All Points East

Summary

All Points East is an annual music festival held over two weekends in London's Victoria Park, run by AEG Presents. The 10-day event comprises one festival weekend, four days of free entry and community activities known as "In the Neighbourhood" and finally three standalone headline shows in their APE Presents series. The first year of All Points East was held in 2018 with LCD Soundsystem, The xx and Björk headlining the festival weekend and Catfish and the Bottlemen, The National and Nick Cave headlining the three standalone shows the following weekend.[1]

All Points East
Yeah Yeah Yeahs at All Points East Festival 2018
VenueVictoria Park, London
Attendance40,000
Websiteallpointseastfestival.com

On 6 November 2018, it was announced that The Chemical Brothers would headline the first day of All Points East 2019, with Hot Chip, Primal Scream, Spiritualized and more. This was followed by the announcement that Bon Iver would close the festival. The other four headliners for 2019 were The Strokes, Christine and the Queens, Bring Me the Horizon and Mumford and Sons.

In December 2018, All Points East won the award for Line-Up of the Year at the UK Festival Awards.[2] In May 2019, All Points East won the award for Best Festival at the Music Week Awards 2019.[3]

Capacity at the 2019 festival was stated as 40,000.[4]

Beginning in 2021, Field Day was presented under the All Points East banner.[5]

All Points East Festival 2018 edit

Weekend 1
Friday 25 May Saturday 26 May Sunday 27 May
Weekend 2
Friday 1 June Saturday 2 June Sunday 3 June

All Points East Festival 2019 edit

Weekend 1
Friday 24 May Saturday 25 May Sunday 26 May
Weekend 2
Friday 31 May Saturday 1 June Sunday 2 June

All Points East Festival 2020 (cancelled) edit

The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] Before the cancellation the announced lineup was:[7]

Weekend 1
Friday 22 May Saturday 23 May Sunday 24 May
Weekend 2
Friday 29 May Saturday 30 May Sunday 31 May

Not announced

All Points East Festival 2021 edit

After a one-year absence, All Points East Festival returned in 2021. It was held on 27 August to 2 September 2021.[8] The headliners were London Grammar, Jorja Smith, Jamie xx, Kano, Bicep, Foals, and Bombay Bicycle Club.[9]

Friday, 27 August Saturday, 28 August Sunday, 29 August Monday, 30 August
East Stage
West Stage
North Arena
6Music Stage
  • Floorplan
  • Kettama
  • Mount Kimbie
  • Special Request
  • Josey Rebelle
  • Imogen
Firestone Stage
  • Jelani Blackman
  • Sipho.
  • Eloise
  • Conrad
  • Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard
  • Noisy
  • Medicine Cabinet
  • The Lutras
PlayNext
  • Sad Night Dynamite
  • Tyson
  • Jodie Nicholson
  • Alisa Tully
  • Ewan Mainwood
  • Scors
  • Swim School
  • Attawalpa
  • Ora Violet

References edit

  1. ^ "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds review, All Points East, Victoria Park – still one of the best live bands around". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  2. ^ "2018 Winners". UK Festival Awards. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. ^ "All the winners at the bigger and better 2019 Music Week Awards". Music Week. 9 May 2019. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  4. ^ "All Points East 2019". eFestivals. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Review: Field Day's 2021 homecoming reflected the good times returning to London". Mixmag. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  6. ^ "All Points East 2020 Update". allpointseastfestival.com. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  7. ^ "All Points East festival lineup 2020 in Victoria Park, London E3". allpointseastfestival.com. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  8. ^ Richards, Will (31 August 2021). "All Points East 2021 review: generations collide to end the summer in fervent style". NME. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  9. ^ Embley, Jochan (30 March 2021). "All Points East 2021 line-up: London Grammar and Jorja Smith to headline Friday festival". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 February 2022.

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