Kneecap, Million Dead, Taking Back Sunday, Alexisonfire for stacked 2000Trees 2025 line-up

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Kneecap, Million Dead, Taking Back Sunday, Alexisonfire and many more all being confirmed.The four-day event is set to return to Upcote Farm, near Cheltenham, next year, and run between Wednesday July 9 and Saturday July 12.Now, for the first time in the festival’s history, all of the main stage headliners have been announced at the same time, and five huge acts will be taking to the stage for next year’s instalment.On the Friday, headliners will be both the hit Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, and the Massachusetts band PVRIS.

For Kneecap, the slot will follow on from a huge run of live shows earlier this year, and the release of their critically-acclaimed biopic. “We’re buzzing to be coming back to 2025 trees as a headliner.

It was one of our favourite festival gigs last time and this one will be even bigger,” the band said in a new statement.For PVRIS, the gig marks their debut at 2000Trees, and is set to see them break out tracks from latest album ‘Evergreen’, as well as fan favourites from their earlier discography.The Friday instalment will also be co-headlined, as both NYC rock legends Taking Back Sunday and fellow New York prog band Coheed And Cambria will be taking to the festival stage for the first time, and set to deliver career-spanning sets.“We’ve been hearing about 2000trees for quite some time and we were happy to get a call to come join in 2025,” the former said. “Looking forward to seeing who else will be there and excited for a new experience.”Finally, Alexisonfire is the final headliner confirmed – also making their 2000Trees festival debut on Saturday July 12. “Alexis is very excited to be playing 2000trees next year.