Truck Festival 2025 will get below manner in Oxfordshire

This yr’s Truck Festival is below manner, with revellers arriving on Thursday for the four-day music occasion.

Bloc Party introduced the primary evening to an in depth with a efficiency of their debut album Silent Alarm in full, together with different hits.

The competition takes place at Hill Farm in Steventon, Oxfordshire. With 25,000 folks attending, it’s the county’s largest music competition.

Other headliners over the weekend are Kasabian, The Courteeners, and Nothing But Thieves, with Blossoms, Franz Ferdinand and The Last Dinner Party additionally enjoying the sold-out occasion.

The invoice additionally contains Wunderhorse, Reytons, Hard Life, CMAT, Fat Dog, The Big Moon, Sports Team, Maximo Park, Corella, Alfie Templeman, Lambrini Girls, Lime Garden, Only The Poets, Luvcat and Chloe Slater.

Unwritten singer Natasha Bedingfield may even play a particular visitor set.

Speaking on the opening day, competition co-ordinator Jasmine Dunston mentioned: “It’s going really well.

“We obtained the gates open one of many earliest we have ever completed this yr, which is insane. It’s simply advantage to all the crew who’ve pulled collectively.”

The festival also supports its charitable organisation, the Truck Trust, which was set up in 2014 to “profit our local people”.

It has so far raised £880,000 for local good causes.

“Hopefully this yr we’re going to have the ability to hit the large a million mark and that is our objective,” added Ms Dunston.

The event will also see the now traditional annual appearances of The Oxford Symphony Orchestra, Mr Motivator, and Barrioke, which features former EastEnders actor Shaun Williamson singing karaoke classics.

The Women’s Euros 2025 final between England and Spain will also be shown at the festival site on Sunday.

Truck Festival was conceived by brothers Robin and Joe Bennett and first took place in 1998, when an actual truck was used for the stage.