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Benicassim 2015 lineup

The Benicassim 2015 lineup is widely considered one of the strongest lineups of the mid-2010s, bringing together huge British headliners, global electronic stars and a strong selection of Spanish rock and indie acts. With Blur, The Prodigy, Portishead and Florence + The Machine leading the bill, FIB 2015 delivered four massive headline moments across four nights in the Mediterranean heat.

Crowds arriving for Benicassim 2015 lineup at FIB festival

Reviews from the time consistently praised the atmosphere, the crowds and the variety of genres. Florence’s emotional opening-night headline showed her at her peak, The Prodigy turned Friday into a full-scale rave, Blur performed a powerhouse Saturday set that many fans still call one of FIB’s best ever, and Portishead’s haunting visuals and sound design created an unforgettable, cinematic closer to the festival.

FIB 2015 at a glance

  • Dates: 16–19 July 2015
  • Headliners: Florence + The Machine, The Prodigy, Blur, Portishead
  • Genres: Indie, Rock, Electronic, Pop, Spanish Alternative
  • Other major artists: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Jamie T, Mark Ronson (DJ), Kaiser Chiefs, Public Enemy, Crystal Fighters

Benicassim 2015 lineup by day

Stage times by day

If you want to dive into the detail, we’ve kept the original stage-time pages from 2015. They show who played when on each stage, right through to sunrise:

Thursday stage times /
Friday stage times /
Saturday stage times /
Sunday stage times

Thursday 16 July 2015 – Opening Night

Main performances

  • Florence + The Machine
  • Crystal Fighters
  • Clean Bandit
  • L.A.
  • Swim Deep
  • Elyella DJs
  • Trajano!
  • The Last Dandies
  • Mox Nox
  • Luis Le Nuit

Thursday had a celebratory feel. Florence + The Machine, stepping up after dropping out of Glastonbury the year before, delivered a euphoric headlining set. Emotional vocals, barefoot dancing and huge crowd participation made this a perfect beginning to the festival.

Friday 17 July 2015 – A Night of Anthems & Mayhem

Main sets

  • The Prodigy
  • Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
  • Jamie T
  • Stromae
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  • Palma Violets
  • Brodinski
  • Public Access TV
  • Moodoïd
  • Nunatak

Day two of the festival put the spotlight firmly on the Essex dance legends The Prodigy, with Oasis megastar Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds also high on the bill. It was one of the most talked-about nights of the whole weekend.

Friday belonged to The Prodigy, whose set felt like a flashback to the heyday of late-90s rave culture — lasers, strobe blasts and a crowd that never stopped moving. Noel Gallagher brought stadium-sized singalongs earlier in the night, and Jamie T drew huge support after making a comeback that year.

Stage times snapshot – Friday 17 July 2015

On the ground, Friday’s timetable was packed across the different stages:

  • Las Palmas stage: Nunatak opened around 19:15, followed by Moodoïd and Jamie T, before Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at roughly 23:30–00:40 and The Prodigy closing from about 01:10–02:30, with Brodinski taking things into the early hours.
  • Radio 3 / FIBERFIB stage: acts like Holögrama, Hamsandwich, La Bien Querida and Palma Violets kept the guitars going, with Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing a long late-night set before DJs carried on until after 06:00.
  • Red Bull FIB Club & South Beach: more club-focused sets from bands and DJs such as Public Access T.V., Vessels and Polock indoors, plus Miss_Tra, Pablo Radiola and others soundtracking the beach-club area.
  • Trenchtown areas: Kingston12 and Treasure Beach hosted reggae, dub and soundsystem sessions from midday, with selectors like Glenn Brown, Aunty Shimmy and Outlaw Sound, running all the way through to sunrise with silent cinema and soundclash slots.

For the full hour-by-hour timetable, including every stage and DJ slot, see the dedicated
Friday stage times page and the other daily listings linked above.

Saturday 18 July 2015 – Blur’s Big Return

Notable artists

  • Blur
  • Kaiser Chiefs
  • Mark Ronson (DJ)
  • Tiga (DJ)
  • Los Planetas
  • La M.O.D.A
  • Reverend & The Makers
  • Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
  • Hinds
  • Beach Beach
  • Edu Imbernon
  • Papaya
  • Opatov

Blur delivered one of the defining performances of the whole festival. Opening with “Go Out” and closing with “The Universal”, their FIB 2015 set is still regarded as one of their best Spanish festival appearances. The crowd stretched back as far as the eye could see, singing every word.

Sunday 19 July 2015 – Closing with Portishead

Main acts

  • Portishead
  • Bastille
  • Vetusta Morla
  • FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks)
  • Public Enemy
  • The Cribs
  • MØ
  • A-Trak
  • Madeon
  • Hudson Taylor
  • Novedades Carminha
  • Joe Crepúsculo

Portishead brought a very different energy: noir visuals, glitching projections and Beth Gibbons’ spine-tingling vocals. Critics at the time described it as “art-house cinema on a grand stage”. Earlier, Bastille and FFS pulled big indie crowds, and Public Enemy delivered a politically charged performance.

What Benicassim 2015 felt like

Festival-goers describe FIB 2015 as a perfect balance of nostalgia and new energy. The weather was scorching — daytime highs over 30°C — so most people stayed at the beach until late afternoon before returning to the arena. Nights were long, stretching to nearly sunrise, especially during the DJ-led late stages.

Blur and The Prodigy were widely considered the best of the headliners, while Florence’s opener set the emotional tone for the weekend. Many Spanish fans still call 2015 one of their favourite editions thanks to big national acts like Los Planetas, La M.O.D.A and Novedades Carminha.

Reviews from NME, Gigwise and MusicFestivalWizard all highlight the same thing:
FIB 2015 felt like one of the festival’s last truly “classic indie years” before the lineup shifted more toward pop and electronic names in later editions.

Further reading & archives

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