Stag And Dagger

Wire, Toro Y Moi, Ghostpoet, Cocknbullkid, New Young Pony Club, Banjo Or Freakout, Dels, D/R/U/G/S, Fiction, Beaty Heart. The trendsetting festival with the highbrow aspirations and the pagan-looking logo (which would look awesome on the cover of a Nazareth greatest hits) returns to Shoreditch, the capital's fashionable hair-packing district. Stag and Dagger's USP is its twin focus on visual arts as well as independent music, this year inviting the angular, supernaturally influential Brit-punk originals Wire, South Carolinan psych-popper TYM, young Coventry MC Ghostpoet and Anita Blay, aka the silky-vocaled, sassy Cocknbullkid, among others.