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Going to Forwards Festival? Here's what you need to know...
Bristol Post
|August 22, 2025
FORWARDS Festival is here once again, providing two days of live music across the bank holiday weekend. Here's our guide of what you need to know...
Where and when?
Forwards 2025 takes place tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday at Durdham Down (Circular Road, Clifton, BS9 1NE). The What3Words location is Lace.Edge.Wished.
Doors open each day at noon, with last entry at 8pm, and the site will close at 11pm. There is no general reentry to the festival.
Who's on the lineup?
This year's lineup sees headline performances from Barry Can't Swim and Ezra Collective on Saturday, with other acts for that day including Confidence Man, Orbital, English Teacher, Happy Mondays, and Katy J Pearson, to name but a few. Meanwhile, Sunday's headliners are now Jorja Smith and The Last Dinner Party after Doechii was confirmed to have pulled out earlier this week.
This story is from the August 22, 2025 edition of Bristol Post.
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