“It was emotional and you could really see how much headlining the festival- meant to each of the band” Maroon 5 - BST Hyde Park, London - Gig Review - By The Fans Magazine

Words & Review: Katie Fisher (Guest Contributor) & Grace Wearn

Photography Credit: Sienna Lorraine Gray (Header Photograph) & Katie Fisher (Group Hug Crowd Photograph in Article)

Maroon 5. What a band! Their headliner set at BST Hyde Park, on a sunny Friday evening in London, was just magical and so well thought out.

There were times where they were reminiscing, specifically on playing BST Hyde Park’ ‘Butterfly Stage’ in the mid 2000’s, before graduating to the same festivals ‘Great Oak Stage’ in 2026. This was noticed specifically before their song ‘Memories’, it was emotional and you could really see how much headlining the festival- meant to each of the band.

The production was magical, lots of prominent flashing lights and focus on background on the screens behind. Specifically, during ‘Moves Like Jagger’ the screens were in formation to appear as small televisions, multiplied across. The focus was also on their success and crowd fan favourites, they played incredible songs; some of which you’d know as soon as they were played, such as; ‘Stereo Hearts’, ‘Animals’ and ‘Misery’.

The crowd engagement was on par, with Adam Levine; Maroon 5’ lead singer - encouraging those of all ages where possible, to get up, sing the lyrics and dance like nobody is watching. I feel as though they perhaps wanted those outside of the festival to get FOMO - and they definitely succeeded with that. Even before the Festival, we saw so many crowds of people that didn’t have tickets but wanted to catch a glimpse of Maroon 5, live.

‘I’m an f-ing professional’ was spoken by Adam during their set, as a light banter which made so many, including myself, laugh within the jokey tone it was said - but also cementing on the perhaps feeling of gratefulness and career success comparable to playing the same festival 20 or so years ago.

Hyde Park is in a pretty unique location where you can see many planes fly over, regardless of whether theirs a festival playing or not. As it is on the stretch to Heathrow Airport. ‘Maps’ was played during their set, which conveniently had a few planes flyover during - which was incredibly and unintentionally, sweet.

Towards the end of the show, the sky almost looked like the colour of lemonade - bittersweet and soft yellow around a bright blue sky. It was wholesome, Adam kissed his daughter during ‘Girls Like You’. The whole set worked and it was again, so wholesome - from them playing some of their bigger hits at the start - then into slower ensembles, then onto banger songs after banger.

If you ever get the chance to see Maroon 5 live, buy the tickets - you will NOT be disappointed.