Festival News: Truck Festival returns in 2025 with a stacked weekend experience
Sitting as the centrepoint of summer festival memories and a beloved home for fans of all ages, Truck Festival returns in 2025 with a stacked weekend experience that brings together the biggest names in indie and alternative music bursting with laugh-out-loud character. Becoming a true rite of passage and indisputably the best value festival ticket of the entire UK season, 2025 looks primed to be a landmark edition that welcomes Truckers into the Good Times (and that’s a guarantee).
2025’s lineup brings the heavy hitters - with festival anthems and a snapshot of the biggest bands in the UK right now. Fresh from a scorching headline arena tour, Kasabian head to Truck Festival with a live show that’s ready to shake the very ground beneath fans’ feet. One of the 21st century's most seminal bands, their storied career has seen them headline the largest stages going with cuts such as ‘Fire’, ‘L.S.F’, ‘Shoot The Runner’, ‘Empire’, ‘Underdog’, ‘Club Foot’ and more ready to light a fuse like no other. Led by the dynamic Serge Pizzorno, their latest era with new album ‘Happenings’ has welcomed the next exciting chapter for a band whose headline set is bound to be the perfect Saturday night party. Also bringing the party is Courteeners, fixed and focused with a live show that’s nothing short of electric. Across seven studio albums, Manchester’s finest have become a peerless force in modern guitar music - selling out huge outdoor fields and producing countless nights of iconic moments like few others can. Latest album ‘Pink Cactus Cafe’ stormed into the UK Albums Chart and ushers in a bold next step for a true festival favourite. Get front and centre for ‘Not Nineteen Forever’, ‘Are You In Love With The Notion?’, ‘Solitude Of The Night Bus’, ‘What Took You So Long?’, ‘The 17th’, ‘How Good It Was’ and more as Liam Fray leads Truck Festival 2025 into the night in style,
Marking a UK Festival Exclusive performance for 2025, Nothing But Thieves take the step to headline level when they headline their first UK festival at Truck Festival 2025. Combining soaring vocals, gut-punching darkness and bulldozer guitar hooks - Nothing But Thieves have become a true phenomenon as one of British music’s biggest breakthrough success stories of the past decade. Whether it’s huge arenas or stealing the show at festivals across the planet, they’ve welcomed an entire generation into their thrilling world - with latest album ‘Dead Club City’ seeing the band claim their first ever UK #1 Album embracing a bold new sound. In what will be the final show of their ‘Dead Club City’ World Tour, Nothing But Thieves ascend to festival headline status for a historic night only found at Truck 2025.
Indie icons. One of the most influential bands of their generation. Sell-out headline shows and storming new moments at every turn. It can only be Bloc Party, who make their long-awaited Truck Festival debut headlining the Thursday night to kickstart Truck 2025 in emphatic fashion. With a career that has always seen them push against boundaries and expectations, their catalogue of undeniable bangers feels ready-made to turn Truck into their own personal playground. With a very special set performing their revered debut album ‘Silent Alarm’ in full alongside their greatest hits (including the likes of ‘Flux’, ‘Mercury’, ‘Hunting For Witches’ and more) - Bloc Party finally takes to the Truck stage for a night that will live long in the memory.
Truck’s 2025 headliners lead a jam-packed lineup that combines unforgettable indie legends, THE bands who are defining the here and now and the buzzy favourites already carving a name for themselves as festival fans’ next favourite artist. No band has had a bigger breakthrough 2024 than The Last Dinner Party. Setting the world of music alight with their stunning debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, they sit as a band defining an entire generation with the sort of Main Stage show that’s ready to take over the globe. Prepare to witness a phenomenon front and centre when they head to Truck 2025. Also fresh from a huge 2024 is Stockport’s very own Blossoms. Strutting into their most glorious era to date with latest album ‘Gary’, they’ve emerged as one of the UK’s most inventive and thrilling bands - with the sort of catalogue born for festival stages. Equally as inventive as a pioneering band of UK indie history is Franz Ferdinand, whose twisted approach on art-rock has seen them beloved and celebrated across the globe. When Truck hears the likes of ‘Take Me Out’, ‘Do You Want To’, ‘The Dark Side Of The Matinee’ and ‘No You Girls’ amongst many others, it’s guaranteed to be a singalong like no other.
Truck has always been the festival weekend for bands coming to define the here and now to make that emphatic statement. Your Favourite Artists’ Favourite Festival - in 2025 the most exciting names leading the pack can be found in the heat of Hill Farm to celebrate a coming-together of music lovers. Whether it’s the powerhouse roar of Wunderhorse fresh from the release of acclaimed second album ‘Midas’ which has seen them rise to the biggest shows of their career, the Greatest Pop Star On The Planet (official) CMAT showcasing why she sits as a National Treasure on a global scale, the hotly-anticipated return of Hard Life (fka Easy Life) kicking down the door on what comes next, the riotous widescreen ambition of trailblazers Sports Team or the fingers-in-the-air pounds of the chart-topping Reytons - each corner of guitar music can be found here, creating their biggest memories to date that they’ll be talking about for years to come.
