Photo Credit: Juri Hiensch
The Scene
It doesn't get any more undground hipster than Le Guess Who, which brings a curated selection of artists to the Dutch college city of Utrecht. More than a hundred acts take place in venues like clubs, theaters, churches, galleries, and warehouses. If you're wondering where the indie scene is heading, Le Guess Who is the barometer.
Festival Poster
2018 Artist Lineup
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Anoushka Shankar & Manu Delago with MO Strings
- Devendra Banhart
- The Breeders
- Future Feminism
- Joe Coleman
- Kojey Radical
- Vashti Bunyan
- Circuit des Yeux presents ‘Reaching For Indigo: Gaia Infinitus’
- Shintaro Sakamoto
- Kadri Gopalnath
- Hailu Mergia
- Mudhoney
- Escape-Ism
- Saul Williams & King Britt present ‘Unanimous Goldmine’
- Serpentwithfeet
- FRKWYS: Ka Baird & Pekka Airaksinen
- Sons of Kemet XL
- Irreversible Entanglements feat. Pat Thomas
- ONCEIM & Stephen O’Malley present ‘Gruides’
- Beverly Glenn-Copeland
- Cüneyt Sepetçi
- Judith Clijsters: Bored To Death
- Chihei Hatakeyama
- Emel Mathlouthi
- DJ Noss
- Joe Cardamone
- GAIKA
- Maja S. K. Ratkje
- DRINKS
- King Ayisoba
- DJ Haram
- Crack Cloud
- Kelman Duran
- Hello Skinny
- AMMAR 808
- Lucy Railton
- Pan Daijing presents: ‘Fist Piece’
- Joan Of Arc
- Psychic Ills
- Sun Foot
- The Scorpios
- Maria Chavez
- SASAMI
- Richard Fearless
- Paddy Steer
- Sibusile Xaba
- Lucrecia Dalt
- Eartheater
- Georgia Anne Muldrow & The Righteous
- STUFF.
- Kikagaku Moyo
- Ancient Shapes
- Bo Ningen
- Katey Red
- Jerusalem In My Heart Orchestra presents ‘Don’t Say The Moon Has Set’
- Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise
- Kate NV
- Meridian Brothers
- JPEGMAFIA
- BCUC
- 700 Bliss
- Martin Bisi plays BC35
- Please The Trees
- FAKA
- Colin Stetson
- FACS
- The Comet Is Coming
- Vera Sola
- Jozef van Wissem
- ONCEIM & Éliane Radigue present ‘Occam Océan’
- Greg Fox Quadrinity
- Orchestra Of Spheres
- Rizan Said
- Jessica Pratt
- Oliver Coates
- Shannon Lay
- Roger Eno
- Eleanor Friedberger
- LYZZA
- Takuro Kikuchi
- Islam Chipsy & EEK
- Ras_G & The Afrikan Space Program
- Beverly Glenn-Copeland
- Nicole Mitchell
- Ill Considered
- Rodrigo Amarante
- Gigi Masin
- RP Boo
- The Mauskovic Dance Band
- FRKWYS: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz
- Swamp Dogg
- Neneh Cherry
- Lonnie Holley feat. Nelson Patton
- Yves Tumor
- Tirzah
- Cass McCombs
- Deep Fried Grandeur with Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo
- Midori Takada
- Kelsey Lu
- Senyawa
- Seefeel performing Quique
- Yonatan Gat & The Eastern Medicine Singers
- Hot Snakes
- Alabaster DePlume
- Soichi Terada
- Hilary Woods
- Madeline Kenney
- Boogarins
- Linafornia
- Negro Leo
- Miho Hatori
- Virginia Wing
- Eli Keszler
- Vive la Void
- King Champion Sounds
- Michael Rault
- Sourakata Koite
- Cindy Lee
- Art Feynman
- Black Midi
- Urochromes
- Islaja
- Mark Wynn
- The Avonden
- Howie Lee
- Tim Koh
- Kaja Draksler & Terrie Ex
- Ora Cogan
- Luke Cohlen
- Dekmantel Soundsystem
- Sarah Hennies & Jessica Sligter
- Cinema Perdu
- Philipp Bückle
- DNMF
- Valley Maker
- Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet
- Olan Mill