End Of The Road Festival Bags Pulp, CMAT and Mac DeMarco for 20th Anniversary Edition
The festival will take place in Dorset, England next September.
Jarvis Cocker of Pulp performs during the You Deserve More tour, at The O2 Arena on June 13, 2025 in London.
End of The Road festival in Dorset, England announced the first list of acts on tap to celebrate its 20th anniversary edition in 2026 on Thursday (Nov. 20), with Pulp, CMAT and Mac DeMarco set to headline. The festival will take place at Lamar Tree Garden on Sep. 3-6 and feature a fourth ‘secret headliner’ to join the previously-announced trio.
First held in 2006, the boutique festival has become one of the U.K.’s most well-regarded events and traditionally brings to a close a summer of festivals in the market. 2025’s edition was headlined by Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, Caribou and Self Esteem.
Pulp will headline their only UK festival show of 2026 at the event and follows a stellar comeback period for the beloved Sheffield band. In June, the group released More, their first LP in 25 years which earned a Mercury Prize nomination and a No. 1 spot on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart. The group will also play a standalone headline show at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park on Aug. 28 next year.
In an X post announcing their appearance at EOTR, Pulp teased that “this will not be a typical Pulp show: it will be… unusual. Expect the unexpected. In a good way.”
Irish country-pop crossover CMAT will return to the festival for a third time having appeared previously in 2022 and 2024. Her rise to a headlining slot follows the success of third LP Euro-Country which spawned TikTok hit “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” and peaked at No. 2 on the U.K. Albums Chart. She drew huge crowds at Glastonbury Festival and All Points East earlier this summer, and is set to headline LIDO Festival in London’s Victoria Park next June.
Following the release of his 2025 LP Guitar, Mac DeMarco will return to headline the festival for the first time in nearly a decade, having topped the bill in 2017. A fourth ‘secret’ headliner will join the line-up at the event, with the reveal happening on-site at the Woods Stage.
Tickets are now on sale for the event from the festival’s official website.
