Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Alabaster DePlume, The Bug join LGW22; Animal Collective & Low cancel upcoming shows

We’re pleased to announce that Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Alabaster DePlume, The Bug feat. Flowdan, The Notwist, África Negra, Max Cooper, EIGEN RISICO, Smote, and The Brother Moves On will be joining us this year. View the full line-up here. 

We’re also announcing programs, films & exhibitions presented by Centraal Museum, IDFA, IMPAKT and BAK, as well as our very own talks program at Slachtstraat. 

Unfortunately, Animal Collective, Low, Yaya Bey, Lido Pimienta, Ustad Noor Bakhsh, Tumi Mogorosi and Les Filles de Illighadad had to cancel their performances at the festival. The statements of Animal Collective and Low can be found below. 

Animal Collective

“Friends, we are absolutely gutted to announce today that we are making the decision to cancel our UK/EU dates for this November. We love playing music for you and truly wish we could be there. It has been a wild year for us trying to push through a mountain of touring obstacles related to COVID and the economy. Three of us got bad cases of Covid. We were forced to cancel shows and lost large amounts of the income that sustains us and our families. The one constant has been that we have had an incredible time playing music in front of our fans at every show. You are all amazing. We chose to push through because we love to do it. But preparing for this tour we were looking at an economic reality that simply does not work and is not sustainable. From inflation, to currency devaluation, to bloated shipping and transportation costs, and much much more, we simply could not make a budget for this tour that did not lose money even if everything went as well as it could. We have always been the kind of people to persevere through the difficult times and get on stage unless our health prevented it. We are choosing not to take the risk to our mental and physical health with the economic reality of what that tour would have been. We hope you understand and that you know we would not make a choice like this lightly. We truly want nothing more than to make it out there again. Thank you so much to our team, the promoters and venues who worked so hard on this tour for us. We look forward to getting back out to play for all of you and hope you will be there with us when we do."

Low

"Friends, thank you for your kind words, thoughts, and gifts recently for Mim. Words cannot describe the sublime light that is in every message and gesture.  We were hoping she would be healthy enough to do the UK/Europe tour we had planned for November, but it is clear that we should stay home and continue with treatment and care as she is still struggling with ovarian cancer.  There have been difficult days but your love has sustained us and will continue to lift us through this time. Our hearts go out immediately to others in similar situations but who don’t have as many people sending such love and healing wishes. Find someone who is alone who needs a chat and give them your time and love.  With tears, we say thank you and hope to see you soon. - Alan from Low"