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More artists have been added to the Field Day 2025 line-up, including James Blake and Digital Mystikz’s Mala.
Set to take place on May 24, the upcoming edition of the live music event will be held at Brockwell Park, London, as part of the Live Bank Holiday Weekender.
Already Peggy Gou has been confirmed as a headliner, and other artists announced included Folamour, Skream & Benga, Mall Grab, Midland, Fatima Yamaha, Jayda G, Bubble Love, Girls Don’t Sync, Dixon and Jungle (with a DJ set).
Now, it has been confirmed that James Blake and Mala are set to perform a special back-to-back DJ set as part of the 2025 edition. It is their only b2b event planned for next year.
Other new additions to the line-up include Demi Riquísimo, who will be back-to-back with Matisa, Dresden, Emerald, Storm Mollison, Partiboi69, Regularfantasy, Yung Singh (with his own b2b set with Special Request) and Roza Terenzi. Visit here for tickets.
For the last four years, the electronic music festival has operated from Victoria Park in East London as a one-day event run by All Points East.
In October, it was announced by organisers that it would be moving to Brockwell Park, joining a string of other festivals taking place at the south London park including Wide Awake, Cross The Tracks, Mighty Hoopla and City Splash.
Field Day was previously held in Brockwell Park in 2018, before briefly moving to the Drumsheds in north London in 2019. They then returned to Victoria Park post-pandemic in 2021, where the festival had been hosted for 11 years prior to 2018.
Mark Newton, Field Day Festival Director said he is “incredibly excited” about the new location and date, which he says “solidifies our place at the beginning of London’s summer.”
He continued: “After four highly successful years collaborating with All Points East at Victoria Park, 2025 seemed like the ideal time to host our own standalone event again. The availability of both the new venue and date presented the perfect opportunity to do so.”
The 2024 edition of Field Day saw Justice and PinkPantheress headline, alongside performances from 2ManyDJs, Romy, Mura Masa, I. Jordan, Yves Tumor and Sega Bodega.
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Monty Don has shared his love for Nick Cave in a new interview, and revealed his emotional response to the ‘Ghosteen’ album.
The BBC Gardeners’ World presenter and TV garden writer took part in a new interview with The Times, and shared his admiration for the singer-songwriter’s 2019 album.
The record came as his 17th album with The Bad Seeds, and marked the follow-up to acclaimed 2016 LP ‘Skeleton Tree. In it, Cave puts forward some of his most emotionally vulnerable and melancholic material and tackles themes of loss, existentialism, faith and death.
At the time of its release, it was described by NME as “the most devastatingly accurate accounts of grief that you’ll ever listen to” in a glowing five-star review.
Now, Monty Don has shared his fondness for the record too, and said it is one that he finds particularly moving. When asked by the outlet what was the last music that made him cry, he responded: “‘Ghosteen’ by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Why would you not cry?”
“I think it’s unbearably beautiful and I’m really glad to listen to it, but I think it’s very sad. I’m a great crier,” he added.
He also went on to share his appreciation for Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen – naming most of their work as containing the lyrics he wishes he could have written – as well as naming The Beatles as having the music that cheers him up.
Outside of music, he also discussed his love of TV and film, naming The French Connection, The Godfather, The Deer Hunter and A Hard Day’s Night, among his favourite movies, and Slow Horses, The Franchise and Family Guy among his top-rated series.
For Don, the interview comes as he recently shared a health update with fans, explaining the circumstances that led to him being taken to the hospital and forced to cancel a number of shows earlier this week.
“I’m so sorry to have disappointed all those people who were going to come and see me in Exeter, Truro, Bath and Nottingham. But on Friday afternoon I was rushed to A&E. I was kept in at the hospital over Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and had to have drips and all the rest of it,” he said on Instagram.
He also added that he was on the road to recovery, and spending a few more days recuperating at home before returning to his schedule.
As for Cave, the artist shared his new album ‘Wild God’ earlier this year, which was given a four-star review by NME. “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered,” it read.
“But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, ‘Jumping for love and the opening sky above’ as ‘Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years’. With a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.”
More recently, it was confirmed that the record had been shortlisted for the 20th annual Australian Music Prize.
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