Neighbourhood Festival 2026: Keo and Florence Road lead first wave of line-up

Manchester's biggest multi-venue festival returns this autumn The post Neighbourhood Festival 2026: Keo and Florence Road lead first wave of line-up appeared first on NME. BlogsNME Radar Neighbourhood Festival 2026: Keo and Florence Road lead first wave of line-up Manchester's biggest multi-venue festival returns this autumn By Tom Skinner 6th March 2026 Florence Road. CREDIT: Jan Philipzen Neighbourhood Festival has announced its first wave of acts for 2026, led by Keo and Florence Road. Check out the line-up below. READ MORE: Florence Road: the Dublin band distilling the anxieties of young adulthood The event is due to take place across multiple venues on Manchester’s Oxford Road corridor on Saturday October 17. Tickets go on sale at 10am GMT next Friday (March 13) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Advertisement Ahead of a sold-out headline show at the O2 Ritz tomorrow night (Saturday March 7), alt-rock band Keo have been confirmed to headline Neighbourhood ’26. This closing performance will mark their next major Manchester date. They’ll be joined at the festival by NME 100 alumni and BBC Sound Of 2026 nominees Florence Road, following the Dublin outfit’s biggest UK tour yet this spring. View this post on Instagram The current line-up is completed by Beaux, Brogeal, The Guest List, The North, Girl In Year Above, Abbie Piper, Amiify, August, Bella Barbe, Brooki, Fatale, Florentenes, Gossip Queens, Jamie McIntyre, Jos Rivers, Kate Couriel, Mên An Tol, My First Time, Pack Of Animals, Panicbaby, Pixie Mccann, Saint Clair, and Tooth. Organisers have promised that there are “many more” names still to be announced in the coming weeks and months. Fans can access a pre-sale at 10am GMT next Tuesday (March 10) by signing up here. Recommended Neighbourhood Festival, described as “the ultimate destination for music discovery”, is Manchester’s biggest multi-venue festival, and has served as a launchpad for new talent since 2016. The festival’s ‘ones to watch’ alumni include BRIT-winners Sam Fender, Mabel and Holly Humberstone, along with the likes of Yungblud, Declan McKenna, Mahalia, The Lathums and more. Florence Road’s NME 100 entry hailed their “’90s-esque indie rock, cinematic choruses and confessional storytelling”. It added: “Their debut mixtape ‘Fall Back’ mixed youthful melancholy, bouncy riffs and an Irish lilt, while follow-up single – and one of our best songs of 2025 – ‘Miss’ plumbed emotional new depths. With all of their output so far, Florence Road have proved their knack for anthemic pop that’s both intimate and epic.” The group will open for The Last Dinner Party on their North American tour this month and next. Both bands are scheduled to support Wolf Alice at their huge gig in London’s Finsbury Park this summer, alongside Keo and more. Advertisement Speaking to NME last year about their rapidly growing fanbase, Florence Road reflected on what it was like to achieve recognition. “Obviously, we were quite wary of being seen as just a TikTok cover band or not a real band, and that was something we were nervous about,” singer Lily Aron said. “But since we’ve started releasing and doing a whole bunch of gigs, the response has been so wonderful and it’s been a nice sigh of relief. “We played a headline gig for the EP release, and I took my ear out during ‘Heavy’, and people were screaming the lyrics. The feeling is so crazy, that we created these words, and people are really feeling them.” Related TopicsAlternativeFlorence RoadIndieLive Music News You May Also Like Advertisement TRENDING James Ford talks us through the huge new War Child ‘Help(2)’ album – track-by-track The Kooks to play The Great Escape 20th anniversary show presented by NME ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ review: Tommy Shelby is back in business The biggest video game concerts you can’t miss in 2026 Chalk’s uncompromising dance-punk is fuelled by personal vulnerability and political questioning Advertisement More Stories Music News Fatboy Slim and Sonny Fodera to headline BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend 2026 Film News Check out all the new Fontaines D.C. and Grian Chatten songs on the ‘Help(2)’ and ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie soundtrack – including epic Massive Attack... Film News Faith No More icon joins Jehnny Beth for snarling new single ‘Look At Me’ with ‘Taxi Driver’-inspired video Music News Arlo Parks announces 2026 ‘Desire’ tour in UK, Europe and North America Album Reviews Waterbaby – ‘Memory Be A Blade’ review: a collection of soft sounds and hard truths Music News Interpol reveal new live drummer for upcoming tour dates