After starting the summer with a triumphant weekend featuring the likes of You Me At Six and Funeral for a Friend back in May. Slam Dunk rounded out the festival season in style today, announcing the first batch of bands for their 2025 line up. Including A Day To Remember, Electric Callboy, Neck Deep, New Found Glory and many, many more!
The UK’s biggest independent rock festival, since Slam Dunk began back in 2006 it has delivered fans the finest rock, alt, pop-punk, metal and emo for nearly two decades and next years line up looks set to raise the bar yet again. Returning to Hatfield Park on Saturday May 24th before heading North to Temple Newsam in Leeds on Sunday May 25th.
For the first time ever, the festival will be welcoming one of their most requested bands, A Day To Remember. Who will be hopping across the pond after their forthcoming North American tour to play Slam Dunk for the first time ever. “We’re really excited to get back to the UK, and to play Slam Dunk for the first time” – A Day To Remember. Having spent the last few years rewriting the music scene. German EDM wizards Electric Callboy are set to pull out all the stops for next years festival too. As are pop punk heroes Neck Deep, returning to the UK after last years epic sold out show at Alexandra Palace.
Throw in The Used, Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake, Hot Mulligan and an exlcusive UK reunion from As It Is, who will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of “Never Happy, Ever After” and Slam Dunk is already shaping up to be one of 2025’s hottest tickets. With another 40+ acts still to be announced too, it’s going to be nothing short of unmissable!
Tickets for Slam Dunk 2025 go on sale at 10am on Friday 6th of September. To stay up to date on all forthcoming news you can check out the Slam Dunks official website, or follow the festival on social media to make sure you keep up with any future announcements. If you’d like a taste of what you can expect next year, you can check out our review of Slam Dunk ’24 here too!
