Festivals
The best UK festivals in June 2025
The biggest and best are descending on the UK for the festival season – here's where to find them
The eager festival heads may have tested the waters with the likes of Bearded Theory and The Great Escape in May, but everybody knows that June is when things really get started.
Line-up rumours are thing of the recent past as production crews set up huge stages and screens in your local park to welcome some of the world’s biggest names, from Sabrina Carpenter and Sleep Token to Charlie xcx and Neil Young.
If you need a gentle reminder of what’s coming this month, find our picks of the best UK festivals happening in June below.
LIDO
6–7 June, Victoria Park, London | Buy tickets here
Making it’s debut in June 2025 is LIDO, a new series of day festivals held in East London’s Victoria Park that each have a kind of capsule curation. Jamie XX was the first name on the poster, who has invited peers such as Romy, Sampha, Panda Bear and Arca to join him. Meanwhile, Charlie xcx curates Brat Summer 2.0 as she is joined by the likes of 070 Shake, A.G. Cook, Bladee and plenty more. Other weekends see: London Grammar host a day of dance pop with Celeste and Róisín Murphy; a new London home for Manchester’s Outbreak festival with Alex G, Turnstile and Danny Brown topping the line-up; plus, Massive Attack continue with their Act 1.5, ushering a radical sustainability to festivals for a day ran entirely on batteries, alongside AIR, Yasiin Bey & The Alchemists as FORENSICS and Tirzah.
Download
13–15 June, Donington Park, Derby | Buy tickets here
This year Download celebrates its 22nd edition as the UK’s ultimate metal and hard rock festival. As ever, many of the world’s most zealous music fans will make their pilgrimage to Donington Park for three full-on days, where you can expect high budget production and deafeningly loud performances from headliners Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn, not to mention an absolutely stacked undercard. And all that before hitting the after party to sing your heart out to ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ and ‘In Too Deep’.
Rockstar Energy presents Parklife
14–15 June, Heaton Park, Manchester | Buy tickets here
For university students in Manchester, Parklife symbols the end of exams and the start of summer. For everyone else, it’s an out-and-out rave of extreme proportions. Picking from the worlds of electronic, pop and hip-hop into a collective curation of pure fun, the 15th edition sees Charlie xcx, 50 Cent, Peggy Smith, Jorja Smith, Overmono and a silly amount of party starters.
Sky presents The Isle of Wight Festival
19–22 June, Seaclose Park, Newport | Buy tickets here
Once considered the UK’s answer to Woodstock ’69, with performances from Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell in its early years, The Isle of Wight Festival is today a feel-good, multi-genre weekender that is a mainstay in the summer calendar for families and friends. This year you can catch everyone from Sting and Justin Timberlake to Faithless, Clean Bandit and Example.
Bludfest
21 June, Milton Keynes Bowl | Buy tickets here
What started out as an experiment for Dominc Harrison as a way to break the mould and provide an affordable and accessible community for all YUNGBLUD fans, now looks on its way to becoming one of the hottest one day festivals of the summer. “You start an idea inside your head,” Harrison says, “and you never believe it will come true but then it does all because of the f*cking people and the fundamental idea that we all just wanna be together.” This year YUNGBLUD is joined by Chase Atlantic, Rachel Chinouriri, Denzel Curry, Blackbear, Cliffords and many more.
American Express presents BST Hyde Park
27 June – 13 July, Hyde Park, London | Buy tickets here
Stretching across weekends from the end of June into mid July is BST Hyde Park, surely one of the most civilised ways to see pop icons and timeless greats this summer. And there are plenty of VIP options for those wanting a little added luxury to catch acts from ELO’s Jeff Lyne, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young to Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan and more.
