Listen Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–2 Nov 2026 (2 days)

Location

Various locations in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Sound

Electronic · Dance

Tickets

€50 · 1 tier tracked

Nearest airport

Brussels Airport

Nearest station

Central Station, Brussels

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Brussels · 0 km · about 10 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

18 artists so far

The story

Listen Festival is a two-day music event held in Brussels, Belgium, taking place across 15 different locations including train stations and clubs. It celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2026 with a lineup featuring artists such as Tiga, Avalon Emerson, Dillinja, and Mala. The festival is scheduled for November 21st and 22nd, showcasing a diverse range of performances across the city's vibrant music scene.

Listen Festival is a 2-day electronic, dance festival at Various locations in Brussels in Brussels, Belgium. The November 2026 edition runs 1–2 Nov 2026.

Announced so far: Tiga, Dillinja, Avalon Emerson, Mala, Antal, Nosedrip, Suze Ijó and Zora Jones and 10 more. Expect stages split between Electronic and Dance. The line-up is spread across the 2 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Various locations in Brussels, in Brussels. Brussels · 0 km · about 10 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Listen Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Sunday and closing on a Monday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Brussels are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• 10th anniversary edition
• Takes place across 15 locations in Brussels
• Notable venues include Fuse, C12, and Hexagon
• Scheduled for November 21st and 22nd, 2026
• Includes back-to-back sets by various artists

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Brussels · 0 km · about 10 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Attendees can access multiple venues through public transport and walking.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Listen Festival works out at roughly €181 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.

The ticket is only 28% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is bus · 5h 5m each way, at €39 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Listen Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Brussels Airport, check the transfer time to Brussels before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Listen Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Sunday 1 November

  Tiga, Avalon Emerson, Antal, Suze Ijó, DJ Rino, Introspekt, Kode9, Lou Nour, Tim Reaper

• Day 2 — Monday 2 November

  Dillinja, Mala, Nosedrip, Zora Jones, DTM Funk, Joe Delon, Lefto Early Bird, Mike Servito, tINI

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  1–2 Nov 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Tiga, Dillinja, Avalon Emerson

• 2024

  1–2 Nov 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Dillinja, Avalon Emerson, Mala

• 2023

  1–2 Nov 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: Avalon Emerson, Mala, Antal

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Brussels Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Central Station, Brussels; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Various locations in Brussels, in Brussels.
• Attendees can access multiple venues through public transport and walking.
• Book a bed in Brussels early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus5h 5m · €39
• car4h 10m · €80
• train3h 22m · €105