After announcing its postponement beginning of this year due to the basement development works at Portsmouth Guildhall, award nominated independent rock and metal festival, Takedown is back with full force on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th April 2025. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 30th August 2025.
The headliners are Elvana and MMA fighter fronted Kris Barras Band. Joining them for a star-studded line up are Dreamstate, Kid Bookie, Acres, Lake Malice, InVisions, URNE, The Nightmares, Ferocious Dog, Blanket and many more.
Kai and Sarah Harris of Takedown Festival Ltd comment on the festival announcement, “We are unbelievably happy to be able to share the line up for Takedown Festival 2025. This year has been particularly economically turbulent for everyone and to date this year 60 UK festivals have been cancelled, postponed or lost and we feel incredibly fortunate to be able to return with a line up we are very proud of. We would like to thank our community for the support we have received this year and we hope to see you in the pit!”
Friday night headliner Kris Barras shares, “Takedown Festival has been one I’ve wanted to do for a while. They always put out a great line up featuring the best Rock and Metal bands the UK has to offer. It’ll be an honour to headline the Friday night.”
Vocalist Jessie Powell of Dreamstate comments of their appearance at the 2025 festival. “Very excited to be finally playing Takedown festival. The line up looks stacked and we are ready to shred the room to pieces. See you in the pit!”