All Points East

All Points East is an annual music festival held over two weekends in London's Victoria Park, run by AEG Presents. The 10 day event comprises one festival weekend, four days of free entry and community activities known as "In the Neighbourhood" and finally three standalone headline shows in their APE Presents series. The first year of All Points East was held in 2018 with LCD Soundsystem, The xx and Björk headlining the festival weekend and Catfish and the Bottlemen, The National and Nick Cave headlining the three standalone shows the following weekend.[1]

All Points East
Yeah Yeah Yeahs at All Points East Festival 2018
VenueVictoria Park, London
Attendance40,000
Websiteallpointseastfestival.com

On November 6, 2018, it was announced that The Chemical Brothers would headline the first day of All Points East 2019, with Hot Chip, Primal Scream, Spiritualized and more. This was followed by the announcement that Bon Iver would close the festival. The other four headliners for 2019 were The Strokes, Christine and the Queens, Bring Me The Horizon and Mumford and Sons.

In December 2018, All Points East won the award for Line-Up of the Year at the UK Festival Awards.[2] In May 2019, All Points East won the award for Best Festival at the Music Week Awards 2019.[3]

Capacity at the 2019 festival was stated as 40,000.[4]

All Points East Festival 2020 (cancelled)

The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] Before the cancellation the announced lineup was:[6]

Weekend 1
Friday 22 May Saturday 23 May Sunday 24 May
Weekend 2
Friday 29 May Saturday 30 May Sunday 31 May

Not announced

All Points East Festival 2019
Weekend 1
Friday 24 May Saturday 25 May Sunday 26 May
Weekend 2
Friday 31 May Saturday 1 June Sunday 2 June

All Points East Festival 2018
Weekend 1
Friday 25 May Saturday 26 May Sunday 27 May
Weekend 2
Friday 1 June Saturday 2 June Sunday 3 June

References
  1. "Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds review, All Points East, Victoria Park – still one of the best live bands around". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  2. "2018 Winners". UK Festival Awards. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  3. "All the winners at the bigger and better 2019 Music Week Awards". www.musicweek.com. 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  4. "All Points East 2019". eFestivals. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  5. "All Points East 2020 Update". www.allpointseastfestival.com. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  6. "All Points East festival lineup 2020 in Victoria Park, London E3". www.allpointseastfestival.com. Retrieved 2020-08-30.

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