The band took to Twitter and Instagram to make the announcement, miming to Fergie’s “London Bridge” to show their excitement to be performing at this iconic East London festival.

Onsale now! @HAIMtheband make their Luno presents All Points East debut on Bank Holiday Monday 28 August, for a European exclusive performance. With @_girlinred_, @confidencemanTM, @LizzyMcAlpine and many more, plus further artists to be announced.
https://t.co/ePb44YLNZq pic.twitter.com/4gEISqidhR

— All Points East (@allpointseastuk) March 10, 2023

The festival is based in Victoria Park, London and is taking place on Bank Holiday Monday, falling on 28th August. Tickets are available to purchase here.

Joining Haim on the line-up are Girl in Red, Tove Lo, Confidence Man and Lizzy McAlpine amongst many others. Many more are due to be announced, guaranteeing it to be the perfect way to spend your Bank Holiday Monday.

We’re so excited to announce the unstoppable @HAIMtheband are heading to Victoria Park on Bank Holiday Monday 28 August for a European exclusive performance, with Girl In Red, Confidence Man, Lizzy McAlpine and many more! Tickets go on general sale Friday 10 March at 10am. pic.twitter.com/RWhoqjg9Op — All Points East (@allpointseastuk) March 7, 2023

 The festival is held over two weekends and is a must for alternative music fans.

Having recently toured the UK, Haim will take a break from their travels this year, with this being the only European show for the sisters in 2023.

They recently made waves by bringing Taylor Swift on stage at The O2 to perform their hit song “Gasoline” as well as Swift’s “Love Story”.  

Haim are set to join an already star-studded line-up for All Points East, joining Angel Olsen, Amyl and the Sniffers and The Strokes.

The festival will also include a day of music curated by Stormzy called the “This is What We Mean Day”, with Stormzy headlining this day himself. Stormzy is teaming up with APE to put together a UK exclusive show back in his hometown.  

.@stormzy will be heading to Victoria Park for a massive hometown show on Friday 18 August 2023, as part of Luno presents All Points East. pic.twitter.com/zpi9E7hcFe

— All Points East (@allpointseastuk) November 9, 2022

Sharing the news prior to deleting his social media accounts, Stormzy said “I was thinking what’s next cos we’ve done 3 O2s shut that down. I said to the team we gotta do something bigger something better something different. We were having back to back meetings bouncing ideas.”

He continued, “Then it hit me I started jotting down ideas thinking – live band need a live band. August 2023 a summer time thing outside for the people always for my people. So August 2023 Victoria Park more info coming soon…. This Is What We Mean Day. Hard.”

More information on All Points East can be found here with tickets on sale now.

Girl In Red (real name Marie Ulven Ringheim) recently finished an extensive US tour, and was only three shows into her European tour when she was unfortunately forced to postpone the remainder of it. Ringheim stated: “He told me that singing would increasingly get harder for me, but because I didn’t want to disappoint everyone coming to my EU/UK shows, I left for the tour two days later…Today I saw another specialist in London, who strongly advised me to go back home, see a speech therapist and essentially relearn the way I speak and use my voice. If not, I might have to get surgery.”

She went on to say: “I don’t want to cancel any more shows. I don’t want to be perceived as an artist or person that can’t do what they set out to do…This tour was postponed because of COVID and knowing how excited you guys were to see me, makes this a really fucking hard decision to make. I seriously cannot stress how much this breaks my heart. I feel an overwhelming sense of letting you guys down, but as of right now, it’s out of my control. What I do have control over is what I can do moving forward, and I’m going to do everything I can to avoid this ever happening again. I love you.”

Presently, Girl In Red is presently set to support Billie Eilish at London’s O2 in June, and is also slated to appear at numerous summer festivals such as Glastonbury and Øya Festival in Oslo, Norway. Given the immediacy of some of these shows, it is unfortunately quite possible that Ringheim will have to reschedule these dates in light of this recent medical issue in addition to her current tour. Presently, nothing concrete has been confirmed.

Ringheim began writing music as Girl In Red in 2015, and released her first single “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” under the moniker the following year, which reached five thousand streams over five months. The single featured on a Norwegian website called NRK Urort, which led to Ringheim amassing an impressive online following. The singer-songwriter has since gone on to release two extended plays entitled Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, and in April 2021, released her first full-length If I Could Make it Go Quiet. You can stream Girl In Red’s music on all available digital platforms.

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Just off the back of her appearance at the Reading & Leeds Festival last weekend, the Norwegian pop star has now revealed that she will be hosting a fan event today followed by a free show on Friday.

The Girl In Red or to call her by her real name Marie Ulven revealed this free show with a post on her Instagram page that read “I’M PLAYING A FREE SHOW IN LONDON ON FRIDAY, Come meet me on thursday in Boxpark Shoreditch at 2PM to get your free ticket.”

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The meet and greet event where fans can obtain their tickets for the free show, with an as yet unknown location will take place from 2:00 pm at Boxpark Shoreditch in East London.

Additionally earlier this year, Girl In Red also unveiled details of a new 2022 US tour. The singer will travel to North America for the first time next year, in support of her debut album, If I Could Make It Go Quiet.

The tour begins in Nashville on March 8 2022 and will finish in San Francisco on April 12.

Meanwhile, Girl In Red was announced as one of the support acts for the UK and Ireland dates of Billie Eilish’s upcoming tour.

Jessie Reyez, Jungle and Arlo Parks will also join the star for the gigs, which is set to start in June 2022.

News of the gigs’ support acts comes along with an additional new date for the otherwise sold-out shows. Eilish will now also perform an added London set on June 26.

TikTok became the most downloaded app in the UK in 2020. There are currently 3.7 million active users of the app in the UK alone. The app has also shown its significant impact on the music industry in the last year. 2020 saw 10 trending Tik Tok songs reach Number one on the UK Official Charts including a sea shanty remix of The Wellerman sung by user Nathan Evans.

@nathanevanssThe Wellerman. #seashanty #sea #shanty #viral #singing #acoustic #pirate #new #original #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #singer #scottishsinger #scottish

♬ Wellerman – Sea Shanty – Nathan Evans

TikTok has launched the new Music Hub to boost music discovery and showcase the top trending music content on the platform. The in-app hub includes the latest music trends, videos, and viral tracks as well as playlists and artists currently making waves on the app.

The first launch has utilized International Women’s Day to showcase artists including Little Mix, Christine and the Queens, Ashnikko, and Girl in Red. Girl in Red performs tonight (March 10) on her own TikTok account as part of the app’s #WeAreHere campaign which highlights the underrepresentation of women in the music industry. The #WeAreHere campaign also features UK stars Bonnie Tyler and Dua Lipa. Both artists had the most popular catalogue for video creations in 2020. Dua Lipa kicked off 2020 with one of the app’s most viral sounds of the year with the opening lyrics to her infectious hit Don’t Start Now.

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The hub will be updated weekly featuring both emerging and established musical talent with interactive elements for users. The aim of the new hub is to help drive music discovery and better connect users with new genres and talent. Users can access the Music Hub via the Discover Page, or be directed to the hub when searching for music content on the app.

The BBC #SoundOf2021 longlist is here!

Get to know the artists tipped for big things next year ⬇️@alfietempleman@berwynberwyn_@breerunway@dutchavelli1@_girlinred_@greentea_peng@wiffygriffy@HolHumberstone@TheLathums@KING_SALIEU

Find out more: https://t.co/9xxxAGfdJV pic.twitter.com/WhDS6BDpaz

— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) December 7, 2020

Since the inception of the ‘Sound of…’ prize back in 2003, the BBC’s adjudicating panellists have honed a soothsaying knack for uncovering future stars. Previous winners of the award include 50 Cent (2003); Keane (2004); Adele (2008); Jessie J (2011); and Haim (2013). All is not lost for the long-listed artists who fail to scoop the top prize though: previous ‘unsuccessful’ nominated acts include Dizzee Rascal (2003); Scissor Sisters (2004); Lady Gaga (2009); Marina and the Diamonds (2010); Azealia Banks (2012); Chvrches (2013); George Ezra (2014); Stormzy (2015); Dua Lipa (2016); and Billie Eilish (2018).

The Sound of 2020 award winner was Celeste, who has gone on to secure further gongs this year at the Brits, BET and NME awards. The Saltdean-raised vocalist saw off stiff competition from the likes of Yungblud and Arlo Parks to claim the prize last year; telling BBC News she was “thrilled and so excited” with the win.

The full list of acts long-listed for the Sound of 2021, which will be awarded in a ceremony on January 7th, is as follows:

Alfie Templeman. Multi-instrumentalist Alfie Templeman’s fourth EP, Happiness In Liquid Form, reached number 22 in the UK Indie charts earlier this year. The Bedfordshire product, who only turns 18 in January, has been praised by DIY for his “boundless enthusiasm” which “bursts out in indie songs equally informed by R&B and bedroom pop.”

Berwyn. Trinidad-born, Romford-raised singer and rapper Berwyn Du Bois also features on Amazon Music’s One To Watch list for 2021. His debut mixtape Demotape/Vega was hailed by Pilerats as a “potent, defining record” and “a message on how even the ones with the world pitted against them can succeed.”

Bree Runway. Hackney’s Bree Runway has been described by NME as “a versatile pop star-in-waiting“, with her November mixtape 2000and4Eva acclaimed by Clash as “a bold, dynamic and cohesive body of work“. The genre-bending artist, who has also been nominated for the Video of The Year award at this week’s MOBOs for her track Apeshit, has also spoken out powerfully on the issue of colourism.

Dutchavelli. Dutchavelli’s debut mixtape Dutch from the 5th stormed to number 8 in the UK Albums chart last month. The Birmingham-born rapper also scored two top 40 singles as a lead artist (Bando Diaries and Cool With Me, featuring fellow West Midlander M1llionz); while he and Stormzy also popped up on Tion Wayne’s top ten hit I Dunno in May.

Girl In Red. Norwegian indie pop merchant Girl In Red – also known as Marie Ulven – has been described by the New York Times as “one of the most astute and exciting singer-songwriters working in the world of guitar music, with a laser like melodic instinct that verges on the primal and lyrics that capture the sweat of real life.” The Scandinavian songstress recently scored a hit in the UK indie charts with her single Two Queens in a King Sized Bed.

Greentea Peng. South Londoner Greentea Peng – who featured on The Streets’ summer single I Wish You Loved You As Much As You Love Him – was celebrated in Wonderland magazine earlier this year for “preaching honesty, self-confidence, and hope in the future.” The singer – real name Aria Wells – recently announced a European tour which kicks off in Berlin next April.

Griff. Hertfordshire artist Sarah Griffiths (Griff) was nominated for an Ivor Novello Rising Star Award in July. The vocalist, whose 2019 debut single Mirror Talk was described by Vice as “vulnerable, emotional, sincere and empowering“, is set to gain a new audience with her single Love Is A Compass, which is used on Disney’s 2020 Christmas advert.

Holly Humberstone. Lincolnshire singer Holly Humberstone’s quietly intense, otherworldly vocals evoke the stylings of Lorde, Phoebe Brid and Lana Del Rey. Her 2020 debut EP Falling Asleep At The Wheel was praised by NME for its “staggering emotional clarity and gut-wrenching tales of pain and catharsis.”

Pa Salieu. Gambian-British rapper Pa Salieu’s debut mixtape Send Them to Coventry was described by Pitchfork as an “extraordinarily assured first offering from a young artist capable of surprising at every turn“, and an “invitation to a place and people unduly ignored.” Salieu’s unique fusion of West Midlands grime and African influences have seen him labelled a “compelling new voice” on the British music scene.

The Lathums. Wiganers The Lathums cite the rock and pop of the 50s and 60s as key musical influences, and fiercely resist being pigeon-holed as an indie band. In an interview with Far Out in October, frontman Alex Moore said “I just feel like we’re so different to everybody and we’re not like anybody else…We are a band and a guitar band but I don’t think there’s been anything like us.” Their EP compilation Memories We Make reached the top 20 in the UK Albums Chart this year, and the Lancashire outfit’s livestreamed gig at Blackpool Tower Circus this year saw them become the first act to play at the iconic venue since Madness in the 1990s.

Beginning with whimsical piano and the lyrics, “Two queens in a king-sized bed / There’s no mistletoe above our heads / But I’ll kiss you anyway / On Christmas day”, the song is undeniably cozy. Complete with bells, strings, and the singer’s warm, gentle vocals, it’s true to Girl In Red’s style and her fans are loving it.

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The single premiered tonight on Future Sounds with Annie Mac, as she spoke to Girl In Red (real name Marie Ulven). Commenting on the current situation, the singer said, “I think people need some Christmas vibes this year – it’s gonna be a weird Christmas for a lot of people.”

Mac also pointed out that this is probably the first openly queer Christmas song to be released, which is surprising, but important for the music scene to have, as Ulven is very open about her sexuality through music.

The pair then discussed Ulven’s upcoming album ‘World In Red’, which is due for release in 2021 featuring ‘Two Queens in a King Sized Bed’. She revealed the mood and sound of the work in an interview with NME, saying, “There’s not a specific sound because every song documents a feeling I’ve had, and those feelings have all been very strong.”

However, she commented that “A lot of it is me saying, ‘I need to stop this shit, I’ve figured out what I’m doing and I know what’s not helping me to be a happy person’,” continuing, “It’s not talked about enough, you know, how hard it is to work on yourself. Self-care is about how you treat yourself. I definitely have a voice inside telling me that I suck and I hate myself, and I’m definitely confronting myself on this album.”