Sunday at Plumpton Revival 2026 has arrived — and nobody is allowed to start talking about packing the tent away yet. 😂⛺
After a full weekend of peace signs, blues riffs, psychedelic nostalgia, circus madness and enough retro clothing to make Plumpton Racecourse look like somebody accidentally reopened 1970, we’ve reached the final full day of the Revival.
And Sunday 9th August isn’t quietly slipping out of the back door either.
Ohhhhh no.
We’ve got Think Floyd closing the Main Stage, Who’s Next, The Milk Men, Laurence Jones, Gary Cain, a full Second Stage programme, festival cinema and an evening Comedy Tent headlined by none other than Basil Brush.
Yes.
Basil. Bloody. Brush.
BOOM BOOM! 😂🔥
Get the coffee down you, locate whatever remains of your festival legs and prepare for one last massive day.
Here is The Riff Report’s full guide to Sunday at Plumpton Revival 2026!
🌼 SUNDAY 9TH AUGUST 2026
📍 Plumpton Racecourse, East Sussex
Sunday’s published programme gives us action across:
🎸 Main Stage
🔥 Second Stage
😂 Comedy Tent
🎬 Festival Cinema
Plus all the additional circus, retro and immersive entertainment scattered around Plumpton Revival.
And we’ve got the actual running order.
So screenshot it.
Bookmark it.
Tattoo it onto your mate if necessary.
Here we go!
🎸🔥 MAIN STAGE
Sunday’s Main Stage is absolutely dripping with blues-rock, psychedelic sounds and classic festival nostalgia.
🎸 12:15–13:15 — LEWIS HENRY FLOYD
Sunday gets underway with Lewis Henry Floyd, described as a one-man psychedelic blues-rock machine.
That’s a fairly spectacular way of announcing yourself before most of us have even finished the first coffee.
Expect blues, psychedelic flavours, raw guitar work and plenty of attitude to wake Plumpton up.
Sunday has officially started.
🔥 13:45–14:30 — HOT PROPERTY
Next up we’ve got Hot Property.
Young rock ‘n’ rollers bringing vintage swagger to a festival literally built around celebrating the golden age of British rock?
That’s a tidy booking.
Expect youthful energy mixed with old-school rock ‘n’ roll spirit.
Get down early and support the next generation keeping guitar music alive. 🤘
🎸 15:00–16:00 — GARY CAIN
Canadian guitarist Gary Cain takes over at 3pm.
And now things could get seriously tasty.
Cain’s reputation is built around fiery guitar playing that stretches blues into rock, funk and plenty more besides.
Festival field.
Big amplifier.
Ridiculously talented guitarist.
You know the drill.
Get near the front.
🔥 16:30–17:30 — LAURENCE JONES
Here’s another one for the guitar lovers.
Laurence Jones hits the Main Stage at 4:30pm.
The multi-award-winning British blues-rock guitarist has spent years building a reputation as one of the country’s most exciting modern blues players.
Expect riffs.
Expect solos.
Expect someone approximately three rows from the front to stare at the fretboard for the entire performance trying to work out how the hell he’s doing it.
😂🎸
🎯 18:00–19:00 — WHO’S NEXT
This one feels particularly special.
Who’s Next bring the music of The Who roaring back across Plumpton Racecourse.
Why does that matter?
Because The Who themselves played this very festival site during its original legendary era.
There’s something wonderfully full-circle about hearing those songs blasting across Plumpton again decades later.
Expect enormous anthems, explosive rock ‘n’ roll energy and plenty of windmill guitar action.
Just don’t smash the guitar afterwards.
Have you seen the price of them these days?! 😂
🥛🔥 19:30–20:30 — THE MILK MEN
At 7:30pm, it’s time for The Milk Men.
With multiple UK Blues Award nominations behind them, these boys know exactly how to deliver blues-rock with hooks, groove and proper live energy.
By this point Sunday should be absolutely flying.
Grab something cold.
Find your mates.
Get yourself back towards the Main Stage.
Because we’ve only got one more act after this…
🌈🔥 21:00–22:00 — THINK FLOYD — SUNDAY HEADLINERS
And what better way could there possibly be to finish Plumpton Revival?
Think Floyd.
Pink Floyd’s music.
At Plumpton Racecourse.
That’s history coming around for another lap.
Pink Floyd played at Plumpton during the original festival era, and decades later their music returns to the racecourse through one of Britain’s best-established Pink Floyd tribute acts.
Expect the atmosphere to change completely when darkness falls.
The psychedelic sounds.
The lights.
Those enormous Floyd compositions floating across the Sussex countryside.
Songs associated with albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are practically built for moments like this.
Close your eyes for a second and imagine hearing those sounds drifting across the same racecourse where British rock history was being made more than half a century ago.
That’s goosebumps territory, mun.
🌈🎸🔥
Think Floyd — 21:00–22:00
Sunday headliners.
Festival closers.
Don’t miss it.
🔥 SECOND STAGE
And don’t make the mistake of spending the entire day glued to the Main Stage.
Because Sunday’s Second Stage is absolutely rammed.
⏰ FULL SECOND STAGE RUNNING ORDER
🎸 12:00–12:30 — Jam Session
🎸 13:00–13:30 — R.A.D
🔥 14:00–15:00 — Lee Ainsley’s Blues Storm
🎸 15:30–16:30 — Conor Hughes
🎤 17:00–18:00 — Samuel Ashton & The Instincts
🔥 18:30–19:30 — Burning Rope
⚡ 20:00–21:00 — Lewis Floyd Henry Experience
That’s seven performances across the day and a cracking alternative programme if you fancy exploring beyond the Main Stage.
🎸 12:00–12:30 — JAM SESSION
Sunday starts with an old-fashioned Jam Session.
No enormous production.
No messing around.
Just musicians getting together and seeing what happens.
Blues and rock were built on this stuff.
Grab a coffee and start Sunday properly.
⚡ 13:00–13:30 — R.A.D
At 1pm, R.A.D take over for a half-hour set before the Second Stage starts stretching into longer performances.
If you’re wandering the site around lunchtime, stick your head in.
Festival discoveries often happen completely by accident.
🌩️ 14:00–15:00 — LEE AINSLEY’S BLUES STORM
Now that is a name that sounds like it should come with a Met Office warning.
**LEE AINSLEY’S BLUES STORM IS APPROACHING PLUMPTON.
EXPECT HEAVY RIFFS WITH OCCASIONAL THUNDER.**
😂⚡
They’ve got an hour to bring the grit, groove and blues thunder.
🎸 15:30–16:30 — CONOR HUGHES
Bristol-born guitarist Conor Hughes follows at 3:30pm, bringing soul, jazz influences and R&B into Sunday’s increasingly varied Second Stage programme.
Exactly the sort of set where you wander over intending to watch ten minutes…
…then suddenly realise you’ve been there for the whole hour.
🎤 17:00–18:00 — SAMUEL ASHTON & THE INSTINCTS
Things get soulful at 5pm with Samuel Ashton & The Instincts.
Classic R&B warmth and a soulful vocal sound should provide a cracking change of pace before Sunday evening starts getting considerably louder.
🔥 18:30–19:30 — BURNING ROPE
Burning Rope arrive at 6:30pm with blues-rock and progressive firepower.
This is exactly the sort of band The Riff Report would recommend catching if your musical requirements basically amount to:
“Does it have guitars?”
Yes?
Lovely.
We’re there. 🤘
⚡ 20:00–21:00 — LEWIS FLOYD HENRY EXPERIENCE
And Lewis isn’t finished after opening the Main Stage.
At 8pm, the Lewis Floyd Henry Experience closes Sunday’s Second Stage programme.
Expect Hendrix spirit, psychedelic guitar fireworks and one final enormous blast before everyone heads towards Think Floyd for the festival finale.
That makes this potentially one of Sunday’s best stage-to-stage combinations:
⚡ 20:00 — Lewis Floyd Henry Experience
then…
🌈 21:00 — Think Floyd
Psychedelic heaven.
😂🔥 COMEDY TENT
Need to give your neck a break?
Sunday’s Comedy Tent starts with festival cinema before turning into a full evening of comedy, magic and absolute nonsense.
Which sounds perfect.
🎬 12:00–18:00 — FESTIVAL CINEMA
The tent begins the day as the Festival Cinema, showing footage celebrating the legendary festival culture of the ’60s and ’70s.
It’s also an excellent opportunity to sit down.
Never underestimate the importance of sitting down on festival Sunday.
By this point, an available chair can look more valuable than a winning lottery ticket.
😂 SUNDAY COMEDY RUNNING ORDER
🎤 18:00 — Craig Campbell — Host
🎩 18:10–18:30 — Azaria & Luke M&D Show — Magic and Danger
😂 18:30–18:50 — Matt Gifford
🎤 18:50–19:00 — Martyn Bonner
😂 19:00–19:10 — Craig Campbell
☘️ 19:10–19:30 — Irish
😂 19:30–20:00 — Tony Law
🦊🔥 20:00–21:00 — Basil Brush Adult Show
Yep.
You read that final one correctly.
🦊🔥 20:00–21:00 — BASIL BRUSH ADULT SHOW
What a gloriously bizarre festival booking.
The legendary Basil Brush headlines Sunday’s Comedy Tent with an adult show.
Forget Pink Floyd.
Forget The Who.
Forget Black Sabbath.
Plumpton’s most dangerous booking might actually be a fox.
😂🦊
If you’ve only ever known Basil from children’s television, seeing what happens when the famous fox is unleashed on an adult festival audience could be absolutely priceless.
BOOM BOOM!
🎪 AND THERE’S STILL MORE…
Remember, Plumpton Revival isn’t simply a collection of stages.
The entire site has been designed around celebrating the culture and atmosphere of the late ’60s and early ’70s.
Across Sunday you can also expect the wider festival experience including:
🎪 Circus entertainment
🔥 Fire and magic performances
🤹 Jugglers and performers
🎨 Face and body art
🕹️ Retro gaming
🎡 Retro funfair attractions
🛍️ Vintage and artisan stalls
🍔 Food
🍺 Real ale and cider
🕺 Funk, soul, Motown and disco
🎬 Festival cinema
🌼 Walkabout performers
Basically, wandering between stages is half the adventure.
⚠️ SUNDAY CLASH WATCH!
Now we get to the painful bit.
Festival clashes.
There are a few decisions to make.
🔥 Laurence Jones 16:30–17:30 overlaps with Conor Hughes 15:30–16:30 right at the changeover.
🎸 Who’s Next 18:00–19:00 overlaps with the start of Burning Rope 18:30–19:30.
🥛 The Milk Men 19:30–20:30 overlap with Tony Law 19:30–20:00 and the beginning of Basil Brush at 20:00.
And the big one…
⚡ Lewis Floyd Henry Experience — 20:00–21:00
🦊 Basil Brush Adult Show — 20:00–21:00
Both finish just as…
🌈 Think Floyd — 21:00–22:00
begins.
Choices, choices.
This is why festival schedules cause arguments. 😂
🤘🔥 THE RIFF REPORT SUNDAY GAME PLAN
If we were attacking Sunday, here’s how we’d do it.
☕ Morning: Coffee. Bacon. Regret nothing.
🎸 12:00: Wander into the Jam Session.
🔥 12:15: Lewis Henry Floyd on the Main Stage.
🎸 13:45: Hot Property.
🌩️ 14:00: Catch some Lee Ainsley’s Blues Storm.
🎸 15:00: Gary Cain.
🔥 16:30: Laurence Jones.
🎯 18:00: Who’s Next.
🥛 19:30: The Milk Men.
⚡ 20:00: Lewis Floyd Henry Experience — or Basil Brush if you’re feeling particularly chaotic.
🌈 21:00: THINK FLOYD.
Then stand there afterwards refusing to accept that the weekend is over.
Standard procedure.
🌼 FROM PINK FLOYD TO THINK FLOYD
There’s something genuinely special about Sunday’s finale.
Plumpton Racecourse isn’t pretending to have musical history.
It actually has it.
The original National Jazz, Blues & Pop Festival brought some astonishing musicians to this patch of Sussex during 1969 and 1970.
Pink Floyd.
The Who.
Black Sabbath.
Deep Purple.
Yes.
Peter Green.
King Crimson.
And many more.
Those names weren’t necessarily the untouchable legends we think of today.
Some were bands still becoming legends.
And that’s what makes Plumpton fascinating.
You’re standing on ground where a huge part of British festival culture was still figuring itself out.
🎸🔥 THE RIFF REPORT VERDICT
Sunday is a belter.
You’ve got contemporary blues.
You’ve got psychedelic rock.
You’ve got young bands.
You’ve got veteran performers.
You’ve got tributes celebrating artists directly connected with Plumpton’s extraordinary history.
You’ve got comedy.
You’ve got circus performers.
You’ve got festival cinema.
You’ve got Basil Brush doing an adult show, because apparently reality has peaked.
😂🦊
And then at 9pm, everyone gets one final opportunity to gather around the Main Stage.
Think Floyd take over.
The lights go down.
The music goes up.
And Pink Floyd’s songs once again drift across Plumpton Racecourse.
More than half a century separates the original festival from this Revival.
Different bands.
Different audience.
Different world.
But ultimately, the reason everyone came here hasn’t changed.
Music.
Community.
Discovery.
A field full of people who simply bloody love live music.
And maybe that’s the best tribute Plumpton could possibly give its past.
Not trying to recreate 1969 exactly.
But remembering what made it special.
🌼 Peace.
❤️ Love.
🎸 Riffs.
🍺 Questionable camping decisions.
🦊 And apparently Basil Brush.
Sunday at Plumpton Revival 2026 — let’s finish this thing LOUD! 🤘🔥
Proudly Welsh. Proudly Loud. See you in the field!
