Gruff Rhys, Bill Ryder-Jones among new names confirmed for All Points East

Another 50+ names have been confirmed for All Points East in London with organisers promising still much more to come before the second instalment of the festival gets underway next month.

Amongst those newly on the bill are Gruff Rhys, Gold Panda and Bill Ryder-Jones, while DJ sets have been confirmed for Fat White Family and The Vaccines.

One of the big highlights of this year’s events looks like being the day headlined by The Strokes on May 25th, when they’ll also be performances by The Raconteurs, Interpol, Johnny Marr, Parquet Courts, Jarvis Cocker and Courtney Barnett.

Anna Calvi is on there too after releasing her Hunter LP in 2018 – one of Live4ever’s top picks of the year; “If music at its most basic is about connection, Anna Calvi has a startling new take on the implications,” our album review opens.

“Starting from that atomised place has given her the courage to make a huge record, one bathed in red – a colour she recently described as capturing the collection’s essence, a breakout work damned by qualities described as ‘visceral, cerebral, animalistic’.”