All Points East 2025 - The Maccabees announce huge support acts for reunion

Indie legends The Maccabbes have added some huge names to join them at their reunion show next year.

The much-loved band will play their first show together in eight years with a reunion show at East London festival All Points East.

They will be welcoming special guests Bombay Bicycle Club to All Points East 2025. But the big names don’t stop there, with Dry Cleaning, The Cribs, Nilüfer Yanya, The Murder Capital, Divorce and Prima Queen - and many more still to join them in Victoria Park.

The show coincides with the tenth anniversary of The Maccabees' landmark album Marks to Prove It. The announcement on Monday was the news fans have been waiting for since the band paid an emotional farewell in 2017 with a sold- out three-night run at Alexandra Palace.

Guitarist Felix White said: “In the intervening years we’ve been to All Points East a lot, separately. It’s become a bit of a landmark festival for us, always checking who’s on the line-up. I’d go and have a great time throughout the day, but there was always this pinch of regret watching headliners that we could’ve done it ourselves one day too. I thought that moment had passed, and it was something I was prepared to come to terms with that I was always going to miss. I think we’re all kind of shocked and excited that we get to do it together again.”

As if the return of The Maccabees wasn’t exciting enough, the addition of special guests Bombay Bicycle Club guarantees one of the biggest events of the year in British guitar music.

Since Bombay Bicycle Club formed in 2005, accolades have included the NME Best New Band award and an Ivor Novello Award nomination for the 2010 album Flaws. The band returned in 2023 with their sixth studio album, the joyful My Big Day, and this year they followed that up with Fantasies, an EP of infectious indie-pop collaborations with the likes of Lucy Rose and Matilda Mann.