Night Currents Festival

18/06/2026

PORTSMOUTH 🦋 Are you ready for SOFY’s infectious alt-pop blend of Y2K indie guitar music and trip-hop? 🌀

With her debut album ‘How To Perform Magic’ dropping in September, we can’t wait for her new tracks and old favourites when she hits up Night Currents Festival 💿🪄🐇

SOFY will be joining Lime Garden, Prima Queen, ARXX, My First Time, SLAG, Ain’t, Mary Middlefield, Crysometimes + more TBA!

📍 The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
⭐️ Saturday 3rd October
🎟️ £27.00 for 12 bands, 2 stages, 0 clashes!
⭐️ https://www.nightcurrentsfestival.com

15/06/2026

ARXX make their long-awaited return to Portsmouth this October, exclusively with us at Night Currents 💘

Catch us everywhere this summer, from Haslemere to Tenerife (lol) 🌞

15/06/2026

Fuzzed-out London-based alt-rock band Ain't aim to channel the stranger end of 90s guitar music - and we can’t get enough! 🎸

Weaving between tender rock and blistering, explosive grunge, topped with mesmerising vocals, Ain’t have gained a must-see reputation in the live circuit. Lucky for you, you can catch them at Night Currents Festival this October 🙂‍↕️⭐️

They’ll be joining Lime Garden, SOFY, Prima Queen, ARXX, and more at The Wedgewood Rooms!

FFO: The Front Bottoms, Mary in the Junkyard, Westside Cowboy

📍 Portsmouth
🗓️ Saturday 3rd October
🎟️ https://www.nightcurrentsfestival.com

03/06/2026

There’s just 4 months to go until October! Which means we’re another month closer to welcoming Brighton pop rock duo ARXX back to Portsmouth 💖

From the hard-hitting ‘Ride or Die’, to synth-heavy ‘Good Boy’, and q***r anthems like ‘Swim’, ARXX’s sets always have everyone singing along and having the absolute best time 🪩🕺🏻

Plus, with album 3 on the way, we might be lucky enough to hear some new tracks too 👀

ARXX join Lime Garden, Prima Queen, SOFY, and more at Night Currents Festival ‘26!

📅 Saturday 3rd October
📍 The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
🎟️ £27.00 for 12 bands - and no clashes!

02/06/2026

“It has established itself as the city’s leading alternative music festival and showcases 12 acts across the venue’s two stages and guarantees a great day of entertainment for music fans” 🤩

Thank you Darren from In Common for the article! Read the full preview here: https://www.in-common.co.uk/2026/06/02/night-currents-festival-returns-to-wedgewood-rooms-this-autumn/

Popular music festival returns to Portsmouth this autumn.

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31/05/2026

See how the Night Currents Festival 2026 lineup is shaping up so far⚡️

12 artists in 1 venue across 2 stages - and no clashes! How many festivals can say that?

If you’re looking for the best rising acts in the alt pop and indie rock scene, and everything in between, you can find them all in 1 place this October 🌟

Announced so far: Lime Garden, Prima Queen, SOFY, ARXX, SLAG BAND, My First Time, Ain't, Mary Middlefield, and Crysometimes 🤠

🎫 https://www.nightcurrentsfestival.com
📍 The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
📅 Saturday 3rd October
+ more acts TBA

You’ll be able to grab refreshing pints from Fightback Lager, whose beers and ciders help grassroots venues stay open! 🍻

Pies and mash from Southsea heroes Piecaramba will keep you festival fuelled 🥧

And award-winning local recording studio and rehearsal rooms Southsea Sound will be giving us a hand with backline 🫶

28/05/2026

Our sponsor Southsea Sound won Recording Studio of the Year last night - as they should! Please read through their brilliant post here 👇

28/05/2026

We had a wonderful evening celebrating the local scene and seeing some familiar faces at the Portsmouth Music Awards 2026! Thank you to Matt and the team for making something so special to Portsmouth 🌟

Huge congratulations to The Wedgewood Rooms for winning Venue of the Year for the second year running! They truly are the best and we wouldn’t have Night Currents Festival without the Wedge. Grassroots forever 🏆

And massive congrats to our sponsor Southsea Sound for winning Recording Studio of the Year! Big love to you as always, you’re so important to this community 🫶

24/05/2026

We had the absolute pleasure of catching My First Time’s raucous set in Brighton last night! It was a wickedly fun show - and now we’re even more excited to see them again when they play Night Currents Festival this October 🤠

My First Time will be making their Portsmouth debut playing alongside Lime Garden, Prima Queen, SOFY, ARXX and more ✨

📆 Saturday 3rd October
📍Portsmouth
🎟️ £27.00 for 12 bands, 2 stages, and 0 clashes!