Build Your Own All Points East 2026 Hitster Pack with Hitify

Right now, this weekend, All Points East 2026 is taking over Victoria Park in East London for its final weekend, featuring headliners and iconic alternative and electronic acts that have made APE one of the most beloved summer festivals in the UK.

Since its debut in 2018, All Points East has built a reputation as the festival for music fans who demand artistic credibility. Bjork headlined the first edition. The Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, and The National have all left their mark on Victoria Park. This is a festival with a clear sonic identity: alternative, electronic, and unapologetically art-forward.

Whether you're in the crowd at Victoria Park this weekend or celebrating from afar, there's never been a better time to channel the APE spirit into a Hitster pack. With Hitify, you can identify any song playing around you, find out its release year, and build your own custom Hitster pack around the All Points East sound.

What is All Points East?

All Points East is a multi-day music festival held annually at Victoria Park in Hackney, East London. Launched in 2018 by AEG Presents, it quickly established itself as a must-attend event by booking artists that other UK festivals overlook: experimental electronic artists, post-punk icons, art-rock legends, and forward-thinking indie acts. The park itself becomes a temporary city, with food markets, art installations, and free events in the days between the headline weekends.

APE's booking philosophy is simple: quality over quantity. The lineups are lean but iconic, and the crowd reflects that. You'll find fewer teens and more devoted music obsessives, many of whom have been following the headlining acts for decades.

What is Hitster?

Hitster is the card game where you guess the release year of songs. Each card has a QR code that plays the actual track through your phone. You listen, then try to place the card in the correct chronological order in your personal timeline. The closer you get to the right year, the more points you score. It's surprisingly tricky, even for music nerds, because the 1990s had a lot going on.

With Hitify, you can point your phone at any speaker, identify the song instantly, and collect all the data you need to build a custom pack. Perfect for APE fans who want to bring the festival energy home.

Build Your All Points East Hitster Pack

Here are 12 tracks that perfectly capture the All Points East spirit across the decades:

• "Blue Monday" - New Order (1983) - the synth-pop blueprint, essential for any electronic-leaning pack
• "Unfinished Sympathy" - Massive Attack (1991) - trip-hop perfection; Massive Attack headlined APE to rapturous acclaim
• "Human Behaviour" - Bjork (1993) - Bjork opened APE's very first edition with a set people still talk about
• "Glory Box" - Portishead (1994) - Bristol trip-hop meets heartbreak; a festival moment waiting to happen
• "Block Rockin' Beats" - The Chemical Brothers (1997) - Chemical Brothers at APE is iconic festival history
• "Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz (2001) - Gorillaz brought their virtual stage show to Victoria Park and it was unforgettable
• "All My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem (2007) - the song that makes grown adults cry on dance floors; LCD headlined APE 2022
• "The Less I Know the Better" - Tame Impala (2015) - psychedelic pop that sounds tailor-made for the Victoria Park crowd
• "Boys in the Better Land" - Fontaines D.C. (2019) - post-punk from Dublin that became an APE staple
• "Bunny Is a Rider" - Caroline Polachek (2021) - art-pop brilliance from one of APE's most celebrated bookings
• "Welcome to the Internet" - Bo Burnham (2021) - unexpected but perfect for the culturally-switched-on APE crowd
• "Closer to Heaven" - The National (2023) - indie rock gravitas from the band that turned APE into a communal weep-fest

What makes an APE Hitster pack brilliant is the range: 1983 to 2023, synth-pop to art-pop, post-punk to psychedelic. Your timeline will span four decades, and even the most devoted music fan will second-guess themselves when it comes to placing Portishead versus Tame Impala.

How to Build Your Pack with Hitify

Building an All Points East Hitster pack is simple with Hitify:

• Open Hitify and start scanning tracks from your APE playlist or setlist videos
• For each recognized song, note the artist, track name, and release year
• Aim for a mix spanning at least three decades for maximum Hitster tension
• Include a few curveballs: a b-side, an album track nobody knows the exact year for
• Print your custom cards and you're ready to play

Head to hitify.app to start recognizing music and building your All Points East pack today.