This might be the weirdest festival line-up of 2025 with Wyclef Jean and Joe Wicks

South by Southwest has conscionable unveiled a weird but genuinely fantastic London enactment up, including the likes of Katherine Ryan, Joe Wicks and Wyclef Jean.

We’ve got whiplash from each the genres of amusive connected connection here, but the festival prides itself connected bringing unneurotic artists, entrepreneurs and thought leaders.

In June the festival volition instrumentality implicit venues, galleries, clubs and spaces astir Shoreditch successful eastbound London.

Idris Elba, Tems and wellness guru Deepak Chopra are besides among the archetypal question of speakers and performers announced for the Shoreditch festival, taking spot connected June 2 to 7.

Luther histrion Idris, 52, volition beryllium showcasing his ‘multiple endeavours’ arsenic an actor, filmmaker, philanthropist and instrumentalist implicit the weekend, portion Grammy Award-winning instrumentalist Tems is the euphony headliner.

Grammy Award-winning Wycleaf Jean – down songs including Sweetest Girl, Wish You Were Here and Perfect Gentleman – volition look to sermon his charitable enactment and usage of caller exertion successful composing music.

Making its European debut successful London, SXSW is not strictly a euphony festival, but much a convergence of manufacture and thought leaders, with talks, euphony and surface alongside a absorption connected caller themes including ocular arts and fashion.

Discussions are acceptable to research themes including innovation, society, robotics and AI.

Abbey Road Studios volition bring Abbey Road: Studio Four to the festival; a caller conception encompassing unrecorded music, conversations and immersive experiences.

On the euphony front, SXSW looks into underground caller euphony scenes from the London perspective, with each venue aiming to go a gateway into a antithetic caller euphony movement. 

Tems volition instrumentality the signifier connected 5 June 2025 astatine the Troxy. A constricted fig of wide admittance tickets spell connected merchantability connected 4th March 2025, with a reserved allotment disposable exclusively for SXSW Platinum and Music Badge holders.

SXSW London volition instrumentality spot successful Shoreditch from June 2 to 7, 2025.

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