Bearded Theory festival has announced its stacked 2025 line-up.
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The event’s 16th edition is due to take place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, between May 21-25. Tickets are on sale now and can be found here. Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers, and The Sisters Of Mercy are set to headline. Also scheduled to appear are Leftfield, Yard Act, The Mary Wallopers, Ash, CMAT, Nova Twins and Fat Dog.
Other confirmed acts include Divorce, Lime Garden, The Lovely Eggs, Throwing Muses, Bess Atwell, The Selecter, Dream State, CLT DRP, Slaney Bay, Asian Dub Foundation and many more across the weekend.
Last year’s headliners included Jane’s Addiction, Future Islands, Amyl And The Sniffers, Sleaford Mods, Orbital, Dinosaur Jr and Bob Vylan.
Elsewhere at the 15th anniversary edition, organisers also introduced a new dance-oriented area, CODA, which artists like Orbital, Leeroy Thornhill, and Roni Size appeared at.
The festival is home to the UK’s first on site Festival School, which requires official enrolment and offers classes to Reception aged children up to Year 10.
As well as that, Yoga, parkour, puppet making, DJ workshops, circus Skills & Acrobalance, English, mindfulness, healthy eating, First Aid and BSL classes are on offer to attending children.
In other news, earlier this year, upcoming headliner Iggy Pop dug a selection of Stooges songs from out of the archives for the first time in over a decade with Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner, Matt Sweeney, and more in tow.
Meanwhile, fellow headliners Manic Street Preachers shared new single ‘Decline & Fall’ in August, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the band’s seminal 1994 album ‘The Holy Bible’. It marked their first new material since 2021’s acclaimed chart-topping 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.