Lido Festival 2026 | Bank Holiday Monday, Victoria Park

London gets one more day to stretch out before summer closes. Lido Festival returns on Monday 31 August, and the lineup they have put together for year two is the kind of thing you read twice just to make sure it is real.

Maribou State headline and curate, which means everything on the bill carries their fingerprints. Chris Davids and Liam Ivory have spent fifteen years finding the space between the dancefloor and something more interior, and the acts they have assembled feel like a full portrait of that sensibility. Theo Parrish b2b Moodymann is the centrepiece, two Detroit selectors whose connection to the music runs so deep that a back-to-back between them is not just a booking, it is an event. Kelis brings the kind of presence that does not need a setlist to justify itself.

Then the depth. LTJ Bukem and his liquid drum and bass feel right at home alongside the atmospheric electronics of Kelly Lee Owens on the decks. Folamour's feel-good disco is a guaranteed moment. DJ Koze brings his off-kilter brilliance. Marie Davidson performs live. Calibre, Alabaster Deplume, Lady Wray, MADMADMAD, Oscar Farrell, United Freedom Collective, Yemz. Every name earns its place.

Lido does something a lot of festivals claim but rarely deliver: it hands genuine curatorial control to the headliner and trusts the taste. The result is a bill that coheres, that has a point of view, that feels like someone actually cared. That is rare. That is worth showing up for.

Monday 31 August. Lido Field, Victoria Park. Tickets at lidofestival.co.uk.