{"id":537860,"date":"2026-03-13T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:36:12","slug":"little-simz-self-esteem-tems-and-wet-leg-lead-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537860\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Simz, Self Esteem, Tems and Wet Leg lead line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forwards Festival has announced its line-up for 2026, led by Little Simz<\/a>, Self Esteem<\/a> and more. Find all the details below.<\/p>\n

The two-day event is set to take place at The Downs in Bristol on Saturday August 29 and Sunday August 30. It\u2019ll follow the Forwards Presents date<\/a> on Friday August 28, which features the likes of Lorde<\/a> and Djo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday boasts the all-female co-headliners Tems<\/a>, Self Esteem and Wet Leg<\/a>, as well as slots from Joy Crookes<\/a>, Tricky<\/a> and Goldie<\/a> (live). The first day will also host Paraorchestra Presents Kraftwerk<\/a> Re:werk with Charles Hazlewood, and special guests Maribou State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Little Simz tops the bill alongside Amyl & The Sniffers<\/a> and Dijon<\/a>. There\u2019ll be performances from Viagra Boys<\/a>, Oklou<\/a>, Princess Nokia<\/a>, Jean Dawson<\/a>, Jim Legxacy<\/a>, Gena Ft. Liv.e<\/a> & Karriem Riggins, and Anaiis, too.<\/p>\n

Ticketholders will be able to enjoy a range of talks, exhibitors and local food, with the festival featuring a kids area as well.<\/p>\n

Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT next Wednesday (March 18) \u2013 you\u2019ll be able to buy yours here<\/a>. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time on Tuesday (March 17) by signing up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilt for the full weekend, Forwards\u2019 2026 music line-up crosses genres and offers standout moments from major international artists across both days, making the festival a two-day bank holiday celebration of music and culture not to be missed,\u201d organisers wrote.<\/p>\n

Forwards 2025 hosted performances from the likes of Barry Can\u2019t Swim,\u00a0Ezra Collective,\u00a0Jorja Smith and\u00a0The Last Dinner Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Little Simz released her sixth and latest studio album, \u2018Lotus\u2019<\/a>, last summer. She was recently nominated for two BRIT Awards<\/a>, and is in the running for four MOBOs this month<\/a>. Tems, meanwhile, is due to co-headline All Points East in London this August with Jorja Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forwards Festival has announced its line-up for 2026, led by Little Simz, Self Esteem and more. Find all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,6994,1770,11254,136,11255,30341,8512,1771],"class_list":["post-537860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-indie","tag-live-music-news","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-punk","tag-rap","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}