Is Charli XCX headlining Parklife 2025?

Charli XCX appears to be teasing a headline appearance at next year’s Parklife Festival.

The festival is set to return to Manchester’s Heaton Park from June 14-15. It has confirmed that, rather than waiting till January like usual to drop the line-up, it will announce its first headliner next week.

It may not be a coincidence that fans have spotted posters in Charli’s signature ‘Brat’ shade of green in various cities around the UK, including Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham, featuring the phrase ‘PL25’.

Indeed, Charli teased her new US tour for 2025 in a similar fashion. with fans spotting various ‘Brat’-themed billboards cropping up in cities across the US. The signs all featured the album’s signature lurid green colour as well as its lo-fi font, reading ‘Chicago’, ‘Minneapolis’ and ‘Brooklyn’, in the respective cities.

She has already been confirmed to headline Primavera Sound and play Coachella next year.

‘BRAT’ inspired posters reading ‘PL25’ have popped up in cities across the UK ahead of Parklife announcing its first 2025 headliner next week. pic.twitter.com/lB7NpBlxqs

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Next week, Charli will embark on an arena tour in the UK with special guest Shygirl. Kicking off at Manchester’s Co-op Live on November 27, Charli will move on to London’s The O2 on November 28 and Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena on November 29, before wrapping in Glasgow’s OVO Hydro Arena on December 2. Visit here for tickets.

She’ll also play two outdoor shows in 2025 for fans in Belfast and Dublin, performing at Belfast’s Belsonic 2025 at Ormeau Park on June 18, and Dublin’s Malahide Castle the day before.

In other news, earlier this year Parklife founder Sacha Lord, who also founded The Warehouse Project, stepped down from organising both events.

Lord, who is also Manchester’s Night Time Economy Advisor, confirmed the move last week following a transfer of shares to LN Gaiety – a subsidiary of concert and festival giant Live Nation, reports the Manchester Evening News.

Lord said: “The decision to step down was not an easy one for me to make. I will miss the team, the events, the customers, I’ll even miss the stress and the late nights, but I’ve known for a long time that Parklife 2024 was going to be the last for me.

Lord founded The Warehouse Project in 2006 with business partner Sam Kandel. He then launched Parklife in 2010 at Platt Fields before moving the festival to Heaton Park.

The latter saw this year’s event headlined by Doja Cat and Disclosure but a number of acts pulled out including Fisher and J Hus.