Lido Festival 2025

[johnl]

Thought this was worth its own thread.

New Festival announced by AEG for June 2025 featuring emerging artists.

Apparently in addition to APE

Be interesting to see how this pans out. Maybe look at the Primavera line up for clues.

[Dales]

Link to sign up for updates.

 

https://www.lidofestival.co.uk/

[sisco]

Jamie XX already announced 

[Dales]

3 minutes ago, sisco said:

Jamie XX already announced 

 

Had a look on his facebook and has a London date for June 7th Victoria Park.

So the festival is that weekend and guess following weekend.

[gfa]

Just now, Dales said:

 

Had a look on his facebook and has a London date for June 7th Victoria Park.

So the festival is that weekend and guess following weekend.

Good news for glasto goers!

[Dales]

The cogs in my head are already considering what are the chances of promotions/freebies for this as per the early APE years. Would assume there will be a few poor selling days as per APE, although probably a lot less competition on the weekends LIDO is on. Much harder to launch a new venture on dates already associated with other brands.

[axel75]

Doesn't it sound like its the same concept as Wide Awake & Rally festivals? An attempt to kill these 'indies' off?

[gfa]

21 minutes ago, axel75 said:

Doesn't it sound like its the same concept as Wide Awake & Rally festivals? An attempt to kill these 'indies' off?

Its just APE but in June to get early summer acts before they go back to the us

[snoochie1981]

I’m wondering whether this is an APE rebrand and the APE August dates will cease to be from maybe 2026 onwards? There wasn’t enough demand for 6 APE dates let alone 6 more. It might also help them move away from the freebies based operating model.

 

Does anyone know when the APE license ends for the August dates?