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Kings of Leon announced as latest Lytham Festival headliner for 2025

The lineup still isn't complete either. Blimey.

Danny Jones Danny Jones - 2nd December 2024

Lytham Festival 2025 just keeps getting better as Kings of Leon are the latest headliners to be announced for the much-loved live music celebration.

The Lancashire music festival has notched some seriously big names in recent years including The Strokes, Sting, Mötley Crüe, Elbow, Blondie, Courteeners and even Diana Ross just to name a very ‘small’ few, but the increasingly popular outdoor event is promising a truly bumper year this time around.

Having got back on the road with their new album Can We Please Have Fun earlier this year, American rock legends and longstanding British favourites Kings of Leon have just been revealed as the next headliner for Lytham 2025.

Confirming the news on Monday, 2 December, the massive outdoor event formerly known as the Lytham Proms has now filled out its top rung, with KoL set to make their debut next summer.

For anyone still unaware, Lytham St Annes’ self-titled music festival is spread across five days and takes place on a long strip of grass set between the town’s coastal road and the River Ribble estuary beside it.

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The very first version of the festival was held back in 1982 and since then the North West long weekender, which kicks off on Wednesday before coming to a close on Sunday night every year, has absolutely ballooned in size and prestige.

Set to welcome over 25,000 fans each day over the five nights this time around, 2025 is promising to be Lytham’s biggest year to date – hence why they’ve nailed down so many big acts.

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Already confirmed for next summer’s lineup are Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morrisette, Simple Minds and Texas. With just one day and artists left to be announced (Thursday), we’re not even done with the excitement just yet.

You can find the rest of the 2025 Lytham Fest lineup so far HERE.

With a whole host of different names playing each day and the calibre of artists seemingly growing each year, it won’t surprise you to learn that these events sell out fast.

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So, that being said: if you’re a Kings of Leon fan and looking to catch them at Lytham Festival 2025, you’ll have to be on that ticket portal sharpish.

General admission for Kings of Leon’s headline festival slot go live at 9am this Friday, 6 December but you can sign up for exclusive presale access online now.

All other individual and full five-day passes for TK Maxx presents Lytham Festival on 2- 6 July are already on sale. You can grab yours HERE.

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Olly Murs cancels Manchester gig after walking off stage six songs into huge arena show

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Olly Murs has addressed his abrupt exit from the stage ahead of his Manchester gig

Olly Murs has now officially cancelled his show in Manchester tonight, a day after walking off stage just six songs into a huge arena gig.

The Heart Skips a Beat star had been performing in Glasgow last night when he abruptly stopped the show, apologised to fans, and left the stage.

The gig was cancelled around 30 minutes into his show, which is part of a huge UK arena tour that was meant to be heading to Manchester tonight.

A tearful Olly said that he was seeing a doctor last night and would update fans of the rest of his shows ‘as soon as I know anything’.

It’s now been confirmed that his gig at the AO Arena will not be going ahead.

Olly Murs said in a statement: “30 minutes into my set in Glasgow I lost my voice & unfortunately had to leave the stage midway through the show. This has never happened before and not something I take lightly.

“I’m sorry to all the fans who came out to the show last night and am forever grateful for your support.

“To everyone in Manchester and Birmingham I’m deeply sorry, but am unfortunately going to have to cancel my shows this weekend. I have contracted a respiratory infection and have been instructed to go on a strict 48 hour voice rest by the doctor to ensure no further damage to my vocal cords.

“I have been enjoying this tour so much, and am so sorry to let down my fans – but have to put my health first. I’m hoping to be fighting fit in a few days to finish this amazing 15 year celebratory tour with a bang.”

In a video he shared to Instagram last night, Olly Murs said: “Firstly I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry I had to walk off after six songs and cancel the show. I’ve never done this in 15 years.

“Most of the time as singers you can kind of get through it if your voice isn’t 100% – I walked out tonight thinking my voice was great, I maybe felt a little bit run down but I didn’t think I couldn’t do the show. I wouldn’t have come out there otherwise.

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“So to walk off after six songs, as I said, I’m so sorry. As you can probably hear from my voice, I just sounded rubbish and it’s unfair for you guys that spent all that money to come and see me. You deserve the best show and me being at my best, and I’m so sorry from the bottom of my heart.

“Hopefully I can recover from this.

“I’m actually going to see a doctor tonight which is great, so I’ll give you guys an update as soon as I know anything. Obviously I wanna try my absolute best to make these shows possible at the weekend.

“So yeah, so sorry for everyone tonight, apologies from the bottom of my heart. Gutted.”

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Major star pulls out of Parklife festival due to ‘scheduling conflict’

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Lola Young has pulled out of Parklife 2025

One of the biggest attractions of this year’s Parklife festival line-up has pulled out just weeks before the event.

Rising star and TikTok sensation Lola Young will no longer be performing at the huge Manchester festival.

She’s the voice behind ‘Messy’, that song you can’t get out of your head (or off your For You Page), and has already earned herself two BRIT Award nominations.

Lola Young was one of the biggest names announced on this year’s Parklife line-up, which has headline slots from Charli XCX, 50 Cent, Jorja Smith and Peggy Gou.

She was set to perform on the Saturday of the festival, taking place on 14 and 15 June.

But Parklife has now confirmed that Lola Young has dropped out of the lineup owing to a ‘scheduling conflict’.

In a post on Instagram they wrote: “Due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict Lola Young will not be performing at Parklife 2025.

“We would like to apologise for any disappointment.

“Full set times will be published at 5pm Tuesday 20th May on the PL25 App where we will also be announcing some surprise additions to the weekend in the run up to the festival.”

Parklife will be taking place next month in Manchester – you can keep up with the latest HERE and grab final tickets HERE.

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