Terminal V Bets Its Tenth Year on a New City and a Third Day

For its anniversary the festival isn't just relocating. It's rebuilding itself on a Glasgow riverside site, stretching to three days for the first time.

More Than a Change of Address

A festival moving cities usually just swaps postcodes. Terminal V is treating its tenth edition as a chance to start over. Having confirmed earlier this year that it was leaving Edinburgh for Glasgow, organisers EE Live have now named the destination: Clydeside Live, a new open-air site on the banks of the River Clyde, hosting the event from June 4 to 6, 2027. The dates carry their own significance, marking the festival's first-ever three-day run rather than the format it has worked with until now.

Why This Particular Site

The founders' interest in Clydeside is about what the space allows rather than convenience. Derek Martin and Simon McGrath frame the riverside setting and the surrounding industrial landscape as a natural fit for the festival's identity, and, more to the point, as room to attempt production they couldn't stage before. They point to venues like Silverworks Island as proof of how well large-scale outdoor inner-city sites can work for electronic music, and pitch Clydeside as a candidate to become one of the UK's standout new event destinations. The anniversary, in their telling, is the reason to design the whole thing from scratch, rethinking stages and production for the location so it reads as distinctly Glasgow without losing what makes it Terminal V.

A Brand Already Building Outward

The move also lands against a wider expansion that gives it context. Alongside its flagship Scottish event, Terminal V has already spun up editions in Croatia and Australia, so the Glasgow reinvention isn't an isolated gamble but part of a brand steadily extending its reach. A full lineup is still to come, which leaves the artist bookings as the one major piece of the tenth-anniversary picture yet to drop.