The Maccabees announce support acts for All Points East
The Maccabees have announced an array of special guests for their upcoming reunion at All Points East in London, including Bombay Bicycle Club, Dry Cleaning and The Cribs.
Upon announcing their reunion, which is set to take place on August 24th, 2025, at Victoria Park, The Maccabees promised a generation-spanning line-up that would celebrate the last 20 years of indie music in the United Kingdom.
The Maccabees are not only headlining All Points East, but they have worked with the London festival to “deliver an essential bill of artists that they love, both old and new”.
Before the names were revealed, guitarist Felix White appeared on Radio X to provide an insight into what fans should expect from the line-up at All Points East, stating,: “It’s going to be amazing. It’s going to be of bands that if you were coming to see The Maccabees in 2007, early years, there’s going to a few of those gold bands.”
Felix continued: “There’s some of our favourite bands at the moment. If you like The Maccabees, it’s going to be every single stage of every different type of band, it’s going to be that sort of world.”
Now, the first batch of bands has officially been confirmed. Indie stalwarts Bombay Bicycle Club have been revealed as the main support. They will be joined on the line-up by Dry Cleaning, The Cribs, Nilüfer Yanya, The Murder Capital, Divorce and Prima Queen.
The line-up is a marriage of indie music in Britain from when The Maccabees started their journey, and also the bands keeping the torch alive in 2024. Additionally, more acts are set to be announced closer to the event.
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On October 29th, Felix and Hugo from The Maccabees appeared on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X to explain the importance of All Points East for producing curated line-ups of this nature, which is filling a void for indie fans in the UK festival season.
Felix shared: “In a way, All Points East has sort of become that for the indie generation because Reading and Leeds has changed a little bit, so you always look at the line-up. So, that was the one that, like, when it got offered to us, it was like, ‘Argh! We can’t not do that!’ It just feels too great, too magical. So that’s where we are.”
In the same interview, Felix also revealed that he thought The Maccabees would never reunite, but the opportunity to headline All Points East was too alluring to refuse. The guitarist remarked: “As Hugo said – we’d all written off in our heads. ‘We’re not going to do this again.’ So, I was personally, like, making peace with the fact that maybe never going to play those big shows again.”
He continued: “But what would happen every year is, because a lot of our friends or whatever are locked into what All Points East do sort of curatively. So, we’d be going to those shows, and you couldn’t help but think looking at it like, ‘Oh, if we were there, like, where would we be playing? Would we be headlining? Would we be second top?’”.
At this stage, it’s yet to be revealed whether The Maccabees will reunite for further dates alongside All Points East or if the show will be a standalone concert. General sale begins at 10am on October 31st.
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