We’re announcing the first big names heading up the 19th edition of the OFF Festival Katowice, August 7–9, 2026. Get ready for exciting performances by Amyl and the Sniffers along with Oklou, Earl Sweatshirt, Clams Casino, Current Joys, and Chat Pile. A new batch of tickets is now on sale.
OFF Artistic Director Artur Rojek says: “After a sold-out 2025 edition that was one-of-a-kind in more ways than one, I can’t wait for next year’s festival, featuring brilliant artists from all over the world, bringing our audiences the most remarkable music the alternative music scene has to offer. And once again, many of these acts will be coming to Katowice for their first concerts in Poland. One of them is a fantastic band from down under, Amyl and the Sniffers, who have won over audiences with their unbelievable punk-like energy wherever they go. Americans will catch them on a stadium tour with Foo Fighters, but here in Poland, the OFF Festival is the place to be!”
The OFF Festival Katowice’s 19th edition will once again be held at Three Pond Valley on August 7–9, 2026. We ran out of tickets last year. A festival featuring Fontaines D.C., Kraftwerk, Kneecap, James Blake, and more was sold out. This year, interest is already sky-high again: early-bird tickets sold out in less than a day. The next batch of tickets goes on sale November 18, 2025, and if you just want to rest easy knowing you’ve got yours, head over to https://off-festival.pl, where you’ll also find everything you need to know about the OFF Festival, including lineup announcements.
Amyl and the Sniffers
Remember that line from Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained: “You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention”? It’s a perfect way to describe your first encounter with the punk act known as Amyl and the Sniffers. Give them a minute and they’ll draw you into their world. It’s like being dragged into a rabbit’s burrow where singer Amy Taylor teaches you how to have fun. It’s a lesson learned by Billy Corgan, who called her a “true rockstar” after seeing her onstage for a mere ten seconds. And Fred again.., who remixed “Big Dreams” and recorded an original track with Amy (appropriately titled “You’re a Star”). Then there’s Fontaines D.C. and Foo Fighters, who invited Amyl and the Sniffers to join them on tour. Foo Fighters even brought them in to 606 Studios to record their third album, Cartoon Darkness, on the same mixer used to lay down tracks for Nirvana’s Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Clash writes, “I beg you to play this album to all your loved ones.” We’ll just paraphrase their hit song “Hertz” and add: Take them to the OFF Festival!
Oklou
She’s absolutely hypnotic, but her music’s like something out of a dream. Oklou (pronounced “OK Lou”) is one of the most intriguing experimental pop artists performing today, and her songs are like slivers of light at the center of chaos, as Resident Advisor astutely observed in a review of her 2025 album Choke Enough. But Oklou’s long been the darling of reviewers and audiences alike. She’s remixed tracks by Dua Lipa and Caroline Polachek, and recorded with Shygirl and Sega Bodega for the label NUXXE. Finally, in 2020, she dropped her breakthrough Galore, which the NME described as “a taste of the future of pop music: a fantastical and surprising universe that you can easily get lost in.” Before you see Oklou live at the OFF Festival, put on the cult film Mulholland Drive in the background and have a listen to the songs co-produced by A.G. Cook (a favorite of Charli XCX’s). It’s guaranteed to work, he says.
Earl Sweatshirt
Live, laugh, love. Sounds like a empty Instagram slogan? Or a framed picture on a shelf? Drop by the OFF Festival and find out what Earl Sweatshirt can do with these three words. Rightfully considered the most substantive rapper to come out of the group Odd Future, Earl generated a lot of buzz at the age of sixteen when he started rapping about having a heart as cold as the carrots in the grocery store. Now, as a thirty-something father with a deeper understanding of the world, he’s taking better care of himself and working out with Denzel Washington. And he’s at the top of his game music-wise. “Earl is on another level,” raves Pitchfork in a review of his latest LP, Live Laugh Love, adding that “his skill, humor, and encyclopedic knowledge of hip-hop has made him one of the most effortlessly deep and cool rappers alive.” Let’s be honest: Erykah Badu doesn’t feature on a lot of albums these days, but she made an exception for Earl’s Live Laugh Love. And now we’re all going to see him – no exceptions – at the OFF Festival.
Clams Casino
The producer and cloud-rap pioneer prefers to call his music ambient or new-age hip hop. If it weren’t for his imagination and beats, many now-classic tracks by Lil B, Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky, and Lil Peep would never have been recorded. The same goes for the later generation of artist that took inspiration from Clam Casino’s spatial, highly atmospheric productions. His 2011 mixtape Instrumentals made it onto Pitchfork’s year-end list, and FACT magazine called it one of the best mixtapes to emerge since J Dilla’s famous Donuts. Another excellent producer, Jacques Greene, said he was “impressed by his sensitivity.” Greene, who’s worked with the likes of Flume, FKA twigs, and Lee “Scratch” Perry, has also had the pleasure of crossing paths with Clams Casino and drawing on his rich musical world. Don’t miss your chance to do the same at the OFF Festival.
Current Joys
You hear the words: “I don’t wanna fuck, I just wanna vibe.” What do you do? You run to the Current Joys show at the OFF Festival, that’s what. That’s where you’re likely to find respite from all your anxieties and depression, which is something Nick Rattigan hopes everyone will experience when they listen to his music. The Surf Curse founder, singer, and drummer has been performing solo since 2015 under the moniker Current Joys. They call him an American singer-songwriter, and while his records are steeped in country and indie rock – music that evokes images of picturesque American landscapes and ocean sunsets – there’s no way to pigeonhole this artist. His record LOVE + POP proved that sticking to a single genre can be tedious. He called it a combination of neon green, craziness, and hip hop, adding that he’d taken inspiration from artists like 100 gecs, Lil Peep, and Drain Gang, and listened to the Deftones. And that’s just a thin slice of his music and film interests. He’s also a big fan of 80s nostalgia and movies by Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick. And you’ll hear it – or maybe even see it – when you put on a Current Joys album and close your eyes.
Chat Pile
Iowa has Slipknot, and Oklahoma’s got Chat Pile. The state is the band’s fifth, unofficial member. It’s at once a blessing and a curse. Oklahoma’s home to menacing heaps of toxic waste deposited by zinc and lead mines, known as chat piles, from which the band gets their name. It’s plagued by rabid conservatism, homelessness, and violence. But it’s also where four guys in their thirties and forties who’d grown up listening to Dead Kennedys, Helmet, Jesus Lizard, and Korn managed to break out onto the local scene with a sound unlike anything they’d heard before. When they founded the band, its members were just out to have fun and vent about everything that made them angry. They came up with stage names so their bosses wouldn’t know what they did in their free time – at least for a while. After their debut God’s Country made it onto Rolling Stone and SPIN’s year-end lists, Chat Pile got onto their sludge steamroller and set out to conquer other states and the world. Don’t miss this show at the OFF Festival!
About the Festival
The festival is hosted by the City of Katowice. The OFF Festival Katowice takes place August 7–9, 2026, at its usual venue, Three Pond Valley. Visit www.off-festival.pl. For more information, visit facebook.com/offfestival, instagram.com/offfestival. Official playlist: open.spotify.com/user/off_festival.
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