Well......erm.....that's a massive anticlimax.
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James in 2025? Really? Is that literally the best headliner they could book?
I love Phonics but we already have tickets to see them at Huddersfield 2 weeks after this so that's a massive shame.
I thought I'd definitely be going to this. Turns out I'm definitely not now. 😂
Ah no point worrying about aspects like that.. Could be any number of reasons.
For example -
He's signed a big money deal with Festival XYZ to headline, and they have first dibs on announcing for the UK/Europe at a predetermined date in the future.
Because the UK/Europe dates aren't until next summer, they were the last to be arranged and some of them aren't locked in yet - and so waiting for the list to be complete before announcing it.
He's got something special planned, and wants to give it a dedicated announcement once the dust has settled on the "main" tour.
Now obviously I don't know (or even have cause to suspect) that any of those are correct. But I don't know they're wrong either, and that's why I'm not going to overthink it.