British Summer Time Festival returns to Hyde Park next year with a bang as four big acts have already been announced for the London event.
The American Express BST festival takes place across multiple weekends and organisers aim to put on an impressive show with iconic headliners and support from today's rising stars, as well as providing food, drink and hospitality packages at one of London's premier green spaces.
Take That, Blackpink, P!nk, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band as well as Billy Joel have been announced as headliners so far for the festival which takes place in July 2023. Bruce Springsteen will make his BST debut and perform on Thursday, July 6 and Saturday, July 8, 2023 and tickets have already sold out for Bruce.
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Blackpink are the latest headliners to be announced. The K-Pop group will play at the festival on Sunday, July 2 2023. This is on the back of their already announced Born Pink Tour, which kicks off at the London O2 Arena on November 30 and December 1 this year, tickets for which are already at low-availability.
P!nk will perform at BST on Saturday June 23, 2023 and tickets will are on sale on Ticketmaster. Take That will perform on Saturday, July 1, 2023, a week after Pink performs in the grounds.
The trio will be joined on the day by The Script and The Sugababes. Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, November 3 at 10am and are expected to sell-out quickly via Ticketmaster. Mastercard members will be able to get early access to tickets during the pre-sale today at 10am (October 28), via AXS and Ticketmaster as the event is sponsored by Mastercard.
Billy Joel's performances will take place on Friday, July 7 2023. Tickets for Billy Joel at the BST Festival are on sale now via Ticketmaster. More acts are set to be announced very soon by the organisers.
The festival, which began in 2013, attracted the likes of Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Adele, The Eagles and Duran Duran at last year's event which saw more than 500,000 music lovers attend. Kylie Minogue, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Celine Dion, Bon Jovi, Barbara Streisand, Lionel Richie and more have performed at previous events.
Tickets for the festival are priced as day/general admission for the artists performing live that day. Eight out of the 17 show days of the event however are for the community and general public to access the event site free of charge to enjoy a wide range of free activities including cinema, music, sports, arts and theatre.
The headliners announced below for the 2023 festival will be joined by other artists on the day too.
Take That
Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen will reunite for the festival next year.
Take That said: “We're so excited to be back together and that BST Hyde Park will be the first stage we perform on in almost four years. We have incredible memories of playing there in 2016, and we can't wait to see everyone in July.”
With 12 UK number 1 singles and 8 UK number 1 albums, Take That are a global British success story, debuting in 1989, selling over 45 million records and scoring Number 1s right up to their last album ‘Odyssey’ in 2018. Their classic songs are their calling card - from early pop smashes like ‘Everything Changes’, ‘It Only Takes A Minute’ and ‘Relight My Fire’ to ‘Back For Good’, ‘Never Forget’, ‘Shine‘ and ‘These Days’ - they are the soundtrack to millions of lives.
Dates for BST: Saturday, July 1, 2023
Prices and tickets: Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, November 3 at 10am and are expected to sell-out quickly via Ticketmaster. Mastercard members will be able to get early access to tickets during the pre-sale today at 10am (October 28), via AXS and Ticketmaster as the event is sponsored by Mastercard.
Prices to come.
Blackpink
Blackpink will be performing at BST on Sunday, July 2, 2023. It will be the bands second major performance in the capital in just six months and is no doubt a celebration of their latest album 'Born Pink', which has huge success with the included single 'Pink Venom'. Just weeks after releasing 'Pink Venom' it has had more than 7.9 million streams so far, and is steadily rising.
In 2018 the band released their first Japanese studio album 'Blackpink in Your Area'. Which included the single 'As If It's Your Last' gaining them the title of the fastest girl group to reach up to 400 million views, so it's no wonder fans want to catch a second glimjpse of the band in London.
Dates for BST: Sunday, July 2, 2023
Prices and tickets: Prices start from £90.45 and are available to view here. There are a host of other pre-sale options for fans who want to buy tickets early including the BST pre-sale on October 24, Ticketmaster pre-sale on October 25, and AEG pre-sale from October 26. General sale tickets will become available to buy on Thursday, October 27 from 10am on Ticketmaster.
P!nk
P!nk will performing at London's BST on Saturday June 24, and Sunday, June 25, 2023 as well as making appearances in Bolton, Sunderland and Birmingham. Tickets go on sale on at 10am on Friday, October 14 via Ticketmaster. The American singer and songwriter has lined up concerts at Hyde Park, the University of Bolton Stadium, Sunderland's Stadium of Light and Birmingham's Villa Park.
Speaking of the Summer Carnival 2023 tour, P!nk said: "It’s been a long three years and I’ve missed live music so, so much. So it’s finally time! I am so excited to get back to the UK and Europe to sing, cry, sweat and make new memories with my friends. It’s going to be magical!”
P!nk's last album came in 2019, titled 'Hurts 2B Human' and she released the live LP 'All I Know So Far' set list in 2021. This summer she also released the single, 'Irrelevant'. P!nk is well-known for her energetic and theatrical performances so it's no wonder she has been picked as one of the headlines for next year's British Summer Time Festival.
P!nk has released eight studio albums, one greatest hits album, one live album, sold over 60 million albums equivalents, and over 75 million singles. With a string of number one singles and millions of albums and tickets sold globally, she is one of the most commercially successful pop acts in the world.
She is the recipient of three Grammy Awards (21 nominations), one Daytime Emmy Award, seven Billboard Music Awards, seven MTV Video Music Awards (including the 2017 Michael Jackson Vanguard Award recipient), two MTV Europe Awards, two People’s Choice Awards and received The Brits Outstanding Contribution To Music Award in 2019 (the first international artist to receive this honour).
In 2019 she also received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Most recently, in 2020 P!nk was Billboard Music Award’s Icon Recipient.
Dates for BST 2023: June 24, 25, 2023
Prices and tickets: Tickets go on sale on at 10am on Friday, October 14 via Ticketmaster.
General admission starts from £90.45 and for children (aged two to nine) ticket prices ate £84.75. Primary entry ticket prices start from £111.85 each. Gold circle prices cost £196.95 and Gold VIP HydeAway costs £218.95 each.
Diamond VIP Experience cost £273.95 each and the all VIP Terrace costs £273.95 each. See here for details of what each includes.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen is making his BST debut for the 2023 festival. The festival dates also form part of his stadium tour taking place across the UK next year.
Bruce has released 20 studio albums in his career spanning over six decades and has become one of the world's best-selling music artists. He’s been awarded 20 Grammys, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Special Tony Award, in addition to being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
His live tours have consistently been placed amongst the highest grossing of each of the last five decades. Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s last tour, ‘The River Tour’, was 2016’s highest-grossing tour worldwide.
In May 2021, he became the eighth recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize, a prize that honours an artist who speaks out for social justice and carries on the spirit of the folk singer.
Dates for BST 2023: July 6, 8, 2023
Prices and tickets: Tickets have sold out for both dates but it's worth checking on the Ticketmaster website here in case any become available from resellers.
Prices for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band start from £90.45 each for general admission, but that's for children aged between two and nine-years-old. Other tickets are pretty expensive with general admission at £101.15 each for Tier 2 (entry and access to a range of bars, food traders and toilets in the main arena).
Primary entry tickets, which includes general admission, entry to the event up to one hour before the main entrance opens and access to a range of bars, food traders and toilets in the main arena, are priced at £111.85 each.
There are also VIP packages from £324.94 to £434.95 each which range from first entry, dedicated VIP entry, access to the VIP HydeAway, Gold Circle standing area and more.
Billy Joel
One of the most popular recording artists and respected entertainers in history, Billy Joel is the sixth best-selling recording artist of all time and the third best-selling solo artist, as well as one of the biggest concert draws in the world. Joel’s songs have acted as personal and cultural touchstones for millions of people across five decades.
Having sold 160 million records over the past quarter century, the hits have continued for almost five decades, scoring 33 consecutive Top 40s. Joel has received the RIAA’s Diamond Award twice for Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II and The Stranger, presented for albums that have sold over 10 million copies.
He is the recipient of 23 GRAMMY nominations and six Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Grammy Legend Award. Joel has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and has received numerous awards including a Tony Award for ‘Movin' Out’, The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the once-in-a-century ASCAP Centennial Award.
Dates for BST 2023: July 7, 2023
Prices and tickets:
Tickets are available to buy on Ticketmaster here now. Prices for Billy Joel start from £84.75 each for children (aged two to nine) for general admission into the festival. The rest are as follows:
- General admission - Tier 2 - £101.15 each (general admission entry and access to an extensive range of bars, food traders and toilets in the main arena)
- Primary Entry - Tier 2 - £111.85 each (general admission ticket through a dedicated entrance for Early Entry customers, entry to the event up to one hour before the main entrance opens to General Admission customers, access to an extensive range of bars, food traders and toilets in the main arena)
- Gold Circle - Tier 2 - £196.95 each (Watch Billy Joel take to the stage from our Gold Circle, arrive in style with a dedicated entrance for Gold Circle customers, first to explore Amex presents BST Hyde Park with entry to the event 1 hour before the main entrance opens to General Admission, watch Great Oak stage performances from the exclusive gold circle standing viewing area, leave and return from the Gold Circle area into general admission, access to an extensive range of bars, food traders & toilets in the main arena)
- Gold VIP Hydeaway - Tier 2 - £324.95 each - (dedicated entrance for VIP HydeAway, first to explore Amex presents BST Hyde Park with entry to the event 1 hour before the main General Admission Entrance opens, access to the VIP HydeAway, exclusive area offering a private bar, comfortable seating and separate toilet facilities, watch Great Oak stage performances from the exclusive Gold Circle standing viewing area, leave and return from the Gold Circle area into general admission, access to an extensive range of bars, food traders and toilets)
- Diamond VIP Experience - Tier 2 - £324.95 each - (dedicated Diamond VIP Experience Entrance, first to explore Amex presents BST Hyde Park Event entry 1 hour before the main General Admission entrance, access to American Express VIP Summer Garden - VIP bars, premium food outlets, comfortable seating, separate toilet facilities and cloakroom, VIP Diamond View is premium standing in front of the stage with unrivalled views of the Great Oak Stage performances, go between the VIP Diamond View and American Express VIP Summer Garden & General Admission areas).
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