A new year, a new OFF announcement. The next headliner is one of the most talked-about duos in recent years: Yung Lean & Bladee! Other additions to the lineup include Getdown Services, WITCH, Joanne Robertson, and the first Polish names of the year. See you August 7–9 in Katowice!
Yung Lean & Bladee
From Soundcloud to the world’s top stages. From fooling around with emo and rap to blazing new trails in music. It’s finally time for us to make it official: two of the biggest names in rap today, Yung Lean & Bladee, are headlining the 2026 OFF Festival Katowice! They’ve collaborated for well on over a decade, becoming mainstays of the scene in Sweden – and beyond! Nowadays, nobody needs to be told who the Drain Gang are, and Yung Lean has become a global phenomenon. But it was only in 2024 that these two joined forces on the sensational album Psykos (Swedish for “psychosis”), an album they spilled “blood, sweat, and love” on, to quote one of their tracks. When you hear them shift from their trademark hyperpop beats to sounds heavily inspired by post punk and alt rock, you’re witnessing Yung Lean and Bladee tell an honest and emotional story. A tale about the deep bonds and friendships that connect people who have hit the rock-bottom of their existence together. “Because sometimes great art happens when people experience really bad things,” says Yung Lean. We hosted him at the OFF Festival as a solo artist in 2016, and now we can’t wait to witness him perform alongside Bladee!
Getdown Services
Move aside, Noel and Liam! 2026 is the year of Getdown Services, the Guardian writes. They sold out their 2025 shows in the U.K. and the U.S., and this year they’re heading out to tour Australia and New Zealand, but they’ll be back soon after to perform their first show in Poland – at the OFF Festival, of course. You’ll thank us. After all, wherever Getdown Services go, people have a way of feeling better. It’s “the kind of gig where you lose a shoe, gain a bruise, and still call it the best night of the year,” according to fans who’ve seen them live. The Bristol-based duo is uproariously funny, but they’ve got both feet planted firmly on the ground. They have the edgy charm of Fat Dog and Dry Cleaning, with musical echoes of T-Rex, Daft Punk, AC/DC, and Chic – it kinda depends on the mood the band’s in when they set out to heal the world. Come and listen to these two, because they’ve got something to say.
WITCH
They arose like a phoenix from the ashes. Or like a witch, because that’s the name Emanyeo “Jagari” Chanda’s band used before they came up with the backronym We Intend to Cause Havoc. The early days of WITCH date back to the early 1970s, a time when the newly fledged Republic of Zambia was just taking shape, along with the Zamrock scene, whose musicians combined African sounds with a Western style (you guessed right: the stage name “Jagari” was borrowed from the Rolling Stones’ frontman). Stars at home, it was decades before anyone heard of WITCH overseas. The band had lost interest in playing by the time crate-diggers and DJs discovered their music and began featuring it on setlists, tracklists, and European stages. 2023 saw their triumphant return with Zagno, a new album recorded in an old studio on dusty retro equipment, spiriting WITCH’s unparalleled vibe into the present. And maybe a bit further: a Pitchfork review says it sounds like the future. Join them in Katowice for an incredible adventure in time!
Joanne Robertson
Dean Blunt (who performed at OFF in 2015), Oliver Coates (2017), and Elias Rønnenfelt (2025). What do they all have in common? Each of them has recognized Joanne Robertson’s talent. Her 2025 album Blurrr has been hailed a musical masterpiece – a minimalist one, at that, recorded with nothing more than voice, guitar, and a guest appearance by Coates’s cello. Joanna – who has been compared to the likes of Cocteau’s Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser, Cat Power, and Sinéad O’Connor – writes songs that “pour sugar directly onto raw wounds in a way that is healing and transformative. Alchemical, I guess,” to quote the critic Byron Coley. There’s plenty of praise to cite here, but no one could come close to expressing in words the beauty that’s encapsulated in her songs. These compositions and this voice are something you just have to experience live at the OFF Festival.
Współgłosy
Winner of the 2025 Fryderyk Award for Best Album (Experimental Jazz / Contemporary Improvised Music) and one of the most interesting musical projects to emerge in recent years. It combines the power of a jazz trio with a choir of singers with mental disabilities. Współgłosy is fronted by the pianist and composer Marcel Baliński, who created the group for his sister, Adela, whose greatest dream in life was to sing on stage. Together, they’ve managed to do much more than that. They’ve given numerous concerts, including a performance at the Stage Songs Review and at Polish Radio’s Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio, welcoming audiences into the world of improvised and experimental music and infecting them with a massive dose of honest joy and love – the kind that’ll inevitably make you “just a little bit happier,” as actor and Współgłosy member Bartosz Bielenia puts it. That’s what we expect to happen at the OFF Festival!
Sw@da x Niczos
“What language is that?”, you asked in 2025, when the Irish rap trio Kneecap performed at the OFF Festival. If you speak Polish, you might ask the same question this year, when Sw@da x Niczos take the stage. “Most people” find the Podlasie dialect they use in their songs “totally exotic,” vocalist and rapper Nika Jurczuk explains. Together with Wiktor Szczygieł, a producer with Colombian roots, the two make what they call Podlasie Bounce, blending languages, traditions, and folk songs with baile funk, phonk, and amapiano. “We’re not a bowl of lukewarm noodles; we know how to get your blood pumping,” they say. They’ve proven as much on their debut LP, #INDAWOODS, followed up by a performance in the final round of qualifiers for Poland’s Eurovision entry, where they stirred up quite a bit of buzz. It’s high time for them to show us what they’re made of at the OFF Festival.
