New London festival LIDO to debut in Victoria Park next summer
The event will debut next June.
By Nick Reilly
East London’s Victoria Park will host the inaugural LIDO Festival next summer, it’s been announced.
The event, named after the park’s historic Lido Field, is set to take place across two weekends in June 2025, and promises “carefully curated music line-ups alongside community-driven activities during the week, all with a strong emphasis on sustainability.”
The line-up for LIDO is yet to be announced, but an official release promises the “most current headliners” as well as a strong focus on emerging artists through East London Arts and Music (ELAM).
Students from the school will be given the chance to perform, as well as vocational opportunities in festival production, technology, and the wider music industry.
Jim King, CEO of European Festivals at AEG Presents says, “LIDO Festival represents the next stage of AEG’s festival journey.
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.
The vision of supporting the artists’ journey further develops as we program each day directly with the headliner. 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.”
Victoria Park also hosts All Points East over the August Bank Holiday weekend, which saw headline slots from the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Justice in 2024. All Points East has also been confirmed to return next summer, although headliners are yet to be announced.