Mutations Festival 2026 - Weekend Ticket (Friday + Saturday)
Brighton Beach & Various Brighton Venues, , BN1 1EE Brighton Kort
fös. 23.10.2026 15:00
MUTATIONS FESTIVAL 2026
Multi-Venue, Brighton
WEEKEND TICKET
Brighton’s seminal Mutations Festival returns Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th October 2026 for its eighth edition.
Friday at Mutations sees the undefinable, undeniable, raucous FAT DOG joined by: Squid, Working Men’s Club, Basht., Bdrmm, Lip Critic, Theatre, Insecure Men, and many, many more.
Saturday at Mutations sees Beastie Boys alumni MIKE D make a rare live performance in the UK, joined by: Dove Ellis, Alex Cameron, Panic Shack, Unkle Sounds, the north, Warhaus, and many, many more.
This year’s festival features over 100 of the most exciting international breakthrough and established artists performing across 10 of Brighton’s most beloved Grassroots Music Venues. It’s Mutations’ most ambitious and exciting edition yet!
Renowned for consistently showcasing ’the next big thing’, from CMAT, Yard Act and Sprints in 2021; to The Last Dinner Party, Wunderhouse and Fat Dog in 2022; English Teacher, Antony Szmierek and Paris Paloma in 2023; Kneecap, Arooj Aftab and Adult DVD in 2024; to Keo and Big Special in 2025; Mutations Festival 2026 will be no exception!
Mutations Festival is a multi-venue, single wristband event. Your ticket gains you access to all venues (subject to individual venue capacities).
Reduced price ‘Under 25’s tickets are available, age proof ID will be required for collection at Wristband exchange for this ticket type.
Timings Friday
Box Office Opens 2pm
Festival Doors 3pm to 10pm (after parties until 2am) * your ticket allows access to all after parties
Timings Saturday
Box Office Opens 12pm
Festival Doors 1pm to 10pm (after parties until 2am) * your ticket allows access to all after parties
Artists Performing each day are:
Friday Artists
Fat Dog / Squid / Working Men’s Club
Basht. / Bdrmm / Bed / Insecure Men / Lauren Auder / Lip Critic / Scaler / The Besnard Lakes / Theatre
Cowboy Hunters / Cyn Cwsg / Death Valley Girls / Divebar Youth / Holybones / Hutch / Marsy / Max Water / Modern Woman / Morn / Mouth Ulcers / Paper Hats / Tanzana / The Itch / Uche Yara / Why Horses? / World News
Saturday Artists
Mike D 5D / Dove Ellis / Alex Cameron
Murkage Dave / Panic Shack / The North / The Wave Pictures / TTSSFU / Unkle Sounds / Walt Disco / Warhaus
Ain’t / Alien Chicks / Deary / Casual Smart / Hannah Frances / Iguana Death Cult / Little Grandad / Liz Lawrence / Me Rex / Plantoid / Pulled Apart By Horses / Silver Gore
Alice Costelloe / Any Young Mechanic / Ben Kidson / Benchwarmer / Big Long Sun / Big Red / Esmeralda Road / Evelyn Gray / Everyone Says Hi / Florentenes / Foot Foot / Georgia Mooney / Hammok / Healing Power of Horses / Kelly No Brakes / Mleko / Painkiller / Really Good Time / Speedial / Sunday Mourners / Tasha
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Fat DogITS FAT DOG BABY
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SquidTeeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. This is unmistakably music made by friends, but it’s not exclusionary – they’re inviting you in to listen with them.
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Basht.Basht., hailed by HotPress as "one of the most exciting young rock bands to emerge in eons," have been making waves across Europe with their energetic performances. Combing new-wave bass lines, hip-hop-inspired drum beats, and raw guitar riffs with a classic rock and roll energy, their sophomore EP, Bitter & Twisted, was released in May 2025. On the back of their largest headline tour to date, the Irish foursome is now looking ahead to their debut run of European headline shows.
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Lip CriticFormed in 2018 in New York, Lip Critic is the project of Bret Kaser, Connor Kleitz, Daniel Eberle, and Ilan Natter. The band is comprised of two samplers, two drummers and vocals. Through their unconventional instrumentation, Lip Critic executes an eclectic blend of punk, hardcore, club, modernistic pop sounds, and structures without inhibition. Paired with eccentric grandstand-style vocals, Lip Critic delivers a uniquely engaging live performance that rivals the hyper-stylized production on their records. These performances are heavily focused on improvisation and experimentation, including extended and remixed versions of songs, as well as band members attaching portable lights to their bodies. Their projects include "Kill Lip Critic" in 2019, "Lip Critic II" in 2020 and "Lip Critic: Truth Revealed" in 2021.
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SCALERSCALER (fka Scalping) are a Bristol based live techno band. Blistering performances are known for astute production formed through a love their hometown’s visionary off-the-wall dance music as well as full throttle noise and punk.
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Death Valley GirlsFor the better part of a decade, LA’s scrappy rock n’ roll mystics Death Valley Girls have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy. On albums like Glow In The Dark (2016), Darkness Rains (2018), and Under the Spell of Joy (2020) the band challenged the soul-crushing banality of modern society and celebrated “true magical infinite potential” through a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics, and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation. But on their latest album Islands in the Sky, Death Valley Girls’ songwriting mastermind Bonnie Bloomgarden uses the band’s anthemic revelries as a guidebook to spiritual healing and a roadmap for future incarnations of the self. And while these may be the loftiest aims of Death Valley Girls to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory.
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DIVEBAR YOUTHDIVEBAR YOUTH is the project of Vinnie Barbaro, artist, songwriter, and producer.
Vinnie grew up with the need to adapt; the backdrop of his immigrant family's escape from poverty and their pursuit of a better life instilled in him a drive to continuously progress. From an early age, music provided him with a means to forge his identity, sidestepping the struggles of conformity and acceptance.
DIVEBAR YOUTH encapsulates Vinnie's evolution as an artist. It signifies not only his personal growth but also his ability to synthesise diverse influences into a cohesive musical vision. Releasing new music every month he has begun to engage audiences worldwide. His sound has led to collaborations and earned him recognition across streaming platforms, international and national radio, and television as well as endorsement with popular brands and co-signs from icons like Robert Smith (The Cure), Angus & Julia Stone and Coldplay. His work reflects his personal narrative, a testament to the power of perseverance and creative passion.
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Uche Yara
AT-based artist.
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Panic Shack
An international artist from the UK.
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WARHAUS
Warhaus is Maarten Devoldere (Balthazar).
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Alex CameronAlex Cameron is just as much a musician as he is a performance artist. He takes on personas – usually that of the sleazy everyman, the kind of guy who frequents strip clubs and casinos on weekday afternoons – and his work is deliberately provocative and transgressive, and rarely serious. Rather than coming across as a gimmick, though, Cameron completes a full circle of irony to cool again. -
TTSSFUTTSSFU – aka Tasmin Nicole Stephens – quickly went from being a mere fixture in Manchester’s indie scene to one of its fastest-rising stars, now poised to break out well beyond it. Known for conjuring vast, atmospheric worlds from her bedroom using just Garageband, she watched as early releases like her Warhol-inspired 2024 EP “Me, Jed and Andy” picked up steam. Since then, she’s traded bedrooms for stages supporting Kim Deal, English Teacher, Soccer Mommy and Mannequin Pussy, plus sold out headlines across the UK and packed festival sets from Green Man to the Great Escape.
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Really Good TimeReally Good Time are a band from Dublin, that sound like ‘Vertigo’ era U2 covering Viagra Boys, or early Pixies and LCD Soundsystem records in a blender with some cheap speed. Their music toes the line between noisy and melodic, weird and anthemic. In their three years of existence, their mission has always been about finding ecstatic release within a crowd of bodies, moving together amidst waves of amplification.
Praised by the likes of Clash, DIY & Hotpress, Really Good Time are the band Rolling Stone describes as "intent on living up to their name". Really Good Time are ready to bring Texas the RGT energy that won queues around the block at The Great Escape in May.Really Good Time are having one, and they emphatically wish for you to join them.
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PlantoidPlantoid are one of those bands that exceed the sum of their parts, with each member bringing a different flavour that enhances their sound tenfold. Tom has been playing guitar practically his whole life, and his style, which fluctuates from lush finger-picking to reverb-laden rock riffs, sits very comfortably on top of Louis’ jazz-infused drumming and Bernardo’s intricate basslines. The band found their ace-in-the-hole with Chloe, who, as well as serving as Plantoid’s principle lyricist, delivers soaring vocals, at times both angelic and alien, propelling each song on debut album Terrapath to new heights.
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Any Young MechanicHaving taken their name from a line in ‘Hooray For Hollywood’ – inspired by the song’s jarring use in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye – there is an aptly cinematic quality to Any Young Mechanic’s music.
On their debut album The Modern Shoe Is Ruining The Foot, the Tarntanya/Adelaide five-piece conjure up vivid, widescreen vistas that blend folk music’s enduring charms with a musical dexterity and sharp vision reaching beyond the genre’s usual corners.
A mesh of criss-crossing rhythmic paths, melodic alleys and lyrical highways, the record possesses an immediacy that quickly turns its 12 tracks into lifelong friends - though no two listens ever seem quite the same.
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big long sun
Led by multi-instrumentalist, Jamie Broughton, ‘big long sun’ is an 8-piece art rock band, based in Brighton.
Formed of dynamic multi-disciplinary artists, ‘big long sun’ is a band with many heads and directions. With expressivity at the project’s core, ‘big long sun’ is an exciting, ecstatic experience of noise and feelings.
With influences ranging from the atonal recesses of Sonic Youth’ to the oceanic melodies of Arthur Russell, ‘big long sun’ is a rare, eclectic treasure in a world of repetition. -
Silver GoreSelling out shows before they’d even released any songs, London alt-rockers Silver Gore are only a couple of years into their life as a band but already making serious waves in the live music scene. The duo — drummer Ava Gore and Yorkshire musician Ethan P Flynn — have shared stages with Geordie Greep and Martha Skye Murphy, and while their online presence remains enigmatic, you’ll have to catch them playing live to see what all the fuss is about.
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Iguana Death CultRotterdam-based fivesome Iguana Death Cult initially made their mark with giddy, hard-hitting garage punk and a miasma of acid-drenched psychedelics, only to blossom into an all-embracing unit that implements frameworks of post-punk, krautrock, new wave, soul and disco. The band’s sophomore album Nude Casino, which came out October 25, 2019 on LA imprint Innovative Leisure (who signed them after seeing them at SXSW 2019), holds aloft a more cerebral and absurdist side of their songwriting. Because of The Netherlands’ tight-knit infrastructure of venues and festivals, Iguana Death Cult’s momentum as a powerhouse live act climbed at a maniacal pace. Being a band is perhaps one of the few walks in life where work and play mean the exact same thing and Iguana Death Cult’s proactive ethos quickly granted them a steady grassroots following all over the world. “...a blazing vault out of the pabulum and into unadulterated mayhem” - The Fader “Nude Casino is a quest to wriggle out of life’s bitter clutches with the maximum possible levels of fun and debauchery” - Paste Magazine “An album that whips in spiky riffs and jutting rhythms alongside more swirling melodies” - Louder Than War -
Georgia MooneyARIA-winner Georgia Mooney makes music fit for stargazing. Audiences already know her from beloved folk band, All Our Exes Live in Texas, who toured the world extensively, sharing stages with everyone from the Backstreet Boys to Nathaniel Rateliff to Midnight Oil. The release of Mooney’s debut solo album Full of Moon marks the stepping forward of a major talent. Co-produced with Grammy-winner Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Cate Le Bon, Marlon Williams), the album is an ornately melodic, folk/dream-pop universe, carried by Mooney’s soaring ethereal vocals over lush, cinematic soundscapes.
Nominated for two AIR Awards, described by The Australian as “nothing short of a triumph.. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2”, and dripping in critical acclaim worldwide, Full of Moon has seen Mooney sign with renowned Canadian label Nettwerk, embark on a 50-date Australian tour with Kate Miller-Heidke, open for Martha Wainwright at Sydney City Recital Hall, tour the UK and Ireland, curate and host a captivating variety show series with comedian Rhys Nicholson for Vivid Sydney, and much more.
An avowed Star Wars nerd who presents as a 40s movie star - she seems both from a long time ago and a galaxy far away, while speaking directly to the present. Georgia Mooney’s music is intricate, handcrafted, and richly melodic. Influences from Joni Mitchell, the Great American Songbook, even classical composers sift through her songs, alongside production that evokes the unsettling genius of Kate Bush. Add to that ribald stage banter engendering frequent comparisons to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, it’s no wonder Georgia is captivating audiences in every corner.
”It’s nothing short of a triumph.. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2” - The Australian
"Full of Moon is a dazzling, inventive pop record: richly textured, captivating and gleefully strange” - NME Australia
"It only takes one listen to lead single “War Romance” to know we are hearing a work of surprise and musical sophistication. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2” - The Big Issue
”...from the first seconds of the album to the last, that same ethereal enchantment occurs. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” - The AU Review
" chock-full with pure cinematic artistry" - Wonderland Magazine
"When she started playing I could immediately understand why the room was packed. She played with a tongue-in-cheek elegance that disarmed everyone instantly. I think everyone fell in love at that show" - Rolling Stone Australia
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HammokHardcore trio from Oslo, Norway Booking: isak@nordiclive.no