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Just in time for festival season, we have picked our highlights of 2025’s music festival calendar.

It’s time to find out who’s got your pop-up tent after you packed down last year. It’s time to invest in wet wipe stocks. It’s time to start a group chat to organise travel and camping admin, which will eventually become a dump for messages of ‘where are you’ and blurry photos of you slipping. It’s time for music festivals.

Every week, our mailing list subscribers get a low-down of 5 club nights we like the look of and once a year, we give the blog a taste of the festivals that have caught our eye. Here are the 8 festivals we like the look of for the summer of 2025.

We Out Here

Gilles Peterson’s four-day shindig returns for its sixth edition, once again shining a light on the very best in soul, hip hop, house, afro, electronica, jazz and everything in between.

It’s a proper celebration of musical communities from across the UK and beyond, with a lineup that blends legends, new favourites and future icons all in one lush corner of Dorset. Bonus points for the on-site sauna and hot tub. Naturally.

Jazz Cafe Festival

Westside Gunn. Live in the UK. For the first time. Do we even need to say more?

Griselda co-founder Benny The Butcher is also on the bill, and the rest of the lineup goes hard too – but let’s be honest: Flygod’s UK debut is reason enough to show up.

Dancing Family

A family-run debut festival from the family-run independent record label. Set in Welsh hills but just a simple train from London, Dancing Family Festival has billed every DJ set a back-to-back, ensuring that a special, communal vibe is set by the soundtrack. Type of festival where you can ask your neighbouring tents for an antihistamine.

Jazz on Wick

Inaugural alert. Jazz on Wick is the result of the much-loved Brainchild Festival’s return, Colour Factory, Orii Community and Voices Radio all coming together. Lynda Dawn, Oregon, Alexander Nut, BINA. A one-day festival in Hackney that has the potential to start a legacy.

Velvet Festival

Well, well, well. What do we have here? For one final time, the island of Krk will host Velvet Festival. With the Adriatic as a backdrop, in the words of Jess Glynne: “there's no place I’d rather be.”

And we will be there – Offie Mag DJs are playing one of Velvet’s legendary boat parties.

You might be asking: how does it get any better? Well, festival organiser Dino – yes, the Dinobuck creator himself – has pulled out all the stops. Mount Kimbie, Qendresa, Hunee and dreamcastmoe, just to name a few. Miss it at your own risk.

RALLY

GALA’s had it’s 10th birthday this summer already, but later this year, in collaboration with Bird on the Wire, they bring us RALLY – your August Bank Holiday weekend sorted (hopefully with some South London sun).

RALLY is all about discovery: new sounds, boundary-pushing artists, and a genuine love for the city’s music and art communities. With MIKE, CASISDEAD and Astrid Sonne on the bill, it’s looking serious.

Love Supreme

Now very much a long-running staple of the UK festival calendar, Love Supreme is set in Sussex’s South Downs. Glynde becomes the centre of the jazz universe for one weekend, where a varied line-up of the new-wave jazz and giants of the genre and it’s dancey adjacent sub-genres, result in crowd members of all ages. Expect good weather and the inventor of Quiet Storm, Smokey Robinson.

Kala

Held in a small coastal village in Albania, the festival is surrounded by beaches and packed with wellness options. This isn’t your muddy UK field situation.

Better still: your ticket includes seven nights in a 3–5 star hotel. That’s the festival and your holiday sorted in one.