Summers End Progressive Rock Festival

17/08/2026

Winter's End 2027 officially launched!

The Anchoress has been announced as one of the headline acts for next year's Winter's End Progressive Rock festival, alongside Galahad and Italian proggers Barock Project. The event takes place at The Drill Hall in Chepstow from April 8-11.

Joining them on the bill are Scottish prog rockers Machinary, fellow Scots Long Earth, Casual Silence and Skylake, both from the Netherlands, French proggers HamaSaari, Italians Karmamoi and Candacraig.

“As always with the ‘End’ festivals, we’ve tried to create a balance between the old and the new, the familiar and the surprises," says organiser Huw Lloyd-Jones. "To say we are pleased with this lineup would be an understatement: I think it’ll be a fantastic weekend of exceptional live music.”

Full Monty tickets for the Thursday through to Sunday and Standard Weekend tickets for Friday-Sunday are available now, as well as a few 2027 Budget Buster tickets for Winter’s AND Summer’s End available at a discounted price.

"We have decided to relaunch the Golden Ticket, first offered in 2020," Jones adds. "The new ticket will be for eight festivals – Winter’s or Summer’s Ends – at a special one-off price. It really is an inflation-beating bargain and, of course, helps us with the working capital to ensure we can continue promoting the music we love! Details of the new tickets, including how they might work with tickets already bought, can be found on the Summer’s End and Winter’s End websites.

Get tickets: https://www.winters-end.co.uk/

📸 Talie Rose Eigeland

10/08/2026

We're desperately sad to have to let you know that one of our team, the very lovely Tristan, has passed away.

Tristan looked after the door for us for many years at Winter's End or Summer's End - some years both, when he could spare the time.

He had been a friend of Tom and Henry since they were boys and became close to all of us as he grew into the charming, kind and talented man he was.

During my last conversation with him a few weeks ago, he asked if he could bring the fiddle player from his band to Summer's End in October so he could introduce her to our world. Tristan really was one of us.

The picture is of – from left to right – Tom, Henry, Ieuan and, of course, Tristan.

Our deepest sympathies go to his parents, family and to all his friends. He will be sorely missed by everyone that knew him.

Huw

07/08/2026

We are delighted to welcome the awesome Ethyrfield to the Summer's End lineup! They will be joining us courtesy of Progzilla Radio, who have selected them for their 'Progzilla Presents' slot. They really are a great choice and we think they'll go down a storm!

In order to make schedules work, we've juggled the running order slightly and Circu5 will now appear on the Saturday and Ethyrfield on Sunday.

The full lineup:

Thursday 15th
Moments Of Pleasure - a tribute to Kate Bush

Friday, October 16
'Imaginaerium' featuring Clive Nolan and Laura Piazzai
The Gift

Saturday, October 17
Lazuli
Comedy Of Errors
EBB
Circu5
Neon Fields

Sunday, October 18
Threshold
Landmarq
The Paradox Twin
Ethyrfield (presented by Progzilla Radio)
Splink

Tickets are available from www.summersend.co.uk

See you there!

11/05/2026

We're very sorry to have to annouce that Held By Trees are no longer able to join us in October due to a scheduling clash.

We sincerely hope we'll be able to tempt them here sometime in the future and wish them well in the meantime.

We do, however, have a stellar replacement in the form of The Paradox Twin, one of the UK's most exciting prog bands. Their new album, A Romance Of Many Dimensions is superb and we can't wait to hear some of it live!

The (nearly) complete lineup is:

Thursday October 15th
Moments Of Pleasure
tribute to Kate Bush

Friday October 16th
Imaginaerium
The Gift

Saturday October 17th
Lazuli
Comedy Of Errors
EBB
TBC
Neon Fields

Sunday October 18th
Threshold
Landmarq
The Paradox Twin
Circu5
Splink

Tickets for the weekend and for individual days are available at

The Summer's End Progressive Rock Festival is the UK's oldest and best-loved prog-rock festival

06/05/2026

We're delighted to announce the addition of Moments Of Pleasure, the ultimate tribute to the music of Kate Bush to our lineup.

Hailed by The Sunday Times as one of the UK's top 10 tributes, Moments Of Pleasure – a group of exceptional musicians, fronted by vocalist Lisa-Marie Walters – will be joining us for the evening of Thursday, October 15th at Chepstow Drill Hall.

Tickets are £25 and are available – along with details of the rest of the 2026 festival lineup – at www.summersend.co.uk

01/05/2026

The excellent Buzz Elliot devoted his last show to the Winter's End that's just been and the Summer's End to come! All the bands performing are featured and it makes for a cracking show!

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