Fatboy Slim and Becky Hill to headline UK grassroots festival

Fatboy Slim and Becky Hill are headlining Everywhere At Once, a three-day grassroots festival running from 26 to 28 June 2026 across more than 400 venues and more than 1,000 gigs nationwide. Organised by Music Venue Trust and powered by The National Lottery, the event spans Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is being pitched as a national celebration of small rooms rather than big arenas.

The bill stretches well beyond its two biggest names. Tinie Tempah, Rizzle Kicks, The Lathums, Master Peace, Toddla T, The Divine Comedy, Jodie Harsh, Brooke Combe, Glenn Tilbrook, Lucy Spraggan, Gene, D Double E, P Money and Westside Cowboy are also on the line-up, with shows mapped from Inverness to Penzance. That scale gives the festival a reach few independent circuits could normally match, but it also underlines how much of the country’s live music still depends on fragile local infrastructure.

Music Venue Trust says 37% of UK clubs have closed since the pandemic, leaving the remaining venues under acute pressure. Its 2025 annual report says the grassroots sector contributes more than £500 million a year to the UK economy, yet operates on average profit margins of just 2.5%. In its manifesto, the organisation says 38% of grassroots music venues made a loss in the last 12 months and that the sector ran at a £115 million live-music loss, figures that point to a market where visibility is not the same as financial resilience.

The festival’s charitable angle is narrower than its national footprint. Profits from its PR shows will be split equally between Teenage Cancer Trust, Nordoff & Robbins, War Child and Help Musicians, giving the project a fundraising arm alongside its promotional one. Becky Hill has said Worcester’s Marrs Bar was where she first performed and learned her craft at 16, while Fatboy Slim has argued that grassroots venues are where artists learn their craft, communities form and music scenes begin. Those are the rooms the festival is trying to champion, even as the numbers show how hard it remains to keep them open.