🎛️ NIX | DUBBED OUT 2026 — THE FIELD WHERE TIME COLLAPSES 🔊🚐✨

A Super Nix Note about why this lineup is not a list of artists… but a sequence of emotional events waiting to happen in a campervan field

You don’t go to Dubbed Out Festival for “a gig.”

You go because something deeply strange happens there.

You park up. Kettle on. Chair out. Sun doing that late-afternoon gold thing across a field full of vans. Someone you’ve never met says hello like they’ve known you for ten years. Music starts in the distance. Laughter floats across air that smells faintly of dust, beer, and sun cream.

And without realising it, you step into a place where years stop behaving properly.

Because this 2026 lineup is not a random collection of acts.

It is a perfectly engineered nostalgia machine.

Not nostalgia in a sad, “remember when” way.

Nostalgia in a “oh my God I forgot I was this person” way.

Let’s walk through what actually happens, in the order your brain will experience it.

🎹 Utah Saints — The Doorway Back to 1992

This is where it begins.

Utah Saints don’t open a set. They open a time portal.

The piano riff from Something Good hits the air and you don’t think. You react. Hands go up. Feet move. Someone shouts “TUNE” with the authority of a magistrate.

You are no longer a sensible adult with responsibilities.

You are back in a room, or a field, or a club, or a car, in the early 90s, when dance music felt like discovery and not background noise.

They don’t play songs.They release memories you didn’t know were still stored.

And suddenly Dubbed Out isn’t a festival anymore.It’s a memory reactivation chamber.

🌈 Shades of Rhythm — The Authentic Rave Pulse

If Utah Saints open the door, Shades of Rhythm show you the original wiring in the walls.

The Sound of Eden is pure early-90s rave atmosphere. No polish. No gimmicks. Just that shimmering, airy, euphoric sound that makes daylight feel like midnight.

This is when the tent stops being a tent.

It becomes a proper rave space.

People close their eyes. Heads nod in unison. There’s a shared understanding that this is the real thing. The roots. The origin.

You’re not watching a performance.

You’re standing inside a living piece of dance history.

🌞 Rozalla — The Euphoria Switch Gets Thrown

Then Rozalla happens.

And the entire field changes mood.

Everybody’s Free is not just a track. It’s a happiness trigger built into the British psyche.

Smiles appear. Strangers hug. People sway with eyes closed like they’re on a beach in Ibiza that may or may not have existed outside of myth and VHS holiday footage.

This is where Dubbed Out stops feeling like a lineup and starts feeling like a shared emotional event.

You look around and realise everyone is feeling the same thing at the same time.

That is rare. And powerful.

🎸 Republica — The Shouting Together Moment

Up to now, you’ve been dancing.

Republica make you shout.

Ready To Go turns the dance tent into a football terrace. It’s the first time voices overtake speakers.

People who don’t know each other are yelling lyrics at each other like old friends.

This is important. This is where the festival stops being about music and becomes about connection.

You’re not just listening anymore. You’re participating.

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— The Group Hug

When Things Can Only Get Better starts, something borderline magical happens.

Arms link.

Voices crack.

Beer is raised like a religious offering.

This song has transcended charts, politics, and decades. It has become folk music for grown-ups who once loved dance music.

This is the emotional peak of the day.

You will see people laughing and looking slightly overwhelmed at the same time.

Because they’ve just remembered who they were.

🎙️ Angie Brown — The Diva House Choir

Angie Brown changes the flavour.

Suddenly it’s vocal house. Proper, smile-filled, diva energy.

The crowd becomes a choir. The dance becomes lighter. More joyful. Less pounding, more uplifting.

This is where Dubbed Out feels glamorous without trying.

🎧 Tinchy Stryder — The Energy Reset

Just as the nostalgia wave risks becoming overwhelming, Tinchy arrives and flips the tempo.

Now it’s bounce. Call-and-response. Modern UK festival electricity.

It wakes everyone up again.

It stops the day being a museum tour and makes it feel current, alive, and noisy in the best possible way.

🎶 Lissy Taylor — The Breathing Space

And then Lissy Taylor provides something clever: shape.

A reset for the ears. A reminder that music didn’t stop in 1997.

She gives the weekend texture. Variety. Space to breathe between rave detonations.

🧠 Why this lineup is brilliantly constructed

This is not nostalgia booking.

This is emotional sequencing:

• Memory trigger

• Authentic rave immersion

• Euphoria

• Communal shout

• Emotional peak

• Vocal uplift

• Energy reset

• Modern texture

It’s a journey.

A story told through music.

🚐 What this feels like from a campervan chair at sunset

By Saturday evening:

Your voice is half gone.Your cheeks hurt from smiling.You’ve spoken to strangers like old mates.You’ve shouted “TUNE” more times than is socially acceptable.Your legs are tired but still moving.

And you realise something quietly profound:

You are not watching artists.

You are reliving chapters of your own life.

🏁 The real reason Dubbed Out 2026 will be special

Because this lineup is not there to impress you.

It’s there to reconnect you with a version of yourself you forgot still existed.

And it does it in a field full of vans, speakers, laughter, and sunsets.

Which is, frankly, borderline magic.

🧡 NIX OBSERVATION

Some festivals book performers.

Dubbed Out 2026 has booked your memories.