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

A new wave of artists have been added to the Øya line-up for 2025, including Charli XCX, Queens Of The Stone Age and Fontaines D.C..

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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. The position as headliner comes as she made her festival debut on the Biblioteket stage back in 2018 before returning in 2019. She would later perform to a huge crowd in 2022.

Elsewhere on the new line-up announcement, Irish bands Fontaines D.C. and Kneecap have both been confirmed – for it is an addition to the huge headline shows they have planned for next summer – and The Mary Wallopers, Montell Fish and Nilüfer Yanya have also been announced.

More announcements are set to be shared in coming weeks, and Week-long tickets are on sale now. You can buy yours here.

Øya calls itself the “world’s greenest festival” and is committed to providing a 50/50 gender split of artists in its line-up. Last year’s edition featured the likes of Pulp, PJ Harvey, RAYE, Arca, Astrid S and Holly Humberstone.

NME headed to Oslo for the festival, and credited it in a five-star review for its “blissed-out vibe” and forward-thinking ethos. “You can sense it throughout the week: artists love coming here, and the fans reflect that,” Andrew Trendell wrote. “Øya has a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking festivals in the world. Here, joy is an act of resistance.

“Gender parity on the line-up was quietly the norm here many years before events were making headlines, and every year comes with a renewed push to be the greenest festival around. This year, all the locally-supplied food is pescatarian (and pretty damn good compared to your normal rushed festy scran in a napkin), and Øya is providing free menstrual pads and tampons for festival-goers.”