Coming to Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre in August.
Connect Music Festival have revealed the lineup for their 2022 inaugural event with Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers and The National in tow for headlining performances.
Marking a welcomed new addition to the UK’s festival calendar, Connect Music Festival first appeared fifteen years ago playing host to the likes of Björk, Bloc Party, The Breeders, Crystal Castles, CSS, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Modest Mouse, The Roots and Spiritualized before an untimely dissolution after only two editions. In its return the event is set to commandeer the Royal Highland Centre in the outskirts of Edinburgh over three days in August.
DF Concerts & Events CEO Geoff Ellis explains
“For some time now we have been working tirelessly and carefully to curate a captivating line-up for the first edition of our new iteration of Connect and we have been really excited to share it.
While Connect is a brand new festival proposition, it will still retain many qualities from – and the ethos of – its namesake from 2007 and 2008, especially regarding the music, entertainment, food and drink programmes.
We are thrilled to be welcoming the very best in leftfield talent from grassroots through to award-winning headliners to perform this year and we cannot wait to welcome fans to the Royal Highland showgrounds this August.”
Other artists confirmed to perform as part of the event’s 2022 festivities are longstanding British electronic fixtures Jon Hopkins and Bonobo, Dan Snaith under his multifaceted Caribou moniker, shoegaze luminaries Ride, post-rock staples Mogwai and fast-rising London upstarts Black Country, New Road whose appearance will mark one of their first as a sextet following the recent departure of frontman Isaac Wood.
Day and weekend tickets for Connect Music Festival 2022 will be available to purchase from February 25th at 9am. Find yours here and peruse the full lineup below.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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