The Gospel Youth, Ocean Grove, Vukovi, & more for Slam Dunk 2017

By Neil Greenway | Published: Mon 27th Mar 2017

Slam Dunk Festival 2017 - around the site
Photo credit: Denis Gorbatov

Slam Dunk Festival 2017

Saturday 27th to Monday 29th May 2017
Leeds, Birmingham, Hatfield, England
£44 of £49 with afterparty
Daily capacity: 15,000

Another batch of acts have been revealed for Slam Dunk which takes place on the May Bank Holiday weekend kicking off in Birmingham on Saturday 27th May, at Leeds on Sunday 28th May, and Hatfield - which has sold out - on Monday 29th May.

Announced for the new Breakout Stage, are The Gospel Youth, Ocean Grove, Vukovi, Area 11, Sylar, Homebound, Casey, and Makeout.

On their return to the festival, The Gospel Youth, says "This year's Slam Dunk line up is full of bands that helped shape us all musically. We're so excited to play along side them, and a load of other friends this year! Also Just finished recording our debut LP, so we're pumped to get back into playing some shows."

On their debut performance, Area 11 bassist Kogie says "As a band we're fairly new to the festival game so as you can imagine we're beyond excited to be playing Slam Dunk - one of the best Rock festivals in the UK. Not to mention that the line up is insane! Really looking forward to sharing a stage with so many other great bands"

With more stage splits to be revealed, acts already confirmed include headliners Enter Shikari, plus Beartooth, Neck Deep, Tonight Alive, Don Bronco, Against Me!, and more. For all the lineup details available so far please see here.

The festival will have the same acts and number of stages as the at each of the locations, and attendees can expect over 60 acts across multiple stages. There will be more announcements to come from the world of pop punk, rock and punk over the coming weeks.

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Tickets for each day are priced at £44 of £49 with afterparty. Tickets are still available for Birmingham and Leeds, but the Hatfield event is now sold out.

NOTE: This event is for over 14s only.




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