Trnsmt 2025

[FestivalJamie]

Saturday and Sunday line up is pretty great! Friday is not great at all though..

[chickenfire]

I’m not sure there’s many folk who’ll be rushing for a weekend ticket. Wild line up. 
 

That Saturday is cracking though. 
 

Very surprised that Fender is about and they didn’t/couldn’t book him. Wonder if he was meant to be Sunday 

[DomDom1984]

KoL ain't supporting anybody. And I still think Fender sees three dates in Newcastle as covering things.

[FestivalJamie]

21 minutes ago, suedehead_6 said:

Genuinely never heard of Gracie Abrams until today. Leave it to the young team. It's a honking day out at Glasgow Green anyway regardless who is on. Too many bampots. 

Gracie Abrams is huge on tiktok & instagram . 40 mil monthly listeners . Quite a strong booking!

[FestivalJamie]

4 minutes ago, chickenfire said:

I’m not sure there’s many folk who’ll be rushing for a weekend ticket. Wild line up. 
 

That Saturday is cracking though. 
 

Very surprised that Fender is about and they didn’t/couldn’t book him. Wonder if he was meant to be Sunday 

The problem is the line up is so random. I quite like Saturday / Sunday but it is a wild mix of acts. Some good bookings in there but it’s just all a bit over the place 

[Stuart1000]

1 minute ago, FestivalJamie said:

The problem is the line up is so random. I quite like Saturday / Sunday but it is a wild mix of acts. Some good bookings in there but it’s just all a bit over the place 

I remember Geoff Ellis said in an interview a few years ago that they do this on purpose to split ticket sales across multiple days so they always have indie, rock, pop, dance. Which makes sense from a ticket sale perspective but makes it worse for the fans.

[frazzlef50]

Some of these acts like the script, twin Atlantic and the kooks just seem to cycle the lineup every 2/3 years without ever doing anything of note to warrant a return. I like all 3 of those but at what point is it too much 

[DomDom1984]

The Script haven't played since 2017. The Kooks always seem to be on the same sort of slot though. Think this is their fourth go.

 

This is only Twin Atlantic's second go too. 

 

Only thing that made The Script predictable was previous history from T in the Park. 

[Benjsh]

The Saturday looks good at least. The Friday and Sunday are an absolute calamity though. 

 

No idea who books this festival but they have had an absolute shocker here. 

[Chiefski]

Wow, Saturday aside that just makes other festivals like Victorious or the Come Together gigs looks stronger, they've surely had some drop outs or couldn't agree terms with a few they were after. I don't see many clamouring for Snow Patrol or 50 Cent as a headliner in 2024-25

Edited Tuesday at 07:52 PM by Chiefski

[jj200]

39 minutes ago, Chiefski said:

Wow, Saturday aside that just makes other festivals like Victorious or the Come Together gigs looks stronger, they've surely had some drop outs or couldn't agree terms with a few they were after. I don't see many clamouring for Snow Patrol or 50 Cent as a headliner in 2024-25

Sounds someone  dropped out of the  Friday 

[Tunes101]

3 hours ago, Chapple12345 said:

 

thought the first group of names on the day would’ve been main stage and then second group king tuts but callum bowie on his insta has said this year he’s the main stage, so all just mixed up then ?

[DomDom1984]

11 minutes ago, Tunes101 said:

 

thought the first group of names on the day would’ve been main stage and then second group king tuts but callum bowie on his insta has said this year he’s the main stage, so all just mixed up then ?

 

Think they're just separating based on size like the Superstruct posters usually do.

[gfa]

Dire this

 

Stacked so weirdly as well - Saturday is going to sell out very fast.

 

Underworld, Wunderhorse and Kooks all have some decent selling power I reckon

 

Wonder why sunday has so few names

[fraybentos1]

3 hours ago, gfa said:

 

 

Wonder why sunday has so few names

Probs trying for someone bigger on the sunday which fell through.

 

Trnsmt is so weird, they had Courteeners and George Ezra headline then sub the next time they played, then they do the reverse with Snow Patrol. Bizarre.

[thetime]

Would of looked so much better fontaines headlining Friday, 50 cent subbing biffy.

[charlierc]

17 hours ago, LeithRichards said:

I’d expect Sam Fender to be at TRNSMT. Could see him doing Murrayfield, maybe with KoL in support 

Hmmm I suspect that would've been announced when he announced his London and Newcastle stadium dates.

[charlierc]

17 hours ago, DomDom1984 said:

KoL ain't supporting anybody. And I still think Fender sees three dates in Newcastle as covering things.

Apart from supporting Zach Bryan in New York, apparently.

[iammcculloch]

I do find it bizarre that DF haven't booked Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan or KoL for a big Scotland show. Four massive names and you got none?

[gfa]

1 hour ago, iammcculloch said:

I do find it bizarre that DF haven't booked Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan or KoL for a big Scotland show. Four massive names and you got none?

More expensive than anyone on this lineup though.

 

TRNSMT sells well with recycled indie bands and is only like 50k, so theres little point in splashing out i think

[Stuart1000]

3 hours ago, gfa said:

More expensive than anyone on this lineup though.

 

TRNSMT sells well with recycled indie bands and is only like 50k, so theres little point in splashing out i think

This is the predicament with TRNSMT now. They have a monopoly in Scotland. DF have even cancelled Connect which would’ve suited a few of these acts more. They don’t need to fork out on big acts because they know they’ll sell tickets on being the only large Scottish festival. 

[charlierc]

6 hours ago, iammcculloch said:

I do find it bizarre that DF haven't booked Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan or KoL for a big Scotland show. Four massive names and you got none?

Being on the same weekend as NOS Alive, Bilbao BBK and Mad Cool may not have helped.

[Chiefski]

8 hours ago, iammcculloch said:

I do find it bizarre that DF haven't booked Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan or KoL for a big Scotland show. Four massive names and you got none?

Still got Summer Sessions to announce, can see atleast KoL playing that around Victorious fest time 

[DomDom1984]

Isn't most of Summer Sessions, if not all, announced?

[kingcrawler]

I’m not sure Kings of Leon would sell more tickets for TRNSMT than even Biffy Clyro or Snow Patrol these days. I would imagine they tried for Noah Kahan, Sabrina Carpenter types but as others have said, they’re possibly too expensive. It definitely won’t sell as quickly as last year but it’ll still do fine just because of the core demographic of teenagers going regardless of the lineup.