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If you like the sound of sets from Lewis Capaldi, The Cure and Teddy Swims then the Isle of Wight Festival might be worth checking out between 18 and 21 June.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Friday's acts include standout emerging talent Teddy Swims and girl group KATSEYE, as well as established artists like Moby.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

The slowly dawning realization that this heavily tattooed white man named Teddy Swims was really going to pull off “Without You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

“That was terrifying,” Swims said when he finished the song — an all-timer of a power ballad with a lengthy chain of custody going back through Carey, Harry Nilsson and the doomed Welsh band Badfinger.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

They haunt me in the stillness and the glare Of desert noontide when the horizon's line Swims faintly throbbing, and my shadow hides Skulking beneath me from the brassy sky.

From Poems by Hay, John