Tems London Concert — Aug 21, 2026 at Victoria Park London

About the Venue — Victoria Park London

The Tems London show takes place at Victoria Park London (Grove Road). Plan to arrive 45 to 60 minutes before doors — lines and bag checks can stretch for big tour stops like this. Rideshare is typically the easiest way to arrive and leave on a show night. For paid parking, venue lots and nearby garages tend to fill 60 to 90 minutes before showtime.

Tems in London— Concert & City Guide

London is structurally the most important Tems market outside North America — the city's Nigerian diaspora population is the largest outside Lagos itself, concentrated around Peckham, Camberwell, Lewisham, and the wider south London corridor, and a Tems London headline configuration is one of the loudest rooms on the entire international touring cycle. London Born In The Wild Tour configurations have anchored at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith (5,000 capacity, the 1932 Art Deco theatre on Queen Caroline Street, formerly the Hammersmith Odeon), the OVO Arena Wembley (12,500 capacity, Empire Way, formerly Wembley Arena) for the larger Tems nights, and the Roundhouse in Camden (3,300 capacity, Chalk Farm Road, the converted 1847 railway turning shed) for the cycle's more intimate Tems routings. Pre-Born In The Wild Tems dates touched Brixton Academy (5,000 capacity, Stockwell Road) and the Hammersmith Apollo on smaller earlier configurations. Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park (the early-July north London hip-hop and R&B festival) has been a recurring summer Tems anchor with the artist on the upper-bill slot across multiple editions. Transit access to the Eventim Apollo runs through Hammersmith on the District, Piccadilly, Circle, and Hammersmith and City lines plus the West London bus network; OVO Arena Wembley sits at Wembley Park on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines with Chiltern Railways from Marylebone as the rail alternative; the Roundhouse is at Chalk Farm on the Northern line Edgware branch with Camden Town one stop away. The London Tems crowd knows every Tems verse and feature back to the early Lagos singles and treats 'Essence', 'Free Mind', 'Love Me JeJe', and the 'Lift Me Up' chorus passage as full-floor sing-alongs. Onsales move through Ticketmaster UK and AXS depending on the building, with the Tems mailing-list presale and the venue presale layered ahead of the public window.

Tems in London — FAQ

About Tems

Temilade Openiyi was born June 11, 1995 in Lagos, Nigeria, raised between Lagos and the United Kingdom in her early years, and returned to Lagos full-time as a teenager. The musical foundation was unusually broad for a Nigerian artist of her generation: church choir from childhood, classical piano lessons through her school years, and a Lagos adolescence absorbing the city's mix of gospel, R&B, Afro-pop, and the long shadow of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. She studied economics at Monash University South Africa in Johannesburg, returned to Lagos with a degree, took a marketing job at a multinational while writing songs in the evenings, and put out her first independent single 'Mr Rebel' in 2018. The early Lagos buzz built through 2019 around 'Try Me' — a self-produced track that turned into a slow-burn local hit and that established the vocal-and-production identity that would carry the rest of the career. The 2020 Wizkid feature on 'Essence', released on his Made In Lagos album, was the cycle-defining moment. The song's slow rise through 2020 and 2021, capped by the Justin Bieber remix and the Hot 100 entry, opened the US Afrobeats conversation at a scale no previous Nigerian record had managed. The 2020 EP For Broken Ears and the 2021 EP If Orange Was a Place followed the trajectory — short-form releases that read more like statements than full-length albums, with 'Damages', 'Found' (with Brent Faiyaz), and 'Crazy Tings' extending the catalogue. The Drake and Future feature 'Wait For U' in 2022 became her first US number one as a featured artist and won the Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance. 'Lift Me Up' with Rihanna later that year, co-written by Tems alongside Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson, was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song; the Beyonce 'Cozy' co-writing credit on Renaissance landed in the same window. Born In The Wild, released through RCA in June 2024, was her debut full-length studio album — a long-form record tracing gospel, alt-R&B, and Afro-fusion through a single artist's voice, with 'Love Me JeJe' (interpolating Seyi Sodimu's 1997 Nigerian classic), 'Burning', and 'Free Fall' as lead singles. The world tour built out of the album cycle has run across North America, the UK, Europe, Africa, and Australia, with the venue tier sitting in the upper-end theatre and mid-cap arena range. She is signed to RCA Records globally and runs her own imprint, Leading Vibe Records, in parallel.

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