RALLY Festival 2025

One of the newer London day festivals to pop up on the map, Rally comes with a refreshing and noble ethos: supporting and celebrating London’s music communities, creating opportunities for grassroots culture, promoting the discovery of new sounds and boundary pushing artists, and fundraising for local causes. A festival for the people and for the scene, Rally is heeded by lovers of London’s underground music scenes, and for those who seek out the newest in new. 

On their third year, they've grown exponentially to boast a huge line-up of heavyhitters, and with some very decent range. Ben UFO, the founder of Hessle Audio, is an incredible pull, having done more for the scene than most. Floating Points are coming with a live set, not a DJ set, which are world-famous at this point: expect to hear their dancefloor classics with a unique live twist, none of that spacebar stuff.

RALLY have also drawn from the country's underground rock scene, with Black Midi's Geordie Greep headlining alongside the genre-mashing OK Williams, an odd but electric mix of UK grime and indie rock. 

New-comers Bassvictim also join the ranks, riding off the coattails of the resurgence of LCD Soundsystem's sound and the growing popularity of early-2010s dance (their track ‘Air on My G-String’ sounds awfully familiar, to what I wonder? I think kids are just too young to remember ‘Like a G6’, so they get away with it).

More interestingly, they're also bringing in Indian fusion singer Asha Puthli, perhaps in tribute to how ritualistically she has been sampled by electronic artists for decades, owing to how influential her work has been on the global electronic scene. In any case, it's the most left-field, yet most welcome, addition to a line-up comprising mostly of young electronic artists, DJs and rappers. 

But the one we are more excited for, a heartwarming tribute to New York genre pioneer Arthur Russell, with Speakers Corner covering his well-known works. 

A line-up designed with great care, RALLY are back for another bash. And next years is surely going to top it. 

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