Standards and FES

Standards is a two-piece math rock band from LA, California. Having already made waves in the UK math rock scene with their Main Stage performance at Arctangent 2019, a top spot on math rock blog Fecking Bahamas' best releases of 2018 list and main support for the Sithu Aye UK tour in August 2019, standards will be headlining the second stage at 2020 Portals festival in London.

Overseas, Standards have toured relentlessly, stacking up headline tours and tour support for Tiny Moving Parts and TTNG in 2019 alone. They’ve also opened for Polyphia, Covet, Delta Sleep and more since their inception in 2017.

Northern Math-Pop cool kids FES began life in 2016. They combine a cool and assured vein of Math-Rock with pop-like hooks, technical sensibility and raw punk edge. Four years, two EPs and 100k+ Spotify streams later, FES have cemented themselves in UK Math-Rock, Alt-Rock and Indie scenes alike - making a blistering name for themselves amongst live circuits around the country.

FES have the stage already with the likes of Orchards, Delta Sleep, Anavae, Poly-Math, Palm Reader, Thank You Scientist and many more, the band brag festival performances at the likes of Portals Festival and Behave! And were included in the first announcement for ArcTanGent Festival 2020.