Alt Alt Esc at The Oak 2026
After a successful first year of independent, unaffiliated showcases we’re back with three more. All of our showcases will be free entry, first come, first served.
We’ll have 34 acts playing over the 3 days, running from 12.00-00.30.
If you’d like to support the work we do at The Oak without buying a drink over the weekend, we’ll be selling donation “tickets” on Dice and other platforms. These tickets do not guarantee entry and are simply a way of supporting the scene.
Thank you to @pad_kind for all of the hard work, the whole Oak team, and the bands who’ve agreed to play. Thank you to Sinead Kosweski for designing Thursdays poster and Bust Fanzine for design of Friday and Saturdays poster.
Lineups are as below (subject to, but hopefully not going to, change)
14.05.26 Burn Your Lanyard
13.00 - 13.30 Brian Sex House
14:00 - 14:30 Steve Stonhold
15:00 - 15:30 Misha Phillips and knifedoutofexistence
16:00 - 16:30 Ragdoll
17:00 - 17:30 Religious Figures
18:00 - 18:30 Crowd
19:00 - 19:30 Ceann Capaill
20:00 - 20:30 Shaking Hand
21:00 - 21:45 Glasshouse Redspidermite
22:15 - 23:00 Lindowman
15.05.26 The Oak Exhibition
12.00 - 12.30 Naked Brunch
13.00 - 13.30 7036
14.00 - 14.30 Oslo Twins
15.00 - 15.30 Sunday Mourners
16.00 - 16.30 Secret Set
17.00 - 17.45 Francis Pig
18.15 - 18.45 Ellis-D
19.15 - 19.45 Public Circuit
20.15 - 20.45 The Sick Man Of Europe
21.15 - 21.45 Baby Berzerk
22.15 - 22.45 Annie-Claude Deschênes
23.30 - 00.30 Güner Künier
Sibel (Anadolu Night Fever) DJ set 00.30+
16.05.26 The Good Oakscape
12.00 - 12.30 Gravegonzo
13.00 - 13.30 LLSN
14.00 - 14.30 Minor Dents
15.00 - 15.30 Snowy Mountain
16.00 - 16.30 Quaking Aspens
17.00 - 17.30 Secret Set
18.00 - 18.30 The Roves
19.00 - 19.30 School Disco
20.00 - 20.30 The Stanford Family Band
21.15 - 21.45 Hutch
22.15 - 23.00 My Precious Bunny
23.45 - 00.30 Pebbledash
Secret DJ set 00.30+
This Sunday:
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978 Robert Zemeckis)
The first film by the creator of Back To The Future is a fantastic, yet little known, teen comedy about Beatlemania.
As the Beatles are on their first US tour and due to appear in the Ed Sullivan show on TV, a group of crazed teenagers try desperately to break into their hotel and meet their idols.
This Sunday at 7pm at The Oak, Kemptown.
Free Entry
This May, coming in slightly cold now, apologies! But a very cool, vague, lineup - I guess you’ll have to stay updated for more details. To many more exciting craft evenings ahead of us ! See you there x
Born in Mexico City and raised across Mexico, the US, and the UK, Marion merges folk tradition with underground indie aesthetics in what she describes as Bolero Garage—a style that spans spectral country blues, Spanish-language folk ballads, with the rebellious irreverence of punk.
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Tomorrow Sunday we are showing a classic of the French New Wave!
Françoise Truffaut's second feature Shoot The Pianist (1960) is playful, melancholy, experimental, and deeply human. It’s one of the films that helped define the French New Wave.
Sunday at 7pm at The Oak Kemptown.
Free entry
FREE SHOW - Thursday 28 May - @oakbrighton
Warming up for their Euro tour @topleftclub will be playing a whole bunch of new songs in new tracksuits 👀 ) Get down for absolutely free!
Support from the almighty @electriccowboyclub who take no prisoners. Large and in charge, they always bring the thunder.
PLUS - DJ @neil_sick_smith of @stay_sick_brighton fame will be spinning a few tunes for everyone.
We also will be having a stall and some words from @carnivalagainstfascism who are doing some good work for the city!
Get down and have fun.. good free fun.
@flyingmooninspace bring their blend of kraut and psych to The Oak next Friday, May 8th.
Support from the xcellent @pinklizardsss
Free entry
Accompanied by a genre spanning dj set Oscillations by @robsta2003
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