Inside Seaside Festival 2026: First Acts Revealed For Gdańsk
The fourth edition of Inside Seaside now has its first confirmed names, and they hit hard. Jessie Ware, Editors and Hermanos Gutiérrez are the opening statement for what promises to be the strongest edition yet of Poland’s premier indoor autumn festival, returning to the halls of AmberExpo in Gdańsk on 13 and 14 November 2026.
Three acts, three completely different frequencies, one very smart programme. That’s the kind of curation that earned Inside Seaside its reputation. Since its debut in 2023, when it pulled in over 12,000 people across two nights, the festival has grown fast. The second edition pushed attendance past 18,000, and the third expanded further, bringing in Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard and more. The formula works because it doesn’t chase a single genre. It builds a world.
This year, that world starts on Friday 13 November with Jessie Ware. The London singer has spent the last few years quietly becoming one of the most essential artists in British pop, and her live shows are an event. Forget reserved disco elegance: on stage, Ware is all precision and warmth, the kind of performer who makes you feel personally addressed. Songs like “Spotlight” and “Free Yourself” have a rare quality, pure joy with actual emotional weight. She’ll also be bringing material from “Superbloom“, her new album released in April 2026, which means this is a set that will balance the anthems you already know against music that still has that fresh electricity.
Saturday 14 November belongs to Editors. The Birmingham band formed in 2002, and over seven studio albums they’ve stayed committed to a sound that lives in the space between post-punk urgency and electronic grandeur. There’s something almost gravitational about Editors live. Frontman Tom Smith doesn’t perform songs so much as inhabit them. From “Munich” on “The Back Room” to “Papillon” and “Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors“, the catalogue holds up because the songwriting never coasts. The band are currently working on their eighth album, which makes this the right time to catch them: in that charged transitional moment, where a touring set becomes something like a manifesto for what’s coming next.
And then there’s the wild card that ties the whole thing together. Hermanos Gutiérrez, the Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers Alejandro and Estevan, do something remarkable with two guitars and very few words: they build entire landscapes. Their music pulls from Latin American folk tradition, spaghetti western soundtracks, surf rock and ambient stillness, and the result is hypnotic in a way that word barely covers. A Hermanos Gutiérrez concert is unhurried and completely absorbing. Placed between two high-voltage headline acts across the weekend, they function as the festival’s emotional centre of gravity.
Inside Seaside is more than a concert programme. The AmberExpo halls transform into a multi-space cultural event, including a cinema, the Radio 357 Conversation Zone, poster fairs, exhibitions and a food hall. Gdańsk in November is cold and grey and utterly itself, and walking out of an Editors set into that Baltic air hits differently than any summer festival.
Tickets are on sale now. Two-day passes are available at 499 PLN (Regular) and 599 PLN (Final Call, from September), with discounts for Radio 357 patrons. One-day tickets start at 349 PLN. More acts are on the way.
