News: All Points East Announces Phoebe Bridgers As First 2027 Headliner
East London’s celebrated festival All Points East returns to Victoria Park across two weekends in 2027, with its first headliner revealed today. All Points East welcomes multi-GRAMMY winning American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers to Victoria Park for the first time on Friday 27 August 2027, joined by a curated supporting line up including Caroline Polachek, Kelsey Lu, Danielle Ponder, jasmine.4.t, and more artists to be confirmed.
Four-time Grammy-winner Phoebe Bridgers is an unrivalled generational singer songwriter. Beloved in equal measure for her deceptively subtle voice and her meticulous, incisive lyrics, Bridgers’ third solo album Lost Weekend earned her first solo Official Number 1 Album Award upon release in August. Currently ranked as the most critically acclaimed album of 2026, Lost Weekend’s arena tour of the US, UK and EU sold out within hours and sees Bridgers play to the largest audiences of her career to date. In addition to the international success of the album, Bridgers will be seen making her acting debut in the A24 drama Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim and starring Robert Pattinson, on wide release on October 30th. She also contributed the film’s end title song, “On Video.”
US singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek is known for her distinctly extended vocals and experimental styling in her dynamic forward-thinking pop production. Her acclaimed albums Pang and Desire, I Want To Turn Into You, with the latter earning her both Grammy and Brit Awards nominations. Polachek’s recent collaborations include Charli XCX, Danny L. Harle, Blood Orange as well as a theme song for video game Death Stranding 2 from Kojima Productions.
Kelsey Lu is a phenomenal multi-hyphenate musician. Hailing from North Carolina, Lu is a classically trained cellist, singer-songwriter, producer, composer, poet, and performance artist, who has collaborated with Yves Tumor, Sampha, Florence and The Machine, and Skrillex to multidisciplinary artists such as Kahlil Joseph, Wu Tsang, Precious Okoyomon, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Lu’s work spans disciplines with recent projects including composing the award-winning original score for the feature-length Netflix documentary Daughters; the original score for Savanah Leaf’s BAFTA-winning debut feature film Earth Mama, and composing the original score for Janicza Bravo’s short film House Comes With a Bird alongside fellow actors Pedro Pascal and Natasha Lyonne.
Danielle Ponder is done waiting for a future version of herself to arrive. Now, the Rochester-born, Atlanta-rooted singer-songwriter is unapologetically living in the moment. This realization powers Everything Has Changed, Ponder’s sophomore album and debut on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Phoebe Bridgers. Music was a constant in Ponder’s life, but she spent her adult years as a lawyer focused on criminal justice reform. In 2021, at 39, she left law behind to pursue music full-time. The gamble paid off: she signed her first record deal in 2022. Her debut album Some of Us Are Brave introduced her as one of soul’s most compelling new voices, earning TV appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and sold-out shows at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Afropunk, and Montreux Jazz Festival.
Manchester-based artist jasmine.4.t makes intimate, deeply personal music shaped by her experiences as a trans woman. Her debut album, You Are The Morning, released in 2025, reflects her diaristic approach to songwriting and has resonated with listeners around the world, particularly within the trans community. Produced by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, the album was released via Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, cementing jasmine.4.t’s place within the wider boygenius universe and its community of queer artists.
Expect more announcements soon for the 2027 edition of the UK’s most anticipated summer event.
All Points East Presale – Wednesday 28 October, 10am. General On Sale – Thursday 29 October, 10am. For ticket info, visit www.allpointseastfestival.com.
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