Preston Pop Fest

Event Information

An ginormous weekender in Preston that celebrates all strands of indie pop from C86 to the present day, classic jangle-meisters through to scratchy upstarts.

Just look at this line up :

Nightingales, Man from Delmonte, The Tubs, Desperate Journalist, Bradford, The Yummy Fur, Ex-Void, James King and The Lone Wolves, The Jasmine Minks, The Room, Yaang, Melys, British Birds, Would Be Goods, David Lance Callahan, Sassyhiya, Moderate Rebels, Karen, The Cords, Dragged Up, Stuart Pearce, Crumbs, The Muldoons, Autocamper, The Train Set, Tigers and Flies, Big Other, Sweetpool, Brenda, Dragon Bordellos, Welding, Normal Service, Uhr, The Complaint That Creeps, RRRapid Kool, Hartley, Ginnel, Fat Frances, Callis, The Amber List, Vehicle, The Bordellos, Oort Clod, Oh Hippo, Captain Starlet, The Tearless Life with more to be added.

Over 40 acts across two stages over three days.

Friday and Sunday of the Pop Fest will be at The Continental, a terrific real ale pub on the banks of the River Ribble, with a 180 capacity main room and an 80 capacity second stage in the snug.

On Saturday the Pop Fest hangs out all day at The Ferret in the University quarter plus an extra evening stage at Blitz, by Preston Bus Station, featuring Man From Delmonte, Bradford, Melys and The Train Set, Day tickets are presently only available for the Saturday.