Wide Awake Festival 2025 is scheduled to be held at Brockwell Park in London, UK on May 23, 2025. The 2025 edition will be the festival's fifth edition, having been first held in 2021 and annually ever since. The festival is set to feature performances by bands such as English Teacher and CMAT, among others.
Tickets for the festival are currently on sale and can be accessed via the official website of the festival. Tickets are currently in the Tier 1 sale category. Tier 1 General Admission tickets are priced at £49.50 + £4.95 Booking Fee. Tier 1 VIP tickets are priced at £69.50 + £6.95 Booking Fee.
Wide Awake Festival announced its first lineup via a post on its official Instagram page on November 5, 2024.
Wide Awake Festival 2025 Festival first lineup
The first lineup for the Wide Awake 2025 Festival is given below:
- CMAT
- Mercury Prize
- Daniel Avery
- Mannequin P*ssy
- Porn Crumpets
- PUZZLE
- SPRINTS
- Erol Alkan BTB Optimo (Espacio)
- Frankie and the Witch Fingers
- Gaye Su Akyol
- Getdown Services
- Hello Mary
- HiTech
- Jasmie.4.t
- Martin Rev
- Mermaid Chunky
- Patriarchy
- Ugly
- W.I.T.C.H
- Wine Lips
The festival will announce more performers in the near future. The festival stated in its announcement embedded above:
"This is only just the beginning, we have tons more cutting-edge artists still to be announced."
Wide Awake Festival's full address is Brockwell Park, Norwood Road, London, SE24 9JU. There's no parking available in and around the festival premises and driving is strongly discouraged at the festival. The festival entrance is near the Herne Hill overground public transport station. There are also cycle racks available.
Wide Awake Festival is also within walking distance (1 mile) of the Brixton Underground Station and Brixton Rail Station. Bus routes 2, 3, 37, 68, 196, 322, 432, 468, and 690 also serve the area around the festival.
Wide Awake Festival has a strict list of prohibited items, which are listed below:
- Permanent marker, paint, ink, or sharpie pen
- Outside Food and Drink except for a single bottle of water up to 500ml in size.
- Liquids: You may not bring any liquids into the event other than sealed bottles of water up to 500ml in size or tubes of sun cream and hand sanitizer up to 50ml.
- Drugs
- Trolleys and Chairs
- Filming equipment: professional photography or filming equipment
- Glitter: The event organizers are committed to minimizing the impact of the event on the park environment so containers of glitter will be confiscated on arrival. Customers can wear their own glitter when they arrive on-site, but cannot bring any bottles/packets of glitter to the site.
- Drones
- Glass in any form (including perfume bottles)
- Cans or metal containers
- Spray cans, Gas, canisters, or compressed gas in any container
- Fireworks, flares, smoke canisters, Chinese lanterns
- Camping stoves or cooking apparatus, explosives
- Hand-held communication devices such as radios, radio jammers/scanners
- Firearms, knives or blades, replica weapons of any sort
- Large golf umbrellas
- Balloons
- Stools/camping sticks/chairs or other furniture
- Gazebos or parasols
- Sports equipment
- Flags and banners
- Megaphones, amplification equipment
- Klaxons, airhorns, or other similar items capable of making a loud noise
- Laser pens
- Scooters, skateboards, bicycles, trolleys, buggies (buggies are permitted for Jubilation 2nd June)
- Any other item that security may deem hazardous
Wide Awake Festival has previously featured performances by artists such as Yard Act, Caribou, Caroline Polachek, Viagra Boys, Shygirl as well as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Young Fathers.