Palomosa 2026: Just Warming Up With Cirque Cosmic, Chippy Nonstop, and X-Coast

Last Thursday, the 14th was the first day, a teasing warm-up for Palomosa festival, held at Jean Drapeau’s Park until Saturday. The short lineup attracted a loyal crowd of high-spirited Gen Z flocks prompt for the reveries of early and after hours. Cirque Cosmic opens the stage at Banque National – I only wish it were darker and later; a warm-up that deserved a warm-up. Drawing both continuum and momentum with grounding bass lines and EDM charms, it’s a real tease to start the night.

Passing it on to Chippy Nonstop, just a little bit faster, a little bit harder and extremely eclectic, blurring the boundaries between house, pop, ambient, dub, and bass. The crowd morphs from dancy and flexible to jumpy and bouncy. The only constraint about the first day is that it remains in the same spot pretty much all the time. For those who like to move around and have the experience from close and afar, Palomosa is a good hybrid in this sense—in the heart of Jean-Drapeau’s park and on a first day where the entry to the festival is done pretty swiftly with no queues, one could easily take a walk or a bike ride around the park and still be part of the reverie; the low frequency punches travelling through the green wet hills make an experience be mystic and worth of stories with the sonic-land-scape.

Back to the stage and directly from Dublin, Tommy Holohan is riding a crescendo with a classic drop formula, ecstatic and kinda romantic, the crowd concentrates the heat in the front by this time and we get into the emotional part of the night—from techno to jungle and rave, that’s an electric and nostalgic set under the rain just before the closure by Serbian-born and Brooklyn-based X-Coast, shining in their red vest and showcasing their versatility through techno, drum & bass and house, providing the needed discharge to tease it up for more the next day.

Photo of Cirque Cosmic by Play Fille