Hugh Jackman announced as BST Hyde Park 2025 headliner
Tickets for the second UK-exclusive gig go on sale next week
by Laura Molloy · NMEHugh Jackman has been announced as a headliner for BST Hyde Park 2025 – you can find all the details below.
The Wolverine star’s UK-exclusive headline slot will take place on Sunday, July 6. Coined ‘From London with Love’, the show will see him performing songs from musicals including The Boy From Oz, The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, and The Music Man, alongside other surprises.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT Wednesday 6 November, and will be available here. Alternatively, Amex customers can access a pre-sale from 2:30pm GMT today (November 1).
The announcement follows news that Jeff Lynne’s ELO will be performing a farewell show at Hyde Park next year, and will play the Great Oak Stage on Sunday July 13. US country star Zach Bryan has also been announced as a headliner and is set to take to the Great Oak Stage on June 28 and 29, the latter being an extra show added due to “phenomenal demand”.
ELO’s slot will follow their current ‘Over And Out’ tour in the US, serving as a final “goodbye” to their fans. “My return to touring began at Hyde Park in 2014,” explained Lynne. “It seems like the perfect place to do our final show.
“We couldn’t be more excited to share this special night in London with our UK fans. As the song goes, ‘We’re gonna do it One More Time!’”
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Jackman starred in Deadpool & Wolverine earlier this year, the second-highest-grossing film of 2024 so far (behind Inside Out 2). In July, he shared his reaction to a pivotal fight scene in the movie. In a clip of him watching the scene on a laptop on a plane, he is visibly giddy with glee, grinning and slapping his chest and fighting back bursts of laughter.
Earlier this month, it was also announced that he would be starring alongside Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue, a new film about a Neil Diamond tribute band.
The movie is named after a 1972 song by the veteran singer-songwriter, and will be directed by Craig Brewer, known for helming Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan and Dolemite Is My Name.
Jackman and Hudson will play real-life Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, two downtrodden musicians who establish a local reputation as Lightning & Thunder, a tribute act to Diamond.