Antifolk Fest 2026

A London festival of do-it-yourself folk, punk and indie acts at Windmill Brixton, with a bill of local and touring bands including David Cronenberg's Wife, Steve White & The Protest Family and En Heat.

Antifolk Fest 2026 is a London bill of do-it-yourself acts, now in its fifth year at Windmill Brixton, a venue that mainly hosts pop, rock and indie concerts. The festival puts performance ahead of polish and takes in styles from folk-punk to indie slacker rock, across a long running order.

David Cronenberg's Wife is a British band from London making anti-folk and post-punk music. Formed in 2004, the group released its first album, Bluebeard's Rooms, in 2008, and has recorded three BBC 6 Music sessions, toured with Jeffrey Lewis and supported The Fall. Steve White & The Protest Family play acoustic folk-punk, En Heat mix avant-garde antifolk with disco-psych and rock'n'roll, and Lucy's Diary write psychedelic songs about ghost stories and emotionally exposed songwriting.

Further down the bill are End of Life Care Plan, a Sheffield trio playing noise-garage-skronk; Too Close to Vomit, the New York antifolk songwriter Ben Garber; Murphy's Medicine, with hooky indie pop; Alex Hale & The Private Sector, offering literate alt.rock; Gene Vincent Price & The Gorehounds, with a horror-themed show; and DAMFLASK. Gary Paradiso hosts the evening.