Here’s our guide to cozy indoor UK music fes­ti­vals from Feb­ru­ary to May. Leave the foul weath­er rag­ing out­side and get all toasty inside your favourite venues with a ver­i­ta­ble feast of music. Hope­ful­ly you’ll find some­thing to float your musi­cal boat and put a spring in your step. And if you know of an event we’ve left off our list, let us know!

Duck & Dive festival 6–8 February

This is hap­pen­ing at Sig­na­ture Brew Hag­ger­ston, Lon­don. A host of bands for three days with Opus Kink, Hyphen, Cow­boy Hunters, Joe & The Shit­boys, YAANG, Ster­ling Press, Car­sick, Hot­girl, Bureau De Change and lots more besides. Check out the details and get your tick­ets to Duck & Dive

Indoor Festival of Folk 7 February

A day-long win­ter feast of music and very spe­cial guests under Cecil Sharp House in Lon­don’s his­toric roof, co-host­ed by EFDSS and folk rock super­group The Mag­pie Arc. The fourth iter­a­tion of this warm­ing event takes place from 1pm to 10.30pm. Indoor Fes­ti­val of Folk tickets

Live & Loud 27–28 February

Live & Loud at Print­works Man­ches­ter is offer­ing a free, two-day fes­ti­val cham­pi­oning Manchester’s music scene, bring­ing togeth­er an eclec­tic line-up of DJs and live acts from the city 27–28 Feb­ru­ary cul­mi­nat­ing in a head­line set from 90s house leg­ends and Gram­my Award nom­i­nat­ed K‑Klass. And tick­ets are FREE. Friday’s line up (4pm–10pm) opens with Man­ches­ter DJ Matt Hydes, while Sat­ur­day Saturday’s pro­gramme (2pm–10pm) kicks off with inter­na­tion­al DJ Emma Ellis. Print­works Manchester

The Essex Ska & Reggae festival 21 February

The Essex Indoor SKA & REGGAE Fes­ti­val comes to The Pad­docks in Can­vey Island with live per­for­mances from The Bob Mar­ley Expe­ri­ence, The Moochers with more to be announced. Host­ed by DJ Ska n Mash. From 5pm til 11pm, per­for­mance starts at 6pm. Tick­ets to the Ska and Reg­gae festival

Immersed Festival 7 March

Immersed fes­ti­val heads back to Cardiff for an action-packed fusion of music, film, art, fash­ion and  the­atre. There’s a month-long cel­e­bra­tion of cre­ativ­i­ty and imag­i­na­tion, fea­tur­ing over 30 bands and artists across four themed stages. Head­lin­ing this year’s fes­ti­val are acclaimed six-piece CVC, bring­ing their elec­tri­fy­ing sound to Cardiff’s Tramshed on 7th March. Tick­ets for Immersed

Country to Country 13–15 March

Coun­try to Coun­try will bring coun­try music head­lin­ers togeth­er in three loca­tions for one week­end! Way­lon Wyatt, Tyler Braden, Kei­th Urban, Ash­ley Cooke and more. Tick­ets to Coun­try to Coun­try, Lon­don. Coun­try to Coun­try also takes place in Belfast and Glas­gow.

Keep Walking Live: Manchester 13–15 March

Check out this three-day, city-wide takeover cel­e­brat­ing pio­neer­ing music move­ments. Mark­ing the first-ever city-wide edi­tion of the ini­tia­tive, tak­ing over Manchester’s revered venues and spaces: SOUP, New Cen­tu­ry, East­ern Bloc, and Impi­ety Hour. The pro­gramme spot­lights a curat­ed mix of home­grown tal­ent and inter­na­tion­al­ly acclaimed names includ­ing DJ EZ, KOKOROKO, Ven­na and Nubya Gar­cia. Also on the line­up: Manchester’s own Anz, NTS stal­wart Finn. Man­ches­ter-based DJs Kusasa plus Charisse C, and Cap­tain Lulaz, both alum­ni of the John­nie Walk­er x Dankie Sounds Bold Steps ini­tia­tive. All Tick­ets £5  HERE  

Louder Than War 14 March

John Rob­b’s very own Man­ches­ter day event with Sea Pow­er, Pale Blue Eyes, Ben­e­fits, The Emp­ty Page, House­of All and plen­ty more over the day. More to be announced too. All tak­ing place at Man­ches­ter Acad­e­my, kick­off at 2pm. Loud­er than War Live 

raveCAVE 14 March

The Leg­ends Return.… from 1pm ‑12. Last entry 6pm. rave­CAVE returns to Scot­land’s orig­i­nal Rave Mec­ca. With Slip­matt, Trevor Reil­ly, David Forbes, Mark Sher­ry, George Bowie (Anthems Set) and much more to be announced. Tick­ets here for rave­CAVE

So Long, Good Friday 3 April

This is a new mul­ti-venue all-day­er in Liv­er­pool show­cas­ing the best new music at an afford­able price with a head­line set from Fat Dog. South Lon­don haiku-lov­ing trio Hon­eyglaze and Chicago’s indie-rock­ers Brigitte Calls Me Baby will close out their own stages, with more head­lin­ers to be announced. The ini­tial line­up also includes Hal­i­fax Heav­en­ly band The Orielles, Wigan-born alt-rock­star TTSSFU and Manchester’s Sil­ver­wingkiller, Mikey Cal­lis­to, World News, Curios­i­ty Shop, Pevo­va, Kiss­ing Peo­ples and Dave Lofts. Takes place at the Baltic Tri­an­gle, includ­ing Hangar 34, Dis­trict, 24 Kitchen Street, and Camp & Fur­nace. Tick­ets to So Long, Good Friday 

Takedown Festival 3–4 April

The Portsmouth Guild­hall is the place to be for this annu­al event. Bands tak­ing part include The Hara, Saint Agnes, Mould, Pave, Vexed, Vow­er, The Wild­hearts and many more. For tick­ets, click here

Manchester Punk Festival 3–5 April

MPF2026. Man­ches­ter Punk Fes­ti­val will be tak­ing place across East­er week­end, 3–5 April and there will be over 140 acts play­ing across 7 venues. Dead To Me, Clob­ber, Perkie, Slow Gherkin, Dave Hause, The Men­stru­al Cramps, Soap­box and loads more. Venues include The Union, Goril­la and YES. Check out tick­ets to Man­ches­ter Punk Festival

Counterflows 9–12 April

Scot­land’s longest run­ning fes­ti­val of exper­i­men­tal and mar­gin­al music is back. Coun­ter­flows Fes­ti­val, in Glas­gow, is four days of live music from some of the most inter­est­ing artists work­ing on the fringes today. This edi­tion will fea­ture an inter­na­tion­al pro­gram of per­for­mances, new projects, col­lab­o­ra­tions and com­mis­sions, club nights, hang-outs, dis­cus­sions and more. The full fes­ti­val pass­es are now sold out, but some indi­vid­ual event pass­es will become avail­able in Feb­ru­ary along with the detailed day-by-day pro­gramme. Coun­ter­flows festival

Brick Lane Jazz Festival 24 – 26 April

There’s a stag­ger­ing num­ber of artists tak­ing part in this year’s three-day Brick Lane Jazz Fes­ti­val – Bri­an Back­son, Kyra, Foot­shoot­er, Ali­ci, Boni­ta, King­zoogian­na and many more. Get a three day or one day pass, and there are after-par­ty pass­es too. All hap­pen­ing at the Tru­man Brew­ery plus a host of venues in and around Brick Lane. Brick Lane Jazz Festival

Supersonic Festival 25–26 April

Tick­ets to this event are now on a wait­list. The UK’s pre­mier exper­i­men­tal music fes­ti­val, Super­son­ic returns to Dig­beth, Birm­ing­ham where the film pro­gramme, work­shops and exhi­bi­tions are as para­mount to the event’s atmos­phere as the live per­for­mances. The line­up includes Pros­ti­tute, Milk­weed, Greet, Microplas­tics and more. At The Cross­ing, Dig­beth. Join the wait­list here 

Sound City 2026 1–3 May

Join­ing big name head­lin­ers includ­ing Jalen Ngon­da, Keo and West­side Cow­boy, the stage is set for emerg­ing artists – Adult Leisure, The Rolling Peo­ple, Basht, Arc­tic Mon­keys col­lab­o­ra­tor Tom Row­ley, Ben Ellis, Basht, The North, Dold­er, Dirty­Cir­cus, Girl In The Year Above and loads more. The event opens with the Sound City+ Con­fer­ence on Fri 1 May. Week­end & Day Tick­ets On Sale. www.soundcity.uk.com

Desertfest 15 – 17 May

The UK’s pre­mier inde­pen­dent Ston­er Rock, Doom, Psych & Sludge fes­ti­val that takes place in Cam­den at five venues, The Devon­shire Arms, The Black Heart, The Round­house, Under­world and the Elec­tric Ball­room. Clutch,  Green Lung, Alu­nah , Gnome, Zig Zags, The Grey, Bis­mut , Instar Sling and Nomadic Reign are just a few of the artists head­ing for Desert­fest’s stages. Tick­ets for Desert­fest here

Highways 15 – 17 May

High­ways is a fes­ti­val of Amer­i­cana and coun­try music held over two days at the Roy­al Albert Hall in Lon­don. The two-day fest also promis­es after shows, late night spe­cials, a song­writer gath­er­ing, and coun­try for kids. Car­ly Pearce, Jim Laud­erdale, Emmy­lou Har­ris and Kaitlin Butts – plus more – are per­form­ing. Check out High­ways Music Festival

Footsteps 19 – 23 May

The sec­ond out­ing for this Lon­don-wide cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tion fea­tures plen­ty of music at var­i­ous venues around Lon­don. There’s an excit­ing mix of emerg­ing artists on the line­up, such as Meryl Streek, Rat­boys, Sarah Blasko and Girl Scout with plen­ty more to be announced. Venues include Moth Club, Paper Dress Vin­tage, Scala, Isling­ton Assem­bly Hall, and EartH The­atre. Check out Foot­steps Fes­ti­val here.

Dot to Dot festival 23–24 May

And com­ing in just before the cut-off date is Dot to Dot. The mul­ti-venue fes­ti­val takes place in Bris­tol on Sat­ur­day and Not­ting­ham on Sun­day. Line­up stars include Adult DVD, Flood­ing, Marsy, Lawn Chair, Meltt, Sil­ver Gore and many more. Get your tick­ets now! Dot to Dot festival

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