Mighty Hoopla 2027 Robyn and The Pussycat Dolls to Headline 10th Anniversary Festival

Mighty Hoopla is turning 10, and the first announcement already feels built for a mass singalong. The UK’s biggest LGBTQ+ pop festival will return to Brockwell Park, London, on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 June 2027, with Robyn and The Pussycat Dolls confirmed as headliners.

The two-day celebration marks a major milestone for a festival that has grown from a pop-loving queer party into one of the most recognisable events in the UK summer calendar. After its biggest-ever edition in 2026, which drew more than 60,000 festival-goers from across the UK and Europe, Mighty Hoopla is setting up its anniversary year as a full-scale celebration of pop, performance and queer joy.

Mighty Hoopla returns to Brockwell Park for its 10th anniversary weekend.

Robyn and The Pussycat Dolls lead the first wave

The first wave is led by two acts with very different, but equally devoted, pop fanbases.

Robyn brings the kind of electro-pop catalogue that has helped define dancefloors for more than two decades. Her songs carry the exact emotional charge that works at Mighty Hoopla: heartbreak, release, glitter and catharsis packed into huge choruses. For many fans, the thought of hearing tracks like “Dancing On My Own” in a field full of people is reason enough to start planning the weekend now.

The Pussycat Dolls will bring a different kind of headline energy. Their slick, high-impact pop and R&B hits became staples of the 2000s, and their live shows have long leaned into choreography, spectacle and crowd-ready hooks. At a festival where nostalgia and pop theatre sit comfortably next to current chart favourites, they make a natural anniversary booking.

The combination gives the weekend a strong opening shape: one headline set built for emotional release, another built for high-gloss pop celebration.

Kelis, Bebe Rexha and Sophie Ellis-Bextor add depth to the line-up

Beyond the headliners, the first wave already points to the broad pop mix that Mighty Hoopla has made its calling card.

Kelis brings a catalogue that crosses R&B, pop, dance and club culture. From early 2000s anthems to her more left-field moments, she fits the festival’s taste for artists with strong identity and enduring queer appeal.

Bebe Rexha adds a contemporary pop presence, with a run of big collaborations and radio-ready dance-pop tracks behind her. Her booking helps connect the anniversary edition to more recent pop eras, rather than making it a purely nostalgic affair.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor also feels right at home on this bill. Her disco-pop style, sharp visual identity and enduring affection from LGBTQ+ audiences match the festival’s playful, theatrical tone. Following the renewed global attention around “Murder on the Dancefloor”, her appearance is likely to be one of the weekend’s most anticipated pop moments.

The announcement also promises more artists as part of the wider 2027 celebrations. Mighty Hoopla has described this as the first wave, so further names are expected as the festival builds towards June.

A 10th anniversary built around queer joy

Mighty Hoopla’s growth has been striking. The 2026 edition was its biggest yet, welcoming more than 60,000 people from the UK and Europe. That scale matters, but the festival’s identity has always rested on more than crowd size.

It has become known for putting LGBTQ+ celebration at the centre, with pop music as the shared language. The atmosphere is deliberately joyful, camp, loud and welcoming. That makes its 10th anniversary feel more personal than a standard festival milestone.

Co-founder Glyn Fussell reflected on that in the announcement, describing the past decade as “the biggest privilege” of his life.

“In a world that can often feel hostile and scary, we have created a celebration of life at its most joyful at Hoopla.”

He added that protecting the festival “in all its glorious technicolour” remains central to its future, and said he would not have believed such a space was possible when he was “that young, queer, pop-obsessed kid”.

Those words capture why the event has become so loved. Mighty Hoopla is not only booking pop acts for an audience. It is protecting a space where people can be extravagant, emotional, silly, loud and fully themselves.

The festival’s identity is rooted in queer joy, pop fandom and shared celebration.

Why Brockwell Park remains central to the Hoopla feeling

Brockwell Park has become a key part of the Mighty Hoopla experience. The south London setting gives the event space to feel big while still keeping the sense of a weekend gathering. Green space, city skyline edges and outdoor stages all help shape that summer festival mood.

For many regulars, the park is now tied to specific memories: meeting friends at the gates, planning outfits weeks ahead, singing along to pop favourites, or discovering unexpected sets between big-name performances.

That sense of return will be especially strong in 2027. A 10th anniversary gives long-time fans a chance to look back, while newer attendees will arrive at a festival that already knows exactly what it is. The event’s strength lies in that balance. It can book major names, but it still feels rooted in community, humour and pop devotion.

What the first announcement tells us about 2027

This first line-up reveal suggests Mighty Hoopla 2027 will lean into all the ingredients that have made it successful:

• Major pop headliners with deep fan loyalty

• Queer cultural favourites across different eras

• Dancefloor emotion as much as party spectacle

• A celebratory anniversary mood rather than a routine festival return

  
  

Robyn, The Pussycat Dolls, Kelis, Bebe Rexha and Sophie Ellis-Bextor each bring a recognisable part of the pop spectrum. Together, they set a clear tone for the weekend: big choruses, high energy, nostalgia, release and a strong sense of belonging.

For a festival built on the idea that pop can be communal, joyful and deeply meaningful, that feels like the right way to begin its 10th birthday year.

Mighty Hoopla 2027 will take place at Brockwell Park on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 June 2027. More line-up news is still to come, but the first wave already makes one thing clear: the anniversary edition is aiming to be a landmark weekend for LGBTQ+ pop culture in the UK.