British Summer Time Hyde Park 2016 tickets: Florence + the Machine and Kendrick Lamar to play July gig

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 4 December

Singer Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine performs onstage at What Stage during Day 4 of the 2015 Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee (Getty Images)

Florence + The Machine have been confirmed to headline a night of British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival next summer, along with rapper Kendrick Lamar.

The Mercury Prize nominees, who stepped in last minute to headline Glastonbury last June after Foo Fighters pulled out, will play in the London park on Saturday 2 July.

The band released their third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful to warm reviews earlier this year. The all-day gig will also feature sets from Jamie xx and Blood Orange.

Tickets for Florence + the Machine go on sale today at 10am and you can buy them here: Saturday 2 July, Hyde Park, London.

“It’s a real honour to headline Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park,” Florence Welch said in a statement. “It’s an iconic place to perform, especially for a British artist. I grew up in London. All of my first gigs were here. We will put on something really special. What’s amazing is that we have free reign, so we are going to make something magical happen!”

Mumford & Sons (buy tickets here) and Take That (buy tickets here) have also been confirmed to headline BST Hyde Park shows, on 8 July and 9 July respectively.

Recent Hyde Park gigs have seen the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Libertines, Blur, Taylor Swift and The Strokes entertain large crowds.