RADAR Festival 2025 completes lineup with Annisokay, The Scratch, Alyx Holcombe
The award-winning, genre-busting RADAR Festival has completed its 2025 lineup, with the addition of Annisokay, The Scratch, and Alyx Holcombe.
Co-founder and co-organiser of RADAR, Joe James, comments: "Well, that’s it for the music booking for 2025 (we’ve been booking 2026 for a while in honesty!) and we’re in the final straight heading towards the festival in July. German post-hardcore band ANNISOKAY are in to replace Oni (who can no longer make it) and the last missing band from the lineup is THE SCRATCH, who mix traditional Irish music with the groove and intensity of metal. They’re going to get the tired bodies moving on the last day!
"We’re also delighted to welcome our friend of the festival and RADIO 1 DJ, Alyx Holcombe, who’ll be looking after you for the Saturday night afterparty.
"Next up we’re going to be announcing the lineup for the other side of the festival, The Music & Gaming Market. We’ve exceeded anything we’ve had in there before, so we’re very excited to start announcing the content."
Full list of bands announced:
Carpenter Brut (2025 UK Exclusive)
UNDERØATH (2025 UK Festival Exclusive)
Bob Vylan
Zeal & Ardor
As December Falls
Normandie
Yonaka
Vukovi
Intervals
As Everything Unfolds
Novelists
Allt
Annisokay
Lake Malice
David Maxim Micic
The Scratch
Dream State
GHØSTKID
Pintglass
Shelf Lives
Future Palace
Floya
Tropic Gold
Avralize
Artio
Cyan Kicks
Tiberius
Arch Echo
Lastelle
Ġenn
Air Drawn Dagger
Continents
Hero In Error
Waterlines
Mother Vulture
Deity’s Muse
Afterparties:
The Algorithm (DJ set)
Alyx Holcombe (DJ set)
The 900 (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Band)
Get your RADAR Festival tickets here: www.radarfestival.co.uk/tickets
Alongside the acts announced, RADAR's commitment to a musical and gaming paradise continues: their music & gaming market will return. Expected to be wowed by a retro arcade, the best new instruments and music tech, and many more besides.
Also demonstrating their commitment to new bands, RADAR will continue to donate a portion of ticket sales proceeds to Music Venue Trust and Save Our Scene's Liveline Fund, in order to support grassroots music venues.
RADAR - the UK's most exciting new progressive music festival - moved to Manchester for its 2023 edition, the third iteration of the festival.
RADAR pride themselves on providing a first home for the best international artists - previous years have seen Dirty Loops' (2022) and The Callous Daoboys' (2023) first UK shows.
Joining the list were RADAR 2024's Friday headliners - synth royalty The Midnight, making their UK festival debut. Accompanying them were Saturday headliners TesseracT, as the UK prog metal titans delivered a special War Of Being album set. Finally, closing the festival on Sunday, modern progressive titans Leprous performed a world-first live, by request fan set.
RADAR 2023 saw Friday headliners Sleep Token joining Periphery (Sunday) and Igorrr (Saturday) among a host of the best from the UK and global progressive underground.
RADAR capped their intensely impressive 2022 by winning the Best New Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards on 6th December in Manchester, and were shortlisted for Best Small Festival and Best Metropolitan Festival at 2023 and 2024's UK Festival Awards.
With their mixture of international talent and confirmed homegrown success, RADAR Festival has already positioned themselves as a champion of forward-thinking, guitar-led progressive music. No genre boundaries, welcome to all, RADAR Festival was launched in 2019 to acclaim, with performances from Animals As Leaders, Agent Fresco, Rolo Tomassi, among others. Following the COVID hiatus, RADAR Festival 2022 expanded to three days with triumphant appearances from Leprous, Haken, Dirty Loops, Plini, Conjurer, Soen and more.
RADAR Festival is all about pushing boundaries - this year introducing fresh genres to the line-up and stages - and this is just the beginning.
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