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Olly Murs and Justin Timberlake to headline Chelmsford’s 4-day Music Festival next July

November 22nd, 2024 - 2:24 PM

Olly Murs and Justin Timberlake to headline Chelmsford’s 4-day Music Festival next July

Both Olly Murs and Justin Timberlake are confirmed to be headlining a new music festival taking place in Chelmsford, Essex next year in July. Both superstars are the first string of artists to be revealed for next year’s event with many more announcements set in due course.

Chelmsford City Racecourse will host the event, titled ‘Chelmsford City Live 2025’, which will see 30,000 people attend the event each day. Essex born and bred popstar, Olly Murs will perform a headline show on Sunday, 6 July, while American singer Justin Timberlake will headline two days prior, on Friday, 4 July.

The festival is in partnership with Chelmsford City Racecourse, Live Nation and Cuffe and Taylor. Cuffe and Taylor promoter Ben Hatton, who hails from Essex, commented on the upcoming festival: “We are delighted to be announcing a whole new festival for Essex for 2025 and beyond. The venue essentially provides us with a blank canvas that will enable us to attract some of the biggest names in the world of live music today and that means our options are endless. We hope this is the start of a very long relationship with the team at Chelmsford City Racecourse and we look forward to welcoming global artists to this most beautiful part of the world”.

He continued: “We already have two amazing headliners for Chelmsford City Live with Justin Timberlake and Olly Murs and we’ll be announcing two more in the coming weeks”.

The forthcoming festival will take place on non-race days during a long 4-day weekend in July,  where each day will feature a standalone headline concert. This gives festival fans the opportunity to attend the festival for a single day to witness a particular headline show or buy a multi-day pass.

Since opening its doors in 2015, Chelmsford City Racecourse has established a reputation for providing “award-winning sports and entertainment” to attendees in central Essex. Thousands upon thousands of fans have witnessed many legendary performances from a series of concerts throughout the years. Hosting concerts for iconic ska-pop band Madness in 2015, indie rock band Razorlight in 2018 and ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ singer Sophie Ellis Bexter in 2022, to name a few.

Hailing from Witham in Essex, Olly Murs rose to fame on UK music-reality show, The X Factor in 2009, where he finished as runner-up. The following year he released a self-titled album, which peaked at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart featuring Number 1 Single ‘Please Don’t Let Me Go’. Since then, Murs has had many charting singles, including Number 1 singles ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ featuring hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, ‘Dance With Me Tonight’ and ‘Troublemaker’ featuring Flo Rida. It is no doubt Murs will perform some of his earlier iconic hits alongside tracks from his latest LP ‘Marry Me’, which released in 2022.

Joining Murs, the ten-time Grammy Award Winner Justin Timberlake will perform a headline set. Dubbed the ‘Prince of Pop’ for his contributions to the genre, Timberlake has sold over 117 million records worldwide, including his work as a soloist and his role as lead vocalist of 90s boyband NSYNC, where Timberlake rose to acclaim. Known for his tracks ‘SexyBack’, ‘CAN’T STOP THE FEELING’, ‘Mirrors’ and ‘Rock Your Body’, the pop icon will head to Chelmsford City Live 2025 as a stop on his current ‘The Forget Tomorrow World Tour’.

Nathan Holmes, Chelmsford Racecourse’s commercial director spoke on the news of Timberlake’s headline performance, stating: “It’s a landmark moment for the venue where we have sought to bring the biggest international acts to Essex and establish ourselves as the leading destination for live music in the South East”.

Tickets for the highly anticipated festival in Essex are officially on sale and can be accessed here.

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