Warped Tour founder Keven Lyman has confirmed the rumors that Warped Tour will return in 2025. Whereas no specifics had been unveiled, Lyman commented in an interview with Pollstar: “We now have one thing cooking for 2025. Particulars ought to be prepared in a couple 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 shall be overseen by Lyman and apparently Reside Nation, who haven’t supplied a remark but.
“In response to a number of sources conversant in the matter, Warped Tour will rejoice its anniversary with a sequence of festivals subsequent 12 months when Warped Tour returns in 2025,” stated Rock Feed‘s Brian Storm on the time. “The rock competition will now be overseen by Reside Nation, though Competition founder Kevin Lyman is alleged 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 reveals occurring in 2019. Lyman teased a attainable return of the competition beneath a distinct identify for 2021, however in fact the pandemic bought in the way in which. There was additionally discuss of Attila‘s Chris Fronzak shopping for the competition, although that by no means appears to have come to fruition.
As Lynman stated to Kerrang! in a 2019 interview concerning the shutdown of the competition:
“It bought 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 bought concerned on this for, and what introduced me into punk rock that I stated ‘you recognize, if it is modified this a lot, possibly 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 all the way down to a younger stage—’Warped bought often called a younger [tour.] However I did that as a result of I needed to younger folks to get uncovered to this music, to possibly assist unbiased music for an extended time.”
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