A new wave of artists has been confirmed for Live At Leeds 2025, including Manic Street Preachers, The Snuts and more.
The fourth edition of the one-day festival is set to return on May 24 and will return to the usual site of Temple Newsam Park.
The first wave of artists was confirmed back in October when it was announced that Bloc Party would be hitting the stage to play their debut album ‘Silent Alarm’ in full. Other acts confirmed included Yard Act, Sigrid, Jamie Webster, Natasha Bedingfield, The Amazons, Fat Dog, We Are Scientists, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and more.
Now, even more names have been added to the line-up including iconic rock group Manic Street Preachers. The confirmation that the band will be heading to Live At Leeds 2025 comes as they are gearing up for the release of their new album ‘Critical Thinking’, which is set to arrive next month.
Joining them on the updated bill are Scottish indie quartet The Snuts, who recently wrapped up their UK tour by playing their biggest show to date at the 14,300-capacity venue OVO Hydro Arena in Glasgow.
Also on the line-up are Public Service Broadcasting, who are expected to play some tracks from their latest album ‘The Last Flight’, and Leicester indie band Hard Life (FKA Easy Life), who will return to Leeds for the first time under their new moniker.
Other new artists include local Leeds indie legends The Pigeon Detectives, English alternative-rock sextet Sports Team, Irish folk-pop trio Kingfishr, indie-pop singer-songwriter Katy J Pearson, and London quartet Los Bitchos.
Elsewhere, Fickle Friends, Do Nothing, Corella, Deadletter, Gurriers, Brògeal, Aziya, L’Objectif and Esme Emerson have also been added to the bill.
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Last year’s edition of Live At Leeds included sets by The Kooks, Declan McKenna, Sea Girls, Melanie C, Baby Queen, Corinne Bailey Rae and more.
The announcement of Manic Street Preachers performing at the upcoming event comes just two days after the band delayed the release of their long-awaited new album ‘Critical Thinking’. Instead of arriving tomorrow (January 31), posters are now showing that it will be shared on February 14.
Back in October, the Manics opened up about their inspiration for the writing process and said that they approached the LP “with a bit more urgency than usual”.
“We started with a bit more urgency than usual. Without knowing it, we had five or six demos already… maybe it was that subconscious threat of time running out after COVID,” James Dean Bradfield told MOJO.
“There was no MO. Sometimes we played live together in a definite band environment, other times it was more isolated, where I just laid a guitar down to a click [track], or Nick [Wire] put a vocal down with a click, or I’d do a really rough acoustic version, and we’d build from those. So it was about two years of intense, scatterbrained work.”
They had been teasing new material for a while by then, and the comeback track ‘Decline & Fall’, arrived on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the 1994 album ‘The Holy Bible’. It marked their first new music since 2021’s chart-topping 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.
