Thank you for the kind words! ❤️ See you all in October!

Big love,
The psychoanalysts of Left of the Dial

You’re also the reason we feel confident enough to give Reddit a try now. If it turns out to be a depressing experience, we now know exactly what to do to lift our spirits. We’ll just order more stickers. Apparently, good things come from ordering stickers.

Whether you’re an early ticket buyer, a volunteer, a performing artist, an attentive listener, a late night dancer, a very vocal cheerleader, a quiet supporter, or one of our allies in any other way, we love you and you are the reason Left of the Dial is such an amazing festival.

So let us take a moment right now to tell you how much we appreciate your contribution to Left of the Dial, whatever it is.

It would probably make more sense to tell this on the Sunday morning after Left of the Dial. But usually, that’s the moment we’re beyond tired and we can only think of some cliché like “thanks people, this was one for the books!”

We had no idea who these people were, but they seemed to really understand the festival on a deeper level.

And that definitely answered the question why and for whom we’re organising Left of the Dial.

For you.

Trying to decipher the unspoken rules of Reddit, we scrolled through endless posts about music and festivals. Much to our surprise, someone posted an article about Left of the Dial months ago and 6 people responded in the sweetest, most appreciative, well-written and clever way possible.

In all honesty, we were mostly reluctant, because Reddit users can be quite harsh to newcomers and given our frail mental state we were absolutely not ready to be made fun of.

Around the same time, we were thinking about opening a Reddit account, or maybe a Left of the Dial subreddit, we weren’t sure. None of us are experienced Reddit users, so we had no idea, but we know that a lot of musicians use the platform, so we felt it was something we should learn more about.

A non-Dutch person even included a picture of their living room with a framed Left of the Dial poster on the wall. They admitted they stole the poster from one of our venues and took it all the way home to get it framed. That’s a lot of effort for a simple festival poster, which made it even better.

Boy, were we wrong.

Within minutes the messages came flooding in. Not only did dozens of you love the idea of receiving stickers, you asked for them in the most respectful and enthusiastic way. Trust us, that level of excitement combined with kind politeness is like a natural antidepressant.

Then two things happened more or less simultaneously.

The printer mistakenly delivered our order of stickers twice. We figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask if anyone wanted some, but being in a dismal state of mind, we didn’t really expect any replies.

It drove us into this tiny existential crisis. All we could do was sit around contemplating why on earth we were organising a festival and more importantly, for whom. Slightly pathetic, we know, but hey, we’re only human.

We’d like to tell ourselves that we’re tough and seasoned festival organisers who can handle just about anything. But sometimes the world just gets us down. Like last week. Nothing extremely bad happened, but lots of people were being unfriendly and it was just one mishap after another.

This was supposed to be a post about how we’re going to start a Left of the Dial subreddit, but somehow it turned into a story about how much we love and appreciate you. That’s the way things go sometimes. Still, a small warning: if you’re not into that kind of mushy stuff, better stop reading now.

Have we told you lately that we love you?
(Sometimes all it takes is some stickers and a subreddit)

(2/2) Left of the Dial is now a 4-day festival! ❤️

21/22/23/24 October
Rotterdam
www.leftofthedial.nl

(1/2) Left of the Dial is now a 4-day festival! ❤️

21/22/23/24 October
Rotterdam
www.leftofthedial.nl

33 seconds to pick your favourite Left of the Dial 2026 artist so far!

Wesley & The Boys (US)

Find out more about the artists and listen to our Bandcamp, Youtube & Spotify playlists at www.leftofthedial.nl

Left of the Dial
22/23/24 October
Rotterdam
Tickets (€79,50) at leftofthedial.nl

(3/4)Melanie Baker (UK) • Midscale (FR) • Milo Korbenski (UK) • Neve Cariad (UK) • Oslo Twins (UK) • plainhead (DE) • pushbike (UK) • Ringlets (NZ) • Serena Clara (UK) • Stoop Kid (BE) • Thank (UK) • The Jump Cuts (US) • The Sewing Club (US) • Trip Westerns (UK) • TURNSPIT (UK)

(2/4) casual smart (UK) • Common Holly (CA) • Curiosity Shop (UK) • Date Camp (DK) • Flooding (US) • Flowers for the Dead (US) • GARDENS (AT) • Imaginary Husband (UK) • Insider Trading (UK) • Iskandr (NL) • JJ Bull (UK) • Lacuna (UK) • Latter (US) • Lemonsuckr (UK) • lttl mort (UK)

(1/4)
Proudly announcing 41 artists from 11 countries for Left of the Dial 2026! ❤️ A warm Left of the Dial welcome to:
Al Cologne (UK) • Alice Costelloe (UK) • Alien Boy (US) • ashnymph (UK) • AtticOmatic (UK) • Babe Haven (US) • Bathing Suits (UK) • bog band (IE) • Bramwell (UK) • Burglar (IE)

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Left of the Dial Festival
22/23/24 October
Rotterdam
www.leftofthedial.nl

Ticket update!

Hi! Is anyone still on Bluesky?

Timetable update! Download a legible version at leftofthedial.nl/timetable or find it in our TMSQR app!

But for now: ALL HAIL TO THE BLOKKIES!!

leftofthedial.nl/timetable