Mumford & Sons are the latest headliner to join next year’s BST Hyde Park festival series, on Saturday 4th July 2026, with The War On Drugs in support, plus further acts to be announced.
Following sold out arena tours over the past few years and stellar collaborations with names such as Dylan, Springsteen and Neil Young, Mumford & Sons will be returning to London with old and new music in hand. Sixth studio album Prizefighter is due for release on 13th February 2026 featuring special guests Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton and Gigi Perez.
Mumford & Sons say: “Hyde Park is woven into our story, it’s where so many memories were made. Coming back a decade later, with all this new music, feels incredibly special. London is and always will be the band’s home. We can’t wait.”
Led by Adam Granduciel and named “the best American ‘rock’ band of this decade” by The New Yorker, Grammy-winning The War On Drugs have steadily emerged as one of this century’s great rock ‘n’ roll synthesists, “removing the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the obtuse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present”.
Of most recent album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, Louder Than War’s Joe Goggins wrote: “I Don’t Live Here Anymore, his sprawling fifth album as The War On Drugs, confirmed [Granduciel] as his generation’s greatest exponent of epic guitar rock; he takes his cues from Bruce Springsteen, who his son his named after, as well as The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, and on his meticulously crafted albums he channels their spirit, whilst imbuing it with a razor-sharp eye for sonic detail and a keen ear for a soaring chorus.”
Previously announced 2026 BST Hyde Park headliners are country star Garth Brooks (Saturday 27th June), Pitbull on Friday 10th July, and Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi (Saturday 11th July and Sunday 12th July), with many more artists to be announced. More information can be found here.
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