East London Festival Guide 2024
Updated: July 3rd 2024
Festival season happens all year round in East London. From the Brick Lane Jazz Festival to London Coffee Festival, discover an A-Z list of London day festivals to attend in 2024.
All Points East
Taking over Victoria Park in Hackney for ten days in August, All Points East draws some of the globes most prolific artists for a series of genre-spanning day festivals. In 2024, Mitski, Kaytranada, Loyle Carner and LCD Soundsystem are all set to headline. In recent years, APE has become more commercial, but it's still a safe bet for some of the finest live music in the current zeitgeist.
Dates 16th to 25th August 2024
Ticket price General admission starts at £80
Location Victoria Park, Hackney
Brick Lane Jazz Festival
A relatively new festival set in multiple venues around Brick Lane, Shoreditch across three days and focused on jazz, jazz and more jazz. The festival will be back in 2024 with a fresh line-up as it enters its third year on the scene.
Dates 14-16th April 2024
Ticket price Day tickets for 2023 were £30. A weekend pass would have set you back £80
More information Visit Brick Lane Jazz festival for updates on 2024.
Body Movements Festival
Now in its third year, Body Movements is an LGBTQI+ festival which will take place across various venues in Hackney Wick. Bringing together over 30 artists from the UK, it's a dance festival celebrating queer culture and will grace the likes of Bitch, Please! Jungle Kitty, Queer House Party and Inferno on the bill.
Dates 29th July 2024
Ticket price Day tickets start at £70 via Resident Advisor
Location Hackney Wick
Eastern Electrics
One of the oldest running events in this line-up of East London festivals, EE started as an underground warehouse party and has gone from strength to strength since, now hosting a party for over 40,000 electronic music lovers. Eastern Electrics prides itself on great sound production, something that's often lacking at festivals and promises that 2024 is going to be bigger and better than ever before. Guess there's only one way to find out...
Dates Saturday 24th August 2024
Ticket price £35 and up via Resident Advisor.
More information Lee Valley Showground, Waltham Cross
Field Day
The most Hackney festival there ever was. If you live in the vicinity, you'll probably be familiar with the smug satisfaction of going to Field Day, and being able to walk home. And if you don't live in the vicinity, you can feel even more smug knowing that your rent is almost definitely cheaper. Anyway, this day festival has an electronic music focus and has welcomed many brilliant producers over the years including Bicep, The Blessed Madonna, Overmono, Chemical Brothers and Kelly Lee Owens. Bonobo and Aphex Twin all headlined in 2023. It's a real good-time festival and the sun usually comes out in force.
Dates 24th August 2024
Ticket price General admission starts at £75
Location Victoria Park, Hackney
La Pinata
If you love Mezcal, Tequila and Mexican culture then La Piñata is going to be just up your street. Held on Tobacco Docks, it's also a chance to get out of the usual East London hangouts and head to beautiful Wapping for a day of exploring, eating and drinking.
Dates 2024 dates TBC
Ticket price £26.80 which gives you access to tasters and talks.
Location Tobacco Docks, Wapping
London Coffee Festival
Not all festivals have to revolve around alcohol. The London Coffee Festival invites the world's best roasters, producers and baristas to showcase beans ranging from Brazil dark-roasts to Kenyan floral tastes. Hear talks from industry leaders, try your hand at barista-ing or just sip every coffee on the pitch. Even if you're not that into coffee (who are you?!), there's plenty more to taste test than just caffeine.
Dates 11-14th April 2024
Ticket price Entry is about £15 and includes coffee samples, giveaways, access to talks and masterclasses.
Location The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane
Maiden Voyage
Electronic music is the name of the game at this newcomer festival. Maiden Voyage will head into its 4th summer at Lee Valley Park in 2024. In 2023 it welcomed superstar DJs Job Jobse, Logic1000 and DJ Sprinkles.
Dates 27th August 2024
Ticket price Tickets start at £35 via Resident Advisor
Location Lee Valley Park, EN9 1AB
Mime Festival
Things have evolved a lot since the days of Woodstock. It's now possible to go to a festival without making a sound. Yes, although it might be hard to believe, London International Mime Festival is breaking records with a wordless line-up of visual theatre that sounds fascinating to say the least. It's also held in January, a time that's usually filled with haphazard New Year's resolutions and endless darkness, so a Mime Festival could be a welcome refuge.
Dates 16th January - 17th February 2024.
Ticket price At the time of writing, tickets are yet to go on sale.
Location Various venues around Shoreditch.
Multi Multi by SecretSundaze
The team behind record label and music community, SecretSundaze are launching a new day festival at multiple venues across Hackney Wick this July. Bringing together the freshest record selectors in house, disco and techno, this is a safe bet if you want to dance all day and well into the night.
Dates 8th July 2024
Ticket price Tickets start at £25 via Resident Advisor
Location Multiple Venues, Hackney Wick
Pitchfork Music Festival
Music review site, Pitchfork will curate a line-up of indie music at venues across the city this November, with a focus on Dalston, Hackney and Shoreditch. The full bill is still being announced but at the time of writing you can look forward to seeing Weyes Blood, Ezra Collective, Porches and US. Girls perform.
Dates 2024 dates TBC.
Ticket price Gigs are individually ticketed via Pitchfork's festival website.
Location Multiple Venues across Dalston, Hackney and Shoreditch
Sneakerness
If you're mad about trainers and think footwear is the most important sartorial choice then you'll probably love Sneakerfest. A whole festival dedicated to shoe fanatics. Trade trainers, unearth rare gems, drop your jaw at private collections and generally just shoegaze all day.
Dates 2024 dates TBC.
Ticket price £15 via Feverup
Location Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, Shoreditch
Stoke Newington Literature Festival
Who knew there was a literary festival in Stoke Newington that has been running since 2018?! That's part of the fun of assembling these guides. Stokey Lit Fest takes place at The Mildmay Club and a few other venues across the first weekend of June. The line-up is as eclectic as you'd expect with guest writers, comedians and artists on the bill.
Dates 2024 dates TBC.
Ticket price £50 for the full festival, and £5-10 for individual events via the event website.
Location The Mildmay Club
Wide Awake Festival
Forgive us, but this festival is not in East London. It’s actually down south in Brockwell Park. The line-up is very ‘east’ though, so it might aswell be. What we love about Wide Awake is there’s a lot of indie music on the line-up which is slightly harder to come by these days as electronic music and pop often reigns supreme. King Gizz, Slowdive and Young Fathers are all set to headline in 2024.
Dates Saturday 25th May 2024
Ticket price Tickets start at £59 from the festival website
Location Brockwell Park, South London
Visions Festival
Sometimes it's easy to forget that indie music still holds a big footprint in the festival scene. That's order of service at Visions Festival - a one-day festival across venues in Hackney featuring Spritualized, Katy J.Pearson and Pale Blue Eyes.
Dates 22nd July
Ticket price £39 for the full festival via Dice.
Location Various venues around Hackney, including Hackney Church.
