The Maccabees’ triumphant festival headline performance at All Points East sparked indie nostalgia.
All Points East was the band’s best performance to date, according to The Maccabees.
It was a big promise for a band that had only recently broken up eight years apart. The Indie favorites’ first set featured a montage of their early days before quickly launching into Latchmere, X-ray, and Feel to Follow from 2012’s Given to the Wild, which featured a nod to nostalgia.
Early albums by the band’s first three albums, First Love, Lego, and Toothpaste Kisses, quickly followed up with highlights from Wall of Arms from 2009’s debut Colour It In.
A surprise special guest has become a staple for any festival headliner, and The Maccabees did not let us down. They used their former friend Jamie T’s energetic singalongs from Marks To Prove It and his own Sticks ‘N Stones to rouse the audience.
Florence Welch was also spotted backstage before the set’s release so that she could see her friends in action. Jamie wasn’t the only star in the area. The Maccabees were seen with The Maccabees at Glastonbury in 2025, and the singer described them as “like family.” The singer couldn’t miss the chance to see the band return on home turf, just like the many fans who attended Victoria Park.
Jamie was the one to join them behind the microphone as Sticks ‘N Stones entertained the crowd after sunset this time.
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Thanking fans for joining them on the special night, singer Orlando Weeks got emotional as he said: “It’s unbelievable that you took that risk, that you paid that money, you put the faith in the love that you had for our band and the love that you had for the occasion that this might be…It’s not lost on us and I want to say a huge ‘thank you’ to you for being the gamblers that you are. Thank you for taking the chance.” The south London five-piece reformed this year after eight years away to play a dusty Victoria Park… a rare face mask advisory was even put in place for the festival, encouraging revellers to shield themselves against the cloudy air. The conditions at the park were the result of continuous warm days and minimal rain.
The day festival lineup included the eagerly awaited Maccabees reunion as well as the acclaimed Maccabees reunion.
As with the headliners, all the bands performed in fervent anticipation as the summer’s guitar-band nostalgia gizmos ruled.
Fans of All Point East’s “indie” day are living out the best days of the 1990s by seeing the Gallaghers return on their Live 25 tour. And there were plenty of Oasis T-shirts in the APE crowd.
Guitar music appears to be on the verge of a significant mainstream chart revival after years of dominance over the charts dominated by synths, samples, and TikTok pop.
Fans of all ages are a sucker for the thrill of crowd-surfers, riffs, roars, and mosh pits, if All Points East is anything to go by.
Source: Mirror
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