Spring Attitude 2026

A major milestone, that of the fifteenth birthday, anything but a given when you take on the experience of organizing a music festival. Spring Attitude gets there via a path along which it has managed to transform itself without ever losing its identity: launched as an event fundamentally tied to the electronic scene, over time it has had the foresight to absorb a series of cross-contaminations that have allowed it to broaden its stylistic range, massively expanding its audience. And it gets there having also changed venue several times, each one more beautiful, majestic and prestigious than the last, but the one that has been Spring Attitude's new home since 2025 outdoes all the previous ones for sheer emotional impact. Fuksas's La Nuvola, one of the architectural jewels of the Eur district, which on this occasion also marks Spring Attitude's return to its natural seasonal home, the month of May, after spending a few years occupying a September weekend instead. May, spring, Spring, a moment of rebirth, of new blossoming.

So this is a Spring Attitude that, for the first time, arrives just a few months after the previous edition, held only nine months ago. This fifteenth edition has been put together with great awareness: Spring Attitude in Rome is now a sure thing, audiences buy tickets sight unseen, and indeed early bird sales, boosted by a decidedly attractive price, lower than practically all its European competitors, went extremely well - a big injection of confidence for Andrea Esu, the artistic director, and his seasoned staff.
The lineup has been developed along two very clearly defined lines. The afternoon of Spring Attitude 2026 is dedicated to some of the most interesting Italian female-led projects of the moment. For a few years now, a genuinely significant new generation of Italian singer-songwriters has been emerging, each with her own distinctive traits. Five of the best are here, and Spring Attitude deserves credit for giving them a dedicated space that opens both days (Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th of May), featuring Birthh, Lamante, Gaia Banfi, Altea and Emma Nolde. Some more energetic (Birthh and Emma Nolde), some more introspective (Gaia Banfi and Altea), some with darker tones (Lamante at times reminded us of Chelsea Wolfe), all with real international potential. Five flawless sets.

The second line follows the late-night and after-hours slots, in keeping with Spring Attitude's founding nature, the electronic side, which the festival leans into especially on Saturday, with the wildly colourful show from Argentina's Nathy Peluso (who presented her Club Grasa show), the dj set from ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, fresh off Coachella and set to play Primavera Sound in Barcelona the following week - one of the most in-demand names behind the decks these past few months - and the live set from the thoroughly Italian Mind Enterprises, who also played both Coachella weekends in April, orbiting a sound built entirely around the Eighties.
Naturally, electronic music was well represented on Friday too, with a dj set from Parisi (whom we'd seen last summer at the Auditorium's Cavea alongside Fred Again..) and a live set from OKGiorgio, who after an opening quarter-hour built around three synths and a straight four-on-the-floor kick, branched off in several directions, with two drum kits on stage, guitar sketching out the melodic lines, and onstage improvisation that culminated in the live creation of a brand new track, starting from a phrase spoken by a fan into the mic, then looped - something OKGiorgio has been repeating at every date of the tour, so the end result might just be an album made of live-improvised tracks.

Between these two main directions, there's also room for Italian artists able to draw a broad audience, whether because they're genuine mainstream phenomena (as with the crowd-pleasing live sets of Tony Pitony and Nu Genea), or because they're artists who always draw huge attention from the Spring crowd (as with Motta, who packed the Spring stage for the tenth anniversary of “La fine dei vent'anni”, just like Tony Pitony and Nu Genea). Then there are the more niche picks: on Friday the Dutch outfit Yin Yin, with their guitar-driven psych-disco-funk groove steeped in Eastern flavours, and on Saturday the French trio Dov'è Liana, purveyors of a playful, danceable electro-lounge-pop. All of this takes place inside La Nuvola, in the Ploom Stage, a huge indoor space holding over ten thousand people. Outside, on the building's terrace, a second stage is set up, called S/A Block Party, hosting DJ sets only, from 5:30pm until well past midnight; this year's line-up featured Bluemarina, Manusol, Marco Passarani, Jason K, Palms Trax and Ben Sterling.

Looking up, it's impossible to miss the aesthetic, Instagram-ready appeal of Fuksas's La Nuvola, which after sunset turns a gorgeous shade of blue and pink, creating an incredible visual effect further amplified by the dense crowds packed into every corner. It's a genuinely moving experience, one that leaves the audience with a clear tinge of melancholy as it winds down ("is it over already?"), along with a widespread hope that an event like this can keep happening indefinitely, rather than come to an abrupt halt like other Italian success stories unfortunately have (just think of the end of TOdays in Turin, or of Siren in Vasto). Precisely to avoid risks of this kind, festivals like Spring Attitude need to be followed and supported, not only by those who attend them, but even more so by institutions and by all the bodies capable of guaranteeing long-term continuity for projects of this complexity.
The fifteenth spring ends here, and we'll close with the words that wrap up the closing press release: "Fifteen years after its birth, Spring Attitude continues to stand out for its ability to hold different worlds together: major players on the international scene alongside new projects, club culture and songcraft, artistic exploration and audience participation. An identity that, year after year, helps make it one of the most recognisable fixtures of Rome's and Italy's cultural season."

(Photo by Claudio Lancia)

Day 1 – Friday 29 May

PLOOM STAGE

6.00pm – 6.40pm – Birthh

6.55pm – 7.40pm – Lamante

8.00pm – 9.15pm – Tony Pitony (live full band)

9.35pm – 10.30pm – Yin Yin

10:50pm – 12:20am – Nu Genea

12.40am – 2.25am – OKGiorgio

2.40am – 4.00am – Parisi

S/A BLOCK PARTY

5.30pm – 8.00pm – Bluemarina

20:00 – 22:00 – Manusol

22:00 – 00:30 – Marco Passarani

Day 2 – Saturday 30 May

PLOOM STAGE

17:45 – 18:25 – Gaia Banfi

18:35 – 19:15 – Altea

19:30 – 20:25 – Emma Nolde

20:40 – 21:40 – Motta (playing “The End of Your Twenties”)

21:50 – 23:20 – Nathy Peluso presents Club Grasa (DJ set)

23:30 – 00:40 – Where's Liana

00:50 – 02:00 – Mind Enterprises (live)

02:00 – 04:00 – ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U

S/A BLOCK PARTY

17:30 – 20:30 – Jason K

8:30pm – 10:30pm – Palms Trax 10:30pm – 12:30am – Ben Sterling

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CONTACTS:
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