Josh Baker, KETTAMA and Prospa will headline the ARC stage at Creamfields on Friday, August 27, 2027, playing one set together. The festival announced it on October 14, 2026. Creamfields 2027 runs from Thursday, August 26 to Sunday, August 29 at Daresbury in Cheshire, England, and the festival is billing the edition as 30 years of Creamfields.
What Creamfields announced
The news came as a short video on the festival's TikTok, which names the act as Josh Baker b2b KETTAMA b2b Prospa, ARC stage headliners. The three names now sit on the official Announced so far page for 2027. EDM House Network, which covered it on October 15, calls the set a dance festival exclusive.
B2b, or back to back, means DJs share the same decks and take turns, often a track or two each. With three acts it becomes a b2b2b. Prospa is a duo, so four people will share the booth: DJ Mag called the group's joint set at the Coachella Campground Party in April 2026 a "b4b".
What the ARC stage is
The ARC is Creamfields' big open-air main stage. Beatportal, which livestreamed the 2026 edition, describes it as a towering, curved stage with wraparound LED screens 100 meters wide and 15 meters tall. It shares the site with APEX, a 30,000-capacity indoor main stage that opened in 2024, and the Steel Yard, a 15,000-capacity structure for house, techno and harder sounds.
Josh Baker already knows the ARC. Creamfields announced his debut on that stage for Saturday, August 29, 2026, and Beatport's livestream schedule had him there at 7:30 pm that evening, with KETTAMA in the Steel Yard half an hour earlier.
Why these three, and why now
On September 22, 2026, the trio teased a joint London show in a video on Instagram, according to DJ Mag. It turned out to be Finsbury Park on Saturday, July 3, 2027, and DJ Mag reported that it sold out within an hour of the Ticketmaster presale on September 29. A Sunday, July 4 show was added the same morning, then Friday, July 2. All three have sold out.
DJ Mag wrote that this makes them the second headline act after Drake to sell out three nights at the park, with 135,000 tickets reportedly sold. "An outcome we never imagined possible!" Prospa wrote on Instagram, as quoted by DJ Mag.
Who they are
- Josh Baker is a DJ and producer from Manchester, England. In our data, most of his records sit in the Minimal / Deep Tech crate, in a section named after him, Sidney Charles and Max Dean.
- KETTAMA is an Irish DJ and producer. His biggest record in our data is "Yosemite" with Interplanetary Criminal (December 2024), a UK garage favorite. In August 2026 he released "Mystery of Raw" with Michael Bibi, which samples Wu-Tang Clan.
- Prospa is a duo from Leeds. They released their debut album, "Free Your Mind", on CircoLoco Records in June 2026 and entered DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs at No. 94 in 2026.
Their sound in our data
Each track on Digger Digger shows how many recorded DJ sets it was found in. As of October 2026, the three cover a lot of ground:
- Tech House: "Free Your Mind" by Prospa and Cloonee, the single from March 2026, was found in 113 recorded DJ sets, and Prospa's "Don't Stop" in 112. "Baby" with Murda Beatz was found in 27.
- Minimal / Deep Tech: Josh Baker and Omar+'s "Back It Up" was found in 27 sets and "Jam Is Pumping" in 20. "You Don't Own Me (feat. RAHH)", his record with Prospa, was found in 40 sets in this crate.
- UK Garage: KETTAMA and Interplanetary Criminal's "Yosemite" was found in 56 sets, plus 24 for the Philip George remix.
Three acts whose biggest records sit in three different crates, in one set.
"Think Of You" is out
Prospa and KETTAMA's "Think Of You" sat in the famous IDs of our Tech House crate (IDs are tracks DJs play before they are released). DJ Mag reported plays at EDC Las Vegas in May and Lollapalooza in August, and a release date of October 16, 2026. It came out that day on Steel City Dance Discs, the label behind "Yosemite". It is one of the famous IDs released in October 2026.
The rest of the lineup and tickets
Other names confirmed on the official site so far: The Prodigy, headlining APEX on Saturday, August 28, back at Creamfields after 14 years; Franky Rizardo on APEX on Sunday, August 29; Jamie Jones and Marco Carola in the Steel Yard on Saturday, August 28; and Hannah Laing. Set times are not out yet.
Tickets are sold on the festival's own site, in pounds. All two-day camping tickets and Dreamfields, the luxury camping area, had sold out by October 2, 2026. That two-day camping ticket covers Saturday and Sunday only, so to see the ARC headliners you need a ticket that includes Friday: a standard Friday day ticket was listed at £75 plus a £10.50 booking fee, and standard four-day camping at £300 plus £25.
Prices checked October 2026.
What it means for DJs
- Their records are crowd-tested. The counts above come from real recorded sets, so you know these tracks already get played.
- Opening for any of them? Leave their records for them. Our guide on what to play when you open for a big DJ explains why.
- Back to back is its own skill. Sharing decks means agreeing on tempo, key and who plays next. If you want to try it with a friend, read how to play back to back.
To hear where their sound sits, open our Tech House crate: every track has a 30-second official preview, and the + button saves it to your crate.
Sources: Creamfields, Creamfields on TikTok, EDM House Network, DJ Mag, DJ Mag, Beatportal.