Get Together Festival 2026 review by Rob Johnson
Get Together, a multi-venue music festival held in Sheffield’s trendy Kelham Island district, is currently in its sixth year, having previously seen headliners as diverse as Self Esteem, CMAT and English Teacher.
The 2026 edition of the festival kicked off with Jawdropped on the brand new Victoria Stage. The LA indie four-piece treat the crowd to a few choice cuts from their ’90s-inflected debut EP Just Fantasy, as well as new song ‘Monday’. Despite the vocals sounding a little muffled, the songcraft is impossible to deny. This could well be a band that is going places.
Next up is a fascinating conversation with Daniel Dylan Wray, a freelance music journalist based in Sheffield who has recently published Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, his love letter to the city’s sprawling music scene. There is something exhilarating about listening to someone who is both passionate and an expert, talking about that thing in depth. He touches on everything from the origins of the Leadmill, to the rise and fall of Pulp and the influence of Cabaret Voltaire. The fact that he does all this against the backdrop of a band playing outside at one of Sheffield’s many music festivals is particularly satisfying.
Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor is up next and he mostly eschews his main band’s material to play a mixture of covers and originals instead. While his own stuff is pleasant enough, it’s a cover of the Rolling Stones classic ‘Wild Horses’ that gets the biggest response from the sizable crowd.
Unfortunately, we miss Lime Garden as the main stage was at capacity, so Fat Dog close things out with a barnstorming set that confirms their status as one of the UK’s more incendiary live bands. While they draw from Pendulum and The Prodigy, they have carved out a sound that is very much their own, and tracks such as ‘The Devil’ and ‘Snakes’ get a huge reaction before ‘Running’, surely one of the best tracks of the decade, tears the roof off. The song caps off an incredibly well-received set that suggests Fat Dog won’t be playing midsize venues like this one for much longer.
All that’s left is an incredibly expensive taxi home, the taste of various high-quality ales in my mouth and a ringing in my ears that is still hanging around even as I write this. What a day. See you next year, Get Together.
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