Basement Jaxx Announced for Camp Bestival 2025

After a decade away from the world’s biggest stages, Basement Jaxx are gearing up to reignite their iconic, high-energy live performances with a series of headline festival appearances in summer 2025.

Unlike many electronic acts who rely on technology to elevate their shows, Basement Jaxx embrace a bold, maximalist approach. Their performances are a vibrant spectacle, featuring a kaleidoscope of vocalists, MCs, musicians, and even full dance troupes, turning every stage into a pulsating carnival of music and celebration.

“After a few years DJing round the globe, it’ll be great to return to the live stage and the Live Show Experience,” enthused Basement Jaxx’s Felix Buxton.

“To connect to people with life-affirming energy and give people a great time.”

Late in 1994, Basement Jaxx blew up with a string of innovative underground EPs for their own Atlantic Jaxx label and wild parties that intersected with pre-gentrification South London. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe carved out a niche that fitted somewhere between house and garage but had a punk attitude, global influences, and unforgettable tunes. That peculiar sound garnered them such a huge following that it built up to their debut album Remedy, released in 1999 with breakthrough hits such as Red Alert, Rendez Vu, and Jump & Shout. That success spilled over to its bigger and more daring sequel in 2001 with the album Rooty, with some of its top tracks, an immortal, genre-defying, transgenerational anthem such as Where’s Your Head At.

Basement Jaxx were a showstopping live proposition from the outset, with their live sets ballooning into a festival-going extravaganza that soon elevated them to headline status. By 2005-the year they took home the Grammy for Best Electronic Album-they’d conquered Glastonbury’s The Other Stage and Pyramid Stage, Coachella, and London’s Hyde Park.

“It’s great our hits are still very much alive with younger generations,” says Felix, “so we connect across the age range – and it’ll be great to pop in a couple of bangers from our forthcoming album too.”

The last 10 years have seen Basement Jaxx remain festival favourites, but headlining behind the decks rather than at the front of the stage. Now, the time is right to bring back the full, eye-popping technicolour experience. As Felix puts it:
“It feels like 2025 is the beginning of a new era for many, and I think that’s probably true for Basement Jaxx too.”