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ArcTanGent Festival

Annual British rock festival

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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ArcTanGent Festival is a three-day British rock festival held annually since 2013. The festival specialises in experimental rock, metal, prog, math rock, post rock, post-metal, hardcore, and electronic music. It was hosted at Fernhill Farm near Bristol, Somerset until 2026, moving to Todenham Manor Farm in Gloucestershire for 2027 onwards. The festival is named after the Earthtone9 album arc'tan'gent (2000).

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This entry incorporates text from “ArcTanGent Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.