Indie Tribute Festival

About Indie Tribute Festival

At The Drill in Lincoln, Indie Tribute Festival 2026 runs on 02 Oct 2026 as a single-day indie tribute music event. The format is a four-hour live-band, DJ and performer tribute show built around indie and indie rock material. The finish is listed for 23:00. Final Release tickets are listed at £19.80.

Who Is It For?

The room is standing for this event, with an indie-tribute audience skewing to older teens and adults. The event follows the venue’s gig pattern: 14+, with under-16s accompanied by an adult. Under-16s need an accompanying adult.

The Venue and Site

The Drill gives the night its scale. The Lincoln city-centre venue sits on Freeschool Lane in a Grade II listed building dating to 1890, when it was built as a military training drill hall. Its main auditorium has a capacity of around 500.

The Rolling Stones played a New Year’s Eve concert there in 1963. The building closed for refurbishment in 1999, reopened as a community hub and arts centre in 2004, closed again in 2020 and returned to events in 2022 after Lincoln College Group took over in 2021. Access facilities include step-free public areas, accessible toilets and a cloakroom at the box office during events. Loose seats may be available for access needs at some standing events, and the bar service is cashless.

Travel to Indie Tribute Festival

The Drill sits in Lincoln city centre, in Lincolnshire. Lincoln Central is close.

• Rail: Lincoln Central railway station is about 5 minutes’ walk, roughly 450m from the venue.
• Road: Access routes listed for the venue include the A15 from the south via Pelham Bridge, the St Swithin’s Church junction, Silver Street, Freeschool Lane, Rumbold Street and the A46 Lincoln Bypass approach to Lincoln Central.
• Parking: There is no on-site parking. Broadgate Multi-Storey Car Park has 450 spaces and is about 250m, or 3 minutes’ walk, from the venue. An NCP car park also sits next to the venue on Freeschool Lane.
• By road from nearby cities: Lincoln is listed as 41 miles from Nottingham, 58 miles from Sheffield, 51 miles from Peterborough and 75 miles from Leeds.