Best Fit’s secret sessions return to End of the Road Festival for 2026

From late morning until late afternoon across the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the festival we’ll be bringing 15 names from across the incredible line-up together on the piano stage for a series of stripped back sets. We’ve been staging pop-up shows at End of the Road for the past 15 years and if you're lucky then you might have stumbled across Patti Smith reading from Just Kids, John Cale from The Velvet Underground chatting to Ezra Furman, Laura Marling and Marika Hackman covering The Foo Fighters or a now legendary performance of “The Modern Leper” by Frightened Rabbit. Almost 150 artists have taken part in the secret sessions - from modern music legends such as Big Thief, Wilco, The Magnetic Fields, St Vincent, Future Islands, Yo La Tengo, and Perfume Genius to Best Fit favourites Kurt Vile, Lucy Dacus, Soccer Mommy, Courtney Barnett, Yard Act, Kara Jackson, and Moses Sumney. Nothing will be announced ahead of the festival - but we’ll be posting over on Instagram before each set and you might also find the odd note pinned to a tree here and there around the site at Larmer Tree Gardens if you look hard enough. You can watch an exhaustive playlist of filmed performances from th...