Kasabian and Courteeners to headline Truck Festival

Kasabian and The Courteeners have been described as "heavy hitters" by the festival's organisers.

Kasabian are one of four English rock bands announced as the headliners of next year's Truck Festival.

The Courteeners, Nothing But Thieves and Bloc Party will also headline the festival which takes place at Hill Farm in Steventon, Oxfordshire from 24 to 27 July 2025.

Keeping to the indie-rock theme, also announced are Blossoms, Franz Ferdinand and The Last Dinner Party.

Festival organisers said the line-up was "like a big coming together of our favourite bands".

They said they were looking forward to seeing the "heavy hitters" of Kasabian, who have had seven UK number one albums, and The Courteeners.

As well as Nothing But Thieves - for whom the weekend will mark the bands' first ever headline set at a UK festival.

Bloc Party will open the festival on Thursday night, while Nothing But Thieves will be playing their first festival headline slot

"Indie icons" Bloc Party, who will play the festival on the Thursday night, are "finally" bringing their "catalogue of undeniable bangers" to the Oxfordshire countryside, organisers added.

The bill also includes Wunderhorse, Reytons, Hard Life, CMAT, Fat Dog, The Big Moon, Sports Team, Maximo Park, Corella, Alfie Templeman, Lambrini Girls, Lime Garden, Only The Poets, Luvcat and Chloe Slater.

Unwritten singer Natasha Bedingfield will also play a special guest set.

The festival takes place at Hill Farm, in Steventon, from 24 to 27 July

Festival manager Lily Brimble and head of marketing Sam Harris said: "We are incredibly excited to reveal what we’ve been working on in Truck HQ with the first details of Truck 2025."

"2025 may just be our most complete Truck weekender to date," the pair added.

The event, which is expecting 25,000 revellers, will also see the now traditional annual appearances of The Oxford Symphony Orchestra, Mr Motivator, and Barrioke, which features EastEnders/Barry Evans actor Shaun Williamson singing karaoke classics.

In 2022, the actor made the news when he joined Sam Fender on the Truck stage for a duet.

Tickets for Truck Festival go on sale from Thursday

A ticket pre-sale will take place at 18:00 GMT on Thursday, with the remaining tickets on sale from 10:00 on Friday.

The first Truck Festival was conceived by brothers Robin and Joe Bennett and took place in 1998, when an actual truck was used for the stage.