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Various Venues, London, United Kingdom1–7 Nov 2026 · 7 days13 days to go

Pitchfork Music Festival festival in London, United Kingdom

At a glance

Dates
1–7 Nov 2026 (7 days)
Location
Various Venues, London, United Kingdom
Sound
Electronic
Tickets
€176 · 1 tier tracked
Venue type
Urban venue
Best nearby base
London · 0 km · about 0 min
On-site camping
Not listed

The story

Pitchfork Music Festival London is a week-long event taking place across multiple venues in the UK capital from November 2nd to 8th, 2026. It features a diverse lineup of artists, including new additions like Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Thaiboy Digital, and DIIV, along with previously announced acts such as Tortoise and Olof Dreijer. The full lineup details are yet to be announced.

Pitchfork Music Festival is a 7-day electronic festival at Various Venues in London, United Kingdom. The November 2026 edition runs 1–7 Nov 2026.

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

Pitchfork Music Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Sunday and closing on a Saturday. 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 London 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.

  • Multiple venues across London
  • Week-long event from November 2nd to 8th, 2026
  • Newly added artists include Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, and Thaiboy Digital
  • Tickets sold as wristbands granting access to all venues

Venue, camping & access

Venue type
Urban venue
Best nearby base
London · 0 km · about 0 min
Camping
No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

What the trip costs from Paris

Ticket from

€176

Return transport

€48

bus · 6h 28m each way

Place to stay

€637

Hostel / camping · 7 nights

Total door to door

€861

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Pitchfork Music Festival works out at roughly €861 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 20% 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 · 6h 28m each way, at €48 return.

See every ticket tier and travel option →

Planning the trip, step by step

  1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Pitchfork Music 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 8 nights rather than 7: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
  4. 4Follow Pitchfork Music Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Full line-up

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

The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Pitchfork Music Festival yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.

Past editions

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

  • 2025

    1–7 Nov 2025 (approx.)

  • 2024

    1–7 Nov 2024 (approx.)

  • 2023

    1–7 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Official archive and line-up history →

Travel tips from Paris

  • The site itself is Various Venues, in London.
  • Book a bed in London early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
  • bus6h 28m · €48
  • car5h 18m · €104
  • train4h 3m · €125
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