Ben Howard, and Bombay Bicycle Club to headline new one-day London festival

inaugural Citadel will take place in London's Victoria Park

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 10th Feb 2015

Citadel 2015

Sunday 19th July 2015
Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets, Greater London, E9 7BT, England MAP
£49.50, under 12s £5

Daily capacity: 25,000

Ben Howard, and Bombay Bicycle Club are the first acts announced for a new event.

The inaugural Citadel 'A Mirror To A City' will take place in London's Victoria Park on Sunday 19th July 2015.

Citadel will showcase a breadth of musical programming on 4 stages and celebrates the Sunday pleasures of music, performance, ideas and dining. Ben Howard, and Bombay Bicycle Club (playing their only London performance of 2015) top the line-up.

Alongside the main stage line-up of support artists soon to be announced, Citadel will also include music across 3 other stages curated by label Communion, and promoter Sound-crash.

Tickets prices have not yet been announced, tickets will go on general sale on Friday 13th February and eFestivals will have links to buy them then then.

Conceived and created by Wilderness Festival and Superfly, co-creators of American festivals Bonnaroo and Outside Lands.

Away from the live music programme, the festival will host chefs who'll produce a series of long table Sunday dining experiences whilst Secret Productions' Sunday Papers Live team will host a tent of captivating literary talks, spoken word and debates.

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