Kneecap, Million Dead, Taking Back Sunday, Alexisonfire for stacked 2000Trees 2025 line-up
The stacked line-up for 2000Trees 2025 has been announced, with Kneecap, Million Dead, Taking Back Sunday, Alexisonfire and many more all being confirmed.
The four-day event is set to return to Upcote Farm, near Cheltenham, next year, and run between Wednesday July 9 and Saturday July 12.
Now, for the first time in the festival’s history, all of the main stage headliners have been announced at the same time, and five huge acts will be taking to the stage for next year’s instalment.
On the Friday, headliners will be both the hit Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, and the Massachusetts band PVRIS. For Kneecap, the slot will follow on from a huge run of live shows earlier this year, and the release of their critically-acclaimed biopic. “We’re buzzing to be coming back to 2025 trees as a headliner. It was one of our favourite festival gigs last time and this one will be even bigger,” the band said in a new statement.
For PVRIS, the gig marks their debut at 2000Trees, and is set to see them break out tracks from latest album ‘Evergreen’, as well as fan favourites from their earlier discography.
The Friday instalment will also be co-headlined, as both NYC rock legends Taking Back Sunday and fellow New York prog band Coheed And Cambria will be taking to the festival stage for the first time, and set to deliver career-spanning sets.
“We’ve been hearing about 2000trees for quite some time and we were happy to get a call to come join in 2025,” the former said. “Looking forward to seeing who else will be there and excited for a new experience.”
Finally, Alexisonfire is the final headliner confirmed – also making their 2000Trees festival debut on Saturday July 12. “Alexis is very excited to be playing 2000trees next year. Let it be known, by the time we are done playing there will be significantly less trees,” said George Pettit, the frontman of the Canadian band.
Elsewhere on the new bill, Million Dead are confirmed as making a comeback. The London post-hardcore group was founded by Cameron Dean and Julia Ruzicka back in 2000, and completed by Ben Dawson and Frank Turner. The band played their final gig in the autumn of 2005, citing “irreconcilable differences within the band” as the reason for their break-up, saying that “it would be impossible to continue”.
The announcement that they’ll be at 2000Trees comes just hours after they confirmed plans to reunite for a series of live shows in 2025.
Elsewhere, Hastings punk band Kid Kapichi join the line-up, as does Irish metal artist and Eurovision 2024 contestant Bambie Thug, New York hardcore band Spaced, New Jersey band Gel, and singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist RØRY.
Find the full line-up so far in the poster above and buy tickets here.
“This is quite literally the biggest 2000trees announcement we’ve ever done. We’re delighted to bring some huge classic bands in, that we’ve been after for years, for their long-awaited first ever Trees performances,” said James Scarlett, head booker of the festival. “We’re also honoured to usher in the likes of PVRIS and Kneecap for their first ever UK festival headline performances. Tickets are already flying out, and to say it’s going to be a legendary year is an understatement. Miss 2000trees 2025 at your own peril.”
This year’s 2000Trees took place between July 10 and July 13. The Gaslight Anthem were announced as the first headliners, and other artists included Manchester Orchestra, Kids In Glass Houses, The Chats, Nova Twins, Hot Milk, Death From Above 1979, Spanish Love Songs, and Cassyette.
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Liberty Dunworth
NME
