Massive Attack confirmed as final LIDO 2025 headliner

New London event LIDO has unveiled that this year’s fifth and final headliner will be none other than Bristol icons Massive Attack, who join Jamie xx, Charli xcx, London Grammar, and Turnstile (as part of Outbreak Festival) as the artists topping the bill for LIDO’s inaugural series of day fests. 

Set to take place on Friday 6th June, Massive Attack’s headline turn in Victoria Park will be their first London festival show in nine years, and will continue the trip-hop pioneers’ valuable campaign to make live music events more sustainable, in that it’ll be 100% battery powered. 

Back in Summer last year, Massive Attack teamed up with decarbonisation initiative ACT 1.5 to host an all-day outdoor event in Bristol, providing a workable example for how large-scale music events can be made environmentally friendly. They then hosted a second event indoors at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena, joined by IDLES and Nile Rodgers & Chic.

Of this third ACT 1.5 show, Massive Attack’s live design collaborator Robert Del Naja has said: “History shows it’s often the combination of art and science that overcomes the greatest challenges we face, so it’s good to see LIDO take learnings from our ACT 1.5 event last year and apply those technologies to where they see emissions coming from. 

“Clean productions beginning this journey to normalisation is good news for everyone, but especially for music fans that come to festivals and the local communities that live around them.”