UPDATED: Les Nuits Weekender are back: Check the programme
30-31 October - 1 November 2026
Brussels is getting ready for another intense weekend of musical discovery. Les Nuits Weekender returns to Botanique from 30 October to 1 November 2026, bringing together nearly 40 artists for three days of concerts across the venue’s intimate spaces.
The younger sibling of the long-running Les Nuits Botanique festival, Les Nuits Weekender has quickly established its own identity. Rather than building its programme around conventional festival headliners, the Weekender focuses heavily on emerging artists, alternative sounds and performers pushing the boundaries between genres. This year, audiences can expect everything from jazz and R&B to hip-hop, electronic music, experimental pop, indie rock and spoken word.
Friday: jazz, R&B and alternative soul
Friday 30 October opens the weekend with one of its most distinctive performances: IAMDDB: The Live Jazz Experience.
The Manchester-based artist has built her sound around the meeting point between jazz, neo-soul, hip-hop and R&B, and this special live concept puts the jazz dimension of her music firmly in the spotlight.
UPDATE: Today, we’re unveiling the complete line-up for 30 October, with some final additions Three new names have been added to the program: rising UK bedroom drill rapper Ledbyher, rootsy soul singer IYAMAH and Brussels’ very own transdisciplinary artist leïla alice. Sadly, Natanya is no longer able to perform.
Saturday: The Avalanches lead an eclectic second day
Saturday shifts the festival towards electronic music, indie, hip-hop and experimental pop, led by arguably the most internationally established name on the 2026 bill: The Avalanches.
The influential Australian group transformed sample-based electronic music with their landmark debut Since I Left You, creating densely layered tracks from fragments of existing recordings. Their appearance at Les Nuits Weekender also marks their first Belgian show in more than four years.
But Saturday is far from a one-act affair. Antony Szmierek brings his unusual combination of spoken-word storytelling, electronic music and dancefloor energy, while Magi Merlin moves between alternative R&B, electronic production and indie influences.
The programme also features Robber Robber, Konradsen, Hether, Momoko Gill, KatzPascale, Rian Brazil, Fade Evare, Swapmeet, Victoryland and RIP Magic, making Saturday perhaps the best snapshot of what Les Nuits Weekender is all about: putting established cult names alongside artists audiences may be encountering for the first time.
Sunday: into the avant-indie underground
For its final day on Sunday 1 November, the festival dives deeper into experimental and alternative territory.
One of the main attractions is Chanel Beads, the project led by Shane Lavers, whose music sits somewhere between experimental pop, lo-fi indie and deconstructed songwriting. After previously appearing at Les Nuits Weekender in 2024, Chanel Beads returns in 2026 as one of the festival's leading names.
Also high on the Sunday bill is ear, while Space Afrika will bring an audiovisual performance to Botanique. The wider programme stretches across electronic, experimental, folk, pop and rock, with A Good Year, bloodsports, Camille Keller, feeo, Lindy Versyck, Loukeman, MGNA Crrrta, Patch+, Quiet Light, Superfan, weed420 and Worldpeace DMT completing a packed final day.
Belgian artists to watch
The international line-up also leaves room for talent from the Belgian scene. One name to keep an eye on is Lindy Versyck, frontwoman of Belgian trio TJE, who steps into the spotlight with her solo project on Sunday. Moving through experimental electronic music, layered textures and abstract soundscapes, Versyck uses her voice as the guiding thread of an intimate and immersive live universe. She arrives at Les Nuits Weekender during an exciting period for TJE too, following the release of their 2026 debut album SCHADE. Also closely connected to the local scene is Camille Keller, a French-born, Brussels-based singer-songwriter and producer whose music explores a darker, experimental hybrid of R&B. Together, they add a distinctly Brussels-and-Belgian-scene dimension to a programme built around musical discovery.
Three days made for musical discovery
There is a clear progression across the weekend. Friday leans towards jazz, R&B and soul; Saturday expands into electronic music, indie and genre-blurring pop; and Sunday pushes further into avant-indie and experimental sounds.
And that diversity may be the strongest reason to experience Les Nuits Weekender as a full three-day festival rather than simply choosing a headliner.
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