Charli xcx is coming to London in 2025 and she is curating her own festival, party girl. A massive line-up, personally chosen by the Brat star, will perform in Victoria Park on Saturday 14 June.
Guest stars on the day will include Brat collaborators 070 Shake, A. G. Cook, Bladee, Kelly Lee Owens, The Dare and The Japanese House, with many more still to come. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 29 November.
With party girl, Charli xcx is the second headliner at LIDO to be revealed following the news that Jamie xx will top the bill on Saturday 7 June.
The two-weekend LIDO Festival, named after Victoria Park’s historic Lido Field, will feature curated musical line-ups alongside community-driven activities during the week, with a strong emphasis on sustainability. LIDO will showcase the most current headliners and work closely with them on line ups reflecting their musical influence.
Avant-pop and electronic superstar Charli xcx has become an iconic figure in the arts, having helped expand the landscape of popular music over the last decade by seamlessly traversing the underground and mainstream with her artistic output. Over the course of a trailblazing career, the multi-hyphenate creative has earned critical acclaim for her innovative style and entrepreneurial spirit and seen her forward-thinking approach reshape pop culture in the process.
She released her sixth studio album Brat in June, which stands as the most critically acclaimed album of the year and landed at Number 1 on the UK Official Album Chart in October. Brat has well and truly made its mark on the cultural zeitgeist this year; the audacious campaign has seen Charli cause roadblocks around the world with her pop-up ‘PARTY GIRL’ DJ sets, break the internet with viral videos and surprise collaborations with the likes of Billie Eilish, Lorde, Addison Rae, Robyn, Yung Lean, Julia Fox, Chloë Sevigny, and Rachel Sennott and introduce a new tone of green to the social lexicon.
This week saw a sold-out headline show at London’s O2 arena and now, Charli xcx will take the next step up with her biggest UK show to date at the inaugural LIDO Festival in 2025 – her first UK festival as headliner.
New Jersey rapper 070 Shake may not have collaborated with Charli xcx (yet) but she did appear on RAYE’s absolutely huge hit single ‘Escapism.’ and she has just released her latest album, Petrichor. According to CLASH magazine, 070 Shake “illuminates a path that not many can tread with such confidence, an elevating spirit that pushes the parameters of her craft”.
A. G. Cook’s work can be found on a number of Brat tracks – hardly surprising given he is one of the most sought-after producers around, having worked with superstars including Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. Charli xcx provided vocals on his own 2024 album, Britpop, along with the likes of Addison Rae and Caroline Polachek.
Idiosyncratic Stockholm rapper Bladee joined the Charli xcx world in 2024 with the collaboration ‘Rewind’ but 2024 also saw the release of two surprise albums, Psykos and Cold Visions. Of the latter, Pitchfork wrote: “Its blurry, blot-out-the-world vibe glitches between reality and nightmare.” A true original.
Acclaimed Welsh electronic musician and producer Kelly Lee Owens released her fourth album, Dreamstate, in October, taking her ambient techno beats to the next level. NME described it as “a masterful, emotionally-charged collection of heavenly club music”, while the Guardian said it was “dancefloor transcendence by a true pop shapeshifter”.
The Dare produced Brat bonus track ‘Guess’, along with the remix featuring Billie Eilish, and September saw the release of the boldly titled album What’s Wrong With New York? It’s all sleazy face-pummelling electro-disco beats, or as DIY magazine put it: “Coming at the end of Brat summer, The Dare’s debut intercepts the baton perfectly.”
The Japanese House is another maverick Charli xcx collaborator, on ‘Apple’ on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat…. Since 2023’s acclaimed In The End It Always Does (“Pop disruptor finds sunshine in the darkness” – NME) The Japanese House has also collaborated with Fred Again on ‘backseat’ and released the remarkably upbeat ‘:)’. A new album is in the works.
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