This weekend, Team LOUD WOMEN are making noise on both sides of the Atlantic.
While our UK team heads to LOUD WOMEN Fest Dublin for our first ever Irish Fest, our West Coast US team will be at Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine, California – and we are extremely excited about this one.
Presented by Olivia Rodrigo, the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields takes over Great Park on Saturday 29 August, bringing together an extraordinary cross-generational lineup of women artists for a festival built around music, creativity, community and action.
Olivia Rodrigo + Chappell Roan + Doechii + Mitski + Garbage + Bikini Kill + The Breeders + Santigold + Die Spitz + Rachel Chinouriri + Eli + Quiet Light + Not For Radio + Devon Again, with Rodrigo joined by special guests Karen O + Sarah McLachlan + Stevie Nicks.
Devon Again is a last-minute addition after KATSEYE had to withdraw while Megan recovers from a sprained ankle – wishing her a speedy recovery. The newly updated Daisy Chain Fields schedule runs across the Dandelion and Marigold stages, with the sets alternating so audiences can follow the whole day rather than choosing between clashing artists.
Big-stage sisterhood
There’s something particularly significant about Daisy Chain Fields happening in 2026.
This feels like a year when women in music are very visibly pulling together: looking backwards to the women who kicked doors open, sideways to support each other now, and forwards to the artists coming next. Seeing some of the biggest stars in the music industry using their enormous platforms to celebrate women’s creativity, activism and collective power feels both timely and genuinely exciting.
At LOUD WOMEN, of course, we’ve been banging this particular drum at grassroots level for more than a decade.
We started in 2015 with a very simple mission: put more women on more stages. Since then, our intersectional feminist community has grown from one London club night into an international network of gigs, festivals, media and radio, championing women, trans and non-binary artists and connecting grassroots scenes around the world.
For years we’ve heard the same tired excuses around festival lineups: there aren’t enough women to book, there aren’t enough women who can headline, there aren’t enough women who will sell tickets.
Turns out there are.
It is thrilling to see artists with the reach of Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Mitski and their peers flying that flag on the biggest stages too – and doing it alongside women whose work helped create the space they now occupy.
Sarah McLachlan brings a direct connection to the legacy of Lilith Fair. Bikini Kill bring the DIY feminist lineage that has inspired generations of musicians, promoters and activists. Stevie Nicks, Karen O, Garbage and The Breeders connect decades of women refusing to be pushed to the edges of music culture.
This isn’t about replacing one hierarchy with another. It’s about what happens when women make space for each other.
Sisterhood and solidarity on this scale? We love to see it.
From riot grrrl to right now
That history is woven into Daisy Chain Fields beyond the music stages too.
Running alongside the festival at Great Park Gallery is GRRRL GERMS: Punk feminism goes viral, 1991–2026, an exhibition tracing 35 years of riot grrrl through music, zines, flyers, grassroots organising and international networks.
That link between DIY culture and what is happening on a huge festival stage in 2026 feels especially important to us.
Riot grrrl was never only about bands. It was about women finding each other, sharing resources, making their own media, putting on their own shows, creating networks and deciding they didn’t need to wait for somebody else to give them permission.
Sound familiar?
Daisy Chain Fields also places activism at the heart of the event, with women- and girls-focused nonprofit organisations, women-led businesses and makers, art and creative spaces throughout the festival.
At a time when the rights of women, girls and LGBTQ+ people are under very real pressure, there is power in artists using their platforms not simply to make statements, but to bring people together.
Meanwhile, LOUD WOMEN is everywhere
Daisy Chain Fields also lands right in the middle of what has become an absolutely enormous year for LOUD WOMEN.
While Lindsay Marciano represents our West Coast team in California this Saturday, the rest of us will be at LOUD WOMEN Fest Dublin on 29 August, with Bill Ricky + DC Dolls + Dose + FOSFÍN + Holy Show + I, Doris + Molly Vulpyne + Second Idol + Taylor D.
And then we barely stop:
- 2 September – LOUD WOMEN Edinburgh at the Banshee Labyrinth: Second Idol + SheBeat + YIOTA + Von Dodds.
- 3 September – Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Northern Ireland at London’s Vagina Museum, with LOUD WOMEN founder Cassie Fox joining the post-screening discussion.
- 4 September – DOLLHOUSE: Gothfrog x LOUD WOMEN at ARC:hive in Liverpool.
- 5 September – LOUD WOMEN Fest London at Rich Mix: our 11th London Fest, with 19 artists across two stages and our most international lineup yet.
- 6 September – LOUD WOMEN Brighton at the Prince Albert, with Bullshit Boy + Lilith Left the Garden + Second Idol + Playing Alice + WREX.
- 6 September – LOUD WOMEN Canterbury at the Lady Luck: Bill Ricky + Luxury Nan Smell + The Calaveras + WREX + French Toast, and it’s free.
- 3 October – LOUD WOMEN Fest Newport at Le Pub, bringing our first Welsh Fest to two stages.
- 10 October – LOUD WOMEN’s 11th birthday party at the Hope & Anchor in London: Alexandra Leaving + Lola Pony + I, Doris + Gemma Rogers + one secret fishy guest.
- 11 October – LOUD WOMEN Canterbury at the Lady Luck: Bugeye + Ode To Sleep + Angered Kenneth + Lori.
- 24 October – LOUD WOMEN Fest Halifax at the Seahorse Tavern, returning to Nova Scotia after our sold-out Halifax debut.
- 6 November – LOUD WOMEN Fest Toronto at Baby G – our first Toronto Fest.
- 7 November – LOUD WOMEN Fest Colorado at the Fox Theatre in Boulder.
- 14 November – LOUD WOMEN Fest Tokyo at Shinjuku MARZ – our first Fest in Japan.
- Then it’s Australia: Gadigal/Sydney on 21 November, Naarm/Melbourne on 22 November and Meanjin/Brisbane on 29 November.
From tiny DIY rooms to major international festival stages, it all comes back to the same thing: putting women on stages, giving artists space, building connections and showing what becomes possible when we support each other rather than compete for scraps.
We’ve been building that world from the grassroots up for 11 years. Seeing some of music’s biggest stars championing the same spirit of sisterhood and solidarity makes us feel extremely hopeful about where things might be heading.
This Saturday, LOUD WOMEN’s Lindsay Marciano will be on the ground at Daisy Chain Fields, taking it all in for us.
We cannot wait to hear what it looks, sounds and feels like when women take up the whole damn field.
Watch this space for our Daisy Chain Fields review after the weekend.