We’re thrilled to be bringing The Mount back in 2026! Bringing artists and audiences together in such a breath taking natural space always makes for powerful, lasting memories.
Thanks to our special partnership with Senbla, we’re gearing up for another amazing year of world-class artists and incredible shows at our one-of-a-kind woodland amphitheatre, The Mount.
We are very excited that Mika, Pixies, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Howard and Self Esteem will be bringing epic shows to The Mount this year.
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Mika – 26 June 2026
Throughout his carer, MIKA has crafted a world of gritty romance amidst the joy and playfulness of technicolored alternative pop. He’s a ren,aissance artist of impeccable intention whose name has rightfully found its way alongside legendary acts such as Elton John, Freddie Mercury and Prince. After garnering billions of streams of views and endearing a fervent fanbase, he continues to evolve yet again on his sixth studio album, Que ta tête fleurisse toujours (“May your head always blossom”), and much more on the horizon.
MIKA opened his pop career in 2007 with the defining single “Grace Kelly,” which went on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide and was “the second British single ever to top the chart based on download sales alone.” It was #1 in the UK for five weeks and topped the charts in six other countries as well. His debut album, Life In Cartoon Motion, has amassed over 2.8 billion streams to date, selling over 8.3 million albums and racking up 12.8 million digital track sales. The album went straight to #1 in the UK and 11 other countries.
In 2009, his second album The Boy Who Knew Too Much continued the trend, making it into the top ten in over 10 countries worldwide and containing the hits “We Are Golden,” “Blame It On The Girls,” and “Rain.” MIKA’s 2011 French language single “Elle Me Dit” topped the French charts for eight weeks, clocking over 300,000 sales and becoming “the second best-selling single of the year” in the process. The video featured legendary French actress Fanny Ardant and generated over 75.5 million plays.
His third album The Origin of Love, was released to international acclaim in 2012 and includes the huge single “Celebrate” [feat. Pharrell Williams] and US smash “Popular Song,” which was later reworked as a duet with pop superstar Ariana Grande. The “Popular Song” duet video has posted up over 205 million views to date.
MIKA then conquered the hearts of TV audiences across Europe, appearing as a judge on the X Factor Italy and a coach on The Voice France, as well as launching his own television variety show in Italy, Stasera Casa Mika, which won the 2017 Rose d’Or Award for Entertainment.
2015 saw the release of Mika’s 4th studio album, No Place In Heaven, to critical acclaim. Created with long-time collaborator and Grammy nominated producer Gregg Wells and featured hit singles “Talk About You,” “Staring at the Sun,” and the iconic video for “Last Party” shot by Peter Lindbergh.
His 2019 record, My Name Is Michael Holbrook, was a turning point for MIKA, a healing process. “I had a sense of urgency to transform pain into something beautiful and more hopeful,” he says. After writing the album in home studios in Miami and Tuscany over the course of two years, MIKA went to Brussels to record with producers Marc Crew and Dan Priddy. Together, they crafted soundscapes spanning different decades of pop and tracked the entire album live using vintage synths, enlisting all-star players from around the world.
In 2019 and 2020, he took to the road once more, bringing the magic across the UK, US, Europe and beyond. He was part-way through his eastern leg when the Pandemic struck and the world changed. He still managed to keep busy during lockdown. Heartbroken by the devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon in MIKA decided to honor his Lebanese heritage by organizing an online charity concert in support of the people of Lebanon and the victims of the blast. This was no ordinary online concert. ‘I Love Beirut’ featured guest performances from around the world including Kylie Minogue in London, Rufus Wainwright in LA, Mashrou Leila in NYC, Laura Pausini in Rome and Dana Paola in Mexico City, as well as sending a small crew to Beirut itself to meet people on the ground. The result was a truly breathtaking film with moments of joy and sadness, hope, and resilience. Fans tuned in from a record- breaking 106 countries around the globe and the concert raised an impressive total of over €1m for Save The Children Lebanon and The Lebanese Red Cross.
After the strangest 18+ months in living memory, MIKA looks forward to being back on the stage in 2022. Through the attitude, energy and movement of MIKA’s studied pop performance he provokes this sense of magic. “It’s the sort of dangerous energy where anything is possible,” he says.
MIKA has also worked with world renowned composer and conductor Simon Leclerc to perform orchestral versions of his many hits, first with L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal in Quebec, followed by a special televised performance at the Teatro Sociale in Como, Italy and most recently with two sold out shows in October 2021 at the Philharmonie de Paris in France.
In May 2022, after a triumphant return to Coachella, MIKA had the honor of acting as an international host of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, live from Torino in Italy. The show was broadcast live globally, with audience figures reaching 161 million viewers, far larger than the legendary US Superbowl. He followed this up with a Summer of shows and festivals across Europe, as well as spending months in the studio working on his next releases…
In February 2023, MIKA released his first film score to the French-language movie “Zodi et Tehu: freres du desert,” for which he worked with over 160 musicians from around the world including a celebrated female artist from South Africa and classical Berber musicians from Morocco. He also reunited once again with acclaimed conducted and composer Simon Leclerc with whom MIKA collaborated on his symphonic concerts. The soundtrack marks a large foray into new musical territory whilst remaining unmistakably MIKA.
2023 also saw live dates across Europe and beyond, including Japan, South Korea, Morocco, and London, as well as the release of a brand new studio album and the completion of a second!
Now, MIKA ascends to another sonic stratosphere altogether on Que ta tête fleurisse toujours. Written entirely in French, his lyrics intently examine experiences and feelings. Shortly before his mother passed away, she sent him the title’s words, which instantly struck a chord. The album both acts as a tribute to his other and a rumination on the passage of time. Across this body of work, he faces his fears head-on, confronting topics such as love, sex, age, death, and everything in between. It hinges on the emotional fireworks of his colorful pop music combined with heartfelt and humanist poetry.
Working with a small French production team consisting of Renaud Rebillaud, Tristan Salvati, and Marso, MIKA spent two-and-a-half years carefully crafting the album. Among many highlights, “C’est la vie” doubles as musical liberation, overcoming tragedies and absorbing their lessons as means to gain strength. During “Sweetie Banana,” he delivers a surge of vibrant energy atop a danceable soundscape and voluptuous rhythms. Then, there’s “Jane Birkin.” It translates his mother’s elegance, freedom, and singularity into sound. Throughout Que ta tête fleurisse toujours, the music not only electrifies, but it also incites the importance of self-reflection.
MIKA has been nominated for and won awards from the Brits, the Grammys, the Ivor Novellos, Capital Radio, Q magazine, The NRJs, The World Music Awards, BT and Vodaphone, Virgin Media and MTV’s Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan, amongst others. He is also the recipient of the prestigious French award “Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. He has sold over 10 million albums globally and has Gold or Platinum awards in an impressive 32 countries worldwide.
With Que ta tête fleurisse toujours, he expands his vision like never before.
“We don’t need perfection. We need character, we need emotion. To feel free to express yourself,” he leaves off. “Express yourself, you won’t be judged here.”
Pixies – 27 June 2026
1986 Boston – a year, a city… spawning one of alternative music’s greatest pioneers. One of the most distinctive sounds and voices in music, influencers of multiple generations of musicians, four decades on (and counting…). A volatile mix of jagged guitars, outlandish lyrics, and sudden bursts of rhythm and melody. LOUD/quiet… Pixies.
Originated in Boston, embraced first by the UK, now adored worldwide.
To mark forty years of the band: founding members; Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, with bassist Emma Richardson – mark four decades of the band by announcing Pixies 40 a new headline worldwide tour.
From their earliest club shows, the band exuded a combination of chaos and control that left audiences wide-eyed. No glamour, little stage banter; just a relentless surge of sound that resonated with those in attendance. For many fans, those early gigs were less concerts than revelations, a glimpse into a new way rock music could be performed.
1987’s mini-album Come On Pilgrim (which followed the release of Demos – more commonly known to fans as “The Purple Tapes” – also re-issued in October 2025), introduced the world to their fragmented, surreal songwriting. 1988’s Surfer Rosa made critics, and underground audiences realize that Pixies were doing something that hadn’t been heard before. Recorded with raw precision, these early albums captured the explosive dynamics that their concerts already embodied. Songs jumped between whispered calm and thunderous eruptions; the same jolts audiences were feeling in dimly lit venues across the Europe and back home in their native US.
Doolittle in 1989, moved the needle. That album, packed with pop hooks twisted into strange, menacing shapes, brought Pixies onto larger stages and into the consciousness of a wider public. Their shows grew more frenetic, audiences swelling and surging in rhythm with the music, a direct reflection of the tension and release encoded in their songs.
By the early 1990s, the Pixies were in their groove. Relentless touring across North America and Europe became an essential ticket for any fans who claimed to be lovers of alternative rock. A wall of sound that was never predictable, shifting between fragility and violence in a matter of seconds. A band who needed no such spectacle or theatrics, just an intensity of sudden release. The music was the show.
Fan favourites Bossanova and Trompe le Monde followed in 1990 and 1991 respectfully, before the dispending of the band in 1993.
Over a decade passed, but Pixies finally reformed in 2004, the response was electric. Tickets for their first shows sold out instantly, and the band quickly found themselves playing to an unprecedented crowd at Coachella festival. More touring and in rooms much larger than they ever did before.
The reunion reaffirmed the band’s reputation as a live act. If anything, their performances had grown sharper. Multiple generations of fans from different backgrounds found themselves together embracing Pixies’ genre defining sets. Those who were there in the beginning during the late 80’s and early 90’s, those who never had the chance to see the band first time around, those who were not even born during that time.
Since re-formation the band have been even more prolific, releasing more music since their reincarnation with album’s; Indie Cindy, Head Carrier, Beneath the Eyrie, Doggerel and The Night the Zombies Came begin released between 2014 and 2024. Recent years have seen the band routinely touring all four corners of the globe with their own sold-out headline shows and to festival audiences alike, while still being referenced as a major influence of contemporary alternative artists and bands.
Pixies… a band marking their 40th year together, still relevant and still innovative – there are no signs of stopping.
Belle & Sebastian – 28 June 2026
Belle & Sebastian released their second album ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ in 1996, and the album has long-since attained mythic status – a “greatest of all time” list fixture with songs including favourites such as Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying, and The Fox in the Snow that have spent decades populating mixtapes and playlists.
Following up their debut ‘Tigermilk’, ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ cemented Belle & Sebastian as critical and cult favourites, whilst delivering them to a wider audience worldwide. Recently, Pitchfork re-reviewed the album, giving it a rare top score of 10.0 and commenting:
“If You’re Feeling Sinister launched the band into a rarified air from which it would not soon descend. Thirty years later, the group has evolved into the very sort of communal institution and devoted cult that [lead singer Stuart] Murdoch dared dream into reality”
Very special guests for the show Saint Etienne are one of the UK’s most treasured pop groups, known for their songs like Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Nothing Can Stop Us, and You’re in a Bad Way. Following the success of their most recent album ‘International’ released last year, the band announced their farewell tour for September 2026.
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Ben Howard – 3 July 2026
Since releasing his triple-platinum debut album ‘Every Kingdom’ in 2011, Ben Howard has carved out a singular creative path. First celebrated for the intimate, acoustic songwriting that produced hits like the UK Top 10 single Only Love, he quickly earned critical attention, including a Mercury Prize nomination, and two BRIT Awards for British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.
Howard has consistently pushed his music into new territory. His second album, ‘I Forget Where We Were’(2014), took him to No.1 in the UK Album Chart with a darker, more expansive sound, while ‘Noonday Dream’ (2018) broadened his sound even further. In 2019, he received an Ivor Novello Award for the song Nica Libres at Dusk, cementing his reputation as one of the UK’s most distinctive songwriters.
‘Collections from the Whiteout’ (2021) developed his palette again, followed by ‘Is It?’ (2023), created with producer Nathan Jenkins (Bullion). Hailed by The Guardian as “his most fluid, experimental record yet,” the album marked a period of reinvention, blending electronic detail with the raw, reflective songwriting that has always anchored his music.
On stage, Howard remains a commanding presence. Performing with an expansive live band, his shows have been described by The Times as “spellbinding, transcendental even”. Wasing will be one of his first UK headline shows since his 10th anniversary tour for ‘I Forget Where We Were’ in 2014.
Joining Ben Howard will be This Is The Kit, the acclaimed band led by songwriter Kate Stables, known for their contemporary folk and indie music that has seen them become a critics’ favourite across 6 studio albums.
Self Esteem – 4 July 2026
Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is one of the UK’s most exciting breakout stars of the past decade. Emerging from cult favourite to mainstream hero in the space of five whirlwind years, she enters 2026 as a bona fide triple threat in music, literature and acting.
2025 saw the release of her hugely acclaimed third album and debut book, both titled A Complicated Woman and both containing all Taylor’s unmistakable thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under.
Released in April 2025, the album features some of Taylor’s strongest songwriting to date and is propelled by a jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices – “a community of people. I want you to hear and feel the connection” – including close friends, her band and collaborators. A month after its release Taylor won the Visionary Award at the Ivor Novello Awards for her genre-defying and fearless songwriting. The album’s lead single ‘Focus Is Power’ was chosen by the BBC to soundtrack their coverage of the Lionesses’ UEFA European Football Championships win in July – a full circle moment coming just months after Taylor publicly announced her ambition for the album to become montage music to mass sporting events and stadiums.
The album was followed in October by the book. Through the notes, lyrics and biting observational prose for which Taylor has become lauded, A Complicated Woman offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation; who has done unto others the damage that has been wrought upon her; and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience that surprised her. It’s a cathartic scream that gets to the heart of being a woman in the world today, and cements Taylor as one of the most exciting voices of her generation, something reinforced by her co-curation of the London Literature Festival at the Southbank in November.
Quite the opposite of an overnight success, Taylor spent a decade as one half of indie duo Slow Club before adopting the pop star persona she’d always dreamed of. She released her first Self Esteem album Compliments Please in 2019, featuring fan favourite singles ‘The Best’, ‘Girl Crush’ and more.
The breakthrough moment had come with the huge success of her empowering, truth-telling 2021 single ‘I Do This All The Time’. Self Esteem’s wildly acclaimed second album Prioritise Pleasure quickly followed, tackling the hypocrisies and joys found in her experiences of modern day womanhood across dating, friendship, comparison culture, self love, women’s safety and sexual assault and much more. Prioritise Pleasure received Mercury Prize, BRIT Award, Sky Arts and NME Award nominations, was crowned The Guardian and Sunday Times Culture’s Album of the Year, and ‘I Do This All The Time’ was also named The Guardian’s #1 song of 2021.
Gathering a passionate and vast legion of fans ever since, Taylor has appeared on The Graham Norton Show, Celebrity Gogglebox, Friday Night Live, performed three times on Jools Holland including the NYE Hootenanny, graced the covers of magazines from Grazia to NME to Sunday Times Style, and is one of a handful of artists to have been playlisted across BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music simultaneously.