Warped Tour founder Keven Lyman has confirmed the rumors that Warped Tour will return in 2025. Whereas no specifics have been unveiled, Lyman commented in an interview with Pollstar: “We now have one thing cooking for 2025. Particulars needs to be prepared in a number of weeks.”
Lyman‘s feedback observe a report by Rock Feed, who revealed in a latest video that a number of sources aware of the matter believed Warped Tour to be returning in 2025. The return will probably be overseen by Lyman and apparently Dwell Nation, who haven’t provided a remark but.
“Based on a number of sources aware of the matter, Warped Tour will have fun 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 competition will now be overseen by Dwell Nation, though Competition founder Kevin Lyman is claimed to be closely concerned. A request for remark from Dwell Nation was not returned.”
Warped Tour initially ran as a full-on touring competition between 1995 and 2018, with some 25th anniversary one-off reveals occurring in 2019. Lyman teased a doable return of the competition under a different name for 2021, however after all the pandemic bought in the best way. There was additionally speak of Attila‘s Chris Fronzak buying the festival, 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 competition:
“It bought very irritating round 2017. I used to be challenged by the fractured fan base, the fractured band base, the sense of group 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 noticed that we had pushed the viewers right down to a younger degree—’Warped bought referred to as a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I wished to younger folks to get uncovered to this music, to possibly help unbiased music for an extended time.”
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