Massive festival with music legends like Example to take over Essex park this summer
It's the new year, and we're looking ahead to when the sun is out and the days are getting longer. What better way to enjoy a summer day than at a festival with some huge names taking over a popular park in Essex?
Lazydays is a fully independent festival where you can explore new music or listen to your favourite artist, discover your new favourite craft drink, or relax with family and friends. It is coming to Southend Priory Park on July 25-27 - and is set to be the biggest summer event in the city.
Lazydays is all about building community, partnering with independent breweries, distilleries and drink producers and supporting businesses in the local area. One of the UK’s biggest dance music icons Example will ‘Kickstart’ Lazydays 2025 with a bang, too.
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With a legacy of chart-topping hit singles, career-defining festival sets, sold-out tours, and multiple platinum records, this is a show not to be missed. Off the back of their 20th anniversary tour for their double-platinum number 1 album OUT OF NOTHING, Embrace brings their anthemic choruses and chart-topping hits to Priory Park on Saturday, headlining the daytime session.
The one and only Peter Doherty, frontman of The Libertines and Babyshambles, is the Lazydays Saturday night headliner. With a new album on the horizon, you can expect a set of new music and classics spanning his back catalogue as he plays a special solo set with his band.
Closing out Lazydays 2025 as a Lazy Sunday headliner is double Grammy Award-winning, five-time Brit-nominated Soul II Soul! Bringing their full live show and 15-piece band to Southend’s Priory Park, expect big soul sounds and R&B vibes from music icon Jazzie B, and his musical collective!
They’ll get everyone dancing with huge hits, including ‘Keep On Movin’ and the UK number one single ‘Back To Life (However Do You Want Me). In addition to brilliant music, there will be plenty of street food vendors and places to grab a drink at Lazydays.
Tickets are selling out pretty quickly, with the early release already sold. You can purchase tickets to this event here.