Bombay Bicycle Club, The Cribs and more to join The Maccabees at huge All Points East 2025 gig
Dry Cleaning, Nilüfer Yanya and more will also play the massive Victoria Park reunion gig next summer
Bombay Bicycle Club and The Cribs lead the list of names supporting The Maccabees at their huge All Points East comeback gig next summer.
This week, the indie heroes announced their reunion to play London’s Victoria Park on August 24 next year, marking 10 years of their Marks to Prove It album.
Also joining them at their first gig in eight years will be Dry Cleaning, Nilüfer Yanya, The Murder Capital, Divorce and Prima Queen, with more to be announced.
It marks the first time that the group – Orlando Weeks, Hugo White, Felix White, Rupert Jarvis and Sam Doyle – will have performed for fans since a trio of farewell shows at Alexandra Palace in 2017. General sale tickets be available here from 10am GMT on Thursday, October 31.
See the full line-up so far below
As an official press release explains, the long road to the band’s comeback began when the group all attended guitarist and founder Hugo White’s wedding in February 2020. White wanted to put together a covers band for the event and dished out guest spots to close friends and guests including Adele, Florence Welch and Jamie T. And then, in an extra special twist, the Maccabees teamed up to play ‘Pelican’ from 2012’s Given To The Wild.
“I didn’t go because it was The Maccabees playing together again, but because it was a beautiful gesture to be invited and to contribute to the spirit of the day,” said Orlando. “What I wanted, band aside, was to find a way to be in each other’s lives in some way.’’ Now, some four years later, they’re back in our lives for good.
Felix White said: “In the intervening years we’ve been to All Points East a lot, separately. It’s become a bit of a landmark festival for us, always checking who’s on the line-up. I’d go and have a great time throughout the day, but there was always this pinch of regret watching headliners that we could’ve done it ourselves one day too. I thought that moment had passed, and it was something I was prepared to come to terms with that I was always going to miss. I think we’re all kind of shocked and excited that we get to do it together again.”
The group have continued in music since their split. Weeks has released a number of celebrated solo projects, while the White brothers are part of the band 86TVs, who released their debut album this summer.