Unsound Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–8 Oct 2026 (8 days)

Location

Various Venues, Kraków, Poland

Sound

Electronic

Nearest airport

John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice

Nearest station

Kraków Główny Station

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Kraków · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

33 artists so far

The story

Unsound Festival 2026 is an event that showcases a wide range of contemporary music focusing on emerging, experimental, and leftfield genres. It takes place from October 2 to October 11, 2026, across various venues in Kraków, Poland. The festival has gained recognition for highlighting innovative scenes and radical sounds in the music landscape.

Unsound Festival is a 8-day electronic festival at Various Venues in Kraków, Poland. The October 2026 edition runs 1–8 Oct 2026.

Announced so far: Actress, Ana Roxanne, Dagmar Zuniga, Debit, Deli Girls, Diamanda Galás, DJ Plead and DJ Spanish Fly and 25 more. The line-up is spread across the 8 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

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

Unsound Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Thursday. 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 Kraków 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.

• Various Venues
• 18+ age limit
• Independent event
• Years running: since 2003

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Kraków · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Reachable by public transport and taxi.

What the trip costs from Paris

No ticket price is published for this edition yet, so the total below covers travel and a bed only. It updates automatically as soon as the organiser opens sales.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Unsound 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 9 nights rather than 8: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice, check the transfer time to Kraków before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Unsound Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Thursday 1 October

  Actress, Everything Is Psychedelic, Liars, Sexisdeath, xavisphone

• Day 2 — Friday 2 October

  Ana Roxanne, feeo, Mandy, Indiana, Siete Catorce

• Day 3 — Saturday 3 October

  Dagmar Zuniga, Giant Claw & julek ploski, Marsh crane, Tercet Imperial

• Day 4 — Sunday 4 October

  Debit, gyrofield, Opla, The Providenza Ensemble with Sinfonietta Cracovia

• Day 5 — Monday 5 October

  Deli Girls, Jawnino, Pink Siifu, Tianzhuo Chen and Siko Setyanto

• Day 6 — Tuesday 6 October

  Diamanda Galás, K Wata, Piotr Kurek & Wilhelm Sasnal with Śląsk Song & Dance Ensemble, Tim Hecker & Vincent de Belleval

• Day 7 — Wednesday 7 October

  DJ Plead, Księżyc, PPP, username

• Day 8 — Thursday 8 October

  DJ Spanish Fly, L’Rain, Rabit, weed420

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

  1–8 Oct 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Actress, Ana Roxanne, Dagmar Zuniga

• 2024

  1–8 Oct 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Ana Roxanne, Dagmar Zuniga, Debit

• 2023

  1–8 Oct 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: Dagmar Zuniga, Debit, Deli Girls

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Kraków Główny Station; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Various Venues, in Kraków.
• Reachable by public transport and taxi.
• Book a bed in Kraków early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.