Bombay Bicycle Club are set to headline LIDO Festival 2026 in London this summer. Find all the details below.
The band will take to the stage at the Lido Field in Victoria Park on Sunday June 14. They’ll perform their 2009 debut album ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ in full, and also treat the crowd to the entirety of 2010 follow-up ‘Flaws’.
It comes after the group appeared as special guests at The Maccabees’ reunion show for All Points East 2025 last August.
“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 said in a statement.
“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.”
They continued: “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.”
Support on the day will come from Metronomy, Alice Phoebe Lou, Billie Marten and frequent Bombay Bicycle Club collaborator Lucy Rose. More artists are due to be announced at a later date.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT this Friday (January 30) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access an artist pre-sale at the same time tomorrow (Wednesday January 28) or the LIDO pre-sale on Thursday (January 29).
Reviewing Bombay’s debut album, NME wrote: “If ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ is the band’s Everest, not only do they conquer it with unassuming boyish romance, but they’ve also created the most poignant anthology of what it means to be young and restless in the city since fellow Londoners Bloc Party’s ‘Silent Alarm’ – though they’re a lot less frosty than Kele [Okereke] et al.”
Our review of ‘Flaws’ read: “[BBC have] proved themselves to be a band who defy convention with an album stuffed full of subtle invention and an emotional intensity that you really wouldn’t expect from a band still too young to grow a beard between them.”
LIDO Festival 2026 will also see CMAT top the bill on June 12, following opening slots from Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory and more. Maribou are then scheduled to headline the east London event on June 20, with Kelis and Folamour among those supporting. The latter date marks the electronic duo’s “biggest show yet in the city”.
The festival launched last year, after being announced in late 2024. It is run by AEG Presents, who also organise All Points East, BST Hyde Park, Forwards and more.
Sharing details of its inaugural year, LIDO explained that it aims to “showcase the most current headliners and work closely with them to curate the line-ups, reflecting their own musical passions, with a strong focus on emerging artists”.
The first edition hosted headline performances from Massive Attack, Jamie xx, Charli XCX, London Grammar, and Outbreak Fest with Turnstile.
Bombay Bicycle Club released their sixth and latest studio album, ‘My Big Day’, in 2023. In a four-star review, NME described the project as “a hotbed of experimentation and guest features, as they expand into new territory”.
“A creative milestone in itself, it’s a far cry from the four-to-the-floor, teenage guitar band that a whole generation grew up with,” it concluded.
Ahead of last summer’s show with The Maccabees at All Points East, Bombay Bicycle Club looked back at their time playing the 2010 NME Awards Tour.
