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 now have one thing cooking for 2025. Particulars needs to be prepared in just a few 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 might be overseen by Lyman and apparently Stay Nation, who haven’t supplied a remark but.
“Based on 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 pageant will now be overseen by Stay Nation, though Pageant founder Kevin Lyman is alleged to be closely concerned. A request for remark from Stay Nation was not returned.”
Warped Tour initially ran as a full-on touring pageant between 1995 and 2018, with some 25th anniversary one-off exhibits taking place in 2019. Lyman teased a attainable return of the pageant below a unique identify for 2021, however in fact the pandemic acquired in the best way. There was additionally discuss of Attila‘s Chris Fronzak shopping for the pageant, although that by no means appears to have come to fruition.
As Lynman mentioned to Kerrang! in a 2019 interview concerning the shutdown of the pageant:
“It acquired very irritating round 2017. I used to be challenged by the fractured fan base, the fractured band base, the sense of group and what I acquired concerned on this for, and what introduced me into punk rock that I mentioned ‘you already know, if it is modified this a lot, perhaps it is time for me to wind this factor down.’
“2017, irrespective of who I put up, it was like ‘F that band, F that band, the place’s this band?’ It was similar to, what occurred to the acceptance of music and that love of music? And I spotted that we had pushed the viewers right down to a younger degree—’Warped acquired referred to as a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I needed to younger individuals to get uncovered to this music, to perhaps assist impartial music for an extended time.”
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