Jamie xx teases that he’ll be curating his own festival in London next summer
Jamie XX has teased that he will be creating his own music festival in London which will take place next summer.
The DJ, producer and member of The xx has taken to his official Instagram account to share his plans for an all day festival that he will be curating at Victoria Park in the summer of 2025.
He shared an IG reel that sees him performing at one of his gigs with he crowd dancing and going wild. “It’s always an exciting prospect playing in my home town. Having done The Floor and Alexandra Palace this year, it’s time for something else!” began the caption of his post.
It continued: “Next June I will be headlining Victoria Park and curating my own day festival. More info coming on Tuesday, sign up via link in stories…” Fans interested in keeping up with the event can visit here and sign up to Jamie xx’s official mailing list.
It has been speculated that the DJ may be the mastermind behind the newly announced LIDO festival which is set to take place in June 2025 at London’s Victoria Park, the same date and place as the music bash that Jamie xx announced in his Instagram post.
The festival is named after the park’s Lido Field and promises two weekends featuring “carefully curated music line-ups alongside community-driven activities during the week, all with a strong emphasis on sustainability.”
In other news, Jamie xx is currently on his ‘In Waves’ world tour. The run of live dates are in support of his album ‘In Waves‘ which marked his first solo full-length since 2015’s ‘In Colour’. Check out a full list of tour dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Jamie xx’s 2024-2025 ‘In Waves’ world tour dates are:
OCTOBER
25 – Curitiba, Brazil Opera de Arame
26 – São Paulo, Brazil Praça das Artes
NOVEMBER
16 – Palm Springs, CA, USA Desert Air (Festival appearance)
19 – Manila, Philippines The Filinvest Tent
20 – Taipei Legacy Taipei
21 – Bangkok, Thailand EmSphere
23 – Singapore 27 Pasir Pajang
27 – Tokyo, Japan Toyosu PIT
28 – Seoul, South Korea YES24 Live Hall
29 – Shanghai, China BNSB-Dream Hall
DECEMBER
1 – Hong Kong Clockenflap Festival
4 – Melbourne, Australia PICA
5 – Melbourne, Australia PICA
7 – Meredith, Australia Meredith Music Festival
8 – Sydney, Australia Carriageworks
9 – Sydney, Australia Carriageworks
13 – Brunswick Heads, Australia Hotel Brunswick
28 – Bali, Indonesia Potato Head
JANUARY 2025
9 – New York, NY, USA Park Avenue Armory
10 – New York, NY, USA Park Avenue Armory
11 – New York, NY, USA Park Avenue Armory
12 – New York, NY, USA Park Avenue Armory
14 – Toronto, ON, Canada HISTORY
15 – Toronto, ON, Canada HISTORY
17 – Chicago, IL, USA Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
18 – Minneapolis, MN, USA Armory
20 – Vancouver, BC, Canada PNE Forum
21 – Seattle, WA, USA WAMU Theater
23 – Los Angeles, CA, USA Shrine Expo Hall
25 – San Francisco, CA, USA Cow Palace
27 – Austin, TX, USA The Concourse Project
28 – Dallas, TX, USA Factory
30 – Washington, DC, USA The Anthem
31 – Boston, MA, USA Roadrunner
FEBRUARY 2025
1 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Franklin Music Hall
MARCH 2025
9 – Brussels, Belgium ING Arena
11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands AFAS Live
12 – Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle
13 – Copenhagen, Denmark K.B. Hallen
14 – Berlin, Germany Uber Eats Music Hall
15 – Poznan, Poland MTP 3A
17 – Prague, Czechoslovakia Forum Karlin
18 – Offenbach, Germany Stadthalle
19 – Milan, Italy Big Theatre – MIND
21 – Paris, France Adidas Arena
In a four-star review of ‘In Waves’, NME called the LP “an even more melancholic record than its predecessor – and a less immediately exciting one, too. But it’s arguably a more complex beast, born of a complex era yet authored by a musician with one eye on the simple, timeless pleasures of the club. With ‘In Waves’, almost a decade on from the triumph of ‘In Colour’, Jamie xx remains in bloom.”
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