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Forest Swords Concert History

Forest Swords is one producer, Matthew Barnes, from the Wirral, Liverpool, UK. A unique blend of jagged hip-hop and R&B beats, looping guitar lines and manipulated samples, his evocative and emotional music reflects the sprawling Wirral landscape of river, coastland and woodland with all the haunting melodies of nearby city Liverpool’s enviable pop history.

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Forest Swords Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 13)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 03, 2012 –
Aug 05, 2012
OFF Festival 2012
Metronomy / Kurt Vile / Purity Ring / Nils Frahm / Ty Segall / The Antlers / Connan Mockasin / Battles / Swans / Death In Vegas / Baxter Dury / Other Lives / Baroness / Suicide / fanfarlo / Converge / Iggy & the Stooges / Shabazz Palaces / Iceage / Thurston Moore / Colin Stetson / Charles Bradley / The Wedding Present / Andy Stott / Forest Swords / The House of Love / Fennesz / Akron/Family / Atari Teenage Riot / Alva Noto / Pissed Jeans / Matthew Herbert / Sleep Party People / Das Racist / King Creosote & Jon Hopkins / Megafaun / Henry Rollins / High Places / Dominique Young Unique / Spectrum / Bardo Pond / Kuedo / Josh T. Pearson / Papa M / Africa Hitech / Retro Stefson / The Container / Chrome Hoof / ANBB / Ifi Ude / Shangaan Electro / Kim Gordon & Ikue Mori / Matthew Herbert Dj Show all bands
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Dolina Trzech Stawów Katowice, Silesia, Poland
Jun 09, 2012
Forest Swords

NOS Primavera Sound

Parque da Cidade do Porto Porto, Porto, Portugal
Jun 07, 2012 –
Jun 10, 2012
Optimus Primavera Sound 2012
The Weeknd / The xx / Death Cab for Cutie / M83 / Beach House / The Flaming Lips / Wilco / Washed Out / Explosions in the Sky / The Drums / Neon Indian / Rufus Wainwright / Kings of Convenience / Yo La Tengo / Chairlift / Black Lips / Yann Tiersen / The Rapture / Wavves / Tennis / Suede / Atlas Sound / Spiritualized / The Walkmen / Thee Oh Sees / White Rabbits / Other Lives / Mercury Rev / John Talabot / The Afghan Whigs / I Break Horses / St. Etienne / Veronica Falls / Shellac / Dirty Three / Baxter Dury / Forest Swords / Sleepy Sun / Olivia Tremor Control / Erol Alkan / Ultramagnetic MC's / Wolves In the Throne Room / Jeff Mangum / Lee Ranaldo / Deadboy / Jackmaster / Demdike Stare / bigott / Siskiyou / Redinho / Oneman / Linda Martini / Spencer / Mujeres / Codeine / You Can't Win Charlie Brown / The Right Ons / We Trust / Best Youth / Tall Firs / Gala Drop / Nick Garrie / Rafael Toral / Julie & the Carjackers / Espirit / Stopestra / James Ferarro and the Bodyguard / The War On Drugs / kindness Show all bands
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Parque da Cidade do Porto Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Jun 02, 2012
Forest Swords

Primavera Sound

Parc del Fòrum Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Jun 01, 2012
Forest Swords / Dirty Beaches Parc del Fòrum Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
May 28, 2012
The Soft Moon / Forest Swords / Liturgy

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De Kreun Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
May 27, 2012
I'll Be Your Mirror - Curated by Yeah Yeah Yeah's
"I'll Be Your Mirror" - Curated by Yeah Yeah Yeah's / The Afghan Whigs / Archers Of Loaf / Osees / Yuck / Demdike Stare / Siskiyou / Ultramagnetic MC's / Sleepy Sun / Tennis / Tall Firs / Forest Swords
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Alexandra Palace London, England, United Kingdom
May 26, 2012
Forest Swords Südpol Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
May 25, 2012 –
May 27, 2012
ATP I'll Be Your Mirror 2012
Demdike Stare / Yuck / Umberto / Antoni Maiovvi / Blanck Mass / Balam Acab / Siskiyou / Make-Up / Floor / Tall Firs / Forest Swords / Melvins / Wolves in the Throne Room / Mogwai / Slayer / Tennis / Mudhoney / The Afghan Whigs / Sleep / The Soft Moon / Dirty Three / Sleepy Sun / Yob / Chavez / Harvey Milk / Codeine / A Storm of Light / Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Archers Of Loaf / Osees Show all bands
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Alexandra Palace London, England, United Kingdom
May 24, 2012
Forest Swords Uebel & Gefährlich Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
May 23, 2012
Young Magic / Forest Swords / EMA
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OT301 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
May 19, 2012
Forest Swords Stag and Dagger Festival Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 17, 2012 –
May 19, 2012
Liverpool Sound City Festival 2012
alt-J / Charli XCX / The Temper Trap / Michael Kiwanuka / Jake Bugg / James Vincent McMorrow / Catfish and the Bottlemen / Electric Guest / Django Django / Professor Green / Alkaline Trio / Mystery Jets / White Denim / Pond / Dan Croll / Peace / Death In Vegas / Slow Club / The Jezabels / Still Corners / Niki & The Dove / Don Broco / Last Dinosaurs / Ghostpoet / Tim Hecker / Lower Than Atlantis / Willy Mason / Bear In Heaven / Low Roar / The Wedding Present / Kids In Glass Houses / Bleached / Forest Swords / Toy / Fossil Collective / Princess Chelsea / Coma / All We Are / Chew Lips / Algiers / Yukon Blonde / Theme Park / White Arrows / Oliver Tank / Jinja Safari / Clock Opera / Arcane Roots / Eugene McGuinness / Willis Earl Beal / Jonquil / Patterns / Melé / fiN / Dave Hause / PINS / Lulu James / Toys / D/R/U/G/S / Shields / Gush / Fitz / Kasst / The History of Apple Pie / Concrete Knives / The Daydream Club / Owls / W.I.M. / Fixers / Library Voices / Ahab / The Heartbreaks / Bird / Waa Wei / The Lake Poets / Post War Years / The Midnight Youth / The Computers / Be Forest / Millions / Big Sleep / Sweet Billy Pilgrim / Crash of Rhinos / Still Flyin' / Sietta / Bad Pop / Bwani Junction / Chelcee Grimes / Kites / Dinosaur Bones / Mugstar / Cheap Thrills / Hey Sholay / People in the Box / Towns / Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers / The Invaders / People of K / Flip Grater / Emma-louise / By the Sea / The Folks / Ej / Golden Fable / Jethro Fox / Pikachunes / Inland Sea / I am Dive / Crusades / Sissy & The Blisters / Kestrels / Goodnight Lenin / Esco Williams / Farryl Purkiss / Cazadores / Fabrizio Cammarata / Bleeding Heart Narrative / Highfields / Ben Salter / Slow Down, Molasses / Jackson Firebird / We Are Animal / Coffee & Cakes for Funerals / Bonfire Nights / I Dream In Colour / Peggy Hsu / Daytona Lights / Common Tongues / The Hideaways / Mammal Club / Death at Sea / Fine Young Firecrackers / Ninetails / The Bendal Interlude / Like Spinning / The Bowers / Lilliput / Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies / Johnny Sands / Ironside / Bow & Arrow / Ghost Outfit / Manuka / Clutter / Dead Wolf Club / Dead Cities / Alex Hulme / Man Get Out / Luke Fenlon / Oxygen Thieves / Flat Back Four / Jay Stansfield / Broken Lungs / Mont Blanc / Get Back Colquitt / Nokies / Sun Drums / Peter & The Harmonics / Jazzhands / Ex Easter Island Head / Heartbeat Parade / Hugh Keice / Anna-Anna / The Ratty Little Fingers / Elmo & the Styx / Mind Mountain / Barbieshop / Monkey Pilot / Jessie Rose / Long Finger Bandits / Kazimier Krunk Band / Blunt Truth / Hey Carrianne / Jeanclaudegoddamn / Miss Stylie / Iktsuarpok / Milla and the Geeks / Artwork & Mc Pokes / Daniel Kuhle / Faceless Nation Show all bands
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Liverpool Sound City Festival 2012 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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May 16, 2012
Tim Hecker / Forest Swords St Philip's Church Salford, England, United Kingdom
May 11, 2012
Forest Swords Great Escape Festival Brighton, England, United Kingdom
May 10, 2012
Forest Swords Point Éphémère Paris, Île-de-France, France
May 10, 2012 –
May 12, 2012
The Great Escape 2012
Bastille / alt-J / Disclosure / The Temper Trap / Alabama Shakes / HAIM / Grimes / AlunaGeorge / Chet Faker / Foxes / Lianne La Havas / Madeon / St. Lucia / Django Django / Perfume Genius / Nils Frahm / Half Moon Run / Mystery Jets / Booka Shade / Emma Louise / Boy / Com Truise / College / Jamie N Commons / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Foy Vance / Peace / The Barr Brothers / Tanlines / Don Broco / Last Dinosaurs / Shabazz Palaces / Six / Reverend and the Makers / Lapalux / Dry the River / Swim Deep / Lower Than Atlantis / Husky / Max Cooper / JD McPherson / Friends / Body Language / Willy Mason / Bass Drum of Death / Mallory Knox / Porcelain Raft / Dillon / EMA / Forest Swords / Spector / Toy / Fossil Collective / We Have Band / We Are the Ocean / A Winged Victory for the Sullen / Princess Chelsea / Gaz Coombes / When Saints Go Machine / DZ Deathrays / Avalanche City / Trust / Koreless / Loney Dear / The Skints / Chew Lips / Dauwd / Eagulls / Yukon Blonde / Theme Park / Natty / Kwes. / White Arrows / Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains / I Am Oak / Admiral Fallow / Howler / Vondelpark / Oliver Tank / Electric Wire Hustle / Jinja Safari / Exitmusic / Doldrums / Clock Opera / Young Magic / Dante / Errors / Zulu Winter / Fear of Men / Rolo Tomassi / Jonquil / Micachu & The Shapes / S.C.U.M / Lulu James / Tiny Ruins / NZCA LINES / New Look / Milagres / Hooded Fang / Mikill Pane / French Films / The Darcys / ME / Jam City / Tall Ships / Juveniles / Maxxi Soundsystem / PAWS / O. Children / Devin / Paul Thomas Saunders / Young Dreams / Rich Aucoin / Hannah Cohen / Treetop Flyers / Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny / Duologue / Soft / W.I.M. / Evergreen Official / Owlle / Cymbals / Solar Bears / Winter / Fiction / Retro Stefson / Mujeres / The Black Belles / 22 / Gold & Youth / Stay+ / Pale Seas / Novika / Sonic Boom / The Computers / Black Moth / Weird Dreams / Big Sleep / Eight and a Half / Mojo Fury / Halls / Odonis Odonis / Novella / Cheveu / Gross Magic / Violet / Bad Pop / Boxes / Revere / Mesparrow / Hey Sholay / Binary / Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers / Visions of Trees / Seasfire / The British Expeditionary Force / Massmatiks / Flip Grater / Wet Nuns / Hawk Eyes / Jethro Fox / The Psychologist / Pikachunes / Bos Angeles / Among Brothers / Inland Sea / Graphics / Zebra and Snake / Step-Panther / Grass House / Hans Chew / Cut Ribbons / Me And The Bees / Shinies / Slow Down, Molasses / Ben Salter / Gabriel and the Hounds / Fanzine / Films Of Colour / Big Wave Riders / Antlered Man / Spoek / Drop Out Venus / I Ching / Furguson / Bueno Bros / Pets With Pets / Martha Paton / Seward / Face + Heel / My Best Friend / Negative Pegasus / Kinnie the Explorer / The Killgirls / The Jaguar Shark / Sing Tank / Redhino / Ben Kweller / Jumping Ships / Violet Bones / †Hymns† / Johnny Foreigner Show all bands
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Great Escape Festival Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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May 06, 2012
Simple Things 2012
Grimes / Simian Mobile Disco / Hudson Mohawke / Death In Vegas / Squarepusher / Ghostpoet / Lone / Rustie / Forest Swords / Lunice / Nathan Fake / Kwes. / Planningtorock / Stealing Sheep / Team Me / Young Magic / Errors / Male Bonding / Hooded Fang / Jackmaster / Man Like Me / Space Dimension Controller / Deadboy / Redinho / Cloud Boat / Boy Friend / Caribou DJ Set Show all bands
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Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Apr 15, 2012
PCL presents Stag & Dagger
White Denim / The Phantom Band / Django Django / Passenger / A Plastic Rose / To Kill A King / The New Piccadillys / Vigo Thieves / Chasing Owls / Will Hanson / Eleanor Friedberger / Washington Irving / Willy Mason / White Arrows / Post War Years / Still Corners / Jonquil / Niki & The Dove / Miaoux Miaoux / Random Impulse / Bear In Heaven / EMA / Forest Swords / Adam Stafford / Bwani Junction / Milk Music / Holy Mountain / Michael Anguish / Hot Panda / Honeyblood / The Heartbreaks / Die Hard / Ryan Keen / Holy Esque / Still Flyin' / HIDDEN MASTERS / Discopolis Show all bands
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Various Venues Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 30, 2011
The Books / Forest Swords La Géode Paris, Île-de-France, France
May 19, 2011 –
May 21, 2011
Liverpool Sound City Festival 2011
Don Broco / Niki & The Dove / Cold In Berlin / Fever Fever / Black Drawing Chalks / Pop Levi / David's Lyre / Ed Sheeran / JAY NORTON / The Fallows / Kings Huntsmen / The Vigilantes / The Chapman Family / Billie Van / Alex Highton / Cipher / Dan Parsons / Mishima / Lina / Franz Nicolay / Fly With Vampires / Jamie xx / Sound City / Big House / Our Mountain / Lanterns on the Lake / Ben Marwood / Hal Flavin / Killaflaw / The Keys / Handsome Furs / Broken Records / Sixteen Tonnes / Bird / The View / MinionTV / Thomas Speight / The Films / Moi / Braids / Fucked Up / Philip Selway / Super Cannes / Three Trapped Tigers / We Are Animal / I Am Austin / Towering Heights / The City Walls / The Infamous / Vinyl Jacket / Luke Fenlon / Pegasus Bridge / Misery Guts / Paislie Reid / The Phoenix Foundation / Sweet Jane / Syd Matters / Nick Ellis / Forza / Freq / DZ Deathrays / BATTLESHIPS! / Angel / Andy Gallagher / Rhodes / Steve Mason / DJ Target / Bearsuit / Stealing Sheep / RAGz / Publicist / Lower Than Atlantis / A Rocket to the Moon / Hurray for the Riff Raff / Maverick Sabre / Fieldhouse / Tall Ships / Rae Morris / Decade / Bunny Munro / Wicked Whispers / Colourmusic / Io / Veronica Falls / Elin Kåven / Mary See the Future / The 1930's / Kaylide / Carrie Hayden / Morning Parade / Deep Sea Arcade / Prizes / SBTRKT / Tusq / Chain and the Gang / Venice Ahoy / Winter Gloves / Pete and The Pirates / "Jazz Hands" / Club Smith / Sound of Guns / Clinic / Elephant Keys / Emmy the Great / Minion Tv / Kid British / The Draymin / Vanities / Hello Bear / Cherri V / Lonely China Day / Temps / Gascan Ruckus / The Sand Band / Team Ghost / Black Lips / Babe, Terror / Young Guns / Wretch 32 / Aias / Outfit / Lovestarrs / LaFaro / The Moguls / AnR / Wave Machines / Anoraak / Cazadores / Blind Atlas / Fuzzy Lights / Muto Leo / More Than Conquerors / Mugstar / Blitz Kids / Ghosting Season / Cloud Control / Middle Finger Salute / Orka / December Giant / Arthur Rigby & The Baskervylles / Karima Francis / Lower Than / Chatter Box / Simon Says No! / White Swallow / Cuddly Shark / Kitten / Marina Gasolina / Chelcee Grimes / Warsaw Village Band / The Shadow Cabinet / Dan Croll / Aaron Shanley / Amanda Blank / Chad Valley / White Bicycles / Bleeding Knees Club / Foxx Bandits / Seekae / Frankie & The Heartstrings / Young Legionnaire / Mike Badger & the Shady Trio / Eric Pulido / The Computers / TEETH / the beaus / Beat Connection / Abel Miller / The Whip / Forest Swords / Canja Rave / We Can't Dance / Said the Whale / Rachel Sermanni / Picture Book / Z3ro / Paula & Karol / Kaia / ¡EL TORO! / Ladykillers / Above The Underground / The Universal / The Hollows / My TV Is Dead / The Lines / Filter Distortion / Loud / Let's Buy Happiness / Ruby Ann Patterson / Woodhands / Músicas Intermináveis Para Viagem / The Rialto Burns / Aaron Wright / The Dykeenies / Yuck / Lucky Beaches / Jonas Alaska / Bronto Skylift / Apple Cannon / Ben Caplan / Les Aus / King Charles / Idiot Glee / We, the Undersigned / Alex Hulme / The Jezabels / Jazzhands / My Tiger My Timing / Emily & the Faves / Stone Street / K.O.F / Fiona Clayton / A Loss for Words / Cults / Modern Faces / Young Knives / Alessi's Ark / Envy / Trophy Wife / The Red Show / Russo / Cast / Those Dancing Days / Black Eyed Dog / Nasser / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Hawk Eyes / Akala / Owls / Jun Tzu / Suzuki Method / This Is Two / Dels / Rio / Putski / Eat Dr. Ape / Ikaria / White Light / Entrepreneurs / Funeral Suits / Cavalier / At Any Time / The Liberty Vessels / Surreal Knowledge / Heebie Jeebies / Creep / Boycott / Hot Club de Paris / Atlantic Massey / Yes Cadets / My First Tooth / Little Red / Flashguns / Smoke Fairies / Vasco Da Gama / These Electric Lives / Fixers / To Kill A King / Funeral for a Friend / Lioness / NLF3 / All Mankind / Yasmin / Oxygen Thieves / Baltic Sea / 53's / Collystrings / Willy Mason / Capac / Janiece Myers / Django Django / Mazes / The Four Eyes / Spank Rock / The Red Suns / The Tea Street Band / Over The Wall / A Time for Burning / Sound of Rum / Monument Valley / Laura James / Liz Janes / Sunfields / In Casino Out / Roxxxan / John Ainsworth / My Spiral Arm / The Suzukis / Hafdis Huld / Daniel Ross / The Barlights / Tres . 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Concerts Per Year:

2026 16 concerts
2025 6 concerts
2024 21 concerts
2023 16 concerts
2019 6 concerts
2018 4 concerts
2017 60 concerts
2016 5 concerts
2015 9 concerts
2014 73 concerts
2013 19 concerts
2012 22 concerts
2011 2 concerts
2009 2 concerts
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