Dot to Dot 2017: PINS and more join line-up

Tri-city festival Dot to Dot has announced a further wave of acts to join the bill in Manchester, including well-loved local quintet PINS.

Feature by The Skinny North | 28 Apr 2017

Visceral Manchester rockers PINS lead a host of artists added to the bill for Dot to Dot festival in Manchester (26 May). 

Playing across a variety of city centre venues such as Soup Kitchen, Albert Hall, Old Granada Studios and the Ruby Lounge, the bands announced today are exclusive to the Manchester leg of the city-hopping festival, which goes on to take in Bristol on 27 May and Nottingham on 28 May. 

Acts joining PINS include Iggy Pop-inspired Edinburgh five-piece Ayakara, Manchester hardcore punk lot Denim & Leather and Liverpool indie-rock revivalists the Jackobins. 

They bolster a programme of more than 100 acts headlined by Sundara Karma, The Growlers and Louis Berry and also featuring Skinny favourites such as Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, Glasgow noise-pop duo Honeyblood and New Jersey emo/alt country stars Pinegrove

Find the full list of new acts below. Tickets are available now – keep an eye on The Skinny and Dot to Dot's Facebook page for more info. 

Dot to Dot 2017: new acts announced 

Affairs, Alice Gasson, Ambiere, Animal Sons, Anna Blaise, Arms & Hearts, Ayakara, Bear Around Your Neck, Calvadore, Carl North and the Lonely Hearts, Cassia, Charli White, Corella, Crimsons, D L Parker, Dear Caroline, Deco, Denim and Leather, De'Nova, Duke and the Darlings, Duke of Wolves, Factory, False Heads, Faux Pas, Fawn Spots, Fears Chella, Five Days North, Foxglove, Gathering of Strangers, George Fell, Glass Caves, Hannah Ascroft, In Sulks, Inland Taipan, Iora, Ist Ist, Izzie Walsh, Jack Oliver Monty, Jackobins, Jamie Ferguson, Jekyll, Jess Kemp, John Ainsworth, Josh Goddar, Kashmere, Katie O'Malley, Keaton Boucher, Kevill, Kidsmoke, Kieran Dobson, Kits, La Mode, Ladies' Darts Night, Larkins, Liam McClair, Little Grim, Lumer, Lungs, Maddy Storm, Marsicans, Mister Twisted, Møss, Mowbeck, Mr Heart, Nat James, New York Tourists, Oddity Road, Pines, Plastic House, Rinse, Robbie Cavanagh, Sam Craighan, Saytr Play, Skies, Sly Antics, Sophro, South  Island Son, Stained Glass Ceiling, Stillia, Sugar, Tahitian Sons, Tansyn, The Awful Truth, The Bright Black, The Hubbards, The Hungry Ghosts, The Navettes, The Opera Comic, The Showers, Thea Brooks, Thing, Unpaid Intern, Urban Theory, Why Fox, Why?, Witch Fever, Y.O.U.N.G, Young Monarch 

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