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Wakefield's Largest Music & Culture Festival + education programme

2011-2023 Q Magazine

"One of the best boutique festivals in the region."

"Wakefield has established itself as an under the radar cultural hub and is home to one of the best independent arts festivals in Europe"

Under The Radar

"Long Division Festival continues to epitomise Wakefield’s revitalised scene." GigWise

"A vibrant event with a perfect balance of established acts and new up’n’coming artists." Yorkshire Evening Post

Previous performers include The Cribs, We

Are Scientists, British Sea Power, Billy Bragg, Ash, The Fall, Asian Dub Foundation, Peter Hook & The Light, Ghostpoet, Pulled Apart By Horses, King Creosote, Los Campesinos!, Gang Of Four, Jeffrey Lewis, Fat White Family, Aidan Moffat & Bills Wells, The Wedding Present, The Vaselines, Field Music, Simon Armitage, Robin Ince, Josie Long and plenty more. Across nine festivals it has attracted over 20,000 attendees and programmed over 700 artists. It has commissioned brand new work by Wakefield based artists and created a pioneering education programme which received national coverage in The Guardian

It is the largest Music & Culture Festival in Wakefield.

11/06/2026

Fifteen years ago today lots of excited people paid £12 to come to the first Long Division Festival. There'd never been anything quite like it in Wakefield before. We took over the awful local nightclub and the Cathedral, squeezed bands into tiny pubs and just had such a good time. Big names (to us) like The Wedding Present, Los Campesinos!, Darwin Deez, Emmy The Great and more rubbed shoulders with ace local bands. And a whole bunch of people suddenly realised Wakefield was quite cool. We just wanted to build off the back of a tiny zine and some great gigs in a sub 100 cap venue. It didn't seem like much but we had no idea how good we had it.

Thanks to everyone who was there from the very beginning!

10/06/2026

Fifteen years ago today the first Long Division Festival kicked off with its Friday Night Warm Up Event.

One Day, After School opened, followed by Bambinos, a third band we can't remember (sorry, please tell us who it was!) and headliners Shrag. We all got too giddy and were up to the early hours, with no comprehension of how hard a Long Division Saturday would hit.

Who was there at there at the very, very beginning?

07/05/2026

How nice to find Long Division Festival in the Index of John Robb's new book "Punk Rock Ruined My Life". John's currently on tour promoting the book with lots of different special guests. The nearest to Wakefield is Farsley at The Old Woollen !

30/03/2026

From Instagram: very cool to see our neon sign in an exhibition in the mighty Pop Recs in Sunderland, thanks to the superfan who claimed it as part of the Long Division book crowdfunder.

❤️ Sunderland ❤️

17/10/2025

It is a year ago today the Long Division book arrived on a big palette, a mere 24 hours before it was released to the world. Pretty stressful! I've actually just found two spare copies that were never collected, they are the last ones available in the entire world ever (unless there's an underground black market around this super rare curio), still fully wrapped and unread. If you're interested, drop a message to the page.

Address

The Art House
Wakefield
WF12TE

Website

http://www.longdivisionfestival.co.uk/

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