ArcTanGent Festival

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
Years active	2013–present
Website	arctangent.co.uk

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. The festival is named after the Earthtone9 album arc'tan'gent (2000).

Previous performers include Heilung, Mogwai, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, Explosions in the Sky, Coheed & Cambria, Opeth, Glassjaw, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sleep Token, Polyphia, Converge, Animals As Leaders, Shellac, American Football, TesseracT, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Russian Circles, Electric Wizard, Carpenter Brut, Igorrr, Alcest, Cult of Luna, Battles, Public Service Broadcasting, Empire State Bastard, Deafheaven, And So I Watch You from Afar, 65daysofstatic and Fuck Buttons.

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.

2013

ArcTanGent 2022.

The 2013 edition of the festival was the first to be held. It has since returned annually, 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 PSOTY 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.

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

2020–21 cancellations due to COVID-19

On 5 May 2020, ArcTanGent was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 21 May 2021, ArcTanGent was cancelled again due to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the lack of a government insurance scheme to cover COVID-19-related cancellations of music festivals (especially due to increasing spread of Lineage B.1.617 in the UK amid its lifting of restrictions).

2022

ArcTanGent returned after two years of cancellations, with the festival taking place over 16–20 August 2022. The headliners were Cult of Luna, TesseracT and Opeth. The site had a new layout, with the Elephant in the Bar Room stage significantly larger than 2019, which hosted the Wednesday night line-up curated by Effigy, followed by a full line-up across all five stages across the weekend:

Wednesday 17 August
Elephant in the Bar Room
The St Pierre Snake Invasion Sugar Horse Memory of Elephants Mother Vulture Luo Modern Rituals Mutant Thoughts Olanza The Road My Octopus Mind Lightning Sharks

Thursday 18 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant in the Bar Room
Cult of Luna Amenra Perturbator Delta Sleep A.A. Williams DVNE Pijn Bonnacons of Doom	Maybeshewill Alcest Intronaut Puppy Blodet Vasa The Hyena Kill	Mclusky Bossk Imperial Triumphant Ogives Big Band Bicurious Skin Failure Fes	We Never Learned To Live Boss Keloid Outlander Cryptic Shift Peach Bear Graywave Traps	Bolt Ruin Natalie Evans Lakes Coldbones Worriedaboutsatan Skemer Qariaq Podcast: The Long Drive Home

Friday 19 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant in the Bar Room
Tesseract Mono Caspian Oranssi Pazuzu Covet Mol Hippotraktor Five the Heirophant	Zeal & Ardor Jamie Lenman Alpha Male Tea Party Slow Crush Astrosaur Odradek Heisa	Scalping Rivers of Nihil BRUIT ≤ God Alone El Moono Still Ni Maitres	Palm Reader Stake Arabrot Blanket Tuskar Binge Rubbing Last Hyena	Paranoid Void Straight Girl Zetra Jakub Zytecki Stosszahn Let's Swim, Get Swimming Pollyanna Holland-Wing Podcast: ArtScare

Saturday 20 August
Arc	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant in the Bar Room
Opeth TWDY The Armed Devil Sold His Soul Conjurer Kokomo Jo Quail Seims	Leprous Lightning Bolt Emma Ruth Rundle Frontierer The Hirsch Effekt Tots Thumpermonkey	Godflesh Pallbearer Elephant Tree Famyne Sergeant Thunderhoof Ithaca Garganjua	Her Name Is Calla Pupil Slicer Wheel Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Castrovalva My Own Private Alaska Heriot Respire Dead Bird	Miet Beige Palace Axiom Catbamboo Wavey Vogons Stanlaey Podcast: The Riot Act

2023

Heilung headlining ArcTanGent 2023

ArcTanGent 2023 was headlined by Converge, Heilung and Devin Townsend, and took place on 16–19 August 2023. Deafheaven's set was playing their 2013 album Sunbather in full. The Ocean also performed a surprise Silent Disco set. The full line-up was:

Wednesday 16 August
Bixler
Straight Girl Scalping Conjurer DVNE Pupil Slicer Hippotraktor Skin Failure Bicurious Five the Heirophant Ogives Big Band

Thursday 17 August
Main	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant
Converge Russian Circles Empire State Bastard Cave In Wiegedood Chinese Football Mountain Caller Barrens	Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Brutus Chat Pile Svalbard Butch Kassidy Pothamus Chalk Hands	Yourcodenameis:milo Elder The Guru Guru Hypno5e Wallowing Burial Clouds Din of Celestial Birds	Sugar Horse I Built the Sky Other Half Birds in Row Hammok False Hope for the Savage Attan Mt. Yonder Grief Ritual	Ramkot a-tota-so Parachute for Gordo Poisonous Birds Mission Creep Los Sara Fontan Apidae Podcast: 101 Part Time Jobs Podcast: Hell Bent for Metal

Friday 18 August
Main	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant
Heilung Swans And So I Watch You From Afar Jaga Jazzist Holy Fawn Caligula's Horse Curse These Metal Hands Wess Meets West	SikTh The Ocean Liturgy The St Pierre Snake Invasion '68 Joliette Witch Sorrow	Enslaved Bell Witch Petbrick Ashenspire blanket Spurv Haast	LLNN Death Goals Helpless Spook the Horses Dawn Ray'd Mother Vulture Norman Westberg Silverburn Hidden Mothers	CLT DRP HAAL Project Mishram Pruillip Host Body Lys Morke Lack the Low Podcast: 3 is the Magic Number Podcast: Fecking Bahamas

Saturday 19 August
Main	Yohkai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant
Devin Townsend Igorrr Deafheaven Rolo Tomassi Vola GGGOLDDD Psychonaut The Most	Haken The Fall of Troy The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Standards La Bestia de Gevaudan Briqueville A Burial at Sea	Loathe Health The Callous Daoboys Domkraft Grub Nap Bones of Minerva Copse	Ohhms Abraham (band)|Abraham Aiming for Enrike The K. Cobra the Impaler Bear (band)|Bear Land Wars Naut	Tokky Horror Every Hell Playgrounded Fakeyourdeath Thought Forms Cultdreams Lawi Anyway Podcast: Damnation Vs. Podcast: Mark and Me

2024

On November 6, 2023, ArcTanGent announced the first wave of bands for the 2024 festival, their 10th birthday bash. The festival is scheduled to take place 14–17 August 2024, featuring a final farewell show from Three Trapped Tigers and a Wednesday headlining set voted for by fans from And So I Watch You From Afar. On November 16, ATG announced Meshuggah as the Friday night headliner, alongside Animals as Leaders. On January 25, ATG announced "pretty much ALL the bands for ATG #10", adding another 50+ bands to the lineup including the Thursday headliner Explosions in the Sky and Saturday's headliner Mogwai. On February 27, the organisers announced the final 23 bands for this year's lineup.

On April 19, the festival released the stage times and clashfinder for this year's lineup.

Wednesday 14 August
Yokhai
And So I Watch You From Afar Bossk LLNN Curse These Metal Hands Psychonaut Cobra the Impaler Din of Celestial Birds Hidden Mothers Host Body

Thursday 15 August
Main	Yokhai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant
Explosions in the Sky Clown Core Baroness Julie Christmas Bo Ningen Healthyliving AVKRVST itoldyouiwouldeatyou	Amenra Red Fang Conan Wyatt E. Earthside Underdark Pleiades	Textures Kalandra Cats and Cats and Cats URNE The Sad Season unpeople Kulk	John Cxnnor Author & Punisher Kaonashi Squid Pisser Filth Is Eternal Hundred Year Old Man Oddism Seneca	Tokky Horror Nailbreaker Skemer Doodsekader Sun Spot Gloom Index A-Sun Amissa

Friday 16 August
Main	Yokhai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant
Meshuggah Animals as Leaders Ihsahn Three Trapped Tigers Year of No Light The Omnific Zetra i Häxa	Plini Delta Sleep Night Verses Outrun The Sunlight Shy, Low BLACK$HAPE Asymetric Universe	Show Me the Body Sigh Orchards Maruja Iress The Sun's Journey Through The Night Modern Technology	Komfortrasuchen Blood Command Frail Body Glassing Every Hell Fange Bipolar Architecture HAAL	Teeth of the Sea Yard Madmess Benefits Yomi Ship Sans Froid CAHILL//COSTELLO

Saturday 17 August
Main	Yokhai	Bixler	PX3	Elephant
Mogwai Electric Wizard And So I Watch You From Afar SCALER Bossk Hexvessel BRIQUEVILLE Anta	Caspian Brontide Imperial Triumphant Silver Moth VOWER Sunnata FORT	Slift earthtone9 The Psychotic Monks KEN Mode WuW Haus Horo Codex Serafini	MSPAINT Gallops Sâver Nadir Ànteros Love Sex Machine Cassus Torpor	COLOSSAL SQUID Thot Iskandr PEACH Thank Quade Maebe

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.

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.

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

External links

• ArcTanGent official site