Super Furry Animals, Kurt Vile, Brakes and over 100 more names added to End of the Road Festival lineup

With one secret headliner still to be confirmed, some bona fide music legends from across the last three decades – as well as some old cult favourites from the festival's history – will help celebrate the event's 20th anniversary, on an incredible lineup already topped by Pulp, CMAT and Mac DeMarco, announced back in November last year.

Super Furry Animals – who last played live ten years ago (and headlined the festival in 2007) – are coming back to Dorset as part of a handful of dates running throughout the spring and summer. It'll be Gruff Rhys' fifth time playing at Larmer Tree Gardens; the Super Furries frontman also joined Bill Ryder Jones for a Best Fit secret session there in 2024.

Brighton four-piece Brakes – who first played at End of the Road in 2006, the festival's inaugural year – are veterans of the stages at Larmer Tree Gardens and will play their 2005 debut Give Blood in full.

81-year-old experimental artist Beverly Glenn-Copeland – whose show forms part of his last ever tour – will perform alongside his partner Elizabeth Copeland, while Americana firebrand Lucinda Williams is back at End of the Road after her 2017 headline slot. Another prodigal return is Philly legend Kurt Vile - who's expected to drop a new record this year. Vile was last at the festival in 2022, where he also covered The Feelies for Best Fit's secret sessions. Ty Segall – who also played at the festival's tenth anniversary edition - is also back this year too, as is the chaotic live spectacle of Fat Dog.

The festival's incredible undercard brings in emo/post-rock emo experimentalist Caroline, Partisan-signed Irish shoegazers Just Mustard, justifiably hyped Irish post-punk-folk band Madra Salach, Manchester electronic duo SILVERWINGKILLER, New York art-punk outfit Model/Actriz, noise-headfuckers YHWH Nailgun, XL-signed producer and singer keiyaA, and Best Fit 2025 album of the year creator Anna von Hausswolff.

The festival will also be giving over curation of a stage to 2026 headliner, Mac DeMarco. A familiar face at the festival – including a memorable festival debut for its tenth anniversary in 2015 [pictured above] – DeMarco has put together a one-off label takeover for his Mac’s Record Label imprint on Friday, 4 September featuring Daryl Johns, Pedro Martins, Tex Crick and Vicky Farewell, "I am incredibly excited to share these humans with you. Also, their music," DeMarco states.

Among the more leftfield names the festival has booked are New York-born vocalist, producer and Yves Tumor collaborator james K, South African collective BCUC, Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul, British-born Nigerian poet Joshua Idehen, esoteric eight-piece Brighton collective Big Long Sun, and Dave Welder – director Ben Wheatley’s musical project, who make their first ever festival appearance after dropping almost 30 albums in less than two years.

The full lineup for End of the Road now includes: Pulp, CMAT, Mac DeMarco, Super Furry Animals, Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland, Fat Dog, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Lucinda Williams, Ty Segall, Adult DVD, Anna Von Hausswolff, Bassvictim, BCUC, Brakes, Caroline, Ela Minus, Folk Bitch Trio, james K, Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage, Joshua Idehen, Just Mustard, mark william lewis, Model/Actriz, Nana Benz Du Togo, ØXN, PVA, The Felice Brothers, William Tyler, Working Men's Club, YHWH Nailgun, Ak'Chamel, The Giver Of Illness, Alex Amen, Alice Costelloe, Bab L'Bluz, big long sun, Big Red, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars Brìghde Chaimbeul, Cardinals, Carson McHone, Cleo Reed, Colossal Squid, Cowboy Hunters, Daryl Johns, Dave Welder, David Thomas Broughton, deBasement, DJ Crenshaw, Expiry, Ezra Feinberg, Femur, Fine, GANS, Garrett T. Capps, GHOSTWOMAN, GNOD, Greazy Alice, Green Star, Hudson Freeman, Jennifer Walton, Jordan Patterson, June McDoom, Junior Brother, keiyaA, Ken Pomeroy, Kiran Leonard, Kitchen Lover, Lamisi, Lichen, Lily Seabird, Little Grandad, M(h)aol, Maddie Ashman, Madra Salach, Marisa Anderson, Mia WIlson, Milkweed, Misha Panfilov, Modern Woman, Morgan Nagler, Mozart Estate, Ohtis, Oldboy, Pedro Martins, Pigeon, PISS, Pollyfromthedirt, Portraits Of An Apparition, Prewn, Renny Conti, RIP Magic, RÓIS, Sex Mask, S.G. Goodman, Shallowater, Sheherazaad, Silver Gore, SILVERWINGKILLER, Širom, SLAG, Snuggle, Sophia Stel, Spanish Horses, Susannah Stark & Band, Sword II, Sydney Minsky Sargeant, Tex Crick, Thredd, Tommy Barlow, Tomo Katsurada, Tsar B, TTSSFU, Vicky Farewell, WARBY, Westerman, and Wild Pink The festival's mystery fourth headliner is still to be announced.

Tier 4 tickets for the four-day festival are currently on sale, with a payment plan option locking down a ticket with an initial £60 deposit followed by monthly payments until 30 June 2026.