Portals Festival Announces Full Lineup For 2023!

Despite only hosting their first event in 2018, Portals Festival has become a crucial weekend in the post-rock calendar.

Joining the already stacked lineup today are the Japanese post-rock pioneers MONO. Headlining the festival alongside fellow genre legends And So I Watch You From Afar, their headline set comes as part of their forthcoming European tour and comes following their jaw-dropping set at ArcTanGent Festival last year. Also joining the bill today are Maybeshewill, A.A. Williams, Bo Ningen, ’68, Pupil Slicer, GGGOLDDD, Paranoid Void, Straight Girl, El Moono, A-Tota-So and The Broken Islands. They will all be joining a massive lineup consisting of groundbreaking such as Nordic Giants, Ef, Svalbard, Elephant Tree, Bicurious, Lakes, GGGOLDD, The Guru Guru and many more.

“When we booked the first ever Portals all dayer at the New Cross Inn (South East London) in 2015, never in a million years did I think we would ever book a band with the stature of Mono”, state the organisers of Portals. “They are true pioneers, defining what we now know as post-rock. Their live show mesmerises and tranfixes you, transporting you to new worlds. The band formed in the late 90s, when we weren’t even in our teens, before we even knew what post-rock was. Around that time, grunge, punk and alt-rock were the weird, experimental, counter-culture music that we and our peers fell into. Who knew that the sonic landscape would be changed so dramatically by stripping away the aggression to the bare bones, and rebuilding music through extreme dynamic range and carefully crafted instrumentation. Mono were one of those bands, and it’s an honour to be able to bring them to such a dedicated, enthusiastic and reverent audience, such as our Portals Festival family.”

Portals Festival 2023 takes place at the multipurpose Hackney venue EartH on the 27^th and 28^th of May. Full information and tickets can be found here. See the full lineup in all it’s glory below.