Slam Dunk Festival 2023 line-up: Third wave of acts announced including Flogging Molly and The Hunna
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Slam Dunk is returning to Leeds for its 16th year next summer and the organisers have just announced the third wave of acts. The huge independent rock festival takes place across two days at Hatfield Park and then Temple Newsam in Leeds and has a capacity of around 60,000.
Enter Shikari and punk rock royalty The Offspring have already been announced to headline the Slam Dunk festival taking place in May next year, alongside around 22 other acts. But now another wave of huge acts has been released who’ll be performing over the May bank holiday weekend in 2023.
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Hide AdCeltic punk legends, Flogging Molly will be storming their way to make their Slam Dunk Festival debut later next year. With 25 successful years and seven studio albums under their belts, the seven-piece, punk/rock outfit promise to bring along a back catalogue of crowd-pleasing favourites such as ‘Drunken Lullabies’, ‘Devil’s Dance Floor’ and ‘If I Ever Leave This World Alive’ to Leeds and Hatfield next summer.
Renowned for their theatrical and energetic performances, Gogol Bordello lead the way for one of the performances not to be missed at next year’s Slam Dunk Festival. With members hailing from around the world including Ukraine and Ethiopia, the self-proclaimed band of immigrants will bless festival goers with their experimental “gypsy punk” sound next May.
And with a trio of albums in their arsenal which propelled them to global success, The Hunna have firmly cemented themselves as one of the most exciting rock bands around and today have been announced to play at Slam Dunk Festival next year.


Festival favourites, punk-rock four-piece The Menzingers are set to bring their huge frenetic energy back to Slam Dunk Festival as they bid to return to Leeds and Hatfield for 2023. Alongside Boston Manor who will be returning to Slam Dunk festival following their triumphant ‘special guest’ headline slot on The Key Club stage back in 2021.
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Hide AdWhen is Slam Dunk in Leeds 2023
Slam Dunk Festival 2023 will be held at Hatfield Park on Saturday, May 27 and at Temple Newsam on Sunday, May 28.
Full list of confirmed acts for Slam Dunk 2023
Flogging Molly
Gogol Bordello
The Hunna
The Menzingers
Boston Manor,
Wargasm
We Came As Romans
Vukovi
Spanish Love Songs
Static Dress,
Sincere Engineer
Bowling For Soup
Less Than Jake
Billy Talent
Creeper
Four Year Strong
Malevolence
Holding Absence
Trash Boat
Maggie Lindemann
Noahfinnce
Zebrahead
Real Friends
Grayscale
Charlotte Sands
When are tickets on sale?
Tickets are currently on sale on the TicketMaster website.
General admission tickets cost from £97. Packages for weekend tickets, day tickets including afterparties and travel tickets are also available.
Visit the TicketMaster website to purchase tickets.
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