The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs set to play huge gig in London for All Points East 2023

All Points East 2023 will have The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs play a huge gig in London. The bands will join Stormzy‘s ‘This Is What We Mean Day’ in Victoria Park on Friday, August 25 as the second gig of the summer series.

Girl In Red, Amyl And The Sniffers, and Angel Olsen will join the two New York indie icons at the show.

Black Midi, Julie, HotWax, and Nieve Ella are also on the line-up.


All Points East tickets for The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs will go on sale on January 27, Friday at 10 am GMT.

A week before the Strokes gig (August 18), Stormzy will bring a curated day of music dubbed ‘This Is What We Mean Day’, based on his new album ‘This Is What I Mean’.

In an announcement video, he said that he was thinking about what’s next, cos they have done three O2s. He said to the team that they gotta do something bigger, something better, something different. They were having back-to-back meetings, bouncing ideas. He started jotting down ideas thinking – live band, need a live band.


Gorillaz set up a headline that featured in All Points East 2022, they were joined by Tame Impala to perform a brand new collaboration called ‘New Gold’ with Bootie Brown. Joined by Caroline Polachek, Omar Apollo, Dry Cleaning, Working Men’s Cub, and Mattiel, Tame Impala also headlined the day.

This festival too will see headline performances from The National (Friday, August 26), Disclosure (Saturday, August 27), and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (Sunday, August 28).

FAQs:

1. Who are ' The Strokes'?
   It is an American rock band formed in 1998 in New York City.
2. What is 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs'?
   It is an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000.