Summer Ball 2022 Line-Up Announcement

With just six weeks to go until Summer Ball, it's time to meet your headline acts for this year's event!

After a three-year hiatus, we’ve been working extra hard behind the scenes to make sure you guys have the best time on Thursday 2 June, and we're delighted to be able to announce this year's line-up.

Get ready to party all night long in Founder’s Quads with some huge artists including your Festival Stage headline act Ella Eyre (who will be bringing you a full live band experience), Irish DJ and producer Shane Codd and Amazon Music's Breakthrough artist for 2021, Olivia Dean, who headlines the bill on the Big Top!

With Tony Perry, Katie Kittermaster, and tweed-clad 10-piece brass powerhouse Old Dirty Brasstards also performing, you're in for an unforgettable night of live music along with fairground rides, street food and banging tunes through to 6am.

Meet your headliners

Ella Eyre

With a double platinum number one single under her belt, a BRIT Award, two MOBO Awards, two further platinum-selling singles, and a top-five album, perhaps you’d expect Ella Eyre to rest on her laurels. You couldn’t be more wrong. The four years since her debut album, Feline, have taken Ella around the world on a mission to find herself both as a solo artist and as a person. In the wake of her father’s sudden passing in 2017, she experimented with sounds in the US, found healing and limitless inspiration in her fatherland, Jamaica, and returned to London full of confidence and a hard drive bursting with hits.

As she’s grown and matured as an artist, so too have her ambitions. Hits are great but she’s now more interested in a long, stable career than she is in hitting the number one spot. “It’s not about ‘Oh did you get into the top ten?’ anymore,” she says. “That was very much my mentality on the first album. Actually, longevity is what success means to me now - having the ability to do what I do for a really long time.” Already an industry veteran and a much-loved star, her future in the pop pantheon seems secure. What she wants to do, more than anything else, is perform these new tracks for her dedicated Eyre-heads.

Olivia Dean

Currently finishing up work on her highly anticipated debut album, Olivia Dean's pop-soul style draws on influences from her Caribbean and British heritage. Selected by Amazon Music in 2021 for Breakthrough, the streaming platform’s developing artist programme, Dean has been hailed for bringing live music to people during the pandemic by turning a bright yellow van into a stage on wheels. 

Shane Codd

House music runs through Shane Codd’s veins. Its effect is fully felt on his breakout single ‘Get Out My Head’, which nods to the late ‘90s/early 2000s dance sound, albeit with his own unique twist.

Created in his bedroom at his family home in Ireland as a form of escape when life hit pause due to Covid, the earworm of a track ultimately became inescapable itself, resuming in a top ten smash on the Official UK Singles Chart as well as a Top 10 hit in his native Ireland, racking up over 20 million streams across both territories alone.

At the age of 18, and bored with Business Studies at college, Shane began teaching himself how to make music. While Shane is an entirely self-taught producer it wasn’t always easy, he remembers dropping out of college for a year and moving into a ‘damp apartment in Dublin with no heating and struggling to pay rent, all so he could focus solely on making music. “When I first started, it was so complicated, but after a while I started to pick it up and run with it.” Five years on, he admits: “I still have loads to learn, which is the exciMng bit for me. I’m learning piano at the moment – it’s a life goal of mine to get good at it.”

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