{"id":162439,"date":"2025-06-14T10:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fsmdemo.vsitesting3.com\/magazine\/?p=162439"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:22:17","slug":"the-english-beat-london-is-the-place-to-be-for-music-festival-fans-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/culture-style\/the-english-beat-london-is-the-place-to-be-for-music-festival-fans-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The English Beat: London Is the Place to Be for Music Festival Fans This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>At last year\u2019s Glastonbury Festival, held as always on a 900-acre farm in England\u2019s Somerset region, the programming was typically eclectic and electric. Maybe you wanted to sway with retro abandon as Shania Twain sashayed alongside a parade of hobby horses and a glammed-out gang of dancers and drag queens. Or perhaps it was a chance to see Dua Lipa let loose amid confetti canons and pyrotechnics, or see SZA close the weekend twerking in fairy wings halfway up a tree onstage as she teased the crowd.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music lovers have far more options in 2025\u2014at Glastonbury and beyond\u2014as the United Kingdom stakes its claim as the top gig-jetting destination, with a busier-than-ever festival calendar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From June 2 to 7, the Austin-born festival <strong>SXSW<\/strong> (South by Southwest) will make its European debut in dozens of venues in London\u2019s hipster-heavy East End. Also new is <strong>Lido<\/strong> (June 6 to 7 and June 13 to 15), a massive operation produced by behemoth AEG that features Charli XCX as a lineup curator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning shows this summer include <strong>BST Hyde Park<\/strong> (multiple dates in June and July), an event that\u2019s always headlined by a world-famous name (this year: Sabrina Carpenter), as well as <strong>Glastonbury<\/strong> (June 25 to 29), where headliners will include Rod Stewart and Neil Young. Also in the mix is the AEG-produced <strong>All Points East<\/strong> (August 16, 22, 23, and 24) with Raye, Tyla, and Doechii performing. (Smaller, niche festivals\u2014like underground music-focused <strong>Wide Awake<\/strong>, lavish popfest <strong>Mighty Hoopla<\/strong>, soul-funk-powered <strong>Cross the Tracks<\/strong>, and electronic celebration <strong>Field Day<\/strong>\u2014kicked off the festival season in May.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fsmdemo.vsitesting3.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/english-beat-bst-take-that-fireworks-jrcmccord-01.07.23-22-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-716\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Take That onstage at BST Hyde Park in London in 2023. Photograph courtesy of BST Hyde Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the tour front, there\u2019s a little thing happening called the Oasis reunion, with 17 U.K. shows, kicking off July 4 in Wales. Still, the big new event on music calendars this year is the United Kingdom\u2019s take on SXSW.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new SXSW offshoot will take inspiration from British music traditions while also presenting a fresh approach to programming versus the almost 40-year-old event in Austin, Texas (where last year\u2019s lineup included everyone from Meghan Markle to Jane Fonda). Music, film, gaming, tech, and business will all be present, but SXSW\u2019s London offerings will run simultaneously, rather than sequentially, per the Texas model. \u201cThe core mission of \u2018South by\u2019 is what\u2019s new and what\u2019s next, but we\u2019re doing them all at the same time so there can be many more moments of convergence,\u201d says\u202fAdem Holness, head of music for SXSW London. \u201cYou can watch a film, catch a talk, or come see a band.\u201d Discoverability is crucial, with every venue, whether a church or a nightclub like XOYO, within a 15-minute walk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holness tapped the likes of A&amp;R maestro Nathan Barley Phillips to sit on the jury that reviews submissions. And plans are for the newest SXSW to reflect the eclectic, international nature of London\u2019s population: Korea\u2019s Seoul Community Radio and Deadly (which champions Jamaican music) are among the co-curators on tap. \u201cBritish and European audiences have an open mind for form and different types of performance\u2014we can put classic next to experimental and electronic, and find a space in between the two,\u201d says Holness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SXSW\u2019s team can take inspiration from an already thriving event that takes place in the same neighborhood each spring, the <strong>Brick Lane Jazz Festival<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re going to meet for a coffee next week,\u201d says Brick Lane organizer Juliet Kennedy of her counterparts at SXSW London. \u201cI\u2019m up for helping them as much as I can.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy runs a nightclub in the neighborhood, Ninety One Living Room, and started the festival in 2022 to help post-pandemic recovery in the live music sector. She posits that the liveliness of festivals in Britain right now derives, in part, from the harshness of the country\u2019s COVID-era experience, which included multiple lockdowns over a two-year period. \u201cThat sense of togetherness is central to all festivals, but the pandemic is the reason we exist,\u201d she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fsmdemo.vsitesting3.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bst-hyde-park-2022-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-746\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elton John onstage at BST Hyde Park in 2022. Photograph courtesy of BST Hyde Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Three thousand people attended Brick Lane\u2019s first year; for 2025 (April 25 to 27), Kennedy sold more than three times the number of tickets, each of which grants access to a dozen venues around the area. French singer Adi Oasis\u2014\u201ca goddess,\u201d says Kennedy\u2014headlined one night, and octogenarian American instrumentalist Laraaji closed the fest. \u201cThere\u2019s a strong concept of jazz as a middle-aged sort of chin-stroking affair,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it\u2019s lively and young, and you can be on your feet dancing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Kingdom will host a complementary range of classical-skewing events, too. Helen Brocklebank, CEO of Walpole, the trade body for luxury in the United Kingdom, puts it succinctly: \u201cThis is a superpower of Britain\u2014we do music like nobody else, from Glastonbury to Glyndebourne, always with a level of excellence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fsmdemo.vsitesting3.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/getty-images-glastonbury-tipi-field-2024-samir-hussein-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"Glastonbury Festival 2024, Tipi Field, Photo by Sami Hussein\/Wireimage\" class=\"wp-image-735\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Attendees camped at the Tipi Field at 2024&#8217;s Glastonbury Festival. Photograph by Samir Hussein\/Wireimage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At <strong>Glyndebourne<\/strong>, staged at a grand country house in East Sussex from May 16 through August 24, guests can enjoy opera while picnicking on the lawn, Champagne in hand. This year, Glyndebourne will present its first-ever production of\u202f<em>Parsifal<\/em>, as well as a commission based on the children\u2019s book\u202f<em>The Railway Children<\/em>.\u202fArtistic director Stephen Langridge notes that 25 percent of visitors were new to Glyndebourne last year, and 25 percent of those were new to opera. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping to be the gateway drug,\u201d he says with a laugh, noting the madcapness of locating an opera festival on the rolling lawns of a manor house. \u201cIt\u2019s very English, and there\u2019s an eccentric thing underneath it, especially when you see the sheep in fields nearby.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Options for classical music lovers also include the nearly 110-year-old <strong>Thaxted Festival<\/strong>, taking place June 20 to July 13 in northwest Essex, and the <strong>BBC Proms<\/strong>, an eight-week summer season of shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London (July 18 to September 13). The latter, says Zeb Soanes, a presenter for the independent British radio station Classic FM, is \u201cpart of the fabric of British life, like Wimbledon and the chimes of Big Ben. It\u2019s the largest classical music festival in the entire world, but the great thing is, it\u2019s wonderfully all-inclusive. Rufus Wainwright did a concert, and late night, there is jazz, soul, and funk.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British music festivals, then, are distinctive for their wide-ranging, unpredictable programming, but there\u2019s something else that sets them apart, at least according to Lisa Verrico. She\u2019s a journalist and longtime festivalgoer who has produced countless guides to Britain\u2019s annual calendar of music offerings. Unlike Coachella\u2014\u201cyou go once or twice to take a photograph of yourself there,\u201d says Verrico\u2014modern British festivals are intended to be fresh every year and, most crucially, family-friendly. Her twentysomething daughter first started accompanying her at the age of two and is now an avid attendee herself. 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