More Names And Day Splits Announced For FIB Benicàssim 2018

With just over two months to go the bill keeps growing for FIB Benicàssim 2018 and we’re excited to announce the day splits for the four-day festival as well as the addition of Chase & Status Live, Giggs, The Horrors, Oscar & The Wolf and more amazing acts to the already jampacked bill.

They join previously announced The Killers, Liam Gallagher, Travis Scott, Pet Shop Boys, Two Door Cinema Club, Justice, The Vaccines, Madness and more at FIB Benicàssim, which takes place on July 19-22^nd in Benicàssim, Spain.

Leading the new additions to the FIB line up are drum & bass legends Chase and Status Live, providing the perfect close to Saturday night at Benicàssim. On the back of 2017’s phenomenal record ‘Tribe’, a new album ‘Return 2 Jungle’ on the horizon and 15 years at the forefront of the drum & bass scene, Benicàssim is guaranteed an explosive performance from the London duo.

One of the most uncompromising, influential and important rappers ever to emerge from the UK, Giggs joins the bill. His 2016 album ‘Landlord’ hit #2 in the UK charts and since then he’s gone on to release the ‘Wamp 2 Dem’ mixtape featuring tracks like ‘Peligro’ and ‘Linguo’ which have been streamed more than 20 million times on Spotify. He’s also appeared on a couple of tracks with his pal Drake who turned up to join him on stage at Reading Festival last year.

The Horrors have come a long way from their early garage punk days to evolve through the epic shoegaze and post-punk textures of ‘Primary Colours’ (2009) to the darker, rawer sound borrowed from 80’s post punk, synth pop and 90s dance on their latest album ‘V’. A very special welcome back to FIB for a very special band. Also joining the bill are King Khan & The Shrines and Oscar & The Wolf.

The South Beach Dance stage will see new acts coming from all corners of the globe including fast rising Finnish pop star ALMA, London’s electro duo Monarchy, Washington DC’s soul and funk influenced rapper ODDISEE & GOOD COMPNY and a DJ set from Dutch two-piece Detroit Swindle. Australian electronic dance hero Hayden James also joins, as well as Vienna’s experimental electronic pop duo LEYYA and Zazo & Gxurmet.

Playing the FIB Club stage, hosted by legendary Barcelona venue Razzmatazz and Madrid’s ever popular Ochoymedio Club, are new Scottish band The Snuts, noisy Madrid garage rockers The Parrots, Los Nastys, Valencia five piece La Plata and Spanish songstress Joana Serat.  Check out the website for a full list of the latest great additions.

THURSDAY

Kicking things off on FIB’s opening night is US hip hop superstar Travis Scott, who will doubtlessly deliver a festival-stopping incendiary show featuring cuts from very much-anticipated album ‘Astroworld’ in his headline set on the Las Palmas stage.

Armed with hits from albums ‘Tourist History’, ‘Beacon’, and ‘Gameshow’, giant indie rockers Two Door Cinema Club also star. The FIB crowd can expect countless festival anthems including ‘What You Know’, ‘Something Good Can Work’, ‘Sun’, ‘Bad Decisions’, and ‘Are We Ready (Wreck)’, resulting in yet another crowd-pleasing performance on their way to indie immortality.

Elsewhere on Thursday night there’s more UK and US hip hop vibes from J Hus and Princess Nokia, irresistible sets from Everything Everything and Tuneyards, new rock anthems from Nothing But Thieves, Jessie Ware on a pop tip, electronica from Cashmere Cat and Sofi Tukker and amongst the great new bands for 2018 Pale Waves and The Magic Gang.

FRIDAY

Headlining Friday night at Benicàssim are one of the biggest bands in the world. The Killers have sold over 25 million records worldwide and we can expect a stunning live show packed with anthems like ‘Mr Brightside’, ‘The Man’, ‘Somebody Told Me’ and many more.

One of the world’s most in demand underground spinners Eric Prdyz will no doubt bring the exhilarating and visceral live show that he has become famous for to the Friday night at Benicàssim.

Joining them on the Friday is a stellar line up including indie big hitters The Vaccines and Catfish & The Bottlemen, abrasive hip hop/punk outfit Sleaford Mods, critically acclaimed Rag‘n’Bone Man, indie-disco stalwarts The Charlatans as well as singer songwriters Anna Calvi, Juanita Stein and Joana Serat.

SATURDAY

The legendary and most successful duo in UK pop history, Pet Shop Boystake the headline slot on Saturday. The critically acclaimed pair will have a staggering 42 top 40 hits to choose from for a massive set guaranteed to get crowds moving and singing along to the likes of ‘West End Girls’, ‘Go West’ and ‘It’s a Sin’.

The newly added Drum & Bass legends Chase and Status Live will bring an explosive closing show to the Las Palmas main stage and they’ll be joined by Scotland’s national treasures Belle & Sebastian, Brighton’s guitar-slingers The Kooks, The Horrors, Metronomy, Monarchy, Belgium’s Oscar and the Wolf and Washington DC’s ODDISEE & GOOD COMPNY. 

Making his Benicàssim debut on Saturday is one of the UK’s most influential rappers Giggs who’s most recent EP ‘Wamp 2 Dem’ flew into the #2 position on the UK album charts and collaborations with Drake saw him solidify his status as the ‘Landlord’ of British hip-hop in 2017.

SUNDAY

Rock ‘n’ roll icon Liam Gallagher rounds off a phenomenally successful year with a Benicàssim headline set on Sunday night. One of the greatest comebacks in modern rock, the show will be an attitude filled headline set fuelled with tracks from the #1 album and a generous helping of the Oasis classics that have made Liam Gallagher the most vital frontman in the world today.

Playing alongside him on Sunday are multi-platinum selling Bastille, Camden’s nuttiest Madness guaranteed to shake Benicàssim to the core as well as critically acclaimed London rockers Wolf Alice, Shame, King Khan and the Shrines, The Parrots and Los Nastys. 

All this before the mighty Justice bring main stage proceedings for 2018 to a close with the party to end all parties.