In 2016 sweepingthenation saw 592 performances during 14 concerts with 516 bands at 13 venues in 9 locations.

Date Concert Venue Location
Nov 26, 2016
White Noise Christmas 2016
ALMA / Deep Sleep / Johnny Foreigner / Grace Petrie / Woahnows / Katie Malco / Let's Talk Daggers / Kermes / We Three and the Death Rattle / Ash Mammal / Elizabeth Cornish / Courtney Askey
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Firebug Bar Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 21, 2016 –
Oct 23, 2016
SWN Festival 2016
Let’s Eat Grandma / Fenne Lily / Sports Team / Drowners / Girl Ray / All Tvvins / Melt Yourself Down / Himalayas / Falls / Caro / Palace Winter / Hidden Charms / Gallops / Bryde / Meilyr Jones / Scott and Charlene's Wedding / Broken Hands / April Towers / The Gentle Good / Shock Machine / Giorgio Tuma / Martha Ffion / Melys / Chorusgirl / We're No Heroes / TENSHEDS / Field Studies / Kayla Painter / Wolf Girl / Vince James / Living Body / Ani Glass / Tail Feather / The Cradles / Derrero / Silent Forum / Tigana / Bamboo (London) / CWCW / WINTER COAT / mumbleman / Accü (EU) Show all bands
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SWN Festival 2016 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Oct 15, 2016 –
Oct 16, 2016
A Carefully Planned Festival #6 2016
Crywank / Her's / Admiral Fallow / The Orielles / Adem / Trudy and The Romance / Joanna Gruesome / Johnny Foreigner / Dystopia / Falls / Alasdair Roberts / Orchards / Gallops / The Last Dinosaur / Gorgeous Bully / The Tuts / Mother / Baby In Vain / Blanket / Ithaca / Allusinlove / Soccer96 / July Skies / Revere / Rope / Pijn / Laura J Martin / Oh Boy / Katherine Priddy / DUDS / Campfires / USA Nails / Lake Komo / Giorgio Tuma / Sealings / Ajimal / Cowtown / Calico / Frauds / Golden Fable / Happy Accidents / Fvnerals / Gideon Conn / Queen Zee / Bearfoot Beware / Oil / Vibracathedral Orchestra / Jo Mango / Fish Tank / The Little Unsaid / Scandinavia / Denuo / Chorusgirl / Luo / rev rev rev / Thomas Ragsdale / Body Hound / Simon Love / Apidae / Jo Rose / Bruja / Sly & the Family Drone / Garden Centre / Foxtales / Shitwife / Corinthians / Field Studies / Brunch / Suggested Friends / Irk / Jesus And His Judgemental Father / Kemper Norton / Laura James / Voo / I Cried Wolf / No Ditching / Living Body / Broker / Esper Scout / Colour of Spring / Tusks (UK) / Lake Michigan / Toy Mountains / Two White Cranes / Freakout Honey / Cult Party / Fruit Bomb / Alimony Hustle / Patchwork Natives / Future Horizons / Oh Peas! / Rice Milk / Milk Crimes / psyblings / Weddings / Lost Ground / Former Bullies / Blue Period / Tall Talker / Mary Fields / Glass Ankle / Jacques Labouchere / Falling Stacks / Claw the Thin Ice / Madilan / Kid Kin / Charlotte Cannon / Exploder Than You / Yr Friends / Grotbags / WREN (UK) / Casual Sect / Strange Friends / One Day, After School... / Patty Hearst / unwave / The Wicked Path / Young Mountains / Championlover / Home Schooled / Alfresco Love Sounds / Envoys (UK) / Hen Party / Yards (UK) / Rhona Dalling / Screen Wives (UK) / The Shipwreckers / Tough Choices (UK) / Gdanski81 / Crash Tactics / The Showers (UK) / Natalie Evans / Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam Show all bands
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A Carefully Planned Festival #6 2016 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 01, 2016 –
Sep 04, 2016
End of the Road Festival 2016
The Shins / Local Natives / Cat Power / Animal Collective / Broken Social Scene / Dr. Dog / Devendra Banhart / Bat For Lashes / M. Ward / Phosphorescent / King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard / Whitney / Osees / Joanna Newsom / Frankie Cosmos / Kevin Morby / Savages / Shura / Teenage Fanclub / Lucy Dacus / Pinegrove / Thurston Moore / Ezra Furman / Field Music / Goat / Methyl Ethel / Anderson East / Julia Jacklin / Sunflower Bean / Scritti Politti / The Garden / Eleanor Friedberger / Basia Bulat / Jesca Hoop / U.S. Girls / Teleman / The Big Moon / Laura Gibson / Jenny Hval / Margo Price / Steve Mason / Dawn Landes / Cat's Eyes / Omar Souleyman / Bill Ryder-Jones / Kelley Stoltz / Anna Meredith / BC Camplight / Karl Blau / Dilly Dally / Chris Cohen / Shopping / Oscar / weaves / Amber Arcades / MONEY / Martha / Imarhan / Fews / Flamingods / Sam Beam / Seratones / Younghusband / Kath Bloom / The Blind Shake / Meilyr Jones / EERA / Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker / Tigercats / Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop / Holly Macve / Lionlimb / Lail Arad / Baywaves / Hard Skin / Arrows of Love / Bas Jan / Martha Ffion / Slow Down, Molasses / Blue House / Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts / Rhain / The Leaf Library / Feels (LA) / James Canty / Jonathan Toubin / Futur Primitif / pacosan / Throws (UK) / Marc Riley (DJ set) Show all bands
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Larmer Tree Gardens Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Aug 21, 2016
The Green Man Festival (UK)
Belle and Sebastian / Warpaint / Julia Holter / Jason Isbell / Songhoy Blues / Slow Club / Gengahr / Daniel Norgren / Margaret Glaspy / Grandaddy / Ezra Furman / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / The Besnard Lakes / Kevin Morby / All Them Witches / Whitney / Joan Shelley / Amber Arcades / Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog / Haiku Salut / Bill Baird Show all bands
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Brecon Beacons National Park Brecon, United Kingdom
Aug 18, 2016 –
Aug 21, 2016
Green Man Festival 2016
James Blake / Cigarettes After Sex / Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros / Belle and Sebastian / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Laura Marling / Warpaint / King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard / Whitney / Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit / Wild Beasts / Battles / Kamasi Washington / The Oh Hellos / White Denim / Kevin Morby / Matt Maltese / Floating Points / Grandaddy / Connan Mockasin / Jagwar Ma / Julia Holter / Ezra Furman / Lush / Cate Le Bon / Suuns / Sunflower Bean / Julianna Barwick / Fat White Family / Clare Maguire / Gengahr / Dungen / The Weather Station / Kelly Lee Owens / Margaret Glaspy / Daniel Norgren / Beak> / Nikki Lane / The Besnard Lakes / Vessels / Songhoy Blues / Blanck Mass / Akua Naru / DJ Yoda / Ryley Walker / BC Camplight / Ardyn / Joan Shelley / Amber Arcades / Will Varley / The Moonlandingz / Phil Cook / Palace Winter / Fews / Emma Pollock / Pictish Trail / Oliver Coates / Formation / Cavern of Anti-Matter / Exploded View / Deep Throat Choir / Haiku Salut / Miracle Legion / Michael Rother / Kiran Leonard / Bryde / Gun Outfit / Meilyr Jones / By the Rivers / The Northwest Passage / Singing Adams / 47soul / Bill Baird / Guts (FR) / Sea Pinks / Chainska Brassika / Awesome Tapes From Africa / Kristine Leschper / Luke Potter / Black Peaches / I See Rivers / Wesley Gonzalez / Low Chimes / Trader Horne / The Urban Folk Quartet / Dmytro Morykit / Tony Njoku / Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog / Climbing Trees / Asbo Disco / Yorkston Thorne Khan / Hedluv + Passman / The Future Dub Project / Sam Green & the Midnight Heist / Meilir Tomos / Earth Recordings / Chai Wallahs / Lastigband / The Membranes (UK) / Spinx / Diplomats of Sound / Shelanagig / Carny Villians / Pete Paphides / Moneyshot & Parker / Gringo Ska / Makuti Show all bands
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Brecon Beacons National Park Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom
Jul 29, 2016 –
Jul 31, 2016
Indietracks 2016
White Town / St. Etienne / Comet Gain / The Lovely Eggs / Emma Pollock / Flowers / Lorna / The Spook School / Haiku Salut / Trust Fund / The Aislers Set / Bearsuit / Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern / Witching Waves / Seazoo / Red Sleeping Beauty / Expert Alterations / Songs for Walter / Wintergreen (GB) / BOYS FOREVER / Soda Fountain Rag / Vacaciones / Humousexual / Deerful / IKO Chérie / Chrissy Barnacle / Nervous Twitch / Pete Green / Two White Cranes / City Yelps / Prizefighter / Helen McCookerybook / Charla Fantasma / maggie8 / Jessica & The Fletchers / Falling and Laughing / ¡Ay Carmela! (UK) / Simon Love & The Old Romantics Show all bands
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Midland Railway Centre Ripley, England, United Kingdom
Jun 28, 2016
PAWS / The Spook School
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The Musician Pub Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jun 10, 2016 –
Jun 11, 2016
Long Division Festival 2016
Los Campesinos! / Field Music / Malcolm Middleton / Fear of Men / Bis / Emma Pollock / Kid Canaveral / Middleman / Nile Marr / I Set the Sea on Fire / Galaxians / Mi Mye / Habberdash / Yawning Dog / Climbing Alice / The Ainsley Band / Jack Winn
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Wakefield City Centre Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
May 16, 2016
Kasabian / Jersey Budd

Leicester City Victory Parade

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Victoria Park Leicester, England, United Kingdom
May 12, 2016 –
May 14, 2016
Focus Wales 2016
The Joy Formidable / Los Campesinos! / The Sunshine Underground / Gwenno / Kagoule / H. Hawkline / Johnny Lloyd / Meilyr Jones / Peaness / God Damn / Press To Meco / Into The Ark / Castles / Doppelganger / Golden Fable / Lizzy Farrall / Kidsmoke / Seazoo / Dan Bettridge / Swnami / We Are Animal / We're No Heroes / Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog / Plu / Mowbird / John Lawrence / Chupa Cabra / Kizzy Crawford / HMS Morris / Campfire Social / Hippies vs Ghosts / The Anchoress (UK) / Qujaku / The Roseville Band / Baby Brave / Skellums / Peter Hook DJ Set / Trecco Beis / The Echo And The Always / Darren Eedens / Lights That Change / Anna Houghton / Shimai / The Mexican Walking Fish / Wintercoat / The Gentle Good & Joy Dunlop / Carl Foulkes Jones / Farmhand / Pink Killer / Jamie Hamlington / Garry Rowley Show all bands
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Focus Wales 2016 Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
Apr 29, 2016 –
May 01, 2016
Handmade Festival 2016
We Are Scientists / Los Campesinos! / Deaf Havana / 65daysofstatic / Swim Deep / The Magic Gang / Black Honey / Lonely the Brave / Big Deal / Beans on Toast / Pretty Vicious / Oscar / The Xcerts / Three Trapped Tigers / Estrons / Her Name Is Calla / Grace Petrie / Johnny Lloyd / She Makes War / Oscar (US) / Alpha Male Tea Party / Chris T-T / Cleft / USA Nails / Theo Verney / Cassels / Happy Accidents / Hannah Lou Clark / Axes / Charlotte Carpenter / Weirds / Bear Makes Ninja / OhBoy! / Clubs. / Weikie / VITAMIN (UK) / Noyo Mathis / Grace Petrie and the Benefits Culture / Ash Mammal / French leave / Dayflower / Elizabeth Cornish / Piles Of Clothes Show all bands
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O2 Academy Leicester Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Apr 09, 2016
The Spook School / Sonic the Comic / Finnmark! / T-Shirt Weather / Oh Peas! / Mammoth Penguins / Chorusgirl / Flowers
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Firebug Bar Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Mar 25, 2016 –
Mar 27, 2016
Wales Goes Pop! 2016
Los Campesinos! / This Is The Kit / Girls Names / Shopping / The School / Gwenno / The Spook School / Younghusband / BMX Bandits / Papa Topo / Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern / The Loves / Witching Waves / Peaness / Pete Astor / Cosines / Mammoth Penguins / My Name Is Ian / Chorusgirl / Threatmantics / Laura K. / IKO Chérie / Instructions / Baby Brave / Gindrinker / ¡Ay Carmela! (UK) / Ani Glass / Grubs (UK) / They Is They Is They Is Show all bands
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The Gate Arts & Community Centre Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom