Cruel World 2025 Lands New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds + More

The detailed its 2025 lineup including New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and more. The one-day event goes down on Saturday, May 17 at Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

Cruel World 2025 will see a number of reunion and one-off performances including The Go-Go’s, ‘Til Tuesday, Death Cult (later The Cult in 1984) and She Wants Revenge.

Also set to perform at Cruel World 2025 are Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Garbage, Madness, Alison Moyet, Chelsea Wolfe, Blancmange, Stereo MCs, Mareux, She Past Away, Buzzcocks, Nation of Language, and more.

Following various presales, tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, October 28 at 10 a.m. PT.

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