The Ile-de-France festival has revealed some fourteen new names who will complete the line-up for its next summer event, scheduled for August 26 to 30, 2026.
After announcing the groups The Cure, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the American rapper Tyler, The Creator, Rock en Seine today unveils fourteen new faces who will complete the programming of its 22nd edition. Organized from August 26 to 30, 2026, the festival will bring together in the national domain of Saint-Cloud some of the big headliners of the rock scene and current music.
Among them, the Scottish group Franz Ferdinand, who will perform on Friday August 28. Title interpreters Take me Out, This Fire or even Walk Away in the early 2000s, singer and guitarist Alex Kapranos and bassist Robert Hardy – joined since 2017 by Dino Bardot on guitar, Julian Corrie on keyboard and, since 2021, by Audrey Tait on drums – promise a show « free spirit » to the Parisian public, according to a press release from the festival.
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They will be joined, on the same day, by the American blues rock duo The Black Keys, led by singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach, today one of the most popular producers in the field, and drummer Patrick Carney. The two men from Akron will come and play their cult titles, such as Lonely Boy et I Got Mineand defend their latest album to date No Rains, No Flowers, released on August 8.
Deftones and Interpol invited
The day of Saturday August 29 will be marked, for its part, by the presence on the main stage of the alternative metal group Deftones. The Californian quintet, considered the founder of “nu metal”, a musical genre combining hip-hop, electro, rock, funk and pop influences, will perform the songs Change, Be Quiet and Drive et My Own Summerwho made him famous at the end of the 1990s and at the start of the new millennium.
Another group should make a splash. Current Interpol rockers Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler and Sam Fogarino will take the stage on the festival’s closing day, Sunday, August 30, before the long-awaited appearance of The Cure. Reference of new wave, the New York collective will give a concert “dark”navigating their seven studio records released since 2002, including the latest The Other Side of Make-Believe.
A place for current music
As usual, for several editions, Rock en Seine will highlight artists from alternative trends to rock and metal. The current musical landscape will be partly represented during the opening day of the festival, Wednesday August 26, by the very fashionable young artist Miki. Carried by its tube Failure and mathreleased in 2024, the Franco-Korean is today one of the ambassadors of electropop. She will pass the baton to SOMBR, New York and “pop-rock phenomenon of the year”according to the description of Rock en Seine.
The eclectic programming doesn’t stop there. These six artists will share the bill with the pop group Slowdive, the rock group Biffy Clyro, the artist from Philadelphia Kurt Vile, the Australian troupe Amyl and the Sniffers, the English duo Lambrini Girls, the hardcore punk group Turnstile, the princess of R’n’b Ravyn Lenae and the Marseille metalcore collective LANDMVRKS.
One day of the festival still remains pending, with no names announced on Thursday August 27. The organizers give “see you very soon” for rock fans to discover the rest of the program, “the contours of the next one are seriously beginning to be refined”they say.
Last summer, Rock en Seine brought together “only” 148,000 spectators, or 30,000 fewer than in 2024. The Ile-de-France festival was then greatly disrupted by cancellations and the arrival of the pro-Palestinian rap group Kneecap, which led to the removal of numerous subsidies from the Île-de-France region and the city of Saint-Cloud.