Dot to Dot festival announces Augustines and more

Dot to Dot festival has announced the second wave of acts on the line-up. 

Joining Mystery Jets as co-headliners at the May event are Brooklyn indie-rockers Augustines, heading up a further 30+ artists revealed today.

Among the names are the recently reformed Mt Wolf, Hampshire's Blaenavon, who've drawn comparisons to Jeff Buckley and Wild Beasts, and dark dance poppers Nimmo, who'll be fresh from supporting Years & Years. 

The eleventh edition of the annual festival takes places in Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham between 27-29 May, with the Manchester leg of the festival taking over venues around the Northern Quarter such as Soup Kitchen, Gullivers and Night and Day. 

Today's fresh batch of artists bolsters a bill that already includes anthemic indie lot The Temper Trap, teen Danes LISS, and Bristol singer-songwriter Lauren Aquilina. 

The festival has a reputation for talent-spotting, with its bill always full of new and upcoming acts, many of whom go on to big things. Past instalments have seen performances from The xx and SBTRKT. 

Dot to Dot 2016 is at various venues in Manchester on Friday 27 May, Bristol on Saturday 28 May, and Nottingham on Sunday 29 May. Tickets are priced at £11 and available via dottodotfestival.co.uk. 

The acts announced today:

Augustines, Dua Lipa, Spring King, The Hunna, Baba Naga, Babeheaven, Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers, Blaenavon, Cloves, Day Wave, Diet Cig, Dreller, Eera, Face, Fews, Formation, Girl Friend, Hannah Grace, Haus, Hudson Scott, Into the Ark, John Joseph Brill, Meadowlark, Mt Wolf, New Desert Blues, Nimmo, Palace Winter, Pleasure Beach, Raphaella, Reigning Days, Rivrs, Sego, Skinny Living, Starling, Stevie Parker, Sway Clarke, Swmrs, Tamu Massif, White Room, Will Joseph Cook

They join:

Mystery Jets, The Temper Trap, Rat Boy, Lauren Aquilina, Sundara Karma, The Japanese House, The Sherlocks, Little Green Cars Ardyn, Barns Courtney, Bleeding Heart Pigeons, Chappo, Cigarettes After Sex, Crosa Rosa, Dancing Years, Ekkah, Estrons, The Jacques, Lewis Del Mar, LISS, New Carnival, Northeast Party House, Stephen Kellogg, and Trevor Sensor.