Damiano David, Sparks and extra introduced as full line-up revealed
Damiano David and Sparks are among the many new names added to the Bilbao BBK 2025 line-up. Take a look at all the brand new additions beneath.
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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 can be performances from Michael Kiwanuka, Nathy Peluso, Dangerous Gyal, Alice Phoebe Lou, Amyl And The Sniffers, Jalen Ngonda, Jessica Pratt, English Instructor, L’impératrice, Makaya McCraven, Obongjayar, Sofie Royer, Wunderhorse and extra.
Now, they’ve unveiled all the line-up, which incorporates the Måneskin frontman, Sparks, Kaytranada, Japanese Breakfast, Hinds and extra. You’ll find a full checklist beneath.
The 2025 version is ready to kick off between July 10 to 12 in Kobetamendi, Bilbao. Tickets are actually on sale, and yow will discover them here.
The 2025 version may also embrace a model new membership idea, Gorria, which the competition says will provide “an ever-shifting dancefloor anarchy, the place every night time reinvents itself underneath the imaginative and prescient of a unique collective. An area the place rhythm accelerates, id blurs, and the night time turns into an open canvas for motion and expression.”
Final yr’s version of the Spanish competition noticed performances from Arcade Hearth, Large Assault, The Prodigy, Jungle, Overmono and Ezra Collective, amongst others.
Reviewing 2023’s Bilbao BBK Stay – 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 can be launched on Could 16 by way of Sony Music Italy / Arista. It is going to characteristic his debut solo single ‘Born With A Damaged Coronary heart‘, the Labrinth-produced ‘Silverlines‘ and his newest launch ‘Subsequent Summer time‘.
Beforehand talking to NME concerning the album, David shared: “It’s going to be very extreme, very dramatic, very theatrical, I might say. It’s undoubtedly extra private. It’s concerning the drama of being alive; particularly underneath the circumstances.”
In the meantime, Sparks not too long ago introduced their twenty eighth studio album ‘MAD!’, due for launch on Could 23 by way of Transgressive Data (pre-order/pre-save here). To this point, they’ve shared the singles ‘JanSport Backpack’ and ‘Do Issues My Personal Approach’.
‘MAD!’ is Sparks’ first album since 2023’s ‘The Woman Is Crying In Her Latte’, which NME awarded 4 stars, noting: “For those who’re in search of a paramount instance of Sparks’ means 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 would stand alone, throwing voices forwards and backwards like an extra instrument, permitting the track to maneuver unabashedly in peculiar instructions.”