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’ve got one thing cooking for 2025. Particulars must be prepared in just a few weeks.”
Lyman‘s feedback observe a report by Rock Feed, who revealed in a latest video that a number of sources conversant in the matter believed Warped Tour to be returning in 2025. The return might be overseen by Lyman and apparently Reside Nation, who haven’t provided a remark but.
“In keeping with a number of sources conversant in the matter, Warped Tour will have a good time its anniversary with a collection of festivals subsequent 12 months when Warped Tour returns in 2025,” stated Rock Feed‘s Brian Storm on the time. “The rock pageant will now be overseen by Reside Nation, though Competition founder Kevin Lyman is alleged to be closely concerned. A request for remark from Reside 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 attainable return of the pageant beneath a unique title for 2021, however after all the pandemic obtained in the way in which. 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 stated to Kerrang! in a 2019 interview relating to the shutdown of the pageant:
“It obtained 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 obtained concerned on this for, and what introduced me into punk rock that I stated ‘you already know, if it is modified this a lot, perhaps it is time for me to wind this factor down.’
“2017, regardless 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 stage—’Warped obtained generally known as a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I needed to younger individuals to get uncovered to this music, to perhaps assist unbiased music for an extended time.”
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