2000Trees Festival Reveals Final 2026 Line-Up

2000Trees Festival Finalises 2026 Line-Up with Neck Deep, Sunny Day Real Estate and More

2000Trees with what feels like 2000 acts ready to make July properly bloom. Four days, five stages — including a perfectly fitting forest stage that proves how much oxygen 2000Trees can pump into the air, and how much of it headbanging and gently nodding humans are capable of consuming. Figuratively speaking, of course.

You might briefly lose your breath now, because the multi-award-winning 2000Trees Festival has good news: an updated headliner version has arrived. Five stages aren’t meant to sit around unused.

When? July 8–11, 2026
Where? Upcote Farm, near Cheltenham

In everyday life, Saturdays are usually a highlight — especially if you’re stuck in a dead-end job. But situationally, the 2000Trees Saturday carries a little more weight. Welsh favourites Neck Deep clearly appreciate round numbers, returning to headline the festival’s main stage exactly ten years after their last Trees appearance.

Clearing forest paths is usually a job for pioneers — which makes Sunny Day Real Estate, pioneers of ’90s emo’s second wave, a rather fitting arrival.

Other artists announced include ALT BLK ERA, winners of the MOBO Awards, Australian ’80s punk outfit Cosmic Psychos, Brighton favourites The Xcerts, and one of the UK’s essential modern hardcore bands, Higher Power.

From 2000Trees organiser James Scarlett:

There we go, that’s pretty much a wrap on the 2000trees 2026 line-up. We’re all incredibly proud of what we’ve put together this year, so to see it reflected in the best-selling year we’re ever had is an amazing feeling. We will have some returning bands we’ve missed and love like Marmozets and our big exclusive with Arcane Roots. Some new bands we are so excited about like Sunny Day Real Estate, Mariachi El Bronx and Pinkshift, as well as some returning heroes like Alkaline Trio, Funeral for a Friend, Cancer Bats, The Bronx and Dinosaur Pile-Up.

[…] It’s safe to say it’s going to be a real moment having Neck Deep return to close the festival 10 years on from their last Trees performance. Tickets are starting to sell out left, right and centre, so I’ll say it one last time – 2000trees 2026 is not one to be missed!

The list is long — and July might feel even longer for anyone tempted into buying tickets. Anyone already hooked can grab theirs here, at least the ones that haven’t sold out yet.

All information about the full line-up, as well as our previous articles covering the earlier line-up announcements, can be found here.