The Warped Tour will be coming back for 2025 after six years away. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the festival will be returning for two-day events in three different US cities.
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Known as the Vans Warped Tour since 1996 for sponsorship reasons, the festival made its final journey across the US in 2018, before coming to two cities a year later for its 25th anniversary.
It was confirmed last month that the festival was planning some sort of return for next year, but very few details had been released until now, with the festival sharing the announcement on its official Instagram account.
Meanwhile, founder Kevin Lyman told Rolling Stone, “Since 1997, I said I was hoping that there was some kid in a garage that was going to come out and kick Kevin Lyman’s ass someday, and put on a better festival.”
Because there’s not been anything to replace the Warped Tour in the meantime, Lyman’s bringing it back: “People start remembering once something’s gone that it was important, it was fun — and I’m hoping to recapture a lot of that again.”
Two-day tickets will begin at $149.98, including fees, while the presale begins next Thursday (October 24) at 12pm ET/9am PT. You can find out more here.
Next year, the festival, which focuses primarily on genres including punk, pop-punk and alternative rock, will begin at the RFK Campus in Washington DC on June 14 and 15, before coming to the Shoreline Waterfront in Long Beach, California, on July 26 and 27 and then finally Camping World Stadium Campus in Orlando, Florida on November 15 and 16.
Of the decision to keep it small to begin with, Lyman explaining that his “body won’t take riding around on a tour bus for 40 cities,” but that he’d be open to adding more dates going forward if 2025 goes well.
As for next year’s lineup, that’s yet to be revealed. But Lyman has said that they’re “very, very selective in trying to find some unique twists to the lineup,” and there will be 70 to 100 bands on the bill in each city next year.
Less Than Jake, Simple Plan and Reel Big Fish have all played the festival over 10 times, while some of the biggest names to have performed in the past include Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Paramore and Fall Out Boy.
