Dust & Beau

Artist Guide

Dust & Beau arrived in the LOCUS orbit through the 2025 lineup as first-time performers, which already framed them as discovery material rather than safe heritage programming. That is useful for 2026 because every multi-day festival needs a few acts whose strongest pitch is not years of brand recognition but the feeling that something is still being actively formed.

Their own Ticket Fairy interview language points toward basslines made for movement and sets loaded with unreleased or just-finished material. That tells you the angle immediately: freshness, club utility and enough confidence to put new music under a festival crowd. The duo also fit the more flexible side of LOCUS programming, where drum and bass touches adjacent bass culture rather than living in strict isolation.

A return booking straight after a debut suggests LOCUS liked what happened. That alone is worth noting. For the trip crew, Dust & Beau are one of the stronger 'catch them while the story is still building' names on the lineup. If the weekend wants at least one moment where you can say you heard future material before it had a finished public life, this is a sensible place to look.