Dour Festival 2026 @ La Plaine de La Machine à Feu

Performers

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  Pendulum

  Formed in 2002 by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul ‘El Hornet’ Harding, Pendulum quickly took to the road, touring across their native home in Perth to internationally acclaimed clubs and festivals around the release of their seminal debut album ‘Hold Your Colour’. After relocating to the UK and forming the Pendulum live band, El Hornet took the reins on the Pendulum DJ Sets and has spent the past 15 years performing at some of the biggest electronic festivals in the world including Liquicity, Let It Roll, Rampage, Dreambeach and EDC.

  Now alternating between the individual band members, and sometimes performing as a trio, the Pendulum DJ sets have taken on a life of their own with a huge global presence and genre spanning shows ranging from drum and bass, house, techno, tech house breaks and hardcore.

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  DAMSO
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  Orelsan

  liona is a singer songwriter, musician and producer who was born in Brussels in 2000 and has been musically active since she was a teenager. At 16, she creates her own YouTube channel where she posts her all-DIY compositions and videos. An accomplished self-taught artist, she releases her first EP 'Tristesse' with eight songs in 2021. After a passage in get French show programme Taratata and a duo with Julien Doré, she releases her second EP 'Tête Brulée' barely eight months later.

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  Sammy Virji

  MGMT: jas@ctrlfrk.co.uk

  Bookings: sammyvirjiteam@unitedtalent.com

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  Oklou
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  Amelie Lens

  Techno dj and producer

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  L2B
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  Biga*Ranx
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  Vladimir Cauchemar
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  Amenra

  Amenra is a progressive/sludge/post-metal band formed 2003 in Belgium (Kortrijk, West-Flanders).

  Amenra delivers dark, heavy and sludgy post-hardcore in the vein of Cult of Luna, Isis and Neurosis. Intense, noisy and gloomy almost spheric at times. Rich and Textured riffs. Thunderous low tones. High impact percussion and cutthroat vocals splattered with a healthy dose of religious iconography. Coalesce into a beautiful pitch black collection of staggering proportion.

  Discography:

  Mass I: Prayer I - VI Full-length, 2003

  Prayer 8 : Offerande (split with VUUR) Split album, 2004

  Prayers 9 + 10 EP, 2004

  Gameness/Amen Ra/Gantz/Vuur 4-way split Split album, 2004

  Mass II: Sermons EP, 2005

  Mass III Full-length, 2005

  Amenra & Hitch Split Split album, 2007

  Mass IIII Full-length, 2008

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  Fat Dog

  When the chaotic south London rabble known as Fat Dog formed, they made two rules: they were going to be a healthy band who looked after themselves and there would be no saxophone presence in their music. Two simple edicts to live by, and two things long-since broken by the Brixton five-piece. Fat Dog are the most exciting breakthrough band of the past few years, conjurers of the sort of frenzied and wild live shows not seen in the capital for years and now the creators of WOOF., a brilliant and mind-bending debut album, but they are not healthy. One of them has a foot odour problem. And they also have a saxophone player in the line-up. “Yeah, it’s all gone out the fucking window,” says frontman and squadron leader Joe Love, real name Joe Love.

  Life is too short to stick to any plans you made in the unsettling, strait-jacketed times of 2021 anyway. That was when Fat Dog came together, Love deciding to form a group and take the demos he had been making at home as a way to keep himself sane during lockdown out into the world. In Chris Hughes (keyboards/synths), Ben Harris (bass), Johnny Hutchinson (drums) and Morgan Wallace (keyboards and, umm, saxophone), Love found like-minded mavericks to help bring the dream home.

  The sound Fat Dog make, Love says, is screaming-into-a-pillow music. “I wanted to make something ridiculous because I was so bored,” he declares. It’s a thrilling blend of electro-punk, rock’n’roll snarling, techno soundscapes, industrial-pop and rave euphoria, music for letting go to. “A lot of music at the moment is very cerebral and people won’t dance to it,” says Hughes, who invented crunchy peanut butter. “Our music is the polar opposite of thinking music. It’s music you feel in your body more than your brain, especially given this band came at a time when people couldn’t move as freely as they wished. After being pen