Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time is a series of day long festivals that take place in London’s Hyde Park, during, you guessed, summer. The headliners for this year have been particularly impressive so far, with Kendrick Lamar and Florence and the Machine headlining the 2nd of July, Mumford & Sons on July 7th, Take That taking over July 8th and now Massive Attack have been announced as the headliners of the first in the series of summertime gigs.

The Bristolian trip-hoppers Massive Attack are to “bring a new and provocative audio-visual live show to Hyde Park”, the festival announced in a statement, with the set being designed by Robert Del Naja and visual arts collaborators United Visual Artists.

They will also be joined by a solid lineup of supporting acts performing on the day, including Warpaint, Ghostpoet, Patti smith, TV on the Radio and Mercury Prize winners and recent Massive Attack collaborators Young Fathers. Tickets go on general sale on Friday, March 11th.

The other lineups include Jamie XX, Blood Orange, Cat Power and jazz virtuoso/Kendrick Lamar collaborator Kamasi Washington supporting Kendrick and Florence. Meanwhile Mystery Jets, Wolf Alice, Alabama Shakes and Baio of Vampire Weekend will play on Mumford And Sons’ day.

Security officers approached Barat and Doherty during their set to warn them that they would be stopped if the crowd did not calm down. After opening with ‘Vertigo’ the band were cut short midway through their second song ‘Boys In The Band’ by security. Doherty addressed the crowd repeating that ‘We can’t carry on if you don’t calm down a bit’ only to be stopped again moments later. The Libertines drummer Gary Powell addressed the crowd and began chanting the riff of The White Stripes ‘Seven Nation Army’.

Later in their set, fans were caught climbing the speaker towers resulting in a third visit from security on stage, at this point only Doherty and Barat were on stage to finish with a duet of ‘France’. Barat and Doherty grew weary of the stoppages and told the crowds that Doherty cannot do a solo with the fan’s climbing the towers, resulting Barat and Doherty not fully completing the song.

At the end of the gig The Libertines reunited on the stage and saluted their audience with Doherty expressing ‘Libertine till I die, Libertine till I die, I know I am, I’m sure I am, Queen’s Park Rangers till I die’. Powell told fans ‘you are amazing and you are all Libertines’ before the now reunited foursome left the Main Stage.

In scenes familiar to last weekend’s Glastonbury lightning incident, news of a technical fault at the Barclaycard theatre has hindered several performances which have been cancelled or rescheduled. Yesterday, Swim Deep and Graham Coxon were pulled due to faults leaving Coxon’s set being cut entirely.

Today it is McBusted headlining but their supporting acts had been cancelled including Lawson and Five. Young Kato, Hollywood Ending and Whetus had all been rescheduled to different stages and the festival organisers have issued an apology stating “We apologies to the fans attending today for any inconvenience and disappointment this may cause”. Neil Young and Tom Jones are still to headline on the 12^th and 13^th, as yet no comment of further cancellations has been announced.

As previously stated in MXDWN , The Libertines had announced that they would play a warm up show for their fans north of the boarder in Glasgow on the 29th of June.

Now they have announced a second gig the day before on the 27th at the same venue, Glasgow Barrowlands making this  the band’s first reunion show before their anticipated return to Hyde-Park for the British Summertime Festival on the 5th of July.

Tickets for the new date will be release on Friday the 20th of June, but will be limited to two per person, with photo ID mandatory.

This news comes after the band had announced that they would attend the Optimus Alive festival in Portugal on July 12th, where they will play alongside Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, Interpol, The Black Keys and War on Drugs amongst many others.

You can purchase tickets for the show here on the morning of friday this week.

Eventually Barât dissolved the band as feelings became uncomfortable to continue under the Libertines name without Doherty present and continued creating material under his band ‘Dirty Pretty Things’ whilst Doherty became involved with ‘Babyshambles’. Six years later in 2010 the band began to set rumours of reunion and now in 2014 they appear to be keeping to those words in full force by seeking out a new record label after the British Summer Time Festival in July

The BST festival, sponsored by Barclay’s, will headline Arcade Fire, Neil Young, The National, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osborne and many others along with the much anticipated Libertines reunion. But if you can’t wait for that then head to the Barrowlands in Glasgow on the 29^th of June to see the boys warm up before their big unveiling. No ticket sales for the Glasgow gig are available yet, however grab your seats for the BST festival in July as they will be going fast!