Today, Wales' leading new music festival Sŵn reveal a fresh batch of names added to an already bursting line up. Following on from June's initial announcement which saw renowned musician, poet, activist and queer icon Mykki Blanc, art-punk five-piece Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Bristol indie-dance duo Getdown Services and Dublin quintet Gurriers lead up the names, an exciting new round-up of artists have joined the bill. 

Brighton-formed quintet Squid will join fresh Partisan Records-signee TTSSFU, Babymorroco, Gruff Rhys and Naima Bock to name but a few. 

William Dickins, Live Music Manager at Sŵn, says of the latest batch of additions: "We’re finally ready to reveal the next wave of artists for Sŵn Festival 2025! We're very proud of this year's lineup and can't wait to welcome some outstanding names we've been loving for years, as well as some brand new up and comers that we know will be instant favourites for people. We're also very glad to be utilising some new venues to the city, and extremely excited to see what opportunities they add to Cardiff's music scene as a whole. But as if that wasn't enough, we're still not finished yet! We still have more to offer, so keep tuned in for even more juicy announcements." 

Sŵn Festival is held across Cardiff, taking place from Thursday October 16th to Saturday October 18th.

Following 2024's format, the festival will once again take place over 3 days from Thursday to Saturday, allowing time for some much needed rest before heading back to work with sore heads, tired feet but filled up with an excitable array of new music discoveries.

FULL LIST OF ACTS ANNOUNCED SO FAR FOR SŴN 2025:

3L3D3P | A Thousand Mad Things | Adjua | Adult DVD | Ain't | Aki Oke | Angharad | Angry Blackmen | Ani Glass | Babymorocco | Badlands | Bambees | Basht. | Beauty Queens | Bramwell | Breichiau Hir | British Birds | Brown Horse | Casual Smart | CATTY | Clara Mann | Cloth | CLT DRP | Cubzoa | Cyn Cwsg | Deadletter | Dog Race | Elina Lee | Essence Martins | Gans | The Gentle Good | Georgia Ruth | Getdown Services | Goodnight Louisa | Grandmas House | Graywave | Green Star | Gruff Rhys | Gulp | Gurriers | Jessica Winter | John Myrtle | Kathryn Joseph | Keo | ladylike | Lime Garden | Lord Apex | Lover's Skit | Lucy Gooch | Man/Woman/Chainsaw | Manga Saint Hilare | Marsy | Martha Elen | Martha O'Brien | Martin Luke Brown | Men An Tol | The Meritones | Milkincrisis | MF Tomlinson | Midding | Moonchild Sanelly | Morn | Mykki Blanco | Naima Bock | Nancy Williams | Neve Cariad | The New Cut | No Windows | Noah Bouchard | Opal Mag | The Orchestra (For Now) | Oreglo | Pale Blue Eyes | Papaya Noon | Peiriant | Piss | Pollyfromthedirt | Prima Queen | Punchbag | Quiet Man | Rabbitfoot | Sage Todz | Saint Clair | Samana | Scustin | Search Results | Shale | The Sick Man of Europe | Silver Gore | Slag | Slate | Source | Spithood | Squid | Sywel Nyw | Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn | Talulah | Thistle | Tlya X An | Tokomololo | Tooth | TTSSFU | The Twins | Two Blinks, I Love You | Ugly | Van Houten | White Flowers | Whitelands | Why Horses? | Wing! | Ynys | Zac Lawrence

Participating venues this year include: Tramshed, Clwb Ifor Bach, St John’s Church, Jacobs Basement, Fuel, The Canopi, Tiny Rebel, The New Moon and Porters.

Tickets for Sŵn are on general sale now with instalment plans available. Head here for ticketing options and more info: https://swnfest.seetickets.com/ 

Sŵn Festival remains as accessible and community-focused as ever - once again offering a wide array of schemes to make tickets as widely available as possible and to offer in-roads into the festival. Payment plans for tickets are available as well as concession tickets for young people, students and Blue Light account holders, while volunteer programmes are now open for application here: https://swnfest.com/get-involved/