All Points East 2025: bag policy and full list of banned items for east London festivals

London’s festival season is still powering on, folks. We’ve got down to Charli XCX at LIDO, marathoned on Drake at Wireless and belted to Kneecap at Wide Awake. And the next big fest on the cards is the seventh edition of All Points East.

Over five days across the next two weeks, east London’s Victoria Park will welcome the likes of RAYE, Doechii, Barry Can’t Swim, Confidence Man, Cleo Sol and the Maccabees for the eclectic indie/ dance focused event. But before you get carried away with thoughts of dancing away on the field, tinny in hand, there are a few rules you’ll have to follow first. 

Got tickets for All Points East this year (or tempted to pick some up last minute)? This is the lowdown on what you can and can’t take to the festival. 

RECOMMENDED: The festival map for All Point East 2025.

When is All Points East 2025? 

All Points East will return to Vicky Park over the weekends of August 15-17 and August 22-24. Here’s a breakdown of the headliners for each day: 

• Friday, August 15: Cleo Sol and Sault 
• Saturday, August 16: Chase & Status
• Friday, August 22: Barry Can’t Swim
• Saturday, August 23: RAYE
• Sunday, August 24: The Maccabees

Bag policy

Keep in mind that you won’t be allowed to bring any bags larger than A4 (297mm x 210mm x 210mm) into the festival site. If your bag is too big, festival organisers suggest that you leave it at one of Stasher’s nearby left luggage locations for £6 per day. 

Banned items

This is a festival, of course there’s a long list of things banned from the site. When it comes to food and drink, punters will only be allowed an empty reusable water bottle to fill up on site or water in unopened an plastic container of up to 500ml – if you get hungry there’ll be loads of street food to purchase on site.

Your bag will be searched before you enter the festival site, so if you want to get in, make sure you don’t have any of the following on your person. 

• Alcohol 
• Dangerous or hazardous items
• Illegal substances or new psychoactive substances (‘legal highs’)
• Professional cameras, go-pros or video cameras
• Flags, banners or poles
• Golf umbrellas or parasols
• Gas canisters 
• Glass (of any kind), Chinese lanterns, fire or fireworks
• Laser pens
• Skateboards or scooters
• Bicycles (cyclists may pass through the event site but must dismount)
• Selfie sticks
• Spray cans, air horns, klaxons, or similar
• Any other items deemed unsafe or a risk to public safety