After nearly two decades, the festival has come to an end
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09:51, 20 JUL 2026
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It was a bittersweet day for thousands of music fans attending the last-ever Splendour Festival in Wollaton Park.
After 18 years of pop, rock, indie, R&B, soul, folk and dance and much, much more, the two-day event drew to an emotional close with Sunday night headliners Snow Patrol.
“There’s no band we’d rather soundtrack that final chapter than Snow Patrol. Few bands have captured emotion quite like they have, and there couldn’t be a more fitting soundtrack to our final ever weekend,” said the organisers.
Earlier in the day, the crowd basked in the sun to performances from Craig David, Editors, the Pigeon Detectives and Nottingham’s very own Alt Blk Era.
DHP Family, which has organised the annual event in conjunction with Nottingham City Council, blamed its demise on sharply rising costs at the same time as household budgets have been put under immense strain.
Held in the park with Wollaton Hall as a backdrop since 2008, the festival regularly attracted up to 25,000 people. In 2022, after being halted by the Covid pandemic, it was expanded into a two-day event.
George Akins, managing director of DHP Family, said: “After a lot of careful thought, we feel the right thing to do is to make this year a proper celebration of everything Splendour has meant to Nottingham and give it the send-off it deserves.”
Check out photographs from the final day in our gallery below:
Everyone was making the most of the final Splendour (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)1 of 23ShareComments
Everyone was making the most of the final Splendour
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Alt Blk Era from Nottingham aka sisters Nyrobi and Chaya Becket-Messam (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)2 of 23ShareComments
Alt Blk Era from Nottingham aka sisters Nyrobi and Chaya Becket-Messam
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Notts emo stalwarts George Gadd + The Aftermath (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)3 of 23ShareComments
Notts emo stalwarts George Gadd + The Aftermath
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Nottingham band Divorce perform on the Lake Stage (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)4 of 23ShareComments
Nottingham band Divorce perform on the Lake Stage
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Sunglasses instead of umbrellas at Splendour (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)5 of 23ShareComments
Sunglasses instead of umbrellas at Splendour
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Alternative rock band EMF (Epsom Mad Funkers) perform on the Parkside Stage (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)6 of 23ShareComments
Alternative rock band EMF (Epsom Mad Funkers) perform on the Parkside Stage
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Neville Staple, from The Specials, performs on the Lake Stage (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)7 of 23ShareComments
Neville Staple, from The Specials, performs on the Lake Stage
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A group of friends enjoying the last ever Splendour (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)8 of 23ShareComments
A group of friends enjoying the last ever Splendour
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Thousands of music lovers assembled in Wollaton Park (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)9 of 23ShareComments
Thousands of music lovers assembled in Wollaton Park
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The sun came out for the final Splendour (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)10 of 23ShareComments
The sun came out for the final Splendour
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Chilling in the sun (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)11 of 23ShareComments
Chilling in the sun
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Trader Heidi Hargreaves pictured at her Dukki stall (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)12 of 23ShareComments
Trader Heidi Hargreaves pictured at her Dukki stall
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Liam Proctor at the Sarah Turner Eco Art and Design stall (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)13 of 23ShareComments
Liam Proctor at the Sarah Turner Eco Art and Design stall
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Disco funk trio She She She (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)14 of 23ShareComments
Disco funk trio She She She
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Irish indie folk/rock group Kingfishr on the Lake Stage (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)15 of 23ShareComments
Irish indie folk/rock group Kingfishr on the Lake Stage
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An energic performance from the Pigeon Detectives (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)16 of 23ShareComments
An energic performance from the Pigeon Detectives
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The headliners for the last ever Splendour, Snow Patrol (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)17 of 23ShareComments
The headliners for the last ever Splendour, Snow Patrol
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There was no chilling on Sunday for Craig David (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)18 of 23ShareComments
There was no chilling on Sunday for Craig David
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Birmingham rock bad Editors on the Lake Stage (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)19 of 23ShareComments
Birmingham rock bad Editors on the Lake Stage
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Fans watching the Flaming Lips (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)20 of 23ShareComments
Fans watching the Flaming Lips
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These two festival-goers dressed up as Mario and Princess Peach (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)21 of 23ShareComments
These two festival-goers dressed up as Mario and Princess Peach
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American psychedelic rock band, The Flaming Lips on the Parkside Stage (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)22 of 23ShareComments
American psychedelic rock band, The Flaming Lips on the Parkside Stage
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The Flaming Lips perform on the Parkside Stage at Splendour (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Reach PLC)23 of 23ShareComments
The Flaming Lips perform on the Parkside Stage at Splendour
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