South Facing Festival is on its way to London

July 21, 2021

With gigs and festivals having been given the green light after 16 months of misery for the music industry (and let’s face it, for music lovers too), we thought we’d point the Londoners amongst you towards a series of open-air shows that are set to light up Crystal Palace Park this summer.

South Facing Festival features 12 headline music performances and a host of free midweek events for the whole community. An impressive set of headliners had already been announced, and now a second wave gigs have been added.

The first announcement boasted performances from Dizzee Rascal & The Outlook Orchestra, Max Richter, Supergrass, The Streets, and the English National Opera (ENO) performing a concert of Tosca.

The new second wave of shows sees two days of live music and DJs curated in collaboration with Brixton’s jazz, funk and soul fiesta Cross The Tracks, as well as a special day fest from Bad Vibrations and Heavenly Recordings, and a mega 5th birthday celebration from Worldwide FM. Amongst the artists playing the shows are Masego and Nubiyan Twist (Full Steam pt 1), Corinne Bailey Rae and Cymande (Full Steam pt 2), Sleaford Mods and Baxter Dury (Sleaford Mods All Dayer) and Kruder & Dorfmeister and The Comet is Coming (Worldwide FM), plus many, many more.

The genre-spanning series will run from 5-31 August 2021 in the park’s iconic open-air concert stage, the Crystal Palace Bowl, which has previously hosted some of the world’s biggest artists (Bob Marley, The Who, Pink Floyd).

We’ll be heading along to some of the shows (how could anyone not want to go to see Supergrass supported by The Cribs?), so we’ll see you there. Oh, and if you are heading along to Crystal Palace Park, then be sure to take some time to check out the Dinosaurs. Seriously, the park has dinosaurs.