By Monk
The renascent, and expanded, ArcTanGent Festival is shaping up to the biggest yet, with the announcement of another raft of acts, including a full-blown Wednesday line-up.
For the first time ever, ArcTanGent is opening its doors a day early, with a stacked line-up of bands from 2pm on the Wednesday (17 August), including The St Pierre Snake Invasion, Sugar Horse, Memory of Elephants, Luo, Mother Vulture, Modern Rituals, Mutant-Thoughts, Olanza, The Road, My Octopus Mind and Lightning Sharks, followed by DJs after dark.
“2022 is undoubtedly going to be the biggest ATG yet!” promoter James Scarlett told us. “We are opening our doors from the Wednesday and have a host of amazing bands and DJs. It will mean fans can grab the bet camping spots and also be ready for the bands that run from 11am on the Thursday. It’s been two years without ATG so we are excited to get started!”
The latest acts to be confirmed for the 2022 iteration are the beguiling Emma Ruth Rundle, New York experimental, aggressive and progressive Car Bomb, Danish shoe-gaze metallers band MØL and the majestic, doomy and abrasive Slow Crush. Also added to the bill are Axiom, Bear, Beige Palace, Bicurious, Bolt Ruin, Bonnacons of Doom, Fall of Messiah, FES, Garganjua, Kokomo, Last Hyena, Pollyanna Holland-Wing, qariaq, Skemer, STANLÆY, Stoßzahn, Thumpermonkey, Traps, Vogons and Wavey.
They join headliners Opeth and Cult Of Luna as well as TesseracT, MONO, Zeal & Ardor, Amenra, Maybeshewill, Mclusky, Alcest, Perturbator, Leprous, The Armed, Enslaved, The Fall Of Troy, Caspian, The Locust, Agent Fresco, Oathbreaker, Intronaut, A.A.Williams, Bell Witch, Talons, Jo Quail and more.
ArcTanGent takes place at Fern Hill Farm, Compton Martin (just out Bristol) from 17 – 20 August. Tickets are on sale now.
