Charli XCX, Queens Of The Stone Age, Girl In Red, Fontaines D.C. among additions to stacked Øya 2025

nme.com:

Øya line-up for 2025, including Charli XCX, Queens Of The Stone Age and Fontaines D.C..Next year’s instalment of the festival will be held at Tøyenparken in Oslo, Norway and run between August 5 and 9.

It’ll also mark the 26th edition of the live music event.The first wave of artists joining the line-up was confirmed last month, with Chappell Roan, Khruangbin, Wet Leg and MJ Lenderman all being announced as joining the bill.Now, a second announcement has been made, confirming some more huge names for the line-up, including the addition of Charli XCX.

The news of her joining the 2025 edition comes amid a huge 2024 for the singer, over the summer she took over the charts with the release of hit album ‘Brat’ – which also sparked Brat Summer – and then turned heads again with a star-studded remix album.Her headline slot will be on Thursday (August 7), and the confirmation arrives just after she received seven Grammy nominations for the 2025 ceremony, played a surprise show in New York’s Times Square and pulled a double-duty appearance on Saturday Night Live.Also joining the bill is Queens Of The Stone Age, who will return to the site after being forced to withdraw from a number of live shows last year due to frontman Josh Homme undergoing emergency surgery.

They’ll be performing as headliners on Friday (August 8), and the slot is announced amid their huge year of touring in celebration of most recent album ‘In Times New Roman’.Girl In Red has moved up the ranks at Øya, and will be headlining on Saturday (August 9), closing out the event and following in the footsteps of Sigrid and AURORA.