The Fierce And The Dead and Brontide among first bands announced for Portals 2025

Portals Festival, the UK's leading post-rock, math rock and new progressive festival held in London in May, has revealed the first batch of bands for next year's event including The Fierce And The Dead, the recently reformed math/post-rock legends Brontide and Cats And Cats And Cats and Japanese jazz/post-rock pioneers Mouse On The Keys.

This year's Portals Festival takes place at EartH in Hackney, London on the weekend of May 24-25, with the headline acts yet to be announced

"Brontide will perform on Saturday May 24 for this first performance in London since their farewell show in 2017, while Tokyo jazz/post-rock pioneers Mouse On the Keys will perform on Sunday May 25," the organisers say.

"Also announced are London math-rock legends Cats And Cats And Cats, another recently reformed band. Their set at Portals will be an exclusive performance of their debut album Sweet Drunk Everyone played in full with an extended ensemble.

"Joining them are London prog rock legends The Fierce and the Dead, Bristol experimental-rock band The Brackish, Japanese minimalist math-rock maestros Oavette & London emo/math-rock quartet Fly Fly Triceratops."

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Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.