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Goldie, Roni Size, DJ Hype, Doc Scott: Junglist Network announces a deliberate shift in the 2026 lineup towards DnB and jungle.
On July 28, 2026, Junglist Network publishes the news: the Mucky Weekender 2026 is taking a major turn towards jungle and drum & bass. The media announces four headliners - Goldie, Roni Size, DJ Hype, Doc Scott - presented as the visible part of a "massive Jungle & Drum & Bass presence" on the lineup.
Mucky Weekender is not historically a single-genre festival: in recent editions, the program mixed bass, house, dnb, and a club/soundsystem patchwork. The 2026 announcement marks a rebalancing - and if we stick to the names confirmed by Junglist Network, this rebalancing draws directly from the British heritage of the genre: Roni Size, Goldie, Doc Scott, and DJ Hype cover between them the Bristol / Metalheadz / Reinforced / True Playaz axis - i.e., a good part of the jungle and DnB DNA of the 1990-2000s.
The press release relayed by Junglist Network does not detail the rest of the lineup, the stages dedicated to DnB, or the distribution between old-school jungle, roller-drums, and more recent productions. We also don't know the place left for emerging artists or local crews. These details will be followed as the announcement phases unfold.
For eighteen months, part of the UK's generalist festivals has been seeking to widen their anchor towards soundsystem culture and DnB, notably in response to festival EDM fatigue. Mucky Weekender's move fits into this trend. We will keep the agenda up to date when the stages, logistics, and slots are confirmed - for now, the news is simple: in 2026, Mucky Weekender wants to be a DnB festival.
Confirmation of the complete lineup, precise dates, and mapping of the stages. We will come back to this when the detailed programming is released.