ArcTanGent Festival

ArcTanGent Festival (also known as 'ATG') is a three-day British rock festival held annually at Fernhill Farm in Somerset, England since 2013. It is the most popular British summer festival for math rock, post rock, progressive metal and experimental music. Previous performers include Explosions in the Sky, Glassjaw, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Meshuggah, Coheed & Cambria, Shellac, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Russian Circles, Deafheaven, Cult of Luna, American Football, Battles, Public Service Broadcasting, And So I Watch You from Afar, 65daysofstatic, Fuck Buttons, La Dispute, TesseracT, Daughters and Mono.

ArcTanGent Festival
Genre	Math rock post rock progressive metal alternative rock technical metal experimental music
Dates	August
Location(s)	Compton Martin, Somerset, near Bristol, England, UK
Years active	2013 – present
Website	www.arctangent.co.uk

The festival features five stages, silent disco after the live performances have finished, a selection of bars and food vendors, and weekend camping and VIP options.[1]

2013

The 2013 edition of the festival was the first to be held. It has since returned annually every year, albeit now one week earlier each year.

The Yohkai stage was curated by Damnation Festival on the Friday.

Thursday 29 August
Yohkai
Maybeshewill Amplifier Talons Pohl Falling Stacks Flights Memory of Elephants

Friday 30 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
65daysofstatic Future of the Left Rolo Tomassi Maybeshewill Zun Zun Egui Yndi Halda Thought Forms BLKSTRS Baby Godzilla The Naturals	Earthtone9 Dragged Into Sunlight Bossk Devil Sold His Soul Winterfylleth Humanfly Manatees Astrohenge	Public Service Broadcasting Brontide That Fucking Tank The Physics House Band You Slut! Anthroprophh / Big Naturals Spectres Poly-Math	Damien Schneider RiceBeats Fairhorns Charlie Barnes Deej Dharwal SJ Esau Vostok Joe Garcia

Saturday 31 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Fuck Buttons And So I Watch You from Afar Three Trapped Tigers Islet TTNG Vessels The Pirate Ship Quintet Delta Sleep Anta	Bo Ningen Tall Ships Johnny Foreigner Among Brothers The St Pierre Snake Invasion Axes Scarlet Racal & The Trainwreck	Turbowolf Arcane Roots Nordic Giants Castrovalva Fat Goth Cleft Hysterical Injury Oliver Wilde	Non Classical DJs Tom Beef (+The Mother Beef) Howard James Kenny Giant Swan The Dagger Brothers Oxygen Thief Theo

2014

The PX3 stage was relocated from the campsite to the main arena for the 2014 edition and every year since.

Thursday 28 August
Yohkai
And So I Watch You from Afar Three Trapped Tigers TTNG The Physics House Band Baby Godzilla Nordic Giants The St Pierre Snake Invasion Theo

Friday 29 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Russian Circles This Will Destroy You Crippled Black Phoenix EF Human Pyramids Diagonal Rumour Cubes Monsters Build Mean Robots Alpha Male Tea Party	Maybeshewill Tera Melos Enemies Purson Bats Lost in the Riots We Are Knuckle Dragger Super Like G Did	Tellison El Ten Eleven 100 Onces Memory of Elephants Olympians Big Joan Flies Are Spies from Hell	Cleft Charlie Barnes Iran Iran Sleep Beggar Super Squarecloud Howard James Kenny

Saturday 30 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Mono God Is an Astronaut Tall Ships Jamie Lenman Mutiny on the Bounty Blueneck Goonies Never Say Die Luo The Winchester Club	Lite Year of No Light Mylets Fen Hark Alarmist Charlie Barnes Astrohenge	I Like Trains Tangled Hair Gunning for Tamar AK/DK Codes in the Clouds No Spill Blood Adding Machines Samoans	Shiver The Broken Oak Duet Bear Makes Ninja Karhide Waking Aida Wicket

2015

Deafheaven headlining the Arc stage in 2015

Where the 2013–14 editions were held on the last weekend in August, the 2015 edition moved a week earlier in August where it has remained since.

The 2015 edition was the first time the PX3 stage hosted performances on all three days of the festival, with the Thursday PX3 program curated by BBC Introducing. This edition of the festival also included a Sargent House takeover, with several of their artists performing including Deafheaven, Emma Ruth Rundle, Marriages, Helms Alee and Mylets.

Cult of Luna were originally scheduled to perform on the Arc stage before Deafheaven, however they instead headlined the Yohkai stage after flight delays.

Thursday 20 August
Yohkai
65daysofstatic Lite Mutiny on the Bounty Mylets AK/DK Cleft Alpha Male Tea Party

Friday 21 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
The Dillinger Escape Plan The Fall of Troy Maybeshewill Joan of Arc That Fucking Tank Body Hound Trojan Horse Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster	Vennart Chon Rolo Tomassi Her Name Is Calla 11Paranoias The Fierce and the Dead Quadrupede	Blanck Mass Helms Alee Delta Sleep P S O T Y Valerian Swing We Never Learned to Live Cousin	Emma Ruth Rundle Patchwork Natives Sonance Obe Ohhms Pocket Apocalypse Downard Juffage

Saturday 22 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Deafheaven Deerhoof pg.lost Talons Axes Black Peaks 100 Onces	Cult of Luna Marriages British Theatre Young Legionnaire Prosperina Latitudes USA Nails	Toundra The Algorithm Tangled Hair Lone Wolf Gum Takes Tooth Flood of Red Poly-Math	Vessels Alright the Captain Vasa IEPI Vodun Crows an Wra Lambhorn Eschar Steve Strong

2016

Pieter-Paul Devos of Raketkanon, performing at ArcTanGent 2016

The Bixler stage was relocated from the campsite to the main arena for the 2016 edition and every year since. All four stages are now situated in the main arena.

Cleft performed their final ever show at the 2016 edition of the festival. The set was recorded and the movie posthumously screened across seven UK shows in December 2018 as part of One More Tour: In Memory of Dan Wild-Beesley.

Thursday 18 August
Yohkai	PX3
Mono Three Trapped Tigers TTNG Rolo Tomassi Talons Memory of Elephants Body Hound	Axes Quadrupede Delta Sleep Alarmist Samoans Poly-Math Anta

Friday 19 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Godspeed You! Black Emperor toe La Dispute Arcane Roots MNHM Vasudeva	Nordic Giants Animals as Leaders Agent Fresco Knife World Tiny Fingers Intervals Viva Belgrado	Monuments Cleft Heck Gulfer Fall of Messiah The Brackish Sleep Kit	Plini Svalbard Falls A Werewolf! Floral Eugene Quell Adam Betts Super Goliath

Saturday 20 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
American Football And So I Watch You from Afar Caspian mewithoutYou Errors Raketkanon Exassens Lets Talk Daggers	Meet Me in St. Louis Yndi Halda Mutoid Man Black Peaks Totorro Dialects Envoys	Gallops Enemies ZEUS! Owen Town Portal VLMV Bearded Youth Quest	Foes Weddings Landscapes Cheap Jazz Classically Handsome Brutes Space Blood Kusanagi Chiyoda Ku Skyhitch

2017

Thursday 17 August
Yohkai	PX3
Russian Circles Future of the Left Tall Ships Totorro Gallops Town Portal Bearded Youth Quest	Nordic Giants Heck Vasudeva USA Nails Fall of Messiah Chiyoda Ku Waking Aida

Friday 18 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Converge God Is an Astronaut TTNG Listener Stearica Alpha Male Tea Party Hikes Right Hand Left Hand	Leprous The Number Twelve Looks Like You Bossk Thought Forms Wot Gorilla? Hemelbestormer You Break, You Buy Gilmore Trail	Ho99o9 The Evil Usses Hark Ohhms Living Body ItoldyouIwouldeatyou Madilan	worriedaboutsatan Vola Frontierer A-Tota-So Nitkowski Lice Britney Hoggs Bison

Saturday 19 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Explosions in the Sky TesseracT Boris sleepmakeswaves The Physics House Band Spectres Toska HCBP	SikTh tricot Devil Sold His Soul Lost in Kiev Jardín de la Croix Future Horizons Boss Keloid	Jambinai Defeater Brutus Gug Pijn He Was Eaten By Owls Real Terms	The St Pierre Snake Invasion Employed to Serve Landscapes Shitwife Death Pedals Halo Tora Irk Poisonous Birds

2018

The 2018 event was the first year in which the Arc stage featured bands performing on all three days.

The Thursday Yohkai and PX3 lineups were curated in part by Big Scary Monsters vs Holy Roar respectively.

Gallops were the first band to play a live set as part of the silent disco, performing fully electric on the Thursday night.

Chiyoda Ku replaced Mugstar on the Yohkai stage. Jo Quail joined Takaakira 'Taka' Goto for the Behind The Shadow Drops performance.

The festival marked Giraffes? Giraffes! first ever performance outside of North America since their formation in 2001.

Thursday 16 August
Arc	Yohkai	PX3
And So I Watch You from Afar Pianos Become the Teeth Foxing People Like Milk Products	La Dispute Jamie Lenman Rolo Tomassi Delta Sleep Ohhms Alpha Male Tea Party Boss Keloid	Tangled Hair Bossk Pijn & Conjurer Svalbard Gulfer Body Hound Cassels

Friday 17 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Glassjaw Anathema Pelican Vennart Talons Poly-Math Space Blood Seven Colour Drive	Leprous Zeal & Ardor Tides from Nebula Chiyoda Ku Astralia Orchards Blanket	Tides of Man Strobes Halo Tora Conjurer Bearfoot Beware God Mother Modern Rituals	Behind the Shadow Drops Blueneck Black Futures Jo Quail Mr Marcaille Wren Codices Natalie Evans

Saturday 18 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3
Shellac of North America Alcest Myrkur Giraffes? Giraffes! Plini Jean Jean Hey Colossus Trigger Thumb	Arcane Roots Mouse on the Keys Black Peaks Telepathy Bad Sign La Jungle Only Echoes Remain	Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Part Chimp Gug Arcane Roots (Electronic) Vasquez Ilenkus Death and the Penguin	Scalping Toska The Guru Guru Coldbones Møl VLMV Sœur The Big Massive Orchestra

2019

On 6 September 2018 Meshuggah was announced as the first headliner.[2]

The 2019 event featured an expanded site footprint and an additional campsite, albeit the layout remained largely unchanged. There was also the introduction of the Bar Stage, located in the centre of the site.

Friday night once again featured live sets as part of the silent disco, including The Algorithm and GosT. There were also silent disco sets from John Stanier and Effigy across the weekend.

The main stage was opened by The Beft; a Tribute to Dan Wild-Beesley of Cleft and featured guest musicians including Mike Vennart. Black Peaks set featured Jamie Lenman on vocals due to the absence of the band's singer Will Gardner. And So I Watch You From Afar performed their debut album in full for an unannounced special guest slot on the Arc stage.

Thursday 15 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Bar Room
Coheed & Cambria Carpenter Brut Zeal & Ardor Nordic Giants Bossk The Beft	Daughters Polyphia Covet Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Cocaine Piss Floral	AK/DK Raketkanon Møl Bats Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Cultdreams	Memory of Elephants Pijn Lost in the Riots Conjurer Yvette Young Ithaca Big Lad	Sleep Beggar Theo Kuro Pave Haunt the Woods

Friday 16 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Bar Room
Battles Russian Circles 65daysofstatic The Ocean Thank You Scientist Standards Good Game A. A. Williams	TTNG Black Peaks Toska The Algorithm Puerto Austral Slow Crush We Never Learned To Live	Frontierer Zu Sleep Token Birds In Row All The Best Tapes Dags! CLT DRP	Brutus Colossal Squid Palm Reader Sithu Aye Too Piste Rad Pitt Cattle Hexcut	Steve Strong Sœur No Violet Charlie Barnes VLMV Seven Colour Drive Øgïvęš

Saturday 17 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Bar Room
Meshuggah Cult of Luna And So I Watch You From Afar Three Trapped Tigers The Physics House Band Matt Calvert The St Pierre Snake Invasion DJ Perro	Caspian Gnod The Contortionist Invalids Curse These Metal Hands Kaguu Wild Cat Strike	Employed To Serve Car Bomb Elephant Gym Azusa Aiming For Enrike Gender Roles Øgïvęš Big Band	Doblecapa Voronoi Letters From The Colony Puppy LLNN AMNT Midas Fall Sugar Horse	Kinlaw + Franco Franco a-tota-so Oxygen Thief Howard James Kenny Twin Siblings Qarlaq Torsten Jensen

2020

On 5 May 2020, ArcTanGent announced the 2020 edition would no longer be taking replace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stating:

"OK summer lovers, it’s finally time to call time on ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL 2020. We tried for as long as possible to stay optimistic, but unfortunately, we have had to take the incredibly tough decision to postpone ARCTANGENT until August 19th-21st 2021. We’re absolutely devastated that we won’t be able to party with you this August at Fernhill Farm. The decision to postpone wasn’t taken lightly and is sincerely the last thing we wanted to do. We were still hopeful of going ahead until last week. However, it has become increasingly clear that the current situation isn’t going away anytime soon and the health & safety of our guests, staff & the wider community at large has to come first".[3]

Bands due to perform at the 2020 edition included: Opeth, Chelsea Wolfe, Swans, TesseracT, This Will Destroy You, Ihshan, Amenra, Oathbreaker, Maybeshewill, The Locust, Perturbator, Rolo Tomassi, Metz, Emma Ruth Rundle, Caspian, Intronaut, Giraffes? Giraffes! and more.[4]

Awards

During 2013–2014, the festival was shortlisted for several awards including, Best New Festival, Best Grassroots Festival and Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards as well as Best Independent Music Festival at the AIM Awards.[5]

In 2013, the festival won the award for Best Toilets at the UK Festival Awards. In 2016, the festival was shortlisted for Best Headline Performance of the Year for American Football and Line Up of the Year at the UK Festival Awards. In 2018, the festival won the award for Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards.[6]

Annual warm-up

The festival has hosted an official annual warm-up party each year in Bristol, England in collaboration with promoters Effigy, ForFans ofBands and ArtScare. The event takes place in May each year and has featured mainstays and favourites of the festival including Gallops, The Physics House Band, Cleft, Talons, Toska, Alpha Male Tea Party, Memory of Elephants, Chiyoda Ku, Sœur and Jo Quail [7]

References

1. ArcTanGent Info
2. Louder Sound
3. The Festivals.UK
4. / ArcTanGent Facebook
5. Festival Insights
6. UK Festival Awards
7. Effigy

External links

• ArcTanGent Official Site