ANOTHER BATCH OF 52 ARTISTS, DAY SPLITS AND MORE ANNOUNCED FOR SŴN 2024

We’re absolutely delighted to welcome a further 52 artists to the Sŵn 2024 lineup. This year’s iteration of the festival sees Sŵn proudly becoming part of Cardiff Music City Festival: a three week-long celebration of innovative, accomplished music coming to the city, full of gigs, immersive happenings, residencies, installations, and pop-ups, pushing the boundaries of music, performance and tech.

Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls come to Cardiff this autumn bringing with them a knack for tongue-in-cheek, biting breakdowns of hot button societal issues. Thunderous recent single ‘God’s Country’ has seen them lauded all over by the likes of BBC Radio 1, 6 Music and NME as well as sharing the cover of Kerrang! Fresh from the release of his widely acclaimed latest solo album Strange Dance seeing release last year on Bella Union, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway brings his beautiful, dramatic solo work to this year’s festival. One of the most exciting and mysterious new fixtures on the UK live circuit, Leeds’ HONESTY produce an audiovisual spectacle that mixes digital and analogue, found material and AI manipulation. 

Looking a bit more locally, this year’s festival offers a rich tapestry of Welsh talent from Talulah’s ethereal soundscapes and jazz-infused rhythms, to Hyll’s melancholic melodies and Mari Mathias’ traditional Welsh folk. Jangle-rock quartet The Tubs, hailing from Wales and based in London, will infuse post-punk into their sound, meanwhile, Cardiff’s punk trio SHLUG will electrify audiences with their high-energy performance.

For the first time since before the pandemic, this year’s festival will be multi-venue for all three days promising an even more stacked itinerary for the ravenous new music lover. On Thurs Oct 17th, Sŵn will take over Womanby Street with five stages at Clwb Ifor Bach, Tiny Rebel, The Moon and Fuel. Friday Oct 18th and Saturday Oct 19th, meanwhile, sees the festival expand outwards across Cardiff city centre, with extra stages added at Tramshed, Jacobs Antique Market, Cornerstone and Porter’s (Saturday-only), with more venues to be announced soon.

Day splits for this year’s festival have now been revealed as of today, alongside day tickets going on-sale. Full weekend tickets remain on-sale with instalment plans available.

This year we’re so excited to be  teaming up with UK music magazine DIY, Cardiff’s music and culture print magazine Radar, queer techno club night CINC, and Welsh music platform KLUST to co-host stages this year.