Barry Can’t Swim at All Points East 2025: set times, last-minute tickets, potential setlist and what you need to know for London festival

All Points East 2025 kicked off last weekend with huge headlining sets from Cleo Sol, Sault and Chronixx on Friday and Chase & Status on Saturday. Next up is Edinburgh DJ and producer Barry Can’t Swim, who’ll top an exciting bill of (mostly) electronic music in Victoria Park on Friday August 22.

Joshua Spence Mainnie will be joined in east London by the likes of electro-pop group Confidence Man, London’s very own Shygirl and legendary duo Orbital. Expect to hear BCS hits like ‘How It Feels’, ‘Still Riding’ and ‘Sunsleeper’ on the East Stage.

Heading to All Points East for Barry Can’t Swim? Here’s everything you need to know about the day festival event, from timings and the full lineup to the weather forecast.

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When is Barry Can’t Swim playing All Points East?

Barry’s APE day is on Friday August 22 2025.

What time do gates open?

Gates open for general sale ticketholders at 3pm.

If you have a Primary Entry, VIP Garden or VIP Garden + VIP Pit ticket, you’ll get entry from 2pm.

What time will Barry Can’t Swim come on stage?

The main act is expected on All Points East’s East Stage at 9.25pm.

Full lineup and stage times

Below are all the stage splits and timings for Barry Can’t Swim at All Points East 2025.

East Stage

• Zach Why? – 3pm-3.45pm
• ATRIP – 3.45pm-4.30pm
• salute presents True Vision – 5pm-6pm
• Shygirl – 6.30pm-7.15pm
• Confidence Man – 7.45pm-8.45pm
• Barry Can’t Swim – 9.25pm-10.55pm

West Stage

• SHEE – 3.30pm-4.25pm
• Leon Vynehall (live) – 4.25pm-5.25pm
• The Blessed Madonna – 5.25pm-6.25pm
• Prospa – 6.55pm-7.55pm
• Orbital – 8.25pm-9.25pm

Cupra North Arena

• Myd (live) – 3pm-3.45pm
• Pretty Girl (live) – 3.45pm-4.30pm
• Chloé Caillet – 4.30pm-5.25pm
• Interplanetary Criminal – 5.25pm-6.25pm
• DJ Heartstring – 6.25pm-7.25pm
• Marlon Hoffstadt presents Daddycation – 7.55pm-9.25pm

X Stage

• Sexy Lady Massive – 3pm-4.05pm
• VNEE – 4.05pm-5.05pm
• Conducta B2B bullet tooth – 5.05pm-6.10pm
• Sam Alfred – 6.10pm-7.15pm
• Avalon Emerson – 7.15pm-8.20pm
• Saint Ludo – 8.20pm-9.25pm

The Ordinary Stage

• AMBRR – 3.20pm-3.50pm
• Babymorocco – 4.30pm-5pm
• SILK – 6pm-6.45pm
• WizTheMC – 7.15pm-7.45pm

Amex Unsigned Stage

• Stefan Mahendra – 4pm-4.30pm
• arøne – 5pm-5.30pm
• PUNCHBAG – 6pm-6.30pm
• Jazzie Martian – 7pm-7.30pm

Timings subject to change – all correct at time of writing.

Festival map

Here’s a map of this year’s All Points East festival site.

Find out more about the site, including how to get there, here.

What’s the setlist?

Barry Can’t Swim will no doubt pull out all the stops for his headlining set in Victoria Park. For an idea of what his setlists are like, here’s what he played at a festival earlier this summer (according to Setlist.fm).

1. The Person You'd Like to Be
2. About to Begin
3. Dance of the Crab
4. Kimbara
5. Blackpool Boulevard
6. Like It’s Part of the Dance
7. God Is the Space Between Us
8. Can We Still Be Friends?
9. Kimpton
10. Still Riding
11. Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
12. How It Feels
13. Different
14. Deadbeat Gospel
15. Sunsleeper

Can you still get tickets?

There are still some tickets available for Barry on Saturday, with general admission from £91.25 and primary entry from £101.95. Find tickets on AXS here.

Bag policy and banned items

Each festival attendee at APE is permitted to bring one bag, and it must be smaller than A4 (297mm x 210mm x 210mm). If your bag is too big, festival organisers suggest that you leave it at one of Stasher’s nearby left luggage locations for £6 per day.

Here are all the items banned from the festival site.

• Banned items
• Don’t bring any of the following items to All Points East:
• Alcohol
• Dangerous or hazardous items
• Illegal substances or new psychoactive substances (‘legal highs’)
• Professional cameras, go-pros or video cameras
• Flags, banners or poles
• Golf umbrellas or parasols
• Gas canisters
• Glass (of any kind), Chinese lanterns, fire or fireworks
• Laser pens
• Skateboards or scooters
• Bicycles (cyclists may pass through the event site but must dismount)
• Selfie sticks
• Spray cans, air horns, klaxons, or similar
• Any other items deemed unsafe or a risk to public safety

Find out everything you need to know about All Points East’s bag policy here.

Weather forecast

The weather on Saturday is looking pretty ideal for a festival. After a slight (10 percent) chance of rain in the morning, the afternoon should be dry and sunny with lows of 19C and highs of 22C.

Who else is headlining All Points East this summer?

Barry aside, the full list of APE 2025 headliners goes as follows:

• Cleo Sol (August 15)
• Chase & Status (August 16)
• RAYE (August 23)
• The Maccabees (August 24)

Where else is Barry Can’t Swim playing in the UK

Next up Barry is playing Bristol, Manchester and other dates across the UK. Here’s where and when he’s performing live. 

• August 23 2025 – Bristol, Forwards Festival
• August 24 2025 – Spalding, Lost Village Festival
• November 21 2025 – Depot Mayfield Manchester, The Warehouse Project

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