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Venue | Hyde Park, London |
Attendance | 65,000 [1] |
Website | bst-hydepark |
British Summer Time Hyde Park (BST Hyde Park) is a music festival held once a year in London's Hyde Park. BST Hyde Park lasts for up to three weeks. Since 2013, BST Hyde Park has seen performers such as Arcade Fire, Celine Dion, Bruce Springsteen, The E Street Band, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Barbra Streisand, Lionel Richie, Kylie Minogue, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Guns N' Roses, The Who, Blur, The Strokes, Robbie Williams, Taylor Swift, P!nk, Adele, Duran Duran, Take That, Billy Joel, Blackpink, Lana Del Rey, SZA, Stray Kids and Andrea Bocelli. [2]
Scheduled line-up [14] [15] | |||||
Thursday 2 July | Saturday 4 July | Sunday 5 July | Friday 10 July | Saturday 11 July | Sunday 12 July |
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Post Malone | Little Mix | Kendrick Lamar | Pearl Jam | Taylor Swift | Duran Duran |
Line-Up [14] [16] | ||||
Friday 5 July | Saturday 6 July | Sunday 7 July | Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
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Céline Dion Jazz Morley The Adelaides Alice Chater Kerri Watt | Stevie Wonder Lionel Richie Lianne La Havas Corinne Bailey Rae Norman Jay MBE The Heavy Benedict Cork | Barbra Streisand Bryan Ferry Kris Kristofferson Ramin Karmiloo The Kingdom Choir Richard Marx Jamie Lawson Fauozia Riva Taylor Hannah Grace AJ Brown | Florence + the Machine The National Lykke Li Khruangbin Nadine Shah Aldous Harding Cherry Glazerr Marlon Williams Let's Eat Grandma Self Esteem Goat Girl Roses Gabor Connie Constance Mathilda Homer CC Honeymoon | Robbie Williams Black Eyed Peas |
Line-Up [14] | |||||
Friday 6 July | Saturday 7 July | Sunday 8 July | Friday 13 July | Saturday 14 July | Sunday 15 July |
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Roger Waters Richard Ashcroft Seasick Steve Squeeze | The Cure Interpol Goldfrapp Editors Ride Slowdive The Twilight Sad | Eric Clapton Santana Steve Winwood Gary Clark Jr Zucchero Fornaciari | Michael Bublé Van Morrison Bananarama The Feeling The Shires The Adelaides Rob Green Gypsyfingers The Tailormade | Bruno Mars Khalid DJ Rashida | Paul Simon James Taylor & His All-Star Band Bonnie Raitt Callaghan Night Flight Sarah Darling Jesca Hoop Blueprint Blue |
As well as the music artists showed above, the FIFA World Cup semi-final match between England and Croatia was screened. This was the largest London screening of a football match since 1996. [17]
Line-up [21] | |||||
Friday 1 July | Saturday 2 July | Sunday 3 July | Friday 8 July | Saturday 9 July | Sunday 10 July |
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Massive Attack with Young Fathers | Florence + The Machine Kendrick Lamar Todd Terje | Carole King | Mumford & Sons Alabama Shakes Baaba Maal | Take That | Stevie Wonder |
Line-up [22] | |||||
Thursday 18 June | Saturday 20 June | Sunday 21 June | Friday 26 June | Saturday 27 June [23] | Sunday 28 June |
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Great Oak Stage | |||||
The Strokes Fufanu | Blur Broken Hands | Kylie Minogue Grace Jones | The Who Paul Weller The Rifles Sleaford Mods | Taylor Swift Ellie Goulding Iris Gold | Union J
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Line-up [25] | |||||
Friday 5 July | Saturday 6 July | Sunday 7 July | Friday 12 July | Saturday 13 July | Sunday 14 July |
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Great Oak Stage | |||||
Bon Jovi | The Rolling Stones | JLS The Beach Boys The Saturdays | Ray Davies | The Rolling Stones | Lionel Richie Jennifer Lopez Chic featuring Nile Rodgers |
The Theatre | |||||
The Horrors | |||||
Village Hall | |||||
Rival Sons | Tribes | Charlie Brown | |||
Bandstand | |||||
All the Young | Triggerfinger | Avalon Comedy Stage | Thea Gilmore | Keziah Jones |
Elton John had been scheduled to perform on Friday 12 July, but he had to cancel due to illness. All tickets were refunded and the event was made free as a one-off. [26]
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