Which Top 10 Festivals are we checking out next year in 2025? As the last of the major festivals are rolling in for 2024 it's time to look at some of the UK's best festivals for 2025
10. Leeds and Reading Festival 2025.
Leeds and Reading Festival which is split over the bank Holiday weekend in August (21-24 August 2025) hosts a range of music styles from Rock, Alternative, Indie, Punk, Metal, Hip Hop, Dance, and R&B. Leeds Festival takes place at Bramham Park And Reading Festival takes place at Richfield Avenue.
Headlining Leeds & Reading festival this year are Travis Scott, Hozier, Chappell Roan and Bring Me The Horizon.
Other artists you can expect to see over the weekend are Amyl And The Sniffers, Soft Play, Enter Shikari, South Arcade, Pale Waves, The Chats, The Kooks and many more to be announced!
Get Your Tickets now from The Leeds And Reading website.
9. Shadow Fest
The small-day festival is held at The Underground in Bradford on Saturday 19th July 2025. Brought together by Shadow Fest Promotions hosts a range of bands from around the UK for an Alternative, Rock, Punk, and Metal styled evening.
Headlining the Festival is Pulverise with support coming from This Dying Hour, NeoCryptid, After Smoke Clears, Aleya, Inheritor, Weller, Those Once Loyal, Neon Rituals, Inflictions, and Motions.
Get Your Tickets from the Link Here.
8. Rockmantic
Rockmantic Weekender 2025 takes place at The Brickyard in Carlisle over 2 days Friday 7th February and Saturday 8th February 2025. Headlining the festival are The Hot One Two and These Wicked Rivers.
The rest of the festival is supported by Harsh, Deadfire, Lesbian Death Bed, Manors, Röxxi Red, Spyder Byte, This House We Built, Moskito, Foxx, Kuro, Ransom, and Empty Accents.
Tickets for Rockmantic can be purchased at Gigantic now.
7. 2000 Trees
Located at Upcote Farm in Cheltenham, 2000 Trees is held from Thursday, July 9th, to Sunday, July 12th, 2025. The festival hosts a range of amazing activities, such as a silent disco, a range of foods, Drinks, Glamping, and four days of live music.
2000 Trees Festival Headliners include Kneecap, Pvris, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria, and Alexisonfire.
Other artists over the weekend include Rory, Kid Kapichi, Stick To Your Guns, Bambie Thug, Girlband!, Love Rarely, Clobber, Low Lives, and many more.
Click here to see the full lineup of 2000 Trees and find the ticket here.
6. Bloodstock
At Catton Park In Derbyshire is Bloodstock Festival the strong motto of "By The Fans, For The Fans" has a range of bands from around the world coming together for a weekend of Heavy Metal, Metal, and Rock. Around the UK battle of the bands will be taking place in each city for smaller bands to battle it out for an opportunity to play at the Bloodstock Festival which is set to take place between the 7th - 10th of August 2025.
The 3-day festival features headliners Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira. Other bands on the line-up such as Lacuna Coil, Fear Factory, Mastodon, Creeper, Pale Face Swiss, August Burns Red, All For Metal, High Parasite, Thrown, Waterlines, and Breed 77. Check out the rest of the lineup here.
Limited Day Tickets are on sale now.
5. Novacaine Festival
The first-ever Novacaine Festival 2025 is set to take place at The Corporation in Sheffield run by the amazing team over at Novacaine the Day festival on the 4th of October 2025. The festival headline by The Five Hundred with subheadliner Bleed Again. Support throughout the rest of the day comes via Night Thieves, Fate's Hollow, Reanimate, Ocean Thieves, Saints Among Us, Broken Empire, Our City Fires, and Dead Demons.
More information and tickets are available on the Novacine Festival website.
4. BludFest 2025
Back for its second year, Bludfest returns created by Yorkshire's own Yungblud. Having created more than just a festival but a movement and a place for family, friends, and a safe space to be who you are. Bludfest held in Milton Keynes Bowl in the UK brings everyone together for a full day of fun and live music.
Headlining the June 21st day festival is Yungblud with support coming from Chase Atlantic, Blackbear, Denzel Curry, Rachel Chinouriri, JXDN, Peach Prc, Luvcat, Master Peace, Cliffords and many more acts to be announced.
Tickets and more information can be found at both Bludfest and AEG Presents.
3. Download Festival
Download Festival hosted at Donington Park the 3-day festival hosted between June 13-June 15 th returns with 3 brand new headliners Green Day, Sleep Token, and Korn. The Camping Festival is right next to mid-Eastlands airport is home to the famous Download Dog.
Other artists performing at the 2025 festival include Weezer, Bullet For My Valentine, Jimmy Eat World, Don Broco, Spirit Box, Steel Panther, The Ghost Inside, Poppy, Static Dress, Bleed From Within, Apocalyptica, Cradle Of Filth, Dead Pony, McFly, More can be found over at the Download Festival Line up.
Get more information and tickets from Download Festival's official website.
2. Call Of The Wild Festival
Call Of The Wild festival is back for 2025. The Weekend festival which is set at Lincolnshire Showground between 29th May to 1st June 2025 is celebrating its 5th anniversary. Headliners included Michael Monroe, The Commoners, Knock Out Kaine (Exclusive Original Line Reunion) also Falling Red (Exclusive 2025 Show).
More artists on the lineup include Tailgunner, Marisa And The Moths, Lucifer Star Machine, Asomvel, Trench Dogs, Pryma, Continental Lovers, Suicide Bombers, Cassidy Paris, Mint, Kite Thief, Black Lakes, Dendera, Harsh, Manors, DeadFire, Crashed Out, Phoenix Lake, This House We Built, Oli Brown & the Dead Collective, WhiteTyger, Bobbie Dazzle, Jayler, Sisters Doll, Austin Gold, Syteria, Thieves of Liberty and Kardang! The Head Hunters, Reckoner, Heartbreak Remedy, Silveroller & Jehenna.
More Information and the remaining Tickets can be found here.
1 . Slam Dunk Festival
Slam Dunk Festival 2025 takes place over 2 days between the 24th and 25th of May. The festival starts in the South at Hatfield Park and the North in Temple Newsam, Leeds. Hosting a range of music styles such as Alternative, Punk, Rock, Metalcore, Ska, Emo, and occasional Metal.
The 2025 Festival is set to return with headliners A Day To Remember with  Alkaline Trio, Electric Callboy, Delilah Bon, Dream State, Graphic Nature, Hot Milligan, Hit The Lights, Mouth Culture, Knuckle Puck (Copacetic), Less Than Jake, Movements, Neck Deep, Stray From The Path, New Found Glory, Split Chain, The Ataris, The Starting Line, The Used, Zebrahead and As It Is (Never Happy Ever After).
Other artists also announced include Landmvrks, Twin Atlantic, Mouth Culture, Defects, Graphic Nature, Hot Milk, South Arcade, and Point North. More bands can be seen on the Slam Dunk Festival website. Tickets are available here.
Slam Dunk Festival 2025 is taking over Europe this year with Day Festivals In 5 different countries next year check out the list below!
Slam Dunk Belgium - Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Slam Dunk Netherlands - Thursday, May 29th, 2025
Slam Dunk France - Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Slam Dunk Switzerland - Sunday, June 1st, 2025
Slam Dunk Italt - Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Check out our announcement of Slam Dunk Europe.
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