MOGWAI confirmed for South Facing Festival 2025 with guests LANKUM

Two pioneering acts are announced to set the stage alight at South Facing Festival this summer. Scottish band Mogwai headline with very special guests, hypnotic Irish folk group Lankum, in an unmissable double bill at Crystal Palace Park on 7 August 2025. This exclusive event marks Mogwai’s only UK summer appearance and Lankum’s only London show of 2025.

Mogwai, formed in Glasgow in 1995, have become one of the most influential bands of their generation. With eleven acclaimed studio albums, including The Bad Fire released earlier this year and their 2021 chart-topping As The Love Continues, the band has also scored projects for Amazon Prime and Apple TV+. Last year saw the release of Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound, a documentary directed by longtime collaborator Antony Crook, which premiered at SXSW 2024 and is screening worldwide.

Irish quartet Lankum, comprised of Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Radie Peat, and Cormac MacDiarmada, have redefined folk music with their immersive, experimental sound. Their Mercury Prize-nominated 2023 album False Lankum has cemented them as one of Ireland’s most vital musical voices. The Lankum live show has evolved into a modern day powerhouse, with the band’s acoustic instrumentation (uilleaan pipes, fiddle, accordion, guitar, tin whistle and percussion) and close-harmony vocals transforming into a vast, kaleidoscopic wall of sound.