Watch Billy Idol join Yungblud onstage at BludFest for ‘White Wedding’

22 June, 2025

Billy Idol and Yungblud

Billy Idol joined Yungblud onstage at BludFest for ‘White Wedding’ – check out the full setlist and watch footage below.

BludFest 2 took place in Milton Keynes last night (June 21), headlined and curated by Yungblud, and featuring the likes of Chase Atlantic, Denzel Curry and Blackbear alongside former NME Cover stars Rachel Chinouriri and Peach PRC on its line-up.

The Doncaster punk star’s own set comes shortly after the release of his fourth album, ‘Idols’, and he told the crowd he was “so fucking nervous” to share it. “It’s been four years in the making, but to see the amount of love that you are giving it… I love you all so much.”

He also directed fans to take a picture of the number for the Warchild charity that was projected on the screen, saying: “Get your phones in the air, and take a picture of that number right now. And if you can spare the cash on the way home, donate five pounds. The world at the minute is in turmoil and we have to protect the future.”

As the set drew to a close, Yungblud surprised the crowd with special guest Idol, the evening’s “icon”. He and the Generation X singer then took on the 1982 hit ‘White Wedding’.

The moment, which you can watch below, comes after the hugely successful debut edition of BLUDFEST,  where Punk legends The Damned performed in the ‘Icon Slot’. At this year’s edition, Yungblud told the crowd he would “remember this night forever.”

Yungblud at Bludfest 2025 played:

‘Hello Heaven, Hello’
‘Lovesick Lullaby’
‘The Funeral’
‘strawberry lipstick’
‘fleabag’
‘The Greatest Parade’ (Live debut)
‘parents’
‘California’
‘Lowlife’
‘cotton candy’
‘Change’ (live debut)
‘Monday Murder’
‘Tin Pan Boy’
‘braindead!’
‘White Wedding’ (cover with Billy Idol cover)
‘Loner’
‘Ghosts
‘I Think I’m OKAY’ (mgk cover)
‘Zombie’

Yungblud at Bludfest.
Yungblud at Bludfest. CREDIT: Tom Pallant

Speaking recently to NME, Yungblud touched on how his album explore childhood aspirations, and how his goals and heroes had shifted in 2025.

“It’s easy to believe your own bullshit if you’ve been making a project for 18 months, but when your album concept hits you in the face in the real world [with the viral fan who told Harrison he saved her life] – wow,” he told NME. “I never wanted the album to be an homage to my idols; it’s almost like I’m ready to leave them behind. Cheers Bowie, cheers Freddie, thanks Mick. I got it.”

Harrison added: “We put people on pedestals and don’t give ourselves enough credit. You realise that the photograph on the wall never had any fucking answers – all the answers came from within me.”

Explaining the differences between each of the two entries in his ‘Idols’ project, Yungblud told NME: “Part one is about the reclamation of yourself: ‘All you are is a self-fulfilling prophecy / A product of your own temptation’.

“Part two is the dark and downward spiral to the inevitable realisation that I’m not going to be here forever – who do I want to spend my life with? Mortality. Part two plummets you back down to earth, and it’s a little bit more cynical.”

You can read NME‘s new interview with Yungblud in full here.

‘Idols’ features the singles ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’, ‘Lovesick Lullaby’ and ‘Zombie’. The LP, described as the musician’s “most ambitious” yet, follows his 2022 self-titled third full-length effort.

Yungblud is set to embark on a UK and Ireland arena tour in 2026 – buy any remaining tickets here. Those dates will follow next month’s brief run of intimate UK gigs, dubbed ‘Idols – Up Close And Personal’, and Yungblud’s headline tours in North America and Europe later this year.

As for Idol, he made headlines last month after defending the use of swastikas in the punk movement, saying it was about “performance art”. Before then, he dropped ‘Dream Into It’ – his first studio album in over a decade which featured a collaboration with Avril Lavigne. In April, the two teamed up to perform the song, called ‘77’,  on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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