All Points East 2025 featured performances by some of the buzziest names in British music, including RAYE, Barry Can’t Swim, Sault and CMAT. Yet the post-apocalyptic dust situation that plagued Victoria Park this year has been one of the main talking points.
The once-verdant east London park became a veritable dustbowl, looking more like Burning Man than a British day festival. A consistent two-meter-high cloud of dust lingered above crowds, the grass dry and the soil parched.
