Award-winning music festival LIDO Festival powered by SumUp is back to electrify Victoria Park in 2026!
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.
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. 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 – Bombay Bicycle Club
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.
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 mesmerizing new album, PAPER CASTLES, is out now
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, Billie grew up in and around the Dales. Billie 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.
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.
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