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12 August 2026 – Øya Festival Opens Four Days of Independent Music in Oslo
By Editorial Team - August 12, 2026
Summary
Øya Festival launches four days of independent music in Oslo featuring The Cure, Nick Cave, Wilco, Mogwai, and Geese.
Key Facts
- Øya Festival 2026 opens today (12 August) in Oslo, running through 15 August.
- Headliners include The Cure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Wilco, and Mogwai.
- Features special collaboration TOMORA (AURORA + Tom Rowlands of Chemical Brothers).
- Entities: Øya Festival, Tøyenparken, Oslo, The Cure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Wilco, Mogwai, Geese, Amyl and The Sniffers, TOMORA, AURORA, Tom Rowlands
- Tags: oya-festival, oslo-music, the-cure, nick-cave, wilco, mogwai, tomora, aurora
Øya Festival begins today in Oslo's Tøyenparken and continues through 15 August with one of Europe's strongest alternative programmes.
The bill includes The Cure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Wilco, Mogwai, Geese, Amyl and The Sniffers, Lambrini Girls, Blood Orange, Oklou, Underworld and many more.
Band of Horses appear in Scandinavia as part of the twentieth-anniversary cycle around Everything All the Time, while TOMORA brings together AURORA and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers.
Øya's mixture of established names and emerging independent artists makes the festival an especially useful snapshot of where indie, experimental pop, punk and electronic music overlap in 2026.