Hockley Hustle 2026: 20 years of hustling. Sunday 25 October 2026.
A multi-venue music and arts festival.
Hundreds of artists. One wristband.
Your wristband gets you into every one: bars, pubs, cinemas, chapels, galleries and more. See them all
Notts talent from rock, jazz and samba to poetry, bingo and performance art.
Every wristband raises money for local charities. Meet them
Wristbands
Advance price.
£25 on the day.
One wristband gets you into every venue. Swap your ticket for it at Broadway Cinema on the day. Good to know
See who's playing, where and when. Save the acts and venues you fancy and your day builds itself.
Every set at every venue on one timeline, so you can see the clashes before you’re stood in the wrong room.
Open the clashfinderAll for charity
Every year since 2006. The Hustle has always been a charity festival. Your wristband is the donation.
£11,239 of our £20,000 target so far. £14 of every £20 wristband goes to this year's charities: Emmanuel House, IMPACD CIC, Al-Hurraya, Harley Trust, Young Carers Notts and Shifting your mindset.
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Save the acts you fancy, see your day in time order, send it to your mates. Open My Hustle
Pick a mood and the list narrows to the venues that fit.
Tap the bookmark and the set lands in My Hustle, in time order.
A lineup
Afternoon
Pubkid
singer-songwriter delivering heartfelt acoustic songs with honest lyrics, strong melodies and a raw sound
Singer-songwriterAcoustic
Your planner
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Their day
1:30pm – 8:30pm
Top genre
Soul
See the 11 sets
- 1:30pmJimi Strange · Cosmos Coffee
- 2pmOpen Mic · 31K
- 2:30pmChristina Simpson · Cosmos Coffee
- 3:30pmChris Oliver · 31K
- 6:05pmMegs · 31K
- 6:30pmThe Most Ugly Child · Broadway Cinema
- 6:50pmDead Animals · Billy Bootleggers Downstairs
- 7:30pmNina Smith · Broadway Cinema
- 7:55pmIdiocy · Billy Bootleggers Downstairs
- 8pmNeo Soul Cypher with DJ JAMS · 31K
- 8:30pmNikko · Broadway Cinema
A samba parade, a line-dancing flashmob on Broad Street, UFO Orchestra in St Mary’s and twenty years of Hustle on the gallery walls.
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What it's like
“There are community festivals and then there is
“I felt engaged, at home, and included.”
The Mic Magazine “Nothing short of staggeringly impressive.”
Impact Magazine “An absolute fixture in our diary.”
A venue partner
We put all our artists into one playlist. Give it a listen and hear what Hockley sounds like this year.
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