Lollapalooza‘s 2025 lineup is out, with Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler, the Creator, Sabrina Carpenter, Rüfüs Du Sol, Luke Combs, A$AP Rocky, Korn, Gracie Abrams and Doechii topping the bill for the flagship US edition.

Also confirmed are the likes of Dom Dolla, Martin Garrix, Cage the Elephant, Clairo, The Marias, Djo, Dominic Fike, Bleachers, Wallows, T-Pain, Foster the People, Finneas, Royel Otis, Barry Can’t Swim, JPEGMAFIA, Sammy Virji and Chase & Status. Grant Park, Chicago, will host the legendary festival from 31 July to 3 August.

In addition, Switzerland’s Paléo Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 48th edition, based around the theme of “mighty stars, flamboyant riffs and pounding beats”.

Set for 22-27 July, the eclectic bill includes Queens of the Stone Age, Sex Pistols ft. Frank Carter, Macklemore, Will Smith, David Guetta, Justice, Ninho & Niska, SDM, Clara Luciani and Zaho de Sagazan.

Other acts will include Lost Frequencies, Texas, Skunk Anansie, the Lambrini Girls, Simple Minds, Hamza, Rilès, Bamby, Moonchild Sanelly. Julien Doré, Philippe Katerine, Nemo, Charlie Tee, Anetha, Rosa Pistola, Ben Mazué, Jean-Louis Aubert, Pierre Garnier and Santa.

The Netherlands’ Best Kept Secret (13-15 June) has bolstered its programme with 30 new acts. The latest announcement includes Antal, Baby Berserk, Christian Lee Hutson, Cliffords, Daniela Pes, Danilo Plessow (MCDE), Daufødt, Frost Children, Glass Beams, Horsegirl, Iris Jean, Jacob Alon, Kae Tempest, L.A. Sagne, Lael Neale, Long Fling, Lucy Dacus, Maria Iskariot, Merce Lemon, Remy van Kesteren, Rocket, Snapped Ankles, Soulwax, SPELLLING, The Streets, The Vices, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, Ugly, YĪN YĪN and Youth Lagoon.

Elsewhere, Charli XCX has revealed additional names for her LIDO Festival party girl show in Victoria Park, London, on 14 June. The five-time BRIT Award winner will curate headline the event, backed by hand-selected artists Gesaffelstein, Jodie Harsh, Magdalena May and Yseult. They will join previously announced special guests 070 Shake, A.G Cook, Kelly Lee Owens, The Dare and The Japanese House.

The other LIDO 2025 headliners are Massive Attack (6 June), Jamie xx (7 June) and London Grammar (15 June), as well as Outbreak Fest (13 June).

Scheduled for 8-10 August, Finland’s Flow Festival‘s second wave of acts includes FKA twigs, Little Simz, Air, Underworld, Yung Lean & Bladee, Lola Young, Amaarae, Sam Quealy and Snow Strippers. The Helsinki festival has also added domestic artists Turisti, Ege Zulu, Ruusut, Mirella, Litku Klemetti, Lyttä & Tohtori Getto, Uusi Fantasia, Jore & Zpoppa, Olga, Senya and Aaro630.

Germany’s Nature One (31 July-3 August), which is celebrating 30 years, will bring 350 DJs to Pydna Missile Base in Kastellaun including Charlotte de Witte, Chris Liebing, Eric Prydz, Felix Jaehn, I Hate Models, Paul Van Dyk and Sven Väth.

We are extremely grateful to those who have continuously supported the festival since its inception

Sam Fender, Raye, Fatboy Slim and Becky Hill will headline the 2025 Formula 1 British Grand Prix music lineup, taking place at Silverstone from 3-6 July.

Boomtown Chapter 4: Power of Now (6-10 August) at Hampshire’s Matterley Estate has unveiled its NEXUS stage bill, headed by Bashy, Casisdead, Blanco, MJ Cole Presents: Sincere, Lady Leshurr, Moonchild Sanelly, Rubii, Deyu Does MF Doom, Eva Lazarus, Window Kid and DRS Live.

Meanwhile, POD and Aiken Promotions’ All Together Now, headlined by Fontaines D.C., Nelly Furtado, Bicep Present Chroma AV DJ set and London Grammar has sold out for 2025. The event will be held at Curraghmore Estate, Co Waterford, Ireland, from 31 July to 3 August.

“We are extremely grateful to those who have continuously supported the festival since its inception – our wonderful audience, the thousands of artists, performers, poets and punks who have shared our stages, and all our partners who contribute to the festival’s magic and spirit,” say the ATN team. “We can’t wait to welcome everyone to our sixth chapter, with so much still to be announced, including special guests, new areas and other surprises.”

Curated by the teams behind ATN and Forbidden Fruit, one-day festival In The Meadows is also returning for a second year at the The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, on 7 June, topped by Iggy Pop. The lineup also comprises Slowdive, Billy Nomates, Dr John Cooper Clarke, The Scratch, Gilla Band, Sprints, Warmduscher, Lambrini Girls, Trupa Trupa, Muireann Bradley, Meryl Streek and Really Good Time.

In the US, J. Cole and Dreamville have announced the lineup for Dreamville Festival, which returns to Raleigh, North Carolina on 5-6 April for its fifth and final iteration. Billed as the world’s largest artist-led music festival, it will welcome Lil Wayne with Hot Boys and Big Tymers, as well as 21 Savage to each perform as Saturday headliners, while J. Cole and Erykah Badu will each close out their respective stages on the Sunday night.

It will also feature performances from PartyNextDoor, Chief Keef, Young Nudy, Ab-Soul, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Tems, GloRilla, Coco Jones, Wale and BigXthaPlug, among others.

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Organisers of Switzerland’s Paléo have warned of a “strong increase” in ticket scams for this year’s festival.

All 200,000 passes for the 2024 event, which takes place in Nyon from 23-28 July, sold out in just 21 minutes last month, and fans are being urged to only buy resale tickets through the festival’s official ticket exchange.

Paléo Festival is a partner of Swiss consumer protection watchdog FRC (Romande Consumer Rights Federation), which works against ticket touting.

“We are currently observing a strong increase in the number of scams involving online ticket purchases on secondary markets,” says a message to posted to fans online. “We recommend that you only buy your tickets on the official platforms. The festival is currently sold out. The only official resale platform is the ticket market.”

“Any purchase made outside these outlets is not considered authorised and secure, and the festival will unfortunately not be able to intervene in the event of a problem”

In addition to the Paléo ticket exchange, 1,500 daily tickets will be made available from 9am on each day of this year’s festival.

“Any purchase made outside these outlets is not considered authorised and secure, and the festival will unfortunately not be able to intervene in the event of a problem,” adds the post.

Launched in 1976, the event accommodates more than 35,000 fans daily. Artists at Paléo’s 2024 edition will include Sam Smith, Burna Boy, Booba, Mika, Sean Paul, Major Lazer Soundsystem, Gazo & Tiakola, PLK, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Patti Smith, The Blaze, Paul Kalkbrenner, Aurora and Royal Blood.

“We knew from our December pre-sale that demand was very strong,” booker Dany Hassenstein told IQ earlier this year. “All our digital data were showing this same evolution too. I really believe that, together with the very rich lineup, it is our standards and values that makes this success. We have this tremendous level of confidence and loyalty from our guests, and we are doing everything to never put that trust at risk.”

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Paléo booker Dany Hassenstein has hailed the Swiss festival’s longstanding bond with its audience after all 200,000 tickets for the 2024 event sold out in just 21 minutes.

The festival will run in Nyon from 23-28 July, featuring acts such as Sam Smith, Burna Boy, Booba, Mika, Sean Paul, Major Lazer Soundsystem, Gazo & Tiakola, PLK, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Patti Smith, The Blaze, Paul Kalkbrenner, Aurora and Royal Blood.

Launched in 1976, the event accommodates more than 35,000 fans daily. Tickets for the Sunday finale, which started at CHF80 (€82), sold out in a record seven minutes.

“We knew from our December pre-sale that demand was very strong,” Hassenstein tells IQ. “All our digital data were showing this same evolution too. I really believe that, together with the very rich lineup, it is our standards and values that makes this success. We have this tremendous level of confidence and loyalty from our guests, and we are doing everything to never put that trust at risk.”

Last year’s event took almost double the time – 41 minutes – to sell out for a bill starring the likes of Black Eyed Peas, Martin Garrix and Placebo.

For 2024, Paléo is expanding its musical horizons with a mix of pop, rock, rap, dancehall, Afrobeats, reggae, electro, opera and funk, welcoming 130 artists in all, as the countdown begins to its landmark 50th festival in three years’ time.

“We have several new features on track, mainly guest comfort improvements but we will also open our stages to other type of performances, such as humour with an in-house show, a performance by French troupe Murmuration and even opera, hosting tenor singer Roberto Alagna,” says Hassenstein.

“It is a fact that hard tickets are on the rise and acts are focusing on headline tours, not festivals”

Organisers introduced of a raft of well-received changes two years ago, including new stages, blockchain ticketing and a cashless payment system, in what was billed as the festival’s biggest makeover in more than 30 years.

“We had huge changes of the general festival set up in 2022 and we will prepare the next big step for our 50th edition in 2027,” notes Hassenstein.

The festival’s traditional ticket exchange, which is designed to combat the black market, will go live on 27 March, while 1,500 daily tickets will be made available from 9am on each morning of this year’s event.

While the debate continues to rage about the availability (or lack thereof) of headliners across the sector, Hassenstein considers the names of those at the top of the bill to still be “undeniably very important”.

“It’s the essence of a music festival,” he says. “Our challenge was mainly our dates being outside of most of the international touring periods. But it is a fact that hard tickets are on the rise and acts are focusing on headline tours, not festivals.”

Looking to the future, Hassenstein indicates that Paléo will always prioritise quality over potential capacity increases.

“Growth in quality will always be our goal, with sustainability and social awareness being part of this growth,” he concludes. “Growth in capacity is not necessarily a healthy ambition and not really a target for us.”

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Paléo Festival booker Dany Hassenstein has spoken to IQ about the revamped event‘s “epic” return, which marked a major turning point in its history.

Held from 19-24 July, the 30,000-cap event in Nyon, Switzerland hosted acts such as Kiss, Sting, DJ Snake, Stromae and Rag’n’Bone Man. Tickets for its first edition since 2019 sold out in record time last December.

“It was an epic return after the break of more than 1,000 days,” Hassenstein tells IQ. “We were sold out way in advance and the festival was a success in every aspect – satisfied visitors, artists and volunteers.”

“We have been overwhelmed by the success of our two new stages”

In what was billed as the festival’s biggest makeover in more than 30 years, organisers introduced of a raft of well-received changes for 2022 including new stages, blockchain ticketing and a cashless payment system. The former Arches and Detour stages were replaced by two new spaces: the Vega stage and the electronic music-focused Belleville venue.

“All improvements made full sense, not a single show was cancelled because of Covid and it looks like our guests were very hungry and thirsty,” smiles Hassenstein.

“We will be able to copy paste all new features to the future. In particular, we have been overwhelmed by the success of our two new stages: Véga and Belleville. We have had fantastic feedback from artists on the infrastructure and the general vibe of the 20,000-capacity Véga Stage.”

“Switzerland is having a fantastic summer”

According to Hassenstein, the only real setback of note involved the pandemic-related dropouts of a number of staff members. “The summer wave was at its peak in Switzerland when we opened the gates,” he says.

Hassenstein says Paléo’s successful comeback reflects the fortunes of the resurgent Swiss industry as a whole since returning from the Covid shutdown.

“I believe Switzerland is having a fantastic summer,” he adds. “All festivals I know are doing better than they expected at the beginning of the season.

“I know this mess-up is not over yet – indoor promoters are still facing existential challenges over the next month, but at least we can see now at festivals that the fans are ready to move forward.”

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Switzerland’s Paléo Festival is undergoing its biggest makeover in more than three decades ahead of its 2022 comeback, booker Dany Hassenstein tells IQ.

The 30,000-cap Nyon event, which sold out in record time, returns from 19-24 July for its first edition since 2019. Kiss, Sting, DJ Snake, Stromae and Rag’n’Bone Man are among acts on the bill.

Organisers consider this year to be a major turning point in Paléo’s history due to the introduction of a raft of features including new stages, blockchain ticketing and a cashless payment system. Due in part to the installation of the NStCM railway depot, it will also see the most significant alteration to the long-running festival’s layout since it moved from the lakefront to Plaine de l’Asse more than 30 years ago.

“The major boost to undertake all these changes came from our audience last December when we sold all the tickets for the 2022 event within a record-breaking time”

“With all the changes we have on track, it will be the biggest reshaping of the festival since 1990,” says Hassenstein, speaking to IQ. “Some were planned already for 2020 and some have been invented and planned during the pandemic-related break. Not only it will improve the festival experience for our customers, the process of innovating and developing new project was also vital for the team to get through this terrible period.

“But the major boost to undertake all these changes came from our audience last December when we sold all the tickets for the 2022 event within a record-breaking time. It not only massively reduced some financial uncertainties; this incredible loyalty of our audience also gave us the last kick to prepare a return at the hight of their expectation.”

In addition, the former Arches and Detour stages will be replaced by two new spaces: the Vega stage and the electronic music-focused Belleville venue.

Tickets will be delivered via the Paléo Tickets blockchain-based mobile app, while the festival is also implementing a system of washable and returnable dishes in a bid to reduce the volume of waste and single-use. All plates, bowls, cups and jugs will be returnable as part of the event’s sustainability efforts.

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