LIDO Festival: What To Expect From London’s New Summer Festival

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Coming to Victoria Park in June 2025

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There’s a new music festival coming to London in 2025, joining the likes of All Points East, Wireless, BST Hide Park and Mighty Hoopla. Here’s what you need to know about LIDO Festival – plus how to get tickets.

LIDO Festival: Where, When & How To Get Tickets

A brand new two-day music festival is coming to East London next year, joining fan-favourite All Points East in historic Victoria Park. However, LIDO is named for the very specific patch of ground fans will tread: Lido Field. The main musical events will take place over two Saturdays in June 2025, with a programme of community-driven arts, culture and wellbeing activities in the week between. Plus, on Friday 13 June, Manchester’s beloved Outbreak Festival will transfer to Victoria Park for one day only.

AEG is the team behind LIDO – the same company responsible for All Points East. ‘LIDO Festival represents the next stage of AEG’s festival journey,’ says Jim King, CEO of European festivals at AEG Presents. ‘Taking place at Victoria Park, one of our favourite locations in the heart of London’s creative districts, LIDO Festival allows us to push our ambitions further in working with young people within the industry and those who aspire to be. Most excitingly, this centres about a new generation of artists, whether they’re headlining or performing for the first time.’

Community driven, LIDO is set to centre the surrounding Tower Hamlets community in its festival plans, engaging local suppliers and staff and boosting spending in nearby accommodation and restaurants.

‘This new festival, coming to our multi award-winning Victoria Park, has the potential to provide more opportunities for residents to benefit from cultural events, increase expenditure in and boost our local economy through visits to the borough, and generate more income to support council services including the upkeep of our parks and open spaces,’ adds councillor Kamrul Hussain, Cabinet Member for Culture and Recreation. ‘We look forward to working with AEG, to ensure that community benefits are at the heart of the new LIDO Festival.’

Who Is On The Line-Up?

Jamie xx and Charli XCX are LIDO’s headliners for 2025, the former performing on Saturday 7 June and the latter taking to the stage on Saturday 14 June. LIDO’s structure means the headliners play a role in curating the day’s line-up, reflecting their own passions and encouraging the selection of emerging artists. LIDO will also work with East London Arts and Music (ELAM) to immerse students in the industry, from performing to providing work experience opportunities in festival production and technology.

‘The vision of supporting the artists’ journey further develops as we program each day directly with the headliner,’ King shares. ‘This delivers a show that fans know has the artists’ musical soul embedded throughout. This is one of the most exciting aspects of LIDO Festival: knowing that everyone on the bill means something to the headliner closing out the show.’

Joining Jamie xx on Saturday 7 June 2025 are: Arca, Sampha, Romy, Panda Bear, DJ Harvey, John Glacier, DJ Gigola, Shy One, Wookie and Livwutang.

As part of the Outbreak takeover on Friday 13 June, fans will see:, Alex G, Danny Brown, Drug Church, Flesh Water, Have a Nice Life, Julie, Knocked Loose, Model/Actriz, Momma, SPEED, Superheaven and They Are Gutting a Body of Water.

Meanwhile, joining Charli XCX on 14 June – with the day’s subtitle being ‘party girl’ – are: 070 Shake, A.G. Cook, Bladee, Kelly Lee Owens, The Dare and The Japanese House.

More artists are still to-be-announced for each day.