The Maccabees to reunite for massive All Points East show next summer
The beloved indie titans are heading to Victoria Park next summer.
By Nick Reilly
After teasing their comeback last week, The Maccabees have today (October 28) confirmed that they will reunite next summer for a massive show at east London’s All Points East Festival.
The indie stalwarts will play their first show in eight years on Sunday 24 August 2025 when they take to the stage in Victoria Park. 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.
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.”
Hugo White was inspired, too, by watching The Strokes at last year’s All Points East: “I could see that they were enjoying it , realising how great what they had created together was. Being a band, you are usually in a mindset of, ‘We can do better’ and you’re always chasing something else. This is an opportunity to realise that whatever we had in that moment was pretty special and get to enjoy it again. It’s a chance to appreciate everything, and especially how it impacts other people and created a community.”
The band released their debut Colour It In in 2007 and followed it with 2009’s Wall of Arms and 2012’s Given to the Wild, which netted them a Mercury Prize nomination. Their final album came in 2015’s Marks To Prove It.
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.