RADAR Festival 2024 announces three more acts and masterclass lineup

The award-winning, genre-busting RADAR Festival have announced three more acts for their stellar 2024 lineup: guitar genius Ichika Nito, American mathcore heavyweights Car Bomb, and local talents Atheana. 

Masterclasses for this year’s event have also been announced. Attendees of RADAR Festival can witness some of the world’s best musicians talking about their craft. The full masterclass line-up is as follows: Adam Janzi (VOLA),  Baard Kolstad (Leprous), Buster Odeholm (Humanity’s Last Breath, Thrown & Vildhjarta), Einar Solverg (Leprous), Henrik Linder (Dirty Loops), Plini, Jay Postones (TesseracT), Rabea Massaad (Vower and Frogleap), and Shawn Crowder and Adam Neely (Sungazer).

Ichika Nito, “hottest guitarist in the world right now” was ranked No. 8 in the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” by the readers of Total Guitar, and RADAR promise something very special up our sleeve for this set – you’ll not want to miss it.

For the first time in five years, Car Bomb are back for a 2024 European exclusive. In 2019 they performed at the very first RADAR Festival – get ready to have your mind blown.

They’re joined by Manchester locals Atheana, highlighting some of the wonderful talent from the festival’s new home city.

RADAR 2024 will be headlined by synth royalty The Midnight (Friday night, UK festival debut), supported by Plini, Vola, among others; UK titans TesseracT will cap off Saturday’s extravaganza with Dirty Loops, The Fall of Troy and more; and alongside Leprous will be jazz fusion group Sungazer, Humanity’s Last Breath, and a host of the world’s best, progressive musical acts.

Demonstrating their commitment to new bands, RADAR has also announced that they will be the first venue to donate a portion of ticket sales proceeds to Music Venue Trust, to support grassroots music venues.

Get tickets from: RADARfestival.co.uk

Full line-up as follows: 

The Midnight
TesseracT
Leprous (real-time song request set)
Dirty Loops
Plini
VOLA
Ichika Nito
Sungazer
Car Bomb
Humanity’s Last Breath
Heart of a Coward
Thrown
Oxymorrons
Blood Command
Caskets
Earthside
Conjurer
Ithaca
The Fall of Troy
Siamese
unpeople
Graphic Nature
The Intersphere
Hail The Sun
Vower
The Omnific
Future Static
ADHARMA
Cestra
Ashen
Tribe Of Ghosts
Kyros
Seething Akira
Giant Walker
Atheana

Festival co-organiser Catherine Jackson-Smith comments: “That finish line is in sight!  We can announce three of the four final bands today playing which almost completes our 2024 lineup.  We’re so excited to have Ichika Nito at RADAR, and we have something pretty special planned for his performance!  Voted “one of the hottest guitarists in the world”, and we can’t wait to see what he brings to the festival. 
  
“Car Bomb was a stand-out act from our first event and the chance to bring them back to Stage One was always on the cards once we moved.  It’s pointless explaining what to expect from their set – but you’ll experience it!

“Today we also announce the masterclasses, a feature of RADAR that we treasure.  It’s a chance to interact with the artists and learn from the pinnacles of the industry.  They have moved this year into the main festival space and the intimate space is ideal for you to ask those burning questions and uncover more about the creative process of the pioneers we have performing at RADAR this year.”

RADAR – the UK’s most exciting new progressive music festival – moved to Manchester for its 2023 edition, the third iteration of the festival.

RADAR Festival 2023 was a smash success, with Friday headliners Sleep Token joining Periphery (Sunday) and Igorrr (Saturday) among a host of the best from the UK progressive underground and globally. RADAR prides itself on providing a first home for the best international artists – previous years have seen Dirty Loops‘ (2022) and The Callous Daoboys‘ (2023) first UK shows. 

RADAR capped their intensely impressive 2022 by winning the Best New Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards on 6th December in Manchester, and were shortlisted for Best Small Festival and Best Metropolitan Festival at 2023’s UK Festival Awards.

With their mixture of international talent and confirmed homegrown success, RADAR Festival has already positioned itself as a champion of forward-thinking guitar-led progressive music. No genre boundaries, welcome to all, RADAR Festival was launched in 2019 to acclaim, with performances from Animals As Leaders, Agent Fresco, Rolo Tomassi, among others. Following the COVID hiatus, RADAR Festival 2022 expanded to three days with triumphant appearances from Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops, Plini, Conjurer, Soen and more.

RADAR Festival is all about pushing boundaries – this year introducing fresh genres to the lineup and stages – and this is just the beginning. 

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