Lincoln Castle has added two big names to its 2027 summer concert series, and they sit at opposite ends of the bill. Robert Plant, the 78-year-old former Led Zeppelin frontman, and the Manchester indie band Courteeners are the latest headliners confirmed for the 14-night run, which returns to the castle grounds in association with Lincolnshire County Council and promoters Live Nation Cuffe and Taylor.
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Courteeners open the new additions on Friday 11 June, bringing The Coral and The Guest List along as special guests. It is a bit of a homecoming for the band, which Liam Fray started back in 2006 when he was 22. They have put out seven studio albums since their debut, St Jude, in 2008, and the record has had a long life of its own, reaching number one fifteen years after it first came out. Their most recent, Pink Cactus Café, arrived in 2024, the same year they marked their twentieth anniversary with the greatest-hits album God Bless The Band, two new tracks and a sold-out show at Wythenshawe Park in Manchester.
Plant plays later in the month, on Thursday 24 June at 6pm, and he is not doing it as a solo act. He will be backed by his band Saving Grace, formed in 2019 with vocalist Suzi Dian, Tony Kelsey, Matt Worley, Barney Morse-Brown and Oli Jefferson, and the date sits on his Root and Branch tour. The band's self-titled debut album came out in September 2025, followed by a four-track digital EP, Saving Grace: All That Glitters, in October 2026, which took in The Blackest Crow, Two Coats, Gillian Welch's Orphan Girl and Bert Jansch's Poison. He shares the bill that evening with Kate Rusby and Seth Lakeman.
The rest of the summer fills in around them. Kaiser Chiefs and White Lies play on 12 June, Jack Savoretti and James Morrison on 13 June, Ronan Keating, Blue and the Germein Sisters on 17 June, and Bananarama, Tony Hadley and Altered Images on 19 June. The run closes with Rudimental, MJ Cole and Gardna on 25 June, Holly Johnson, Haircut 100 and Toyah on 26 June, and Alfie Boe and Gravity on 27 June.
It is worth a reminder of where this all happens. Lincoln Castle, on Castle Square, is one of the best-preserved Norman castles in England and holds one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta. William the Conqueror built it in 1068 on a site that has been in use since Roman times, and the Domesday Book notes that 166 unoccupied residences were pulled down to make room for it. The stone walls still carry the scars of the First Battle of Lincoln in 1141, the Second Battle of Lincoln during the First Barons' War in 1217 and the English Civil War in 1644. The Medieval Wall Walk is closed at the moment, but the Victorian Prison and the Magna Carta stay open and the grounds are free to wander.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday through lincolncastle.com and ticketmaster.co.uk. The 2026 series ran twelve headline concerts and drew around 60,000 people, and Cuffe and Taylor have grown the 2027 edition to fourteen nights.
Published Date
7 November 2026
