Second wave of acts announced for Icebreaker Festival 2025

Icebreaker Festival 2025

Icebreaker Festival is delighted to announce the second wave of confirmed acts to perform at next year’s event, taking place on Saturday 1st February 2025, in an exclusive announcement on Express FM this morning.

The festival's Director, Mike Hartley, joined Darren Gamblen and Jon Brown on Express Breakfast at 8:10 to reveal the first part of its line-up.

These 24 acts, including our headliners, alongside the first 53 acts announcement, will bring some of the most extraordinary talent from the UK to Portsmouth next year.

Local based acts include:

  • Beatroot
  • BOCA
  • Common Tongue
  • DevinJade
  • Funeral Witch Blues
  • Ian Jamieson
  • Mackenzie
  • Owen Vincent
  • Skaraman
  • Slick Minded Individuals
  • Slow Century
  • The Reem Machine
  • Wiservice

Austen Showers, Enjoyable Listens and Twin Skeletons are travelling from West Sussex while Aubrey Blakeledge comes from Southampton, The Mezz from Oxford and Casino Club are making the impressive journey from Wigan!

Icebreaker Festival 2024 headliners - Dutch Criminal Record - will start their 2025 European tour by closing out Icebreaker 11 at The Wedgewood Rooms stage with Southampton’s own alt-pop act BASH! rounding up Edge of the Wedge just before.

Fast Trains celebrates his debut album release by headlining The Vaults stage, last year’s secret act Offbeat Offensive will return with a high tempo, energetic set to end One Eyed Dog stage and travelling down from the capital with the sludgy riffs is GURT, promising to bring sore necks at The Deco.

If you missed the first wave of acts announced, you can see all the information here.

Advance tickets are priced at £20 each and now available from icebreakerfestival.com.

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