ØYA Festival has added new names including Lily Allen, TOMORA and Band Of Horses to its stacked line-up for 2026.
The Norwegian festival is due to take place at Tøyen Park in Oslo between Wednesday August 12 and Saturday August 15, and in October, The Cure were announced as the first headliners, with Amyl & The Sniffers also appearing on the line-up.
Then it was revealed that Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds would be joining The Cure at the top of the bill, and headlining the festival as part of their 2026 European tour.
In November, even more names were added including CMAT, Sombr, Underworld, Lambrini Girls, and the following month saw Geese, Blood Orange, Mogwai and more also confirmed.
Now, to kick off 2026, organisers have dropped some more huge names for the line-up, including Lily Allen – who will take to the stage on Saturday August 15 to play her critically-acclaimed 2025 album, ‘West End Girl’, in full. The announcement comes as the singer will also be playing numerous festival slots and headline gigs later this year in celebration of the huge comeback album.
Band Of Horses will be returning to the festival on Friday August 14, having made their first ever European festival appearance at the site back in 2006. Two decades on, they will be using the slot in 2026 to perform their debut album, ‘Everything All The Time’ in its entirety.
Also adding to the line-up is TOMORA – the electrifying new duo formed by Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers and Norwegian pop visionary AURORA. It comes after they sparked months of speculation by announcing various live shows before the project was officially announced. They last month dropped the debut single ‘Ring The Alarm’.
Other new names added to the line-up today (Thursday January 29) include Marit Larsen who was formerly one half of global pop duo M2M, Norwegian singer-songwriter Thomas Dybdahl, stoner-rock band Slomosa, rising star Hannah Storm, Beth McBride (the solo project of Bethany Forseth-Reichberg), Norwegian folk supergroup Reolô, and electronica group Nonne.
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The 2025 edition of Øya Festival boasted headline sets from Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Queens Of The Stone Age and Girl In Red. Elsewhere on the line-up were the likes of Fontaines D.C., Kneecap, Wet Leg, Beth Gibbons, Lola Young, Heartworms, Kelly Lee Owens and Khruangbin.
Speaking to NME at the festival, boss Claes Olsen explained how the festival keeps an eye on new talent to help discover who could be a future headliner.
“I like to see bands grow organically to that. There are a few smaller acts that I think are really, really good,” Olsen explained. “People always ask, ‘Who’s the next big thing?’ You never know. In April last year, when we started talking to Charli XCX and Chappell Roan, we weren’t discussing headline slots in the beginning, then things just grew and grew.”
