ALSO: The UK's inspirational summer festival combining ideas, music, comedy and wellness alongside adventures in food and nature, has announced the first wave of speakers, performers and experiences for its upcoming 13th edition. ALSO26, taking place 10th - 12th July 2026 at Park Farm, Compton Verney, Warwickshire.

The comedy line-up features headline sets from multi-award-winning political comedian and activist Mark Thomas and lyrical wit from poet Luke Wright in Later Life Letter. 

Also appearing are Elf Lyons and her father, economist Dr Gerard Lyons, for Elfonomics—a unique look at how the world works.

Other comedy highlights include Jane Gregory and Steve Hall testing their marriage in Sounds Like Misophonia, and the return of comedy polymath Robin Ince on the Woods Stage. Plus, for a touch of French flair, Marcel Lucont (pictured) presents his legendary show Cabaret Fantastique, hosts a panel reflecting on 10 Years of Brexit, and for younger audiences presents Les Enfants Terribles 2 - Another Game Show For Awful Children.

The ideas programme features a range of events which could change the fortunes of budding creatives including award-winning writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind Claudia Hammond who presents the psychological toolkit for anyone feeling overwhelmed and  award-winning neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff revealing the power of ‘tiny experiments’ to achieve ambitions. Writers can or join Ben Pester for The Inevitable Writing Workshop or consider how mathematics shapes creativity with Marcus du Sautoy. 

ALSO’s Big Summer Read sees BAFTA-nominated screenwriter and novelist Emma Jane Unsworth discussing her novel SLAGS and visit returning  bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud dispensing personalized Fiction Prescriptions.

ALSO26 is the perfect place to discover new music, providing the serendipitous soundtrack to your summer including a suite of unique experiences from multi-instrumentalist Steve Pretty (Hackney Colliery Band), from a Late Night Live Film Score to an immersive conch shell journey in Shellectronica. 

This 13th edition of ALSO turns the wheel to O Fortuna, and together we’ll playfully explore luck and chance and encounters that ask how much of our fortune is already written and how much luck we can make ourselves. With 13 ways to experience the theme over the weekend, ALSO26 invites you to dive in and choose your own adventure:

• Journey to the edge of human understanding at a Big SciTech session,

• Get to grips with the inner workings of the human mind at a Psych+ talk,

• Delve into the written word at one of our Great Literary talks,

• Discover your new favourite band at a Future Music set,

• Have your ribs tickled at a super-smart comedy show, 

• Re-energise yourself at a wellbeing experience,

• Learn a new skill at a making workshop,

• Enhance your Blue Mind with time spent in, on or by the water, 

• Treat your taste receptors at a dining or tasting experience, 

• Explore mythological forest installations inspired by Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate,

• Perform in the Saturday Night extravaganza,

• Tour the site and beyond on a guided walk or run, 

• Move your body and dance, dance, dance.

TICKETS: www.also-festival.com 

Tier 2 Weekend Tickets are currently available: £180 for adults, £390 for family or £75 for a volunteer ticket for working just one shift. 

Day tickets are also available.

Under 5s go free.

Parking is free but there are also a limited number of car passes available which allow vehicle access to the campsite as well as campervan passes.