Festivals:
Dua Lipa, Slaves, Goat Girl and more are headed to Mad Cool 2018
James Holden and Childhood are also set to appear in Madrid.
A huge wave of names have been added to the bill for this year’s Mad Cool festival!
Dua Lipa is set to take her ‘New Rules’ to the event, while Slaves also join the bill. Goat Girl, James Holden & The Animal Spirits and Childhood are also heading to the bash.
Underworld, Post Malone, DJ Koze, The Ninth Wave, Re-TROS, Pile and Jet are also amongst the latest names heading for the event in July.
The new additions join the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Wolf Alice, Jack White, Queens Of The Stone Age, Tame Impala and more at the festival, which comes to the city on the weekend of 12th-14th July. Kasabian, Sampha, Th Big Moon, Franz Ferdinand, Japandroids and loads more are also set to play.
View the full line-up for Mad Cool here.
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