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Fatboy Slim<\/a>, Lucy Spraggan, Gene<\/a>, D Double E<\/a> and Westside Cowboy<\/a> are among the new names now added to the Everywhere At Once<\/a> \u2018Glastonbury replacement\u2019 festival. Find more details below.<\/p>\n Music Venue Trust joined forces with The National Lottery to launch <\/a>the event, which will take place for the first time on June 26-28. It falls on what would have been Glastonbury<\/a> weekend, with the festival taking 2026 off for a fallow year<\/a>, and you can find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Becky Hill<\/a>, Tinie Tempah<\/a>, The Lathums<\/a>, Rizzle Kicks<\/a>, The Divine Comedy<\/a>,\u00a0Master Peace<\/a> and more had already been announced<\/a>, and now Music Venue Trust has unveiled the next wave of acts taking to the stage.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Canary Wharf, while Spraggan will play The Sub Rooms in Stroud.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Low Four.<\/p>\n The Lathums have also added an additional show at Preston\u2019s The Ferret after their two previously announced gigs sold out in minutes.<\/p>\n Details of Fatboy Slim\u2019s show, and how to get tickets, will be announced in the run-up to the festival weekend.<\/p>\n Speaking about the tour, Fatboy Slim said: \u201cI\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n \u201cThese spaces are vital for culture and for local communities, so if there\u2019s anything I can do to help shine a light on them and help keep that spirit alive, I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Tilbrook commented: \u201c50 years ago Squeeze<\/a> 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\u2019ve ever had playing music have been in tiny rooms packed with people who just love live music.<\/p>\n \u201cThese venues don\u2019t just support musicians, they become part of the fabric of local communities,\u201d he added. \u201cThey 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Lucy Spraggan also added that live music is an \u201cecosystem\u201d, saying: \u201cEach 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 \u2018live music\u2019, it\u2019s pretty endless.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a career for musicians, crew, artists, tour managers from smaller projects all the way to Taylor\u00a0<\/a>Swift<\/a>-sized\u00a0projects, but only if we have the venues to support them,\u201d she continued. \u201cGrassroots 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.\u201d<\/p>\n The event is being spearheaded by\u00a0Music Venue Trust<\/a>,\u00a0Save Our Scene<\/a>, and\u00a0Association of Independent Promoters<\/a>, 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\u00a0help kickstart live music again after the pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Across the three days, audiences will be given the opportunity to help support various music charities too, as donations will be distributed to\u00a0War Child<\/a>,\u00a0Nordoff and Robbins<\/a>,\u00a0Help Musicians UK<\/a>, and\u00a0Teenage Cancer Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n The news of the festival\u2019s launch arrived at a vital time for the UK\u2019s live music sector, as it was recently reported that\u00a030 grassroots venues were lost forever between July 2024 and July 2025<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and last year alone saw more than half of those remaining making no profit, with over 6,000 jobs lost.<\/p>\n In an attempt to help support grassroots spaces and help artists tour, there has been a push for\u00a0a ticket levy to be introduced<\/a>, which would see smaller venues and rising talent across the country\u00a0receive a contribution from arena and stadium gigs to ensure their survival<\/a>. The pressure is now on for the\u00a0live music industry to ensure that 50 per cent of these shows are voluntarily paying in by June 2026<\/a>, or else the government will step in to make it mandatory by law.\u00a0Live Nation in particular have come under fire<\/a>\u00a0for not being as involved as other companies.<\/p>\n Live Nation, who played a part in\u00a0Harry Styles contributing \u00a31 for each ticket to his upcoming Wembley Stadium residency<\/a>\u00a0to the LIVE Trust, responded to the criticism by telling\u00a0NME<\/em>\u00a0that they \u201csupport artists\u2019 choices on charitable donations, and has worked with numerous artists who have contributed to the voluntary levy \u2013 from\u00a0Coldplay<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Biffy Clyro<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n The levy model is similar to that seen in the Premier League of football, and was\u00a0given backing from the government in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n The financial burden on grassroots spaces was partially alleviated at the start of the year, when the government delivered a U-turn on\u00a0their potentially devastating surge in business rates<\/a>, and also\u00a0provided a package of extra support for pubs and venues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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