Festival sets hit harder and faster.

Yes, there’s a real difference. Julia Jacklin treats festival sets like a sprint and club shows like a long conversation.

At a festival, she fronts-load the setlist with her most familiar songs—Pool Party, Pressure to Party, Lydia Wears a Cross—within the first three songs. The crowd is partly there for other bands, so she needs to grab attention immediately. Transitions are tighter, banter shorter, and the pacing stays high until the final stretch.

In a club, she’ll open with a slow burner or a deep cut like Don’t Know How to Keep Loving You. The build is deliberate—she lets the room settle, tells a story, warms the crowd up over three or four songs before hitting the bigger numbers. The setlist has more valleys. She’s not fighting for attention; she’s earning it slowly.

If you only see her at a festival, you’ll get the highlights. Club shows show you how she thinks about a room.