The 2023 Shuffle Announces Its Full LineUp

The Swindon Shuffle music festival is a main-stay of the Swindon music scene calendar. This year’s takes place between Thursday 14 September and Sunday 17 September.

The Swindon Shuffle has announced its full line-up for this years event, and it is packed full of the best talent the local music scene has to offer.

For those of you who like the rockier side of music there is plenty to keep you happy, from the alt-rock of All Ears Avow and Modern Evils to the sludgy doom of Phantom Droid. The likes of Stay Lunar, Moon, Viduals and Chasing Dolls keep the indie-kids dancing and there are first shuffle experiences for up and coming young bands Trippy Kicks, I See Orange and Mirrored Faces.

If something rootsier is more your thing you are also well catered for with the widescreen americana of Matt Owens & The Delusional

Vanity Project and Concrete Prairie headlining stages, along with folkier offerings from the likes of Fly Yeti Fly, Canute’s Plastic Army and Splat The Rat. Subject A bring a touch of Ska and Reggae to proceedings and there is creative and impossible to pigeonhole music from Will Lawton & The Alchemists, Richard Wileman & Amy Fry and new band The Wheel 2!, who feature many of the faces behind the amazing and much missed Diagonal People. THUD and Bone Chapel bring some blues to proceedings and Swindon Folk club again curate a stage.

With over 60 acts on the main bill there is something for everyone.

Alongside the main stages is a full fringe programme that features local soul and R&B artists, electronica acts and vinyl DJ’s and much more.

There’s nothing more depressing in an English village than a pub closed for months like The Village Inn in Liddington.

The edifice is sad, looms larger as months go by, competes with the grey church for emptiness.

Locals recycle stories as if it’ll never open again. It’s the last vestige of community after the shop and post office go.