Final names announced for Massive Attack’s LIDO Festival 2025 line-up 

The final names joining Massive Attack at their LIDO Festival headline show have been shared. Check out the details below.

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The Bristol trip-hop duo will be taking to the stage as headliners on Friday June 6, and it’ll mark their first festival appearance in London in nine years.

As well as performing some of their biggest hits, Robert Del Naja and co. will also continue their groundbreaking work with Act 1.5 to decarbonise live music events. This means, thanks to an ongoing partnership with Ecotricity, their LIDO set will be entirely powered by battery, significantly reducing carbon emissions and local air pollution.

French electronic band AIR were previously announced as supporting them at the upcoming event, as were Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) and The Alchemist – who are set to release an album together under the name FORENSICS – and Tirzah.

Now, the final run of names has been added to the bill. These include upcoming artist from South London, Hunny, who is signed to Warner Records & The Coalition and has already made waves with a sold-out residency at The HAC in 2024.

Everything Is Recorded – an ingenious project by record producer Richard Russell – joins the line-up too, as does Palestinian musical 47SOUL, which blends influences from hip-hop, electronica, folk and more.

Mad Professor is also set to perform on June 6, and has collaborated several times with Massive Attack in the past. He also worked as a producer on ‘No Protection’ – a remix of the collective’s mega second album, ‘Protection’ – in 1995, as well as teaming up with the group for the release of ‘Massive Attack vs Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes ’98)’ in 2019.

Completing the line-up is Bristol pioneer DJ Milo, who is a founding member of the multi-genre sound system called The Wild Bunch and is known for blending genres like funk, reggae, punk, new wave, afrobeat, disco, hip-hop, electro and Chicago house. Find the updated poster below and available tickets here.

The huge London event will follow Massive Attack’s Act 1.5 concert in Bristol last summer (which became the UK’s biggest low-carbon gig ever) and subsequent Act 1.5 “climate action accelerator” shows in Liverpool that featured IDLES and Nile Rodgers.

“To present London’s first ever 100 per cent battery-powered festival day with a dynamic range of artists is an optimum outcome for us,” Del Naja 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.”

LIDO Festival 2025 will also see headline sets from Charli XCX, London Grammar and Jamie xx. On top of that, LIDO is due to host the new London leg of Outbreak Festival which will be headlined by Turnstile.

Last year, Massive Attack spoke to NME and discussed their ongoing efforts to tackle the climate crisis, as well as how they turned down the chance to play Coachella 2025. Of new music, they said: “We do have some new music which we’ve been sitting on for four years…

“Hopefully we’re going to be able to release it next year and do some gigs. Obviously we’ve set a standard for ourselves now [with Act 1.5], and we’re going to stick with it. To get given that Race to Zero artist recognition. We’ll stick with it.”

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