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Stevie Wonder at BST Hyde Park 2025: start time, tickets, potential setlist and what you need to know for London show

Ezra Collective and Thee Sacred Souls are among the artists joining the soul legend in Hyde Park on Saturday

Ed Cunningham
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Ed Cunningham
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Stevie Wonder performing live
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The third and final weekend of BST Hyde Park 2025 is shaping up to be a big ’un. If the first two weekends – with Olivia Rodrigo, Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan and Sabrina Carpenter – seemed geared towards younger audiences, the final few shows are for the legends. Neil Young, ELO and Stevie Wonder are closing out this year’s fest.

Stevie will be gracing the Great Oak Stage on Saturday with a stellar supporting lineup featuring the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae, Thee Sacred Souls and Time Out cover stars Ezra Collective.  

Got tickets to see Stevie Wonder at BST this weekend? Here’s everything you need to know about the day, from timings and stage splits to, if you haven’t yet got a ticket, any remaining availability.

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When is Stevie Wonder playing BST Hyde Park?

The soul icon is at BST on Saturday July 12 2025.

What time do doors open?

Doors open for regular ticketholders at 2pm. If you’ve got a VIP or Primary Entry ticket, you’ll be allowed in at 1pm, or around 60 minutes before general admission.

The box office closes at 8pm, last entry is 8.30pm, and curfew is 10.30pm. There is no re-entry – once you’re in, you’re in.

What time will Stevie Wonder come on stage?

Wonder will take to the stage at 8pm, and he’s scheduled to finish up at around 10.20pm.

Festival map

Here’s a map of this year’s BST Hyde Park festival site.

BST Hyde Park 2025 Festival Map
Image: BST Hyde Park

Full lineup and set times

Below you’ll find all the artists playing BST on Stevie Wonder’s headlining day, across the event’s three stages.

Great Oak Stage

  • Corinne Bailey Rae – 2.30pm-3pm
  • Elmiene – 3.30pm-4.10pm
  • Thee Sacred Souls – 4.40pm-5.20pm
  • Ezra Collective – 6pm-7pm
  • Stevie Wonder – 8pm-10.20pm

Birdcage Stage

  • Jon Poppii – 3pm-3.30pm
  • LULU. – 4.10pm-4.40pm
  • Mica Miller – 5.20pm-6pm

Rainbow Stage

  • Hajaj – 4.10pm-4.40pm
  • Durand Bernarr – 5.20pm-6pm

Timings are subject to change.

Setlist

Don’t like knowing a setlist in advance? Look away now. For an idea of what Stevie Wonder setlists are like, here’s what he played in Cardiff earlier this week (according to Setlist.fm)

  1. Love’s in Need of Love Today
  2. As If You Read My Mind
  3. Master Blaster (Jammin’)
  4. Higher Ground
  5. Knocks Me Off My Feet
  6. I Just Called to Say I Love You
  7. You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis cover)
  8. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
  9. Everybody Is a Star (Sly & the Family Stone cover)
  10. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
  11. Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  12. Golden Lady
  13. Overjoyed
  14. Lately
  15. Stranger on the Shore of Love
  16. Living for the City
  17. Sir Duke
  18. I Wish
  19. I Can Only Be Me (sung by Mandla Morris)
  20. Do I Do
  21. Superstition
  22. As

Can you still get tickets?

Tickets are running low for Stevie Wonder at BST, but you can find remaining options on the BST website here starting from around £100.

What’s BST Hyde Park’s bag policy?

BST only permits small bags, which the fest defines as smaller than A4 size (297mm x 210mm x 210mm). Organisers’ official advice is that if you can not bring a bag at all, that’s the best option.

Banned items

These items are forbidden at BST Hyde Park this year.

  • Golf umbrellas and parasols
  • Chairs, seats, shooting sticks and tables
  • Food or drink – apart from water in unopened plastic containers of up to 500ml
  • Suitcases, luggage and large bags (anything larger than A4 size)
  • Air horns, selfie sticks, spray cans, Chinese lanterns, fireworks, pyrotechnics and flags
  • Dangerous or hazardous weapons/items
  • Gas canisters
  • Handheld communication devices like radios, radio jammers and scanners
  • Glass
  • High-viz
  • Klaxons and other similar items capable of making loud noise
  • Laser pens
  • Drones
  • Racist, xenophobic, political and religious propaganda materials, signs or inappropriate branded items
  • Weapons, explosives, knives or anything that could be adopted for use as a weapon
  • Promotional or commercial objects or materials
  • Mechanical or electronic sound-emitting devices, such as megaphones
  • Scooters, skateboards and bicycles
  • Psychoactive substances and ‘legal highs’
  • Unauthorised professional photography or filming equipment

Weather forecast

London is heading for another weekend of intensely hot weather, so make sure you stock up on sun cream and stay hydrated in Hyde Park.

Saturday is looking hot, with the Met Office reckoning that temperatures could get as high as 30C. Both UV levels and pollen levels will be ‘very high’.

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