Fatboy Slim, Lucy Spraggan, Gene, D Double E and Westside Cowboy are among the new names now added to the Everywhere At Once ‘Glastonbury replacement’ festival. Find more details below.
Music Venue Trust joined forces with The National Lottery to launch the event, which will take place for the first time on June 26-28. It falls on what would have been Glastonbury weekend, with the festival taking 2026 off for a fallow year, and you can find tickets here.
Instead of being held at one site and having punters commute and camp there, it will take place at hundreds of grassroots music venues across the country.
Over that weekend, venues from Inverness to Penzance will host hundreds of artists ranging from household names to emerging talent. Designed to encourage people to reconnect with their local grassroots venues, the event aims to build a sense of community and urge music fans to come together and discover new artists.
Becky Hill, Tinie Tempah, The Lathums, Rizzle Kicks, The Divine Comedy, Master Peace and more had already been announced, and now Music Venue Trust has unveiled the next wave of acts taking to the stage.
Fatboy Slim, Glenn Tilbrook, Lucy Spraggan, Gene, D Double E, P Money and Westside Cowboy are the latest to be added to the line-up, with Tilbrook set to perform at Theatreship in East London’s Canary Wharf, while Spraggan will play The Sub Rooms in Stroud.
Meanwhile, Gene will be playing shows in Southampton, Newport and Lancaster, D Double E at The Brickworks in Nottingham, P Money at Suki10c in Birmingham, and Westside Cowboy will play a hometown show at Manchester’s Low Four.
The Lathums have also added an additional show at Preston’s The Ferret after their two previously announced gigs sold out in minutes.
Details of Fatboy Slim’s show, and how to get tickets, will be announced in the run-up to the festival weekend.
Speaking about the tour, Fatboy Slim said: “I’ve been lucky enough to play huge stages all over the world, but grassroots venues are where it all started for me and where music scenes really begin, where artists learn their craft, where communities form, and where people come together purely for the love of it. Without grassroots venues, independent promoters and local crowds taking a chance on something new, none of this exists.
“These spaces are vital for culture and for local communities, so if there’s anything I can do to help shine a light on them and help keep that spirit alive, I’m more than happy to be involved. And if you care about music, go out and support your local venues, buy a ticket, discover somebody new, and be part of keeping those scenes alive.”
Meanwhile, Tilbrook commented: “50 years ago Squeeze started out in the small venues of South East London. Later this year we will be playing our biggest UK tour, including at the O2 Arena across the Thames from the Theatreship. I still go out and play solo shows at grassroots venues and some of the best nights I’ve ever had playing music have been in tiny rooms packed with people who just love live music.
“These venues don’t just support musicians, they become part of the fabric of local communities,” he added. “They give people a place to meet, connect and discover something new. We need to cherish them, if we lose them, we lose far more than somewhere to see a band. So show your support for your local venue, you never know where the next great artist, or the next great night, might come from.”
Lucy Spraggan also added that live music is an “ecosystem”, saying: “Each night a venue supplies a stage for an artist, that artist is supported by their crew, just as the venue is supported by their staff. You can see the network of livelihoods that entwine through the umbrella that is ‘live music’, it’s pretty endless.
“There is a career for musicians, crew, artists, tour managers from smaller projects all the way to Taylor Swift-sized projects, but only if we have the venues to support them,” she continued. “Grassroots venues give opportunities to a plethora of people and we, as artists and gig goers, breathe life back into the venues. We are all an important part of the ecosystem.”
The event is being spearheaded by Music Venue Trust, Save Our Scene, and Association of Independent Promoters, and will also see the National Lottery continue its support of the grassroots sector. The collaboration began back in 2021, when the MVT and the National Lottery came together to help kickstart live music again after the pandemic.
Across the three days, audiences will be given the opportunity to help support various music charities too, as donations will be distributed to War Child, Nordoff and Robbins, Help Musicians UK, and Teenage Cancer Trust.
The news of the festival’s launch arrived at a vital time for the UK’s live music sector, as it was recently reported that 30 grassroots venues were lost forever between July 2024 and July 2025 – and last year alone saw more than half of those remaining making no profit, with over 6,000 jobs lost.
In an attempt to help support grassroots spaces and help artists tour, there has been a push for a ticket levy to be introduced, which would see smaller venues and rising talent across the country receive a contribution from arena and stadium gigs to ensure their survival. The pressure is now on for the live music industry to ensure that 50 per cent of these shows are voluntarily paying in by June 2026, or else the government will step in to make it mandatory by law. Live Nation in particular have come under fire for not being as involved as other companies.
Live Nation, who played a part in Harry Styles contributing £1 for each ticket to his upcoming Wembley Stadium residency to the LIVE Trust, responded to the criticism by telling NME that they “support artists’ choices on charitable donations, and has worked with numerous artists who have contributed to the voluntary levy – from Coldplay to Biffy Clyro – and will continue to do so.”
The levy model is similar to that seen in the Premier League of football, and was given backing from the government in 2024.
The financial burden on grassroots spaces was partially alleviated at the start of the year, when the government delivered a U-turn on their potentially devastating surge in business rates, and also provided a package of extra support for pubs and venues.
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