RAYE, The Prodigy, London Grammar, Nelly Furtado lead Boardmasters 2025 line-up

Boardmasters have revealed the line-up for their 2025 edition – and it’s led by RAYE, The Prodigy, London Grammar, and Nelly Furtado. See the full line-up below.

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The Newquay festival, set to return on August 6-10, 2025, revealed the first wave of acts set to perform, with “hundreds more” to be revealed in due time.

Alongside the headliners are Maribou State, Wet Leg, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Rizzle Kicks, and Natasha Bedingfield, among others. The latter three acts are billed as “afternoon special guests”. NME Radar artist Luvcat will also perform.

Presale tickets will be released on Thursday (November 28) at 10am UK time, with general tickets released on Friday same time. Click here to secure a spot for the presale.

The news comes after a controversial 2024 edition, where a “massive” crowd surge at this year’s version of the festival had “left a small number of attendees injured”, with a DJ set cancelled as a result. The festival later confirmed that seven festivalgoers had to be taken to hospital and the council launched a formal investigation into what happened.

It was described by police at the time as an “isolated incident”, and it was confirmed that “none of the injuries [were] considered serious”.

The incident occurred after Boardmasters got permission to increase its capacity by thousands this year, bringing the attendance to an estimated 58,000 people. Devon & Cornwall Police also reported that 11 people had been arrested at the festival, with charges relating to drug offences, sexual offences and assault.

Earlier this month, Boardmasters confirmed that next year’s event will have security personnel in “crowd and behaviour management positions” increased by 20 per cent.