Bastille image: credit Joe Horridge

Kings of Leon will headline the opening night of Lytham Festival.

The Lancashire date is one of just two northern UK shows for the band next summer, along with two sold out nights at London’s The O2 and a headline appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival. Kings of Leon’s rich tour history includes headlining the world’s biggest and most prestigious festivals, such as Glastonbury, Coachella, numerous Lollapalooza’s, and the UK’s Reading and Leeds on three occasions, as well as a record equalling five nights at London’s massive Hyde Park.

Special guests on the night will be multi-platinum selling Bastille. Over the course of more than a decade, Bastille’s distinctive sound and cinematic songwriting have connected with audiences across the globe like few other British bands in recent memory.

Their chart-topping, twice No.1 debut album Bad Blood features the era-defining hit Pompeii, which immediately positioned them as the year’s biggest global breakthrough act. The band then won the British Breakthrough Act award at the BRITs and received two GRAMMY nominations. Bad Blood has since gone triple platinum.

Further No.1 albums followed with Wild World, Give Me The Future and Doom Days and the acclaimed documentary Bastille Re-Orchestrated. Their 2018 Happier collaboration with Marshmello was a chart-topping global smash and they have recently collaborated with multiple Academy Award and GRAMMY-winning composer Hans Zimmer on Pompeii MMXXIII, a powerful rework of their breakthrough hit that closed BBC’s Planet Earth III.

With more than 13 million records sold, three UK No.1 albums, six UK Top 40 singles and more than eight billion streams, Bastille remain one of the world’s most streamed acts, and one of the most influential British bands of a generation.