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 ought to be prepared in a number of weeks.”
Lyman‘s feedback comply with 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 will probably 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 rejoice its anniversary with a collection 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 Reside Nation, though Pageant founder Kevin Lyman is claimed to be closely concerned. A request for remark from Reside Nation was not returned.”
Warped Tour initially ran as a full-on touring competition between 1995 and 2018, with some 25th anniversary one-off exhibits occurring in 2019. Lyman teased a attainable return of the competition beneath a special identify for 2021, however in fact the pandemic acquired in the best way. There was additionally speak of Attila‘s Chris Fronzak shopping for the competition, 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 acquired 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 acquired concerned on this for, and what introduced me into punk rock that I mentioned ‘, if it is modified this a lot, possibly 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 all the way down to a younger stage—’Warped acquired often known as a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I needed to younger folks to get uncovered to this music, to possibly help unbiased music for an extended time.”
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