UB40 featuring Ali Campbell joins Bananarama as headliners at the family-friendly festival next year.

The ninth edition of Solihull Summer Fest comes to Tudor Grange Park in Solihull on Saturday 19th – Sunday 20th July 2025. The festival recently announced Bananarama as the Sunday headliner, and they’ve just revealed that UB40 featuring Ali Campbell will be headlining the Saturday.

The feel-good, family-friendly festival lands in Tudor Grange Park in summer, bringing the sounds of the 80s and 90s, indie pop, pop, and reggae to the people.

Known for timeless hits like ‘Red Red Wine’, ‘Kingston Town’, ‘I Got You Babe’, and many more, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell will headline the Saturday, bringing some sonic sunshine to the festival. Easily shifting over 70 million records while securing over fifty UK chart hits, they’re certainly the UK’s biggest reggae band. In the game for decades now, the Brummie band knows how to deliver a quality headline set.

The reggae icons joining London pop group Bananarama, who you’ll know from hits like ‘Cruel Summer’, ‘Venus’, ‘Love in the First Degree’, and ‘I Heard A Rumour’, who headline the Sunday. The pop queens are sure to have everyone singing and grooving, bringing the festival to a fantastic close.

Following many requests, the festival will also bring back RPJ Band for Solihull Summer Fest. More artists and bands will be announced soon, but it’s already looking ace.

Tickets for Solihull Summer Fest 2025 go on sale on Friday (1st Nov). For access to the pre-sale on Thursday (31st Oct), sign up for tickets now towards the bottom of this page.