SECOND WAVE OF ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL 2017 

SUNDARA KARMA AMBER RUN • THE GROWLERS LOUIS BERRY • HONEYBLOOD • PINEGROVE TOM GRENNAN • THE BIG MOON • CHERRY GLAZERR PICTURE THIS • THE SLOW READERS CLUB JOSEFIN ÖHRN + THE LIBERATION ALASKALASKA • ALL WE ARE • ANNA STRAKER • ARDYN • ARTIFICIAL PLEASURE • ATLAS WYND AVANTE BLACK • BANFI • C. MACLEOD • CALLUM BEATTIE • CONFIDENCE MAN • COSMO PYKE CROOX • CUCKOOLANDER • EASY LIFE • ELLIE ROSE • EYRE LLEW • FREAK • GOTHIC TROPIC HANNAH GEORGAS • HEATERS • HOLIDAY OSCAR • HUSKY LOOPS • INDIGO LO • ISLAND JACK LADDER • JAKL • JESSE TERRY • JORDAN ALLEN • KOLARS • KUDU BLUE • LITTLE CUB LITTLE HOURS • LIV DAWSON • LOW ISLAND • MIYA FOLICK* • MYSTIC BRAVES • NILÜFER YANYA OVERCOATS • PARCELS • PAREKH & SINGH • PIXX • REDFACES • SONDRE LERCHE • SONNY SORRY • SWIMMING TAPES • TEN TONNES • TENDER • THE NIGHT CAFÉ • TO KILL A KING VAGABON • WILLIE J HEALEY • YELLOW DAYS • YONAKA 

Winner of Best Festival at the Live UK Awards 2016 “Dot To Dot is proof that you don’t need to pitch a tent in a muddy field to get that festival feeling” The Independent “With a stunning bill and venues within yards of one another we’ll leave you to join the dots” Clash “Each place opens up all of their best venues to embrace these soon-to-be-huge acts and we all get to boast that we saw them up close before they were huge. The only real worries are the inevitable agonising clashes and where to begin.” Virtual Festivals The UK’s premier festival for unearthing the best new talent, Dot To Dot Festival, returns to Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham from the 26th-28th May for its 12th edition. After smashing record attendance, and marking a sell-out Manchester event in 2016, more of the same is expected for 2017, with a huge lineup of established performers and emerging artists from around the world. Dot To Dot, are delighted to reveal the second wave of artists to play this year’s festival, with more bands still to follow: Hotly tipped four-piece THE BIG MOON open the list of new additions. Bold, articulate, and with an insatiable ear for melody, they are perfectly poised and ready for their Dot To Dot debut. With their highly anticipated debut album, ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’, scheduled for release at the start of April through Fiction Records, we’re sure you’ll be hearing plenty about these girls over the next few months. Manchester’s own THE SLOW READERS CLUB are also set for their first Dot To Dot appearance. Currently halfway through a UK tour, with sell out shows in London and Nottingham, we can’t wait to see a series of imposing live sets at Dot To Dot by this much acclaimed band. They’ll be joined by Stockholm’s JOSEFIN ÖHRN + THE LIBERATION, whose brand of radiant psychedelia stands effortlessly apart from the increasingly staid, and often paradoxically predictable, modern take on the genre.

The second wave announcement also includes: ANNA STRAKER, ARTIFICIAL PLEASURE, ATLAS WYND, AVANTE BLACK, C. MACLEOD, CALLUM BEATTIE, CONFIDENCE MAN, ELLIE ROSE, EYRE LLEW, GOTHIC TROPIC, HANNAH GEORGAS, HOLIDAY OSCAR, HUSKY LOOPS, INDIGO LO, ISLAND, JACK LADDER, JAKL, JESSE TERRY, JORDAN ALLEN, KUDU BLUE, LITTLE CUB, LITTLE HOURS, MIYA FOLICK, MYSTIC BRAVES, PIXX, SONDRE LERCHE, SORRY and TO KILL A KING. They’ll be joining SUNDARA KARMA, AMBER RUN, THE GROWLERS, LOUIS BERRY, HONEYBLOOD, PINEGROVE, CHERRY GLAZERR, TOM GRENNAN, PICTURE

THIS and lots more on this year’s Dot To Dot line-up. Previous Dot to Dot line-ups have seen performances from The xx, Ed Sheeran, Mumford and Sons, The 1975, Frank Turner, Caribou, Wolf Alice, Jake Bugg, SBTKRT, Florence + The Machine, Peace, Courtney Barnett and many, many more. With the emphasis on showcasing the hottest new talent on the planet, there will be lots more exciting additions to be announced for Dot To Dot’s 2017 l