Bombay Bicycle Club to headline one-off show at LIDO Festival 2026
London, UK – Award-winning music festival LIDO Festival powered by SumUp is back to electrify Victoria Park in 2026. Today, LIDO Festival is thrilled to announce its latest headliner: legendary North London indie band Bombay Bicycle Club, who will be taking over one of their city’s great parks on Sunday 14 June, with support from special guests Metronomy, plus Alice Phoebe Lou, Billie Marten and Lucy Rose, with more artists to be announced. General sale tickets will be available on Friday 30 January 2026, 10am.
Bombay Bicycle Club celebrate two glorious decades together with a very special one-off headline performance of their beloved debut album I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose in full, preceded in the early afternoon by a live performance of its follow up LP, Flaws. Two sets, two albums, one emotional hometown night.
Originally released in 2009, I Had The Blue But I Shook Them Loose has since become an iconic, touchstone record for a generation. Released when the band were barely out of school, it was a frenetic, urgent introduction to this exciting young London band, and a record that has long stood the test of time. If I Had The Blues… soundtracked big Saturday nights, its follow-up, the more reflective and acoustic orientated Flaws, was best made for lazy Sunday mornings with its playful folksy-ness and gentle tones and rhythms. Both records share the breadth of Bombay Bicycle Club’s earliest powers and helped set the tone for what came next.
From number one records to Mercury Prize nominees, Bombay’s career owes much to their experimental nature. It’s also a career that has long found them opening their studio door for collaborations, welcoming unlikely legends like Damon Albarn and Chaka Khan onto their records. They’ve also influenced a new breed too. The likes of Jay Som, Holly Humberstone, and Nilüfer Yanya have all proclaimed the band as an inspiration during their fledgling careers and have also since lent their voices to some of Bombay’s more recent records, bringing their extended family full circle.
The early to mid-noughties introduced us to a fine collection of British indie guitar bands, but few have been quite so unpredictable, nor so beloved and enduring as Bombay Bicycle Club. This one-off celebratory performance at LIDO marks a big moment in the band’s ongoing story, and a must-see event in London’s stacked 2026 Summer schedule.
“We had such a great time last summer playing in Victoria Park that when we were asked to come back to headline LIDO, we jumped at the chance,” Bombay Bicycle Club say. “We wanted to do something different as it’s 20 years since we started the band, so we’re going to play our first two albums in full – Flaws in the afternoon and then I Had The Blues in the evening,”
“These are such important albums to us and the place they both hold in our fans’ hearts has always meant a lot to us. To have the opportunity to revisit some songs we haven’t played in a long time and perform the whole of both albums is something we can’t wait to share with you.”
Bringing indie euphoria in full force to East London, the Crouch End collective will be joined by very special guests, English electro band Metronomy will be playing their first UK show in three years, bringing a vivacious era of alternative live music to LIDO. As their only live show in 2026, the indie stalwarts will also be gearing up to transform Victoria Park into a buzzing dancefloor. Debuting in the late noughties, Metronomy arrived as new wave artists who connected with DJs and club nights. In 2011, a Mercury Prize nomination quickly followed for their polished, stylistic third studio album, The English Riviera. Known for their eclectic cross-genre styles, Metronomy emerged as masters of fine-tuned indie rock and springy electronica — widely recognised for producing glossy, sculpted songs that soundtrack incredible live shows across the globe. Now, the band have released their first ever Greatest Hits album featuring standout tracks from their acclaimed seven studio albums and previously unreleased BBC live recordings from between 2009 and 2019, across BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, in a special collection. This summer, LIDO Festival is THE place to experience the breadth and magnetic energy of Metronomy’s catalogue live.
Alice Phoebe Lou grew up on a mountainside in South Africa, attending a local Waldorf school that cultivated her innate love of music and the arts. She made her first life-changing visit to Europe at 16. Since then, armed with just her guitar, a small amp, a passel of distinctive original songs, and an utterly intoxicating voice and charm, she quickly developed a fan following around the world. From self-releasing her debut EP, MOMENTUM, in 2014 to earning a 90th Oscar Original Song nomination for her song ‘She’ alongside songs by such artists as Sufjan Stevens, Mary J. Blige, Common, and Diane Warren, Lou’s career has been non-stop. Now, her mesmerising new album, PAPER CASTLES, is out now. An intimate culmination of romance and struggle, solitude and adventure, told through a free-spirited blend of electronic soul and psychedelic folk that highlights her honeyed vocals whilst revealing a limitless approach to musicality and craft. A truly global artist who simply can’t stay put, physically or creatively, Lou is now eager to return to the road, ready to introduce fans old and new to the songs of PAPER CASTLES.
Billie Marten got her early start in music thanks to parents who surrounded her with the music of Nick Drake, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush and northern folk artist Chris Wood. Living in the cathedral city of Ripon, North Yorkshire, Marten grew up in and around the Dales. Marten was then signed to Chess Club Records, an imprint of Sony. Not long afterwards, she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016. Her critically acclaimed debut album, Writing of Blues and Yellows, was a diarist, open-hearted collection of quietly beautiful songs released in 2016, when she was still just 17. The following year, she moved to London, where she worked on her 2019 follow-up, Feeding Seahorses By Hand, which The Line of Best Fit declared a “gentle and reserved masterpiece”.
Towards the end of 2019, Marten underwent a total overhaul, leaving Sony and choosing a new management team. She signed to Fiction Records, a division of Universal, in lockdown via Zoom. She then went back into the studio and reunited with producer Rich Cooper. Marten felt empowered to experiment and rediscover herself. Since then, she has toured frequently throughout the UK and US, returning home to record her fourth record, Drop Cherries. Her writing themes explore social commentary, the struggle with modernity vs tradition, nature, mental health, relationships, and a general voyeurism on the world as she sees it.
When English singer/songwriter Lucy Rose began performing publicly as a young adult in the late 2000s, her fragile, emotive acoustic songs soon drew comparisons to Laura Marling, with whom she shares influences such as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. After changing up her sound from the gentle folk-rock of her 2012 debut, Like I Used To, to adult pop with conspicuous electronics on 2015’s Work It Out, she settled into a more intimate sound with textured acoustic arrangements well-suited to her soft, breathy voice on albums such as 2019’s No Words Left.
A native of Warwickshire, England, Rose originally played drums in her school orchestra. When that didn’t satisfy her creative ambition, she started playing and writing songs on the piano in her parents’ house. She later bought a guitar and began to write pastoral, folk-inspired pop music. It wasn’t until she left home when she was 18, after deferring a place at University College of London, that she shared her material with anyone. From then, the singer has been on an unstoppable rise, curating intimate shows with her fans, such as fan-booked tours in Latin America. Many will also know Lucy from her unforgettable backing vocals for headliners Bombay Bicycle Club across their acclaimed album Flaws, and touring alongside the band. Now, Rose is making her LIDO Festival debut, going full circle, supporting the brilliant Bombay Bicycle Club at Victoria Park.
Launched in summer 2025, LIDO Festival puts artists first, collaborating with them for a festival entirely programmed by the headliners. They bring their favourite artists, collaborators, newly tipped artists and their own style to each day. From the acts to the artwork and stage design–every aspect is personal to them. Named after Victoria Park’s Lido Field, the event offers hand-picked music line-ups with a strong focus on sustainability, as well as community events during the week. The festival’s second iteration includes outstanding headliners Maribou State, who top the bill on Saturday 13 June and one of last year’s most celebrated debut artists, Irish singer-songwriter CMAT who will be headlining on Friday 12 June.
LIDO Festival’s first edition welcomed headline performances from Massive Attack, Jamie xx, Outbreak Fest with headliner Turnstile, Charli XCX and London Grammar, offering a meticulously curated line-up of artists, blending established names with rising talent. The festival’s first-ever midweek programme IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (@InTheNBHD) provided free arts and wellbeing activities for the local community, reinforcing LIDO Festival’s commitment to cultural enrichment.
LIDO Festival has won numerous awards as a sustainable music event after its first year launching including The Festival Award at the ZYN Rolling Stone UK Awards 2025, where it was praised for its “green ethos and boundary-pushing bookings”. As well as the LIVE Green Award at the Access All Areas Award 2025. LIDO not only showcased world-class music but also set a new benchmark for sustainable large-scale events through a landmark green power strategy which was delivered through a partnership with Grid Faeries and Ecotricity, amongst other partners. London’s first main stage powered by a 3MWh solar-charged battery was combined with hydrogen and portable battery technologies, sustainable food concessions, and zero landfill waste management, achieving 32 hours of 100% battery operation and setting a new standard for environmentally driven live events. By embedding sustainability at its core, LIDO Festival aims to redefine what it means to be a responsible, forward-thinking live music event. With an uncompromising focus on reducing environmental impact while delivering an unforgettable experience, LIDO Festival is on the path to becoming not only London’s newest festival but also one of its greenest.
LIDO Festival has also been “highly commended” by A Greener Future (AGF) in 2025 for its demonstration and commitment to a better, greener future, successfully earning AGF Certification, as well as IQ Magazine’s 2025 Green Guardians. The below round-up recognises some of the industry-voted eco-warriors driving the live entertainment industry’s efforts toward a more sustainable future.
