# ArcTanGent Festival

ArcTanGent Festival (also known as ATG) is a three-day British rock festival held annually at Fernhill Farm in Somerset, England since 2013. It is the most popular British summer festival for math rock, post rock, progressive metal and experimental music. The festival is named after the Earthtone9 album arc'tan'gent (2000).
Previous performers include Heilung, Mogwai, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, Explosions in the Sky, Coheed & Cambria, Opeth, Glassjaw, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sleep Token, Polyphia, Converge, Animals As Leaders, Shellac, American Football, TesseracT, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Russian Circles, Electric Wizard, Carpenter Brut, Igorrr, Alcest, Cult of Luna, Battles, Public Service Broadcasting, Empire State Bastard, Deafheaven, And So I Watch You from Afar, 65daysofstatic and Fuck Buttons.
The festival features five stages, silent disco after the live performances have finished, a selection of bars and food vendors, and weekend camping and VIP options.

## 2013

The 2013 edition of the festival was the first to be held. It has since returned annually, albeit now one week earlier each year.
The Yohkai stage was curated by Damnation Festival on the Friday.
Thursday 29 August :
* Yohkai
* Maybeshewill
* Amplifier
* Talons
* Pohl
* Falling Stacks
* Flights
* Memory of Elephants
Friday 30 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| 65daysofstatic Future of the Left Rolo Tomassi Maybeshewill Zun Zun Egui Yndi Halda Thought Forms BLKSTRS Baby Godzilla The Naturals | Earthtone9 Dragged into Sunlight Bossk Devil Sold His Soul Winterfylleth Humanfly Manatees Astrohenge | Public Service Broadcasting Brontide That Fucking Tank The Physics House Band You Slut! Anthroprophh / Big Naturals Spectres Poly-Math | Damien Schneider RiceBeats Fairhorns Charlie Barnes Deej Dharwal SJ Esau Vostok Joe Garcia |
Saturday 31 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Fuck Buttons And So I Watch You from Afar Three Trapped Tigers Islet TTNG Vessels The Pirate Ship Quintet Delta Sleep Anta | Bo Ningen Tall Ships Johnny Foreigner Among Brothers The St Pierre Snake Invasion Axes Scarlet Racal & The Trainwreck | Turbowolf Arcane Roots Nordic Giants Castrovalva Fat Goth Cleft Hysterical Injury Oliver Wilde | Non Classical DJs Tom Beef (+The Mother Beef) Howard James Kenny Giant Swan The Dagger Brothers Oxygen Thief Theo |

## 2014

The PX3 stage was relocated from the campsite to the main arena for the 2014 edition and every year since.
Thursday 28 August :
* Yohkai
* And So I Watch You from Afar
* Three Trapped Tigers
* TTNG
* The Physics House Band
* Baby Godzilla
* Nordic Giants
* The St Pierre Snake Invasion
* Theo
Friday 29 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Russian Circles This Will Destroy You Crippled Black Phoenix EF Human Pyramids Diagonal Rumour Cubes Monsters Build Mean Robots Alpha Male Tea Party | Maybeshewill Tera Melos Enemies Purson Bats Lost in the Riots We Are Knuckle Dragger Super Like G Did | Tellison El Ten Eleven 100 Onces Memory of Elephants Olympians Big Joan Flies Are Spies from Hell | Cleft Charlie Barnes Iran Iran Sleep Beggar Super Squarecloud Howard James Kenny |
Saturday 30 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Mono God Is an Astronaut Tall Ships Jamie Lenman Mutiny on the Bounty Blueneck Goonies Never Say Die Luo The Winchester Club | Lite Year of No Light Mylets Fen Hark Alarmist Charlie Barnes Astrohenge | I Like Trains Tangled Hair Gunning for Tamar AK/DK Codes in the Clouds No Spill Blood Adding Machines Samoans | Shiver The Broken Oak Duet Bear Makes Ninja Karhide Waking Aida Wicket |

## 2015

Where the 2013–14 editions were held on the last weekend in August, the 2015 edition moved a week earlier in August where it has remained since.
The 2015 edition was the first time the PX3 stage hosted performances on all three days of the festival, with the Thursday PX3 program curated by BBC Introducing. This edition of the festival also included a Sargent House takeover, with several of their artists performing including Deafheaven, Emma Ruth Rundle, Marriages, Helms Alee and Mylets.
Cult of Luna were originally scheduled to perform on the Arc stage before Deafheaven, however they instead headlined the Yohkai stage after flight delays.
Thursday 20 August :
* Yohkai
* 65daysofstatic
* Lite
* Mutiny on the Bounty
* Mylets
* AK/DK
* Cleft
* Alpha Male Tea Party
Friday 21 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Fall of Troy Maybeshewill Joan of Arc That Fucking Tank Body Hound Trojan Horse Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster | Vennart Chon Rolo Tomassi Her Name Is Calla 11Paranoias The Fierce and the Dead Quadrupede | Blanck Mass Helms Alee Delta Sleep PSOTY Valerian Swing We Never Learned to Live Cousin | Emma Ruth Rundle Patchwork Natives Sonance Obe Ohhms Pocket Apocalypse Downard Juffage |
Saturday 22 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Deafheaven Deerhoof pg.lost Talons Axes Black Peaks 100 Onces | Cult of Luna Marriages British Theatre Young Legionnaire Prosperina Latitudes USA Nails | Toundra The Algorithm Tangled Hair Lone Wolf Gum Takes Tooth Flood of Red Poly-Math | Vessels Alright the Captain Vasa IEPI Vodun Crows an Wra Lambhorn Eschar Steve Strong |

## 2016

The Bixler stage was relocated from the campsite to the main arena for the 2016 edition and every year since. All four stages are now situated in the main arena.
Cleft performed their final ever show at the 2016 edition of the festival. The set was recorded and the movie posthumously screened across seven UK shows in December 2018 as part of One More Tour: In Memory of Dan Wild-Beesley.
Thursday 18 August :
| Yohkai | PX3 |
| Mono Three Trapped Tigers TTNG Rolo Tomassi Talons Memory of Elephants Body Hound | Axes Quadrupede Delta Sleep Alarmist Samoans Poly-Math Anta |
Friday 19 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor toe La Dispute Arcane Roots MNHM Vasudeva | Nordic Giants Animals as Leaders Agent Fresco Knife World Tiny Fingers Intervals Viva Belgrado | Monuments Cleft Heck Gulfer Fall of Messiah The Brackish Sleep Kit | Plini Svalbard Falls A Werewolf! Floral Eugene Quell Adam Betts Super Goliath |
Saturday 20 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| American Football And So I Watch You from Afar Caspian mewithoutYou Errors Raketkanon Exassens Lets Talk Daggers | Meet Me in St. Louis Yndi Halda Mutoid Man Black Peaks Totorro Dialects Envoys | Gallops Enemies ZEUS! Owen Town Portal VLMV Bearded Youth Quest | Foes Weddings Landscapes Cheap Jazz Classically Handsome Brutes Space Blood Kusanagi Chiyoda Ku Skyhitch |

## 2017

Thursday 17 August :
| Yohkai | PX3 |
| Russian Circles Future of the Left Tall Ships Totorro Gallops Town Portal Bearded Youth Quest | Nordic Giants Heck Vasudeva USA Nails Fall of Messiah Chiyoda Ku Waking Aida |
Friday 18 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Converge God Is an Astronaut TTNG Listener Stearica Alpha Male Tea Party Hikes Right Hand Left Hand | Leprous The Number Twelve Looks Like You Bossk Thought Forms Wot Gorilla? Hemelbestormer You Break, You Buy Gilmore Trail | Ho99o9 The Evil Usses Hark Ohhms Living Body ItoldyouIwouldeatyou Madilan | worriedaboutsatan Vola Frontierer A-Tota-So Nitkowski Lice Britney Hoggs Bison |
Saturday 19 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Explosions in the Sky TesseracT Boris sleepmakeswaves The Physics House Band Spectres Toska HCBP | SikTh tricot Devil Sold His Soul Lost in Kiev Jardín de la Croix Future Horizons Boss Keloid | Jambinai Defeater Brutus Gug Pijn He Was Eaten By Owls Real Terms | The St Pierre Snake Invasion Employed to Serve Landscapes Shitwife Death Pedals Halo Tora Irk Poisonous Birds |

## 2018

The 2018 event was the first year in which the Arc stage featured bands performing on all three days.
The Thursday Yohkai and PX3 lineups were curated in part by Big Scary Monsters vs Holy Roar respectively.
Gallops were the first band to play a live set as part of the silent disco, performing fully electric on the Thursday night.
Chiyoda Ku replaced Mugstar on the Yohkai stage. Jo Quail joined Takaakira 'Taka' Goto for the Behind The Shadow Drops performance.
The festival marked Giraffes? Giraffes! first ever performance outside of North America since their formation in 2001.
Thursday 16 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | PX3 |
| And So I Watch You from Afar Pianos Become the Teeth Foxing People Like Milk Products | La Dispute Jamie Lenman Rolo Tomassi Delta Sleep Ohhms Alpha Male Tea Party Boss Keloid | Tangled Hair Bossk Pijn & Conjurer Svalbard Gulfer Body Hound Cassels |
Friday 17 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Glassjaw Anathema Pelican Vennart Talons Poly-Math Space Blood Seven Colour Drive | Leprous Zeal & Ardor Tides from Nebula Chiyoda Ku Astralia Orchards Blanket | Tides of Man Strobes Halo Tora Conjurer Bearfoot Beware God Mother Modern Rituals | Behind the Shadow Drops Blueneck Black Futures Jo Quail Mr Marcaille Wren Codices Natalie Evans |
Saturday 18 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 |
| Shellac of North America Alcest Myrkur Giraffes? Giraffes! Plini Jean Jean Hey Colossus Trigger Thumb | Arcane Roots Mouse on the Keys Black Peaks Telepathy Bad Sign La Jungle Only Echoes Remain | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Part Chimp Gug Arcane Roots (Electronic) Vasquez Ilenkus Death and the Penguin | Scalping Toska The Guru Guru Coldbones Møl VLMV Sœur The Big Massive Orchestra |

## 2019

On 6 September 2018 Meshuggah was announced as the first headliner.
The 2019 event featured an expanded site footprint and an additional campsite, albeit the layout remained largely unchanged. There was also the introduction of the Bar Stage, located in the centre of the site.
Friday night once again featured live sets as part of the silent disco, including The Algorithm and GosT. There were also silent disco sets from John Stanier and Effigy across the weekend.
The main stage was opened by The Beft; a Tribute to Dan Wild-Beesley of Cleft and featured guest musicians including Mike Vennart. Black Peaks set featured Jamie Lenman on vocals due to the absence of the band's singer Will Gardner. And So I Watch You From Afar performed their debut album in full for an unannounced special guest slot on the Arc stage.
Thursday 15 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Bar Room |
| Coheed & Cambria Carpenter Brut Zeal & Ardor Nordic Giants Bossk The Beft | Daughters Polyphia Covet Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Cocaine Piss Floral | AK/DK Raketkanon Møl Bats Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Cultdreams | Memory of Elephants Pijn Lost in the Riots Conjurer Yvette Young Ithaca Big Lad | Sleep Beggar Theo Kuro Pave Haunt the Woods |
Friday 16 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Bar Room |
| Battles Russian Circles 65daysofstatic The Ocean Thank You Scientist Standards Good Game A. A. Williams | TTNG Black Peaks Toska The Algorithm Puerto Austral Slow Crush We Never Learned To Live | Frontierer Zu Sleep Token Birds In Row All The Best Tapes Dags! CLT DRP | Brutus Colossal Squid Palm Reader Sithu Aye Too Piste Rad Pitt Cattle Hexcut | Steve Strong Sœur No Violet Charlie Barnes VLMV Seven Colour Drive Øgïvęš |
Saturday 17 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Bar Room |
| Meshuggah Cult of Luna And So I Watch You From Afar Three Trapped Tigers The Physics House Band Matt Calvert The St Pierre Snake Invasion DJ Perro | Caspian Gnod The Contortionist Invalids Curse These Metal Hands Kaguu Wild Cat Strike | Employed to Serve Car Bomb Elephant Gym Azusa Aiming For Enrike Gender Roles Øgïvęš Big Band | Doblecapa Voronoi Letters From The Colony Puppy LLNN AMNT Midas Fall Sugar Horse | Kinlaw + Franco Franco a-tota-so Oxygen Thief Howard James Kenny Twin Siblings Qarlaq Torsten Jensen |

## 2020–21 cancellations due to COVID-19

On 5 May 2020, ArcTanGent was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 21 May 2021, ArcTanGent was cancelled again due to the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the lack of a government insurance scheme to cover COVID-19-related cancellations of music festivals (especially due to increasing spread of Lineage B.1.617 in the UK amid its lifting of restrictions).

## 2022

ArcTanGent returned after two years of cancellations, with the festival taking place over 16–20 August 2022. The headliners were Cult of Luna, TesseracT and Opeth. The site had a new layout, with the Elephant in the Bar Room stage significantly larger than 2019, which hosted the Wednesday night line-up curated by Effigy, followed by a full line-up across all five stages across the weekend:
* Wednesday 17 August
* Elephant in the Bar Room
* The St Pierre Snake Invasion
* Sugar Horse
* Memory of Elephants
* Mother Vulture
* Luo
* Modern Rituals
* Mutant Thoughts
* Olanza
* The Road
* My Octopus Mind
* Lightning Sharks
Thursday 18 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant in the Bar Room |
| Cult of Luna Amenra Perturbator Delta Sleep A.A. Williams DVNE Pijn Bonnacons of Doom | Maybeshewill Alcest Intronaut Puppy Blodet Vasa The Hyena Kill | Mclusky Bossk Imperial Triumphant Ogives Big Band Bicurious Skin Failure Fes | We Never Learned To Live Boss Keloid Outlander Cryptic Shift Peach Bear Graywave Traps | Bolt Ruin Natalie Evans Lakes Coldbones Worriedaboutsatan Skemer Qariaq Podcast: The Long Drive Home |
Friday 19 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant in the Bar Room |
| Tesseract Mono Caspian Oranssi Pazuzu Covet Mol Hippotraktor Five the Heirophant | Zeal & Ardor Jamie Lenman Alpha Male Tea Party Slow Crush Astrosaur Odradek Heisa | Scalping Rivers of Nihil BRUIT ≤ God Alone El Moono Still Ni Maitres | Palm Reader Stake Arabrot Blanket Tuskar Binge Rubbing Last Hyena | Paranoid Void Straight Girl Zetra Jakub Zytecki Stosszahn Let's Swim, Get Swimming Pollyanna Holland-Wing Podcast: ArtScare |
Saturday 20 August :
| Arc | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant in the Bar Room |
| Opeth TWDY The Armed Devil Sold His Soul Conjurer Kokomo Jo Quail Seims | Leprous Lightning Bolt Emma Ruth Rundle Frontierer The Hirsch Effekt Tots Thumpermonkey | Godflesh Pallbearer Elephant Tree Famyne Sergeant Thunderhoof Ithaca Garganjua | Her Name Is Calla Pupil Slicer Wheel Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Castrovalva My Own Private Alaska Heriot Respire Dead Bird | Miet Beige Palace Axiom Catbamboo Wavey Vogons Stanlaey Podcast: The Riot Act |

## 2023

ArcTanGent 2023 was headlined by Converge, Heilung and Devin Townsend, and took place on 16–19 August 2023. Deafheaven's set was playing their 2013 album Sunbather in full. The Ocean also performed a surprise Silent Disco set. The full line-up was:
* Wednesday 16 August
* Bixler
* Straight Girl
* Scalping
* Conjurer
* DVNE
* Pupil Slicer
* Hippotraktor
* Skin Failure
* Bicurious
* Five the Heirophant
* Ogives Big Band
Thursday 17 August :
| Main | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant |
| Converge Russian Circles Empire State Bastard Cave In Wiegedood Chinese Football Mountain Caller Barrens | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Brutus Chat Pile Svalbard Butch Kassidy Pothamus Chalk Hands | Yourcodenameis:milo Elder The Guru Guru Hypno5e Wallowing Burial Clouds Din of Celestial Birds | Sugar Horse I Built the Sky Other Half Birds in Row Hammok False Hope for the Savage Attan Mt. Yonder Grief Ritual | Ramkot a-tota-so Parachute for Gordo Poisonous Birds Mission Creep Los Sara Fontan Apidae Podcast: 101 Part Time Jobs Podcast: Hell Bent for Metal |
Friday 18 August :
| Main | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant |
| Heilung Swans And So I Watch You From Afar Jaga Jazzist Holy Fawn Caligula's Horse Curse These Metal Hands Wess Meets West | SikTh The Ocean Liturgy The St Pierre Snake Invasion '68 Joliette Witch Sorrow | Enslaved Bell Witch Petbrick Ashenspire blanket Spurv Haast | LLNN Death Goals Helpless Spook the Horses Dawn Ray'd Mother Vulture Norman Westberg Silverburn Hidden Mothers | CLT DRP HAAL Project Mishram Pruillip Host Body Lys Morke Lack the Low Podcast: 3 is the Magic Number Podcast: Fecking Bahamas |
Saturday 19 August :
| Main | Yohkai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant |
| Devin Townsend Igorrr Deafheaven Rolo Tomassi Vola GGGOLDDD Psychonaut The Most | Haken The Fall of Troy The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Standards La Bestia de Gevaudan Briqueville A Burial at Sea | Loathe Health The Callous Daoboys Domkraft Grub Nap Bones of Minerva Copse | Ohhms Abraham (band)|Abraham Aiming for Enrike The K. Cobra the Impaler Bear (band)|Bear Land Wars Naut | Tokky Horror Every Hell Playgrounded Fakeyourdeath Thought Forms Cultdreams Lawi Anywar Podcast: Damnation Vs. Podcast: Mark and Me |

## 2024

On November 6, 2023, ArcTanGent announced the first wave of bands for the 2024 festival, their 10th birthday bash. The festival is scheduled to take place 14–17 August 2024, featuring a final farewell show from Three Trapped Tigers and a Wednesday headlining set voted for by fans from And So I Watch You From Afar. On November 16, ATG announced Meshuggah as the Friday night headliner, alongside Animals as Leaders. On January 25, ATG announced "pretty much ALL the bands for ATG #10", adding another 50+ bands to the lineup including the Thursday headliner Explosions in the Sky and Saturday's headliner Mogwai. On February 27, the organisers announced the final 23 bands for this year's lineup.
On April 19, the festival released the stage times and clashfinder for this year's lineup.
* Wednesday 14 August
* Yokhai
* And So I Watch You From Afar
* Bossk
* LLNN
* Curse These Metal Hands
* Psychonaut
* Cobra the Impaler
* Din of Celestial Birds
* Hidden Mothers
* Host Body
Thursday 15 August :
| Main | Yokhai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant |
| Explosions in the Sky Clown Core Baroness Julie Christmas Bo Ningen Healthyliving AVKRVST itoldyouiwouldeatyou | Amenra Red Fang Conan Wyatt E. Earthside Underdark Pleiades | Textures Kalandra Cats and Cats and Cats URNE The Sad Season unpeople Kulk | John Cxnnor Author & Punisher Kaonashi Squid Pisser Filth Is Eternal Hundred Year Old Man Oddism Seneca | Tokky Horror Nailbreaker Skemer Doodsekader Sun Spot Gloom Index A-Sun Amissa |
Friday 16 August :
| Main | Yokhai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant |
| Meshuggah Animals as Leaders Ihsahn Three Trapped Tigers Year of No Light The Omnific Zetra i Häxa | Plini Delta Sleep Night Verses Outrun The Sunlight Shy, Low BLACK$HAPE Asymetric Universe | Show Me the Body Sigh Orchards Maruja Iress The Sun's Journey Through The Night Modern Technology | Komfortrasuchen Blood Command Frail Body Glassing Every Hell Fange Bipolar Architecture HAAL | Teeth of the Sea Yard Madmess Benefits Yomi Ship Sans Froid CAHILL//COSTELLO |
Saturday 17 August :
| Main | Yokhai | Bixler | PX3 | Elephant |
| Mogwai Electric Wizard And So I Watch You From Afar SCALER Bossk Hexvessel BRIQUEVILLE Anta | Caspian Brontide Imperial Triumphant Silver Moth VOWER Sunnata FORT | Slift earthtone9 The Psychotic Monks KEN Mode WuW Haus Horo Codex Serafini | MSPAINT Gallops Sâver Nadir Ànteros Love Sex Machine Cassus Torpor | COLOSSAL SQUID Thot Iskandr PEACH Thank Quade Maebe |

## Awards

During 2013–2014, the festival was shortlisted for several awards including, Best New Festival, Best Grassroots Festival and Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards as well as Best Independent Music Festival at the AIM Awards.
In 2013, the festival won the award for Best Toilets at the UK Festival Awards. In 2016, the festival was shortlisted for Best Headline Performance of the Year for American Football and Line Up of the Year at the UK Festival Awards. In 2018, the festival won the award for Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards.

## Annual warm-up

The festival has hosted an official annual warm-up party each year in Bristol, England in collaboration with promoters Effigy, ForFans ofBands and ArtScare. The event takes place in May each year and has featured mainstays and favourites of the festival including Gallops, The Physics House Band, Cleft, Talons, Toska, Alpha Male Tea Party, Memory of Elephants, Chiyoda Ku, Sœur and Jo Quail