Warped Tour founder Keven Lyman has confirmed the rumors that Warped Tour will return in 2025. Whereas no specifics had been unveiled, Lyman commented in an interview with Pollstar: “We have now one thing cooking for 2025. Particulars ought to be prepared in a number of weeks.”
Lyman‘s feedback comply with a report by Rock Feed, who revealed in a current video that a number of sources aware of the matter believed Warped Tour to be returning in 2025. The return shall be overseen by Lyman and apparently Stay Nation, who haven’t provided a remark but.
“In response to a number of sources aware of the matter, Warped Tour will rejoice its anniversary with a sequence of festivals subsequent 12 months when Warped Tour returns in 2025,” mentioned Rock Feed‘s Brian Storm on the time. “The rock pageant will now be overseen by Stay Nation, though Competition founder Kevin Lyman is alleged to be closely concerned. A request for remark from Stay Nation was not returned.”
Warped Tour initially ran as a full-on touring pageant between 1995 and 2018, with some 25th anniversary one-off reveals taking place in 2019. Lyman teased a potential return of the pageant underneath a distinct identify for 2021, however in fact the pandemic bought in the best way. There was additionally discuss of Attila‘s Chris Fronzak shopping for the pageant, although that by no means appears to have come to fruition.
As Lynman mentioned to Kerrang! in a 2019 interview relating to the shutdown of the pageant:
“It bought very irritating round 2017. I used to be challenged by the fractured fan base, the fractured band base, the sense of neighborhood and what I bought concerned on this for, and what introduced me into punk rock that I mentioned ‘you recognize, if it is modified this a lot, possibly it is time for me to wind this factor down.’
“2017, irrespective of who I put up, it was like ‘F that band, F that band, the place’s this band?’ It was identical to, what occurred to the acceptance of music and that love of music? And I spotted that we had pushed the viewers right down to a younger degree—’Warped bought generally known as a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I wished to younger individuals to get uncovered to this music, to possibly help impartial music for an extended time.”
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