That unmistakable smoky low register belongs to Nigerian R&B that reshaped what afrobeats could sound like, Grammy-anointed and still rising.
AfrobeatsR&B

Six separately-ticketed days in Victoria Park across two August weekends: Lorde, a Tyler two-nighter, Twenty One Pilots, and an Outbreak Fest takeover.
All Points East 2026 has already wrapped, but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
Name a few bands you love and we'll scout all 154 acts on the All Points East bill for the ones you shouldn't miss.
All Points East isn't one festival so much as six separately-ticketed days in Victoria Park, spread across two August weekends. Each day is its own show with its own headliner and its own crowd: Jorja Smith and Tems on the 21st, Lorde on the 22nd, an Outbreak Fest takeover on the 23rd, Tyler, The Creator across both the 28th and 29th, and Twenty One Pilots on the 30th.
That structure means you buy into a day, not a weekend, and the days genuinely don't overlap in audience. The 23rd is a heavy bill: Deftones, IDLES, Amyl and The Sniffers, Interpol, Deafheaven, Show Me The Body. The 22nd is pop and club-facing: PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson, Djo, Oklou, Erika de Casier. The 28th and 29th are Tyler's own curation, running from Clipse and Vince Staples to Faye Webster and Ghostface Killah.
Set times are live. Six stages run at once (East and West are the big two, with North Arena, X Stage, Rising Stage and E3 Stage filling in around them), but never more than five at a time, and the closing headliner always plays alone: the rest of the park has gone quiet by 21:15 every night, and by 19:40 before Twenty One Pilots. The 21st's X Stage is a single continuous Shy FX takeover, seven hour-long sets of jungle, drum & bass and sound-system history from 14:00 to 21:00.
Two scheduling notes: Tyler, The Creator headlines both Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th, and Mustard plays North Arena at 20:05 on both of those nights. Each appears once in the lineup below, on the 28th.
Expect hip-hop, r&b, pop and soul across 154 acts.
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That unmistakable smoky low register belongs to Nigerian R&B that reshaped what afrobeats could sound like, Grammy-anointed and still rising.
AfrobeatsR&B
Walsall's great modern soul voice, restrained, jazz-schooled, and equally at home over a garage beat, with 'Blue Lights' still stunning.
R&BSoul
The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Art-popAlt-pop
The band that dragged heaviness toward dream-pop: Chino Moreno's croon-to-scream over guitars tuned for atmosphere as much as impact.
Alt-metalShoegaze-metal
Odd Future's ringleader turned auteur, with every record a full costume change and every tour a proper production, Grammy-decorated and still restless.
Hip-hopAlt-rap
Genre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
Alt-popRap-rock
London singer working a patient, conversational strain of British R&B, writing about family, faith and self-worth with unusual candour.
R&B/soul
Young British soul singer with an outsized voice and a knack for a piano ballad, and Leicester's next big export.
SoulPop
Walsall polymath with a filmmaker's eye applied to left-of-centre R&B and rap, and every video and verse art-directed.
Alt-R&BHip-hop
Velvet-toned R&B intimacy from the Kehlani school, with plush late-night vocals and an internet-native fanbase that sings every ad-lib.
R&B
Oxford soul singer with an old-school timbre, the kind of voice that quiets a field, drawing straight from the D'Angelo lineage.
SoulR&B
The voice that made dubstep and UK funky sound like radio pop. 'Katy on a Mission' is still the definitive pirate-radio-to-Top-5 crossover.
UK-garageDance-pop
UK garage's greatest technician, with decades of two-step mixing done at a speed that still looks impossible, four decks deep and never missing.
UK-garage
Eswatini-born amapiano DJ who dances harder than the crowd, and the genre's most magnetic live export, with log drums and choreography in one body.
Amapiano
UK R&B songwriter with quiet-storm control, bringing hushed vocals and late-night restraint, with minimal production leaving all the room for the voice.
Hip-hop
UK funky's defining production team. 'Do You Mind' with Kyla is a bassline an entire country can hum, and it got a second life on the charts.
UK-funkyHouse
London R&B with an afroswing lilt, silky, unhurried, and increasingly hard to get a ticket for, with word-of-mouth momentum fully underway.
R&BAfroswing
Griselda's ringleader, with dusty loops, ad-libs as punctuation, and an art-world obsession baked into everything: boom-bap as couture.
Hip-hopBoom-bap
Leeds-via-Bradford producer leading the jungle revival, with breakbeats under genuinely tender songwriting and rave history reclaimed as diary.
JungleDrum-and-bass
Mavin Records star with a sharp pop instinct and a delivery that cuts straight through the mix, and Gen-Z afrobeats with global-chart ambition already realized.
AfrobeatsAfropop
Gossamer French avant-pop with choral synths and whispered melody, songs that feel lit by candles and screens at once.
Art-popElectronic
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
PopSinger-songwriter
Rage-adjacent producer-vocalist making synth-heavy, blown-out digital pop for a very online audience, with icy arpeggios, distorted 808s, and hooks that hit like a video-game boss theme.
HyperpopRage
Smoky-voiced UK balladeer with big-room soul at 19 and torch songs with an old head's control, a debut voice that sounds decades deep.
Pop
Swedish pop machinery at its shiniest, from 'Lush Life' to main-character bangers, delivered with total command.
PopDance-pop
Two-minute drum'n'bass-pop confections from the internet's most influential songwriter-per-second, nostalgia sampled into something brand new, hooks gone before you can replay them.
UK-garageBedroom-pop
Joe Keery's psych-pop project has vocoders, fuzz, and a genuine ear for a Tame Impala-shaped hook, and is well past the celebrity-side-project stage.
Psych-popSynth-pop
New York hardcore built around a banjo run through a wall of distortion, genuinely unlike anything else and heavier than it has any right to be.
HardcoreNoise-punk
British '90s-worship emo with thick guitars, buried vocals, and a hold over a very specific generation that treats every appearance as an event.
EmoAlt-rock
Black metal's tremolo blur pointed at shoegaze bliss: screamed vocals over passages that keep resolving into something radiant, 'Sunbather' still the genre-argument that never ends.
BlackgazePost-metal
Philly band swinging between shoegaze tenderness and full-throated hardcore, often inside one song, with catharsis and total dynamic control.
PunkAlt-rock
Self-produced noise-rap made on a laptop, abrasive, funny, and unrepeatable live, with every set a controlled demolition of its own material.
Experimental-rapIndustrial-hip-hop
Witch house's originators, with screwed vocals over cavernous drones, still faintly sinister, a genre's whole aesthetic in one band.
Witch-houseDrone
Shoegaze revived by someone who found it online, with vocals buried so far in the wash they read as another guitar.
ShoegazeDream-pop
Early-2000s New York at its most funereal and best-dressed: interlocking guitars, Paul Banks's monotone, and no wasted motion, 'Turn On the Bright Lights' still immaculate.
Post-punkIndie-rock
Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu (genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings) brings anything-goes technique with total joy.
TechnoDJ set
Hardcore kids who became goths and then a genuinely huge rock band, with Davey Havok's full-commitment melodrama riding a catalog that runs from East Bay punk to 'Miss Murder'-era anthems.
Post-hardcoreGoth-punk
Hardware-driven UK techno at genuinely punishing volume, where the live rig is the whole point, wrangling machines into some of the genre's most physical sound.
Techno
Amy Taylor might be the best frontperson alive right now. Aussie pub-punk voltage, all sprint and snarl, from a band that treats every stage like a title fight.
PunkPub-rock
Liverpool drill delivered in a thick Scouse accent, melodic, unhurried, and part of the wave that stopped UK rap sounding exclusively like London.
UK rapDrillHip-hop
Bristol post-punk built on solidarity and volume, with a live show closer to a group therapy riot, all sweat, hugs, and howled affirmations.
Post-punkPunk
Slow-burn Atlanta R&B: heartbreak delivered with surgical calm, ballads that cut deeper for never raising their voice.
R&B
Jazz-chord bedroom pop sung slightly off the beat, earnest in a way that made it enormous, with 'Loving Is Easy' warmth throughout.
Indie-popBedroom-pop
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
HardcoreAlt-rock
Songs that sound recorded live in a crowded room by accident: ragged, intimate, and completely singular, with a live band that pushes them even further loose.
Alt-R&BIndie-soul
Canadian R&B with gospel bones, with sparse arrangements built entirely around the voice, 'Best Part' devotion delivered at a whisper.
R&BSoul
The family ties run deep in elastic, unpredictable rap with pgLang polish and beat-switches that keep entire songs off balance in the best way.
Hip-hop
Long Beach trio building elaborately choreographed art-pop around genuinely funky bass, with 'still feel.' and dance routines performed completely straight.
Indie-popFunk-pop
Manchester co-fronted pop-punk with a sneer inherited directly from Britpop, featuring dual vocals, big choruses, and bigger attitude.
Pop-punkAlt-rock
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty, with genre lines treated as suggestions.
Country-popAlt-pop
Hastings four-piece writing angry, funny state-of-Britain songs over big dumb riffs, affectionately meant. Terrace-chant punk with a wink and a point.
PunkAlt-rock
Lynn Gunn's project, drifting steadily from rock toward glossy synth-pop without losing the edge: one-woman vision at arena polish.
Alt-popElectro-rock
Australian band writing enormous, unembarrassed songs about faith, grief, and staying alive, with Springsteen-scale sincerity delivered by one of the great live frontmen.
Indie-rockHeartland-rock
London duo running bass through every pedal ever made, with grime swagger welded to punk riffs. A two-woman wall of sound.
PunkAlt-rock
Welsh artist whose long-form narrative songs built an enormous audience almost entirely outside the industry, with story-rap virtuosity on his own terms.
Singer-songwriterHip-hop
Absurdist pop-rap entrepreneurship with 'edamame' energy and meme-fluent hooks, shockingly great live from a performer who takes the joke completely seriously.
Hip-hopComedy-rap
Raw-nerve UK rock, with Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
Indie-rockAlt-rock
German trio orbiting bassist-vocalist Peavy Wagner since the mid-eighties, welding speed-metal drive to orchestral ambition across a famously relentless run of records.
Metal
West London singer whose full-bodied tone came up through gospel choirs: soul phrased like jazz, timed like hip-hop, and a debut EP that arrived fully formed.
SoulR&B

Electronic
R&B/soul
British girl group assembled by Polydor in 2024, with dance-pop that has real choreography behind it and a debut EP aimed squarely at the big rooms.
PopDance-pop
South London rapper writing warm, funny, unmistakably local verses over soul-leaning production: 'Peng Black Girls' announced a genuinely fresh voice.
Hip-hopNeo-soul
Irish-English singer with a startling rasp, moving between soul, reggae, and rap without strain, a voice that sounds lived-in twice over.
SoulR&B
R&B/soul
Italian-born, London-based DJ with a monthly show on Rinse FM. Her sets lay rap vocals over UK bass, grime, garage and jungle, opening around 140 BPM and finishing near 170.
Dance
Birmingham-raised, London-based selector with a Rinse FM residency, playing sets that move between house, R&B, rap and jazz without a seam showing.
DJ setHouse
Touching Bass-affiliated singer making hushed, jazz-inflected soul for very late at night, with South London warmth at candle volume.
Neo-soulJazz
Ezra Collective's drummer and bandleader, the engine of London's jazz resurgence, bringing gospel-hall energy to every kit he touches.
JazzAfrobeat
London R&B singer built on big vocals and plainly-put heartbreak, with Whitney and Luther in the phrasing and contemporary production underneath.
R&BPop
Jungle royalty since the mid-'90s, with ragga-inflected breakbeats and one of the genre's defining catalogues, and 'Original Nuttah' eternal.
JungleDrum-and-bass
London psych-soul project trading in warm, weightless songwriting, with hazy guitars over a rhythm section that keeps one foot in the sixties.
Psych-popSoul

R&B
Roots in UK funky and grime, with skippy, percussive, club-first records that never overstay their welcome.
UK funkyGrime
Long-running UK bass producer moving between drum and bass, dubstep and garage tempos, with sound-system weight and an unusually light touch.
Electronic
Dublin band bending neo-soul and funk into something scruffier and more Irish than either genre expects: jagged, jazzy, and completely their own.
Neo-soulAlt-R&B

R&B
Singer/songwriter
Glasgow-raised songwriter making dream-lit indie-pop: direct, unguarded writing wrapped in soft-focus synths, lately drifting toward cosmic Americana.
Indie-popAlt-pop
Brazil-born, North London-raised rapper and singer working the line between hip hop and pop, introduced on the debut EP ‘XY’ and the single ‘LEGACY’.
Hip-hopPop
Irish songwriter writing sharply about adolescence over guitar-pop that keeps getting bigger, a rising voice entirely her own.
Indie-popSinger-songwriter
Danish-Portuguese singer reviving late-'90s R&B production with an almost whispered delivery, soft-spoken songs with an uncanny period-perfect gloss.
Alt-R&B
Antiguan-German songwriter making moody, sci-fi-tinted synth-pop, with dark-pop atmospheres delivered in a cool, conspiratorial hush, built for late-night headphones and soundtracks alike.
Alt-popElectropop
Glittering, game-engine electronic from Australia's most inventive young club producer: chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
ElectronicHyperpop
Folk
Alternative
Pop
East London dance-pop built for the 5am end of the night, with the songwriting to survive daylight, and rave euphoria with a pop heart.
Dance-popElectropop
Pop
PopElectronic
New York electronic duo making IDM-inspired collage pop, all buzzing bass, clipped blips and icy, close-miked vocals.
Electronic
Pop
Danish artist building weightless guitar-pop out of processed tones and near-whispered melody, with uncanny-valley beauty rendered in high definition.
Ambient-popExperimental
Dance
Pop
Indie
Paul Institute artist making immaculate '80s-leaning R&B, with every synth placed exactly where it should be and session-musician bloodline audible in the detail.
R&BSophisti-pop

London grunge trio playing loud, full-throttle guitar songs in the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins mould, sung with a dry, sardonic British edge.
Rock
Rock

Rock
Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap with riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
PunkAlt-rap

Alternative
Atlanta rapper with grunge guitars in the mix and a delivery that shifts register mid-bar, with rap and alt-rock fused without visible seams.
Hip-hopRap-rock
New Orleans rapper, formerly known as YPC Ree, writing lived-in verses about growing up and refusing to let his surroundings shape him.
Hip-hop
Hip-hop
Bay Area collective making scrappy, guitar-flecked rap with a genuine band mentality, with posse-cut energy and genre-blind hooks in the post-Brockhampton mold.
Alt-rap
Sydney trio welding rap cadences to slippery, distorted post-punk guitar: Australian art-rock that treats the mixing desk as an instrument.
Alternative
R&B
Border-raised songwriter refusing to pick a genre: punk, rap, and shoegaze inside a single track, stitched together with pop instincts.
Alt-rockGenre-fluid
Narcotic dream-pop duets with slow-motion romance in the Cigarettes After Sex register, candlelit vocals over slow-blooming guitar.
Dream-pop
Long Beach rapper with a comedian's timing and the bleakest source material, never once sentimental, and funnier live than most comics.
Hip hopWest coast hip hop

Hip-hop
Haitian-American songwriter working in atmospheric alt-soul, with confessional writing stacked into intricate vocal arrangements (a choir of one).
Alt-R&BSoul
A featherweight soprano over warm, live-band R&B, Chicago's most distinctive voice in the genre, with 'Love Me Not' finally making it official.
Alt-R&BNeo-soul
A voice that stops rooms: gospel-schooled soul with astonishing control at the top of the range, 'My Mind' still the proof.
SoulR&B
UK underground rap's internet-native riser, with lo-fi menace and offhand melody built for the timeline, low-lit tracks that travel by repost.
Underground rap
Pop
Barcelona rapper whose deadpan Spanish trap arrived with an immediately recognisable sneer, plus viral freestyles and a delivery that turns minimalism into menace.
TrapHip-hop
Pusha T and Malice, reunited: coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
Hip-hopCoke-rap
St. Louis rapper whose blunt, gleefully vulgar club records became some of the most quoted hooks in recent rap (decorum optional, hooks mandatory).
Hip-hopTrapSouthern hip hop
UK-garage-inflected R&B with Kaytranada's favorite-vocalist energy: silk delivery over broken beats, two-step rhythms under velvet vocals.
Alt-R&BUK-garage
The West Coast's ratchet-era architect, with a DJ set stacked with his own hits ('Not Like Us' included), a decade of radio in an hour.
Hip-hopRatchet
Comedian and rapper in equal measure. The jokes are real and so, annoyingly, are the songs, beats from rap's A-list included.
Hip-hopComedy-rap
Hip-hop
Left a YouTube career behind to make genuinely ambitious, orchestral experimental rap about death and dissolution, one of the internet's great reinventions.
Experimental-rapArt-pop
Hip-hop
Silky retro-modern R&B with a writer's restraint: every note placed, nothing oversung, late-night soul with a craftsman's patience.
R&BSoul
North West London singer and producer with perfect pitch and jazz-academy training, whose Feline's Return EPs pushed her into sharper, hook-driven R&B pop.
R&B/soul
Detroit's most distinctive voice, literally: a yelp deployed over production nobody else would touch, from grimy underground tapes to festival-scale experimentalism.
Hip-hopExperimental-rap
Slurred, meditative rap over his own woozy loops, with grief processed at half speed. Underground New York's quiet center of gravity.
Hip-hopAbstract-rap
The Internet's frontwoman, with feather-light vocals over basslines that do most of the seducing. Neo-soul cool at a whisper.
Alt-R&B
Wu-Tang's most vivid storyteller, with stream-of-consciousness detail delivered at a shout; 'Supreme Clientele' is still the gold standard of rap surrealism.
Hip-hopBoom-bap
Technically sharp West Coast rapper who arrived fully formed and hasn't wasted a verse yet, and the co-signs keep stacking.
Hip-hop
Hushed, unhurried songwriting from a new voice with old grace.
Folk
Pedal steel and yacht-rock chords under deadpan songwriting about being slightly bored and very sad. Atlanta cool that turned ennui into a signature sound.
Indie-folkAlt-country
South London genre-blur: drill, indie, and R&B folded into diaristic collage, homemade and heartsore in equal measure.
Alt-R&BUK-rap
Christian
Hip-hop
Rock
Rock
Essex two-piece playing furious, funny street punk with an unmistakably local accent: two people, one wall of grievance.
PunkStreet-punk
Glasgow band with sharp, sardonic vocals over guitars that lean grunge, with bratty hooks and genuine bite underneath.
Alt-rockPunk
Grit-and-leather rock-soul riser.
Alternative
Leicester band working since 2018 in the space where alternative rock meets pop hooks.
Alternative
Pop
Alternative
Bright, funk-tinged pop-punk from a duo with an unusually sharp sense of groove: scene revival with actual rhythm-section chops.
Pop-punkAlt-pop
Australian four-piece playing scrappy, funny, hook-heavy rock with a real live spark. Canberra mates with festival-sized charm.
Indie-rockPunk
Alternative
Alternative
YouTube-to-pop-punk pipeline done properly: fast, funny songs with real hooks and a community built before the band.
Pop-punk
Rock
All Points East sells each day separately, so a ticket for one date does not admit you to the others. Tyler, The Creator and Mustard each play both August 28 and 29; both are listed once, on the 28th.
Jorja Smith, Tems, Nia Archives, KWN, Ayra Starr, Odeal + 30 more
Lorde, PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson, Djo, Sienna Spiro, 2hollis + 22 more
Deftones, IDLES, Amyl and The Sniffers, Interpol, AFI, Esdeekid + 17 more
Tyler, The Creator, Rex Orange County, Turnstile, Mariah the Scientist, AG Club, BB Trickz + 18 more
Daniel Caesar, Baby Keem, Dijon, Danny Brown, DJ Gummy Bear, Dove Ellis + 12 more
Twenty One Pilots, Wunderhorse, Ren, Gang of Youths, bbno$, PVRIS + 19 more
Six days across two weekends: August 21, 22 and 23, then August 28, 29 and 30, 2026.
Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets, east London.
No. Each day is ticketed separately, though two-day tickets exist for the August 28 and 29 Tyler, The Creator shows.
Jorja Smith and Tems (21st), Lorde (22nd), Deftones on the Outbreak Fest day (23rd), Tyler, The Creator (28th and 29th) and Twenty One Pilots (30th).
154 acts across the six days and six stages.
Set times are live. Every act's day, stage, and set time is on this page. Expand the full lineup below or check the day-by-day breakdown. One act, Headsend on the 30th, has not been given a slot yet.
Constantly. Up to five stages run at once through the afternoon, so an early-doors plan is worth making. The one thing that never clashes is the close: the rest of the park finishes by 21:15 every night, and by 19:40 on the 30th, so each day's headliner plays to an undivided field.
Type a few bands you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches from this lineup, with reasons.
All Points East is expected back in August 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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