Pitchfork Takes Over London From 2nd to 8th November, With The Avalanches Headlining the Roundhouse

Pitchfork Music Festival London returns for its sixth edition from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th November, and it works differently from almost any other festival you could attend this year. There is no field, no main stage and no wristband for the week. Each night is its own ticketed show in its own venue, so you choose whether the festival is one concert or seven.

The format has earned its following. The London edition launched in November 2021, and last year's fifth anniversary drew a record 20,000 people. This year the programme spreads from the Roundhouse in Camden and KOKO to the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, Hackney Church, EartH, the ICA, Village Underground, The Cause, Café OTO and MOTH Club.

The Avalanches bring friends to the Roundhouse on Friday

The Avalanches formed in Melbourne in 1997 and built their debut album, Since I Left You, almost entirely from samples. Songs such as 'Frontier Psychiatrist' made them cult heroes, and their fans then waited sixteen years for the follow-up, Wildflower, which arrived in 2016. We Will Always Love You followed in 2020.

This year the group has released three new singles: 'Together' with Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss, 'Every Single Weekend' with Jamie xx, and 'Blue Shadows' with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their Friday 6th November show at the Roundhouse is billed as The Avalanches and Friends, and the friends are worth the ticket on their own. Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, the psychedelic pairing of Animal Collective's Noah Lennox and Spacemen 3's Peter Kember, share the bill, and the modular synth artist Arushi Jain plays a DJ set. The evening starts at 7pm.

If you miss Friday, The Avalanches return to the Roundhouse for a second London date on Friday 27th November.

One wristband opens six Dalston venues on Saturday

The Dalston Takeover on Saturday 7th November is the closest Pitchfork London comes to a traditional festival day. One wristband gives you entry to six east London venues within walking distance of each other, including EartH, Café OTO, the Shacklewell Arms, The Victoria and St Matthias Church. You collect the wristband at EartH Kitchen, you can come and go between venues all evening, and every room is strictly over 18s.

The top of the bill brings together DIIV, the Brooklyn band who shaped a decade of shoegaze-tinged indie rock, Australia's Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Manchester's Mandy, Indiana and the West Yorkshire band Working Men's Club. Below them sits a long list of new names, from Freak Slug and Maria BC to Robber Robber, Midwife and lots of hands. Tickets cost around £42 when they went on sale in June.

The smaller rooms fill fast. Pick the two sets you cannot miss, check the stage times on the festival website, and be in the room before they start.

The Radio Dept, Noname and Hania Rani lead the rest of the week

The Swedish band The Radio Dept, whose fuzzy, synth-soaked songs helped revive dream pop in the early 2000s, play their first live show in almost ten years. Noname, the Chicago rapper and poet, takes the Roundhouse on Saturday 7th November to mark ten years of her mixtape Telefone, with Georgia Anne Muldrow, Cleo Reed and Kaicrewsade on the same bill.

The Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani closes the festival at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 8th November with her only UK show of 2026. The British electronic artist Actress debuts a new show and record, Radical Frame. Los Thuthanaka, whose record topped Pitchfork's albums of 2025, play in the round at EartH.

The rest of the programme rewards curiosity. Thaiboy Digital, the Swedish rapper who co-founded the Drain Gang collective, headlines Village Underground on Saturday 7th November, while Nirosta Steel performs the double album My Skyscraper at the ICA the same night. Chicago's Tortoise, the poet and jazz artist aja monet, Olof Dreijer of The Knife and the Colombian-Canadian singer Lido Pimienta all appear across the week. MOTH Club in Hackney hosts the Pitchfork London Selects residency all week, built from the weekly new music playlist of the same name.

Booking tickets and moving between venues

Tickets are sold through DICE, one event at a time, with prices set by each show. Several nights have already sold out, including the US duo ear's takeover of The Cause in south London on Thursday 5th November. If a show you want has gone, join the DICE waiting list, since returned tickets go to the people on it first.

The festival stretches from Camden to Dalston to the South Bank, so plan your route before you set off. The London Overground links Camden Road with Dalston Kingsland in under twenty minutes, which makes a Roundhouse show and a late Dalston set possible on the same night.

Pitchfork Music Festival London at a glance

• Dates: Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th November 2026
• The Avalanches and Friends: Roundhouse, Friday 6th November, from 7pm
• Dalston Takeover: six venues, Saturday 7th November, over 18s only
• Hania Rani: Royal Festival Hall, Sunday 8th November
• Tickets: DICE, sold per event