Field Day 2026 through five key performances

Field Day returned for its 20th edition on Saturday, 23 May, with standout sets from Flowdan, Floating Points and KI/KI.

Since relocating to Brockwell Park in 2025, Field Day has settled comfortably into its South London surroundings. Last weekend, the festival transformed the park into a sprawling, bass-heavy playground with a line-up that spanned different strands of UK club culture – jungle, techno, UK garage, bass, progressive house, disco and leftfield electronics all bled into one another across the site, without ever tipping into po-faced dance music purism. Instead, the atmosphere felt celebratory and distinctly ‘London’.

Here are the five sets that defined the day.

Ewan McVicar b2b Special Request

As the heat of the day started to lift, the set inside the Green stage slipped into full-blown Ibiza-at-sundown territory, and Ewan McVicar and Special Request locked into a highly anticipated set that did not disappoint. The two heavyweights, silhouetted against the stage’s immersive video wall, cranked out a high-energy b2b that combined McVicar’s party-focused house and techno grooves with Special Request’s grittier influences.

Flowdan

Walking into Bossman’s felt less like entering a festival stage and more like stumbling into your local off-licence at 2am. Beyond the glowing shelves of neon energy drinks and tins of soup, a hidden doorway opened onto an intimate outdoor garden where Flowdan was already cutting through cavernous basslines. Unsurprisingly, he delivered one of the heaviest sets of the weekend. The crowd matched the intensity, gun fingers permanently raised as classics like Killers in the Jungle rippled through the space. When longtime collaborator Irah emerged midway through the set, the atmosphere crossed into full-blown pandemonium.

Saint Ludo

Saint Ludo embodies a new generation of UK selectors: DJs as tuned into personality as much as they are genre. Her set moved with total fluidity, threading groove-heavy house through UK bass, footwork and bassline before blindsiding the crowd with flashes of abrasive American dubstep. Somehow, it all landed seamlessly. There was a restless energy to the way she mixed, every transition designed to pull us somewhere unexpected before we had fully settled into the last rhythm. Beneath streaks of pink evening light, dancers bounced shoulder-to-shoulder in a haze of serotonin and sweat, the whole thing feeling gloriously freeing.

KI/KI

If the daytime sets had turned the festival into a makeshift Ibiza beach party, KI/KI’s dusk takeover dragged it firmly into Europe’s sweat-soaked techno underground. The Amsterdam-born selector transformed The Bowl into something closer to a Berlin warehouse. Her set surged through fast-paced techno, trance rushes and distorted acid lines, each build unfolding in waves of tension and release. Despite the scale of the stage, there was still something surprisingly intimate about it all. Encircled by ravers dancing behind the booth, KI/KI blurred the line between DJ and crowd, locking us all into the same pulse as dusk gave way to night.

Floating Points

Closing the South Stage, Floating Points’ immersive set wrapped up the festival perfectly. Trading brute-force drops for shimmering synth textures and warm analogue low-end, Sam Shepherd constructed an emotional slow-burn that held the crowd in quiet reverence as much as movement. We danced, but we listened too.

Joined by visual artist Akiko Nakayama, whose live-painting technique manipulates water and dye into constantly shifting psychedelic forms, the performance became something far beyond a standard closing set. Sound and visuals melted together into an expansive, near-spiritual experience, which was the perfect comedown after a day spent chasing the music.