New Order, Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds, Rubbish lead Merciless World Pageant 2025 line-up
New Order, Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds and Rubbish are among the many names main the Merciless World Pageant 2025 line-up.
Subsequent yr’s version is ready to kick off on Could 17 at Brookside on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Additionally on the line-up are The Go-Gos, Devo, Insanity, Orchestral Manoeuvres within the Darkish, ‘Til Tuesday, Alison Moyet, Demise Cult, Mareux, She Desires Revenge, and Chelsea Wolfe.
Tickets for Merciless World Pageant will go on sale on Friday, October 25, at 11am PT, however followers can register now for early entry.
Since its debut in 2022, earlier editions of the rock, new wave and post-punk competition have included performances by Morrissey, Blondie, Iggy Pop and Billy Idol.
The 2025 competition would be the last cease of Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds’ North American Wild God Tour, celebrating their critically acclaimed 18th studio album of the identical title.
In the meantime, earlier this yr, Rubbish have been pressured to cancel their remaining exhibits for 2024 as a result of an harm sustained by frontwoman Shirley Manson.
Though particulars on the time have been sparse, the assertion shared on the time did say that the NME Icon Award-winner would “require surgical procedure and rehabilitation to right” her harm, and that the choice to cancel exhibits was not “taken calmly”.
Manson not too long ago took to social media and informed followers that she has undergone a profitable surgical process, and is on the highway to restoration.
In different New Order information, the band have marked World Psychological Well being Day by becoming a member of forces with CALM (Marketing campaign Towards Dwelling Miserably) for a brand new suicide prevention video. The video was shared throughout the band’s and the charity’s social media platforms earlier this month (October 10), and was created in a bid to boost consciousness for these combating suicidal ideas.
Final month the band introduced a deluxe field set reissue of their 1986 studio album ‘Brotherhood’.