Primavera Sound Barcelona 2025: Wolf Alice replace Clairo on line-up
Wolf Alice have been added to the line-up for this year’s Primavera Sound in Barcelona.
The London band have joined the bill for next month’s festival after Clairo was forced to cancel her appearance due to “logistical issues”. They’ll take to the stage on Friday June 6, with Sabrina Carpenter headlining that evening.
Other scheduled performances that day include Haim, Beach House, TV On The Radio, Wet Leg and Floating Points.
The Barcelona edition of Primavera Sound 2025 will also host a co-headline set from Charli XCX and Troye Sivan, and a bill-topping show from Chappell Roan. Elsewhere, there’ll be appearances from the likes of Fontaines D.C., LCD Soundsystem and Jamie xx.
Check out the announcement post below.
The addition of Wolf Alice follows the group returning with their huge new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’. Released yesterday (May 15), the track serves as the first preview of Ellie Rowsell and co’s fourth album ‘The Clearing’ – out August 29 via Sony Music (pre-order here).
Their upcoming performance at Primavera Sound will come after their three last-minute gigs in Ireland next week and their appearance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2025. Next month, Wolf Alice will return to Worthy Farm for Glastonbury Festival.
These forthcoming dates will mark the band’s first full live shows together since late 2022. Their third album, the acclaimed ‘Blue Weekend’, was released the previous year. It went to Number One in the UK and was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.
In a glowing five-star review of ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, NME praised Wolf Alice for being “bolder and more brilliant than ever”. It added: “After three albums of building and expanding their world, and experiencing the ups and downs of the music industry, it feels like the band are ready to stake their claim as one of their generation’s most important acts. Now, Wolf Alice are undoubtedly in full bloom.”
Produced by Greg Kurstin (Foo Fighters, Adele, Beck), ‘The Clearing’ is Wolf Alice’s major label debut following their departure from Dirty Hit.
The project has been described as “both playful and serious, ironic and straight-talking”, and “a progressive shift from a band whose exploration of love, loss and human connection has already articulated the coming-of-age experience for a whole generation”.
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Tom Skinner
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