among the new names announced for the bill are Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway, Partisan signees HONESTY, The Tubs, Automotion, Jesca Hoop, post-punk stalwarts Crows, and Good Neighbours. Also joining the line-up are Alias, Alien Chicks, Blue Amber, Bricknasty, Aziya, Casual Smart, Circe, The Dream Machine, Enola, Bored At My Grandmas House, Ivor Woods, Human Interest, Knives, Joe Wilkins, The Manatees, Memorials, The New Eves, Night Bus, Paige Kennedy, Pencil, Public Order, Sun King, She’s In Parties and more.

They join the previously confirmed acts English Teacher, Wu-Lu, Hannah Diamond, Porij, Mary In The Junkyard and Antony Szmierek, The Itch, Ellie Bleach, TWST, Blue Bendy, Clara Mann, Tom Vek, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Adwaith, Half Happy, Pys Melyn, Mellt and Hana Lili, plus many more. Check out the full line-up so far below.

This year’s iteration of the festival also sees Sŵn collaborating with Cardiff Music City Festival as part of the three week-long celebration of music featuring gigs, immersive aspects, residencies, installation and pop-ups set to take over the city. William Dickins, booker for Sŵn Festival, commented: