They’re one of those bands you just have to see live: The Flaming Lips are the third headliner joining this year’s OFF Festival lineup. Led by the charismatic frontman Wayne Coyne, the American group will perform their best-known album, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots! The latest additions to the lineup also include bands and artists with strong female voices.
“With some bands, it’s enough to just listen to their albums, but there are bands that you absolutely have to see live. The Flaming Lips are an example of the latter. They’re without a doubt one of the most important and sensations alternative acts in the world. And they’re the source of one of my most beautiful OFF Festival concert experience and memories. I recall Wayne Coyne on stage, saying ‘You have a great festival here, I hope it keeps going for another hundred years.’ This year, we’ll be writing yet another important chapter in OFF Festival history: The Flaming Lips will perform their amazing album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in its entirety,” says Artur Rojek, Artistic Director of the OFF Festival, which takes place August 7–9 in Katowice.
The Flaming Lips are the third headliner announced for the 2026 OFF Festival, following the previously announced performances by Yung Lean & Bladee and Amyl and the Sniffers, who will be playing their only concerts in Poland at the festival. Join us August 7–9 in Katowice for more concerts by several dozen acts representing the most interesting genres on the alternative music scene today, including exceptional artists and bands in today’s announcement, featuring strong, feminine voices.
The Flaming Lips play Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Where do we even begin? And how do you write a bio for a band that has never recorded a regular album since its inception over 40 years ago? With every new record, they’ve pushed the limits of sound and imagination, redefining the very concept of a rock concert with each show they’ve played. When they first headlined the OFF Festival back in 2010, they surprised us with the sheer breadth of their performance, which required the help of our volunteers (people in costume on stage), the catering crew (confetti cannons), and even medics (balloons). But it was worth it! If only for the comments you left under the video of that memorable performance in Katowice. “Out of this world!”, “An unforgettable experience”, and “Of all the concerts I’ve missed, this is the one I regret missing the most.” To make sure that last one doesn’t happen again, we want to make this announcement loud and clear: The Flaming Lips will play their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at the 2026 OFF Festival! The American band’s most popular LP has been described as a brilliant and groundbreaking record, one that’s so far out it’s wonderful. Of all the albums in The Flaming Lips’ and its visionary frontman Wayne Coyne’s extensive sixteen-record catalog, this one has sold the most copies. It’s also earned the band one of its three Grammys and a Broadway musical adaptation of Yoshimi…. The very thought of hearing “Do You Realize” and “All We Have is Now” sends shivers down our spines!
Ninajirachi
Do you spend more time looking at your screen than you do looking at anyone else in your life? Great! Allow us to introduce Ninajarachi. If it weren’t for the many hours she spent online, we wouldn’t have her acclaimed debut album, I Love My Computer, which earned her the prestigious Australian Music Prize and three ARIA Awards – including one for Best Independent Release. She grew up listening to Flume, Pnau, Skrillex, and Porter Robinson. When she recorded her first album, the thought of seeing the world in person – not through a web browser – was only a distant dream. Today, she’s touring far beyond her home country of Australia, with shows scheduled at the OFF Festival, Coachella (twice), and Primavera Sound in 2026. And it all began with YouTube, kids’ video shot to music by Lady Gaga, playing Nintendo, and messing around with GarageBand and a pirated copy of FL Studio. Today, she plays “girl EDM” – a euphoric blend of dubstep, tech house, speed garage, and hyperpop, scoring five stars (out of five) in a Guardian review. You’ll give her five stars, too, after seeing her live at the OFF Festival.
Wednesday
Y’allternative? No, that’s too oversimplified for Wednesday’s taste. Alt-country? Too broad. How about countrygaze? Getting warmer. Creek rock? That’s more like it. This American band’s sound was forged in the picturesque landscapes of Appalachia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains and a property known as Haw Creek. They hail from North Carolina, famous for its mythical powers and Blue Velvet. It’s the state where David Lynch shot his iconic movie. And it’s why Wednesday’s music is as full of beauty and harmony as it is steeped in noise and ugliness. Stories borrowed from the lives of friends and neighbors mingle with singer Karly Hartzman’s own experiences. She founded Wednesday in 2017 as a solo project; today – six albums later, including four recorded with MJ Lenderman as a band member – it’s being hailed by Pitchfork as one of the world’s best rock bands. “Rock records don’t come much better than this,” writes the NME in a review of their latest release, Bleeds. Don’t miss this chance to hear them live at the OFF Festival.
Dobrawa Czocher
This composer and cellist has appeared on the world’s leading stages. Together with Hania Rani, she recorded Biała flaga, a collection of extraordinary reinterpretations of songs by Grzegorz Ciechowski, and created Inner Symphonies, a masterpiece released by Deutsche Grammophon. As a solo artist, she’s published her debut Dreamscapes and the EP Sonata for Solo Cello: Joanna’s Tale, commissioned by the Warsaw Uprising Museum. She performed at the 2025 Great September Showcase Festival and Conference, to thunderous applause, and will be coming to the 2026 OFF Festival hot on the heels of her follow-up album, State of Matter. On it, she asks: “What pushes us to reach farther, deeper? To explore, to touch, and to understand?” And she presses on boldly as a composer and a musician. No longer anchored solely in the cello, Dobrawa’s subtle but intense music is now incorporates synths, electronics, and her own voice. In an interview for the NME, actor Benedict Cumberbatch called listening to Dobrawa Czocher’s music “a wonderful thing to bathe in.” And that’s exactly why we’re inviting you – and Benedict – to see her perform at the OFF Festival.
Atol Atol Atol
The catchiest music to come out of Wrocław in three decades. Music journalist Jarek Szubrycht, in a review for the daily Gazeta Wyborcza, calls it a band “you’ll start listening to and, before you know it, you won’t be able to stop.” Atol Atol Atol also plays songs to brush your hair to. It’s also – as Maximum Rocknroll correctly points out – a soundtrack for quitting your job or running around the park with your friends. And it just so happens that Atol Atol Atol will be performing at the 2026 OFF Festival. Where better to go for a summer run than in the picturesque Three Pond Valley? With a lineup hailing from bands like Kurws, Przepych, and Ukryte Zalety Systemu, this act has served up a “brilliant display of quirky no wave/post-punk/pre-punk” – to quote the music site Louder Than War – since their 2022 debut Koniec sosu tysiąca wysp. And that’s yet more evidence that Atol Atol Atol is making waves beyond the borders of their home country. Now it’s your turn to check them out.
Dom Zły
These horsemen of the sonic apocalypse deftly combine melancholy, depression, and blast beats. “I know there’s no way out / I’m on fire and you’re adding fuel,” they scream on their excellent sophomore release Ku pogrzebaniu serc. Nominated in 2025 to Poland’s leading music award, the Fryderyk, Dom Zły hails from the city of Puławy, like Polish post-punk legend Siekiera. But their music is much heavier, occupying the intersection of post hardcore, screamo, and black metal. The other connection to Siekiera is Dom Zły’s penchant for lyrics that exude a sense of emptiness, hopelessness, and doom. “We live in a world full of tension that resonates within us and, like it or not, it leaves its mark on us,” the band says. Once you see them at the OFF Festival, Dom Zły will leave a mark on you, too.
The 2026 OFF Festival 2026 lineup also includes: Amyl and the Sniffers, Yung Lean & Bladee, Oklou, Black Country, New Road, Earl Sweatshirt, Sunny Day Real Estate, Johnny Marr, Deafheaven, Clams Casino, Current Joys, Einstürzende Neubauten, Rusowsky, Chat Pile, Joanne Robertson, Getdown Services, Sega Bodega, W.I.T.C.H., The Mary Wallopers, Surf Gang, Nu Genea Live Band, Joshua Idehen, Chalk, Babymorroco, HTRK, Los Thuthanaka, Frankie and The Witch Fingers, Madra Salach, M(h)aol, DAM, Drabusheyka, Ludzie Wschodu play Nowa Aleksandria, Współgłosy, Sw@da x Niczos, Allarme, and Mlecze. More announcements coming soon!
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 three-day passes, now available for 669 PLN plus service charges. For more information, visit facebook.com/offfestival and instagram.com/offfestival. Check out our official playlist: open.spotify.com/user/off_festival
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