Bathing Suits, snuggle, BROOKI and Spanish Horses lead Best Fit's five-day festival of new music for 2027

Taking place at The Lexington in London from 11-15 January 2027, this year's Forecast sees Bathing Suits, snuggle, BROOKI and Spanish Horses heading up five nights of incredible music with tickets on sale from Monday, 16 November.

Since its launch in 2015, the Five Day Forecast has featured Mercury Music prize nominees Self Esteem, Jockstrap, Porridge Radio and Black Country New Road as well as early shows from the likes of Madra Salach, Pale Waves, Katy J Pearson, Squid, and debut UK performances from Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy, Gia Margaret, Faye Webster and more.

One of the most exciting bands in the UK right now, Bathing Suits open the first night of the 2027 Five Day Forecast with their industrial freak-pop that’s been winning over audiences across the UK over the last twelve months with brute noise and manic energy. They were one of the names everyone was talking about at The Great Escape back in the spring, and they head into 2027 with vocalist and drum programmer Freyja Blevins as the most striking frontperson in new music. They’re joined by the completely brilliant COMPOST COMPOST COMPOST, whose shuffling post-rock, electronic art-pop draws from the most inventive corners of the last few decades of music to make something entirely their own. Rounding off the night is lttl mort, another band pushing the boundaries of noise with their snarling sleaze-soaked synth-pop.

With a secret headliner still to be announced the second night of the Forecast sees new Partisan Records includes State of Grace, the project of 17-year-old Belfast songwriter Grace Conlon, whose raw, visceral music channels anger into something strikingly alive, and leaves an indelible mark as a live performer. She's joined by Visit Me, the trio formed of childhood collaborators Lily Casey and Maz Gilkes who joined forces with Ben Nicolson in the summer of 2025 to create a patchwork vision of pop music and ‘accidental prog rock’ that takes in parts of Grouper, Cocteau Twins and The Velvet Undeground – a gauzy fever dream.

Lo-fi aesthetics with art pop sensibilities come together in the Escho-signed Copenhagen duo snuggle. Andrea Thuesen (Baby In Vain) and Vilhelm Strange (Liss) have somehow found the right convergence of 90s grunge and shoegaze and noughties pop, cut together economically into a perfect fuzzy sonic mix. Headlining the mid-week slot at the Forecast, they’re joined by Big Red - the streamlined, country-flirting side quest of The Orchestra (For Now)’s Joe Scarisbrick, and by rising pop newcomer gianna, whose musical palette takes in downtempo electronica and a spread of prestige late 90s pop from All Saints to Dido and Everything But The Girl.

Thursday is headlined by Dublin four-piece BROOKI, a project anchored around the powerful vocal of Sarah Brooks and hitting the same cinematic, intimate and tender spaces as Jeff Buckley with the explosive intensity of PJ Harvey. She’s joined by Chess Club signed Jo Geller – aka jo from school – who at 22-years-old is crafting devastatingly delivered songs with an air of maturity that lands far beyond her years. Australia-born and London-based singer-songwriter Liam Parsons – ex Good Morning and a member of Way Dynamic and Cool Sounds - completes the lineup with a sound he describes as "gay electronic heartland rock".

Closing the week out on Friday is Spanish Horses, who cut their teeth in Paris before moving to London last year and signing with So Young for their upcoming debut EP Small Notions. The five-piece craft woozy melodies from jagged guitars, with locked-in grooves and psychedelic textures, all held together by a restless sense of energy, feeling and emotion. They’re joined by a trio of incredible bands: Nashville's Ovven – the indie rock/alt-country project of Owen Burton, whose debut album, Gnawing at the Cord was produced by Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday); Manchester alt-country quartet Wyatt, and Brooklyn DIY singer/songwriter Claire Ozmun.