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It’s been a busy couple of weeks for 2025 festival announcements, particularly for new additions to London’s already packed line-up of summer festies. The inaugural SXSW London and Greenwich’s new Labyrinth on the Thames have both released line-up news, alongside the announcement that Little Simz will curate Meltdown festival this summer. This week Wireless announced that Drake will top the bill on all three days of the festival in Finsbury Park.
And now comes news that Massive Attack will headline Victoria Park’s brand new LIDO Festival. The Bristol-born trip-hop collective – which currently consists of Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja, Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall – are the fourth headline act to be announced, alongside ‘brat summer’ progenitor Charli xcx, Grammy-winning producer and DJ Jamie xx and indie-pop trio London Grammar, with a fifth date curated by legendary hardcore festival Outbreak.
Massive Attack will perform their acclaimed live show featuring visuals created in collaboration with United Visual Artists and BAFTA-winning documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, and have also partnered with clean energy provider Ecotricity to ensure that the performance is 100 percent battery-powered, radically reducing the carbon emissions and local air pollution produced by the event.
Here’s everything you need to know about Massive Attack’s LIDO headline slot.
When are Massive Attack playing Victoria Park?
Massive Attack will be head of LIDO’s bill on Friday June 6 2025.
Who else is on the lineup?
So far, announced for Massive Attack’s LIDO day are French duo Air, FORENSICS (a new project from Yasiin Bey and The Alchemist) and Mercury Prize-nominated singer Tirzah, a regular collaborator of former Massive Attack member Tricky.
Here’s the poster so far.
How much are tickets and when do they go on sale?
Tickets go on sale this Friday 21 February at 10am, with a presale starting from 10am on Thursday 20 February for those signing up via the LIDO website here and Ticketmaster here.
Ticket prices haven’t yet been confirmed, but judging from Jamie xx and Charli xcx’s LIDO fest tickets, general admission is likely to be between £75 and £85 per ticket.
Resale tickets will be available via Stubhub.
What’s been said about the festival?
Speaking about the festival, Robert Del Naja (3D) said: ‘To present London's first ever 100% battery-powered festival day with a dynamic range of artists is an optimum outcome for us. History shows it's often the combination of art and science that overcomes the greatest challenges we face, so it's good to see LIDO take learnings from our ACT1.5 event last year and apply those technologies to where they see emissions coming from.’
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