Dry Cleaning, Lime Garden, DEADLETTER & more to play Brighten The Corners 2025

Post-punk icons Dry Cleaning have been confirmed as one of the headliners for this year’s edition of Brighten The Corners festival, whilst the likes of Lime Garden, DEADLETTER and Gruff Rhys are also set to appear across the weekend.

Taking place across venues in Ipswich on 13th and 14th June, the event will also play host to a series of buzzy new artists including The NONE, The Orchestra (For Now) and W H Lung. The fest will take place across five stages in the city, including The Smokehouse, The Baths, St Stephen’s Church, the Corn Exchange and the Cornhill.

“We are so pleased to announce the initial wave of artists for our 2025 event including Dry Cleaning, our first headliners, who we have been trying to entice to Ipswich since their first single back in 2019,” the festival programmer Marcus Neal has said. “The programme as a whole continues our tradition of showcasing a broad spectrum of emerging artists across a wide range of genres from indie to folk, electronic jazz to noise-rock and beyond. We look forward to unveiling further names, including our second headline act, in the coming weeks.” 

The full list of acts confirmed to play in this first announcement is as follows: Dry Cleaning / Bobby Lee / Caleb Kunle / corto.alto / Daudi Matsiko / DEADLETTER / deary / Gruff Rhys / James Alexander Bright / JD Cliffe / Lime Garden / Marla Kether / Mermaid Chunky / Miss Tiny / Monster Florence / oreglo / Piglet / Rich(ard) Dawson / SHOLTO / Sons Of Sevilla / THE NONE / The Orchestra (For Now) / TTSSFU / Van Houten / W. H. Lung / Y / Yuuf

Tickets for this year’s edition of Brighten The Corners 2025 are on sale now; get a taste of what went down at last year’s event below.