Flow Festival 2026 reveals expanded Front Yard lineup

Helsinki’s Flow Festival returns for its 21st edition Aug. 14-16 at the Suvilahti Power Plant, a former industrial complex near the city center. Flow has been running since 2004, growing from a club event into a festival that draws 90,000 visitors over three days, with a lineup that spans Florence + The Machine, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PinkPantheress, Clipse, and Turnstile alongside its electronic stages.

The Suvilahti Power Plant is a converted industrial complex, and its outdoor spaces and factory architecture give the stages a character distinct from most European festival venues. Flow has always mixed broadly across genres, pairing its electronic side with rock, hip-hop, and pop headliners across the same weekend.

The Front Yard sits within the Power Plant’s outdoor complex, dedicated to continuous electronic music across all three days of the festival. Among the new Front Yard additions is Skream b2b Benga, bringing together two of the architects of dubstep’s South London roots.

The two were central to the genre in its original form, a low-end-heavy sound built around bass pressure and half-time rhythms from London’s underground clubs in the early 2000s, distinct from the louder, commercially driven American variant the term came to describe a decade later. Their b2b reconnects two artists whose collaborations helped define a formative era for the genre.

Ben Klock brings a b2b with Berlin producer Fadi Mohem, one of the city’s more prominent emerging voices in contemporary techno. Rounding out the new additions are French techno producer Anetha, U.K. garage and bass artist Interplanetary Criminal, Patrick Mason, and Berlin-based DJ Gigola.

Flow has a long tradition of dedicating a portion of the Front Yard program to Finland’s electronic music community. This year that section is anchored by Orkidea b2b Lil Tony, pairing one of the country’s most established trance artists with a Helsinki club DJ, two figures who have shaped different corners of the Finnish scene. Alongside them across the three days are Paula Koski, Saffet, Boy Laundry, and Mr. A, with collaborative sets from Ozan b2b Katerina and €TOM b2b C4KE.

Sunday at the Front Yard is turned over to Korgy, a Helsinki-based collective focused on emerging electronic artists and experimental club sounds. Their program features 2THEMAX b2b KEMIK b2b CEB, Noei, Sallidoing, and Lara Silva, a series of sets that reflects the collaborative character of the city’s current nightlife scene.

The new additions join Honey Dijon and KETTAMA, who were part of Flow’s initial Front Yard announcement. Dijon, a Chicago native, builds sets that draw on the Black, queer origins of house music, moving between Chicago classics and modern techno. KETTAMA, an Irish DJ and producer who has become a defining voice of the current European rave revival, works in high-energy techno built for large rooms.

Three-day tickets start at 259 euros; single-day tickets are 159 euros, available at flowfestival.com.