UK festival confirms 00s rock legends as headliners in huge 2025 line-up

Truck Festival whitethorn person conscionable announced the lineup to bushed for adjacent year’s festival play with stone icons brushing shoulders with 00s megastars.

Founded successful 1998, the Oxfordshire festival is inactive comparatively tiny and welcomes astir 30,000 radical each twelvemonth — little than 15% of Glastonbury’s capacity.

What it lacks successful size, Truck is making up for successful names arsenic organisers bring indie stars similar The Last Dinner Party and icons similar Kasabian unneurotic successful July.

Last twelvemonth saw the likes of Jamie T, the Streets, Wetleg, and Idles instrumentality to the signifier with indie legends the Kooks closing the show.

Kasabian person been confirmed arsenic the 2025 headliners aft their not-so-secret set astatine Worthy Farm stunned fans earlier this year.

The Fire hitmakers, now fronted by Serge Pizzorno, archetypal stormed charts successful the aboriginal 2000s with their self-titled debut medium and scooped up a Brit Award successful 2010.

However, it’s not each bully quality arsenic fans rapidly realised that this header quality connected July 26, 2025, clashes with 1 of Oasis’ Wembley gigs.

‘Nooooo Saturday astatine Truck Festival nooooo pleease 😢 Oasis astatine Wembley that saturday! ☹️🔫.’ commented Veronika connected the band’s Instagram announcement.

‘Truck clashes with Oasis astatine Wembley 😭😭😭😭,’ Tom Wells added arsenic immoderate fans joked astir buying the highly sought-after tickets disconnected them if it was specified an issue.

This scheduling struggle could besides spell immoderate mode to explaining wherefore — despite dense speculation — Blossoms aren’t opening for the Gallagher brothers connected the UK limb of the tour.

Filling up the remainder of the awesome header spots are the Courteneers, Bloc Party, and Nothing But Thieves.

This volition beryllium the first-ever UK festival apical billing slot for Nothing But Thieves, who hail from Southend-on-Sea, aft their 4th workplace medium reached fig 1 this year.

On Instagram, the set wrote: ‘@truckfestival was the archetypal festival we ever played, mode backmost successful 2014. We’re backmost connected the workplace adjacent twelvemonth to header successful what volition beryllium our lone 2025 UK show. Wow. See you there.’

While there’s plentifulness of modern names connected the billing, the 00s look to beryllium dominating astatine Truck arsenic Franz Ferdinand are besides connected the enactment up.

The Take Me Out hitmakers person conscionable announced their archetypal workplace medium since 2018 — The Human Fear — arsenic good arsenic a immense tour.

Franz Ferdinand gained aboriginal acclaim with 5 Grammy nods and 2 Brit Award wins, including Best British Group successful 2005.

Scouting For Girls are besides acceptable to play, having go staples astatine UK festivals implicit the years acknowledgment to a immense drawstring of hits; immoderate of which they admitted to Metro they were bushed of hearing.

‘We emotion playing it successful beforehand of 10,000 oregon truthful radical but I’m precise blessed ne'er to perceive that opus again,’ pb vocalist Roy Stride told us of She’s So Lovely.

At the clip helium added: ‘I emotion playing it but rehearsing it is similar “Why?” due to the fact that that’s the opus we played much than thing else. But the [fan] absorption is ever the biggest absorption we get, truthful it’s ever fun.’

Truck Festival isn’t conscionable bringing unthinkable bands though arsenic 00s icon Natasha Bedingfield volition beryllium performing too, listed arsenic a ‘special guest’.

She made a astonishment appearance astatine Captial’s Summertime Ball earlier this year, to immense applause from the audience.

The Unwritten vocalist has precocious enjoyed a immense resurgence, acknowledgment to the opus picking up popularity connected TikTok implicit 20 years aft it’s release.

Rounding retired the enactment up are the likes of Wunderhorse, Hard Life, CMAT, The Big Moon, Sports Team, Maximo Park, Alfie Templeman, and adjacent a spot of Barrioke.

Tickets for Truck Festival outgo £150 for the weekend, which runs from July 24 to July 27, and fans tin motion up for pre-sale tickets now.

Pre-sale begins connected Thursday Novemeber 28 astatine 6pm portion wide merchantability starts connected Friday, November 29 astatine 10am.

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