Damiano David and Sparks are among the many new names added to the Bilbao BBK 2025 line-up. Try all the brand new additions under.
- READ MORE: Bilbao BBK Reside 2023: Arctic Monkeys and Pavement deliver magic to the Basque mountains
In December, the Spanish competition introduced the primary wave of acts, together with Pulp, Kylie Minogue and RAYE.
The preliminary announcement additionally revealed that there will probably be performances from Michael Kiwanuka, Nathy Peluso, Dangerous Gyal, Alice Phoebe Lou, Amyl And The Sniffers, Jalen Ngonda, Jessica Pratt, English Trainer, L’impératrice, Makaya McCraven, Obongjayar, Sofie Royer, Wunderhorse and extra.
Now, they’ve unveiled your entire line-up, which incorporates the Måneskin frontman, Sparks, Kaytranada, Japanese Breakfast, Hinds and extra. You could find a full checklist under.
The 2025 version is about to kick off between July 10 to 12 in Kobetamendi, Bilbao. Tickets are actually on sale, and you will discover them right here.
The 2025 version can even embrace a model new membership idea, Gorria, which the competition says will provide “an ever-shifting dancefloor anarchy, the place every evening reinvents itself below the imaginative and prescient of a distinct collective. An area the place rhythm accelerates, identification blurs, and the evening turns into an open canvas for motion and expression.”
Final yr’s version of the Spanish competition noticed performances from Arcade Hearth, Huge Assault, The Prodigy, Jungle, Overmono and Ezra Collective, amongst others.
Reviewing 2023’s Bilbao BBK Reside – the place the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Pavement carried out – NME wrote that the occasion “continues to face on the forefront of the European competition circuit”.
David’s addition to the line-up follows the current announcement of his debut solo album ‘Humorous Little Fears’, which will probably be launched on Might 16 through Sony Music Italy / Arista. It should function his debut solo single ‘Born With A Damaged Coronary heart‘, the Labrinth-produced ‘Silverlines‘ and his newest launch ‘Subsequent Summer time‘.
Beforehand chatting with NME in regards to the album, David shared: “It’s going to be very extreme, very dramatic, very theatrical, I might say. It’s positively extra private. It’s in regards to the drama of being alive; particularly below the circumstances.”
In the meantime, Sparks just lately introduced their twenty eighth studio album ‘MAD!’, due for launch on Might 23 through Transgressive Data (pre-order/pre-save right here). To this point, they’ve shared the singles ‘JanSport Backpack’ and ‘Do Issues My Personal Method’.
‘MAD!’ is Sparks’ first album since 2023’s ‘The Woman Is Crying In Her Latte’, which NME awarded 4 stars, noting: “Should you’re in search of a paramount instance of Sparks’ potential to merge timeless pop, acerbic writing, and ingenious orchestration into certifiable earworms, look no additional than ‘Mona Lisa’s Packing Leaving Late Tonight’. In it, the brothers form sounds round a literary story that might stand alone, throwing voices forwards and backwards like an extra instrument, permitting the track to maneuver unabashedly in peculiar instructions.”
