ALL POINTS EAST ANNOUNCE FINAL HEADLINE SHOW — JORJA SMITH AND TEMS PLUS MORE!

By Rishma • On Events

Vic­tor­ia Park, London

Fri­day 21 August 2026

Tick­ets on gen­er­al sale on Fri­day 13 March, 10am 

www.allpointseastfestival.com 

 

Today, East London’s cel­eb­rated fest­iv­al All Points East wel­comes two glob­al power­houses as co-head­liners: the BRIT Award-win­ning Brit­ish icon Jorja Smith and two-time Grammy Award-win­ning Brit­ish Nigeri­an star Tems, tak­ing over Vic­tor­ia Park on Fri­day 21 August 2026. Cur­ated by Jorja Smith and her label FAMM in col­lab­or­a­tion with All Points East, the line-up also fea­tures kwn, Ayra Starr, and Odeal, with Tems per­form­ing as the pen­ul­tim­ate act before Jorja Smith closes the night. Tick­ets go on gen­er­al sale on Fri­day 13 March, 10am, vis­it allpointseastfestival.com.

Jorja Smith first emerged on the scene ten years ago with her debut single, ‘Blue Lights,’ and has since gone on to achieve glob­al suc­cess. By 2017, she was a mul­tiple MOBO Award nom­in­ee and fea­tured on Drake’s 2017 playl­ist pro­ject, across ‘Jorja Inter­lude’ and ‘Get It Togeth­er’ fea­tur­ing Black Cof­fee. The fol­low­ing year, Smith became a Brit Crit­ics’ Choice Award win­ner and co-wrote ‘I AM’, pro­duced by Kendrick Lamar, for Marvel’s block­buster movie Black Pan­ther. Smith was named Best Brit­ish Female Artist at the Brit Awards the fol­low­ing year and scooped a nom­in­a­tion for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards.

This year, Smith marked the 10th anniversary of ‘Blue Lights’ with a three-track release of Demo Dump 16 on Sound­Cloud. In May last year, Smith dropped new music col­lab­or­at­ing with Mav­er­ick Sabre, Ed Thomas and Shayk on the nos­tal­gia-infused ‘The Way I Love You’. The new single was released with a moody music video dir­ec­ted by KC Locke and fol­lows her recent fea­ture on AJ Tracey’s ‘Crush’, as well as her col­lab­or­a­tions with Shy­girl and Major League DJz. More recently, Smith released a pol­ished ver­sion of the fan-voted demo ‘Don’t Leave’, which was ori­gin­ally recor­ded in 2015, again pay­ing homage to the 10th anniversary of ‘Blue Lights.’ While many of us are anti­cip­at­ing new music, Smith has been con­firmed to be sup­port­ing Harry Styles across six shows in Mex­ico City for his ‘Togeth­er, Togeth­er’ 2026 tour. So, with a head­liner show and sup­port­ing tour dates, we hope to hear Smith’s long-awaited new tunes filling up Vic­tor­ia Park.

Brit­ish Nigeri­an two-time GRAMMY award-win­ning sing­er-song­writer Tems is known for her glob­al reach. Hail­ing from Lagos, Tems’ power­ful self-pro­duced debut EP, For Broken Ears, marked her as a star in the mak­ing. Four years later, in 2024, she unveiled her long-awaited debut album, Born In The Wild, which Pitch­fork praised for its “adven­tur­ous and mel­an­chol­ic” style. Tems’ sear­ing album received an out­stand­ing five stars from NME. Yet, the singer’s lore and his­tory in the UK star­ted much earli­er than that. Tems made her UK Top 10 debut after col­lab­or­at­ing with Future and Drake on ‘Wait For U’ in 2022.

Tems’ dis­co­graphy remains innov­at­ive and intro­spect­ive. The sing­er has col­lab­or­ated with A‑list industry names with writ­ing cred­its for Beyoncé’s mega album Renais­sance, cited as a co-writer and vocal­ist on Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’, as well as appear­ing on Justin Bieber’s 2025 GRAMMY nom­in­ated album, SWAG. With recog­ni­tion across the BET Awards, Amer­ic­an Music Awards and the MOBO Awards, nobody is rais­ing the bar like Tems. In 2025, she released her acclaimed sopho­more EP Love Is A King­dom remind­ing fans of her rap­id ascent as an artist. In the same year, Tems secured her first UK No. 1 fea­tur­ing on ‘Raind­ance’ by Brit­ish rap­per Dave. In the same year, she scooped up a second Academy Award win for Best Afric­an Music Per­form­ance for her song’ Love Me JeJe’, mak­ing her the first Nigeri­an artist to receive mul­tiple GRAMMYS.

With a track record hard to fol­low, Tems remains an unstop­pable col­lab­or­at­or. From appear­ing on J. Cole’s new album, The Fall Off, to mak­ing her return to London’s fam­ous Vic­tor­ia Park, she proves she can do it all: cre­at­ing a sound that’s both intim­ate and expansive.

Lon­don nat­ive kwn grew up around music. From pick­ing up the drums and the piano as a young­ster to upload­ing raps to Sound­Cloud, she always felt a pull to music. Only 25, she has amassed over 3.4 mil­lion monthly listen­ers. Drop­ping her debut track ‘wn way or anoth­er’ in 2022, she quickly became a one to watch artist. How­ever, just as kwn was about to drop her major single ‘Worst Beha­viour’ fea­tur­ing GRAMMY-win­ning Amer­ic­an artist Keh­lani, the Lon­don­er was released from her label. Yet kwn came back and big­ger. Her col­lab­or­a­tion with Keh­lani blew up online, also earn­ing a slot on the Amer­ic­an rapper’s Crash European tour dates. Since then, kwn has been nom­in­ated for Best New Inter­na­tion­al Act at the BET Awards and was named Billboard’s R&B Rook­ie of the Month. Bill­board praised her sound and style, call­ing her music “a moody amal­gam of trap, soul­ful vocal stacks and splashes of dark elec­tron­ic music that both cap­tures and reima­gines the post-Bryson Tiller R&B landscape.”

kwn’s latest album, with all due respect, was released last year, fea­tur­ing her hit track with Keh­lani and ‘talk to you through it’ fea­tur­ing UK pop trio FLO. Freshly released, kwn’s latest single, ‘Hope­less Romantic,’ is out now, just in time for her to bring the heat, the tunes and vibes to Vic­tor­ia Park.

GRAMMY-nom­in­ated, double MOBO Award-win­ning Afrobeats super­star Ayra Starr is unmatched. In the past year, she has released a string of multi-mil­lion stream­ing singles includ­ing ‘Gimme Dat’ (with Wizkid) — which earned Ayra her second GRAMMY nom­in­a­tion, the vir­al sum­mer hit ‘Hot Body’ and ‘Who’s Dat Girl’ with Rema, push­ing her total glob­al stream­ing num­bers to over 3 bil­lion. There’s no doubt that Starr is at the top of her game. 2025 saw her hit new mile­stones: she scooped two MOBO Awards and became the first female artist in 16 years to win Best Afric­an Music Act, as well as pick­ing up her first BET Award for Best Inter­na­tion­al Act. With a string of instantly recog­nis­able col­lab­or­a­tions across mul­tiple genres — includ­ing Cold­play, Kelly Row­land, Stormzy, and Dav­id Guetta — it is clear Ayra Starr brings her cul­ture with her wherever she goes, break­ing bar­ri­ers and cre­at­ing ‘firsts’ for Afric­an artists. Starr also became the first Afrobeats artist to per­form on Gla­ston­bury’s Pyr­am­id Stage. Now, with 2026 ahead of her, she returns with her new single ‘Where Do We Go’ and is set to deliv­er a truly icon­ic set at Vic­tor­ia Park.

Grow­ing up, Ger­man-born Brit­ish-Nigeri­an sing­er and pro­du­cer Odeal moved around a lot, spend­ing time in Ger­many, Spain, Niger­ia, and the UK — loc­a­tions which rap­idly shaped his genre-flu­id style. While at board­ing school in Niger­ia, the musi­cian made his first moves as an artist and pro­du­cer, inspired by loc­al her­oes Fela Kuti, Burna Boy, and Wizkid. Since then, Odeal has become a lead­ing name in the R&B scene. In 2025, he had an acclaimed year, win­ning two MOBO Awards for Best New­comer and Best R&B Act, as well as BET’s first-ever Best New Inter­na­tion­al Act award. His accol­ades don’t stop there, Odeal was also part of Amazon Music’s 2025 Break­through Artist list, Spo­ti­fy’s 2025 Artist To Watch and a mem­ber of You­Tube Music’s 2025 Foundry pro­gramme. NME praised his EP, The Fall That Saved Us as “[lean­ing] into lush R&B min­im­al­ism”. Now, embark­ing on a new chapter, Odeal is a DIY artist prepped and ready to come out on top.

Jorja Smith and Tems join fel­low All Points East 2026 head­liners: Lorde on Sat­urday 22 August, Deftones at Out­break Fest on Sunday 23 August and Tyler, The Creator’s two-day head­line slot at Vic­tor­ia Park on Fri­day 28 August and Sat­urday 29 August, and Twenty One Pilots on Sunday 30 August.

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Rishma

Edit­or / PR Con­sult­ant at No Bounds
Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voiceless.

About Rishma

Rishma Dhaliwal has extensive experience studying and working in the music and media industry. Having written a thesis on how Hip Hop acts as a social movement, she has spent years researching and connecting with artists who use the art form as a tool for bringing a voice to the voiceless.