Cruel World Festival 2025 is set to be held on May 17, 2025 at the Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The 2025 festival will be the fourth edition of the festival, having been first held in 2020 and then in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
Presale and Tickets for the festival go live on October 25, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. PT. Registration for the tickets are currently ongoing and can be accessed at the official website of the festival.
Past purchaser presale can be accessed by previous patrons of the festival by registering with the email they used at previous editions. New Patrons will need to register with their phone, name, email address and more.
Tickets are priced at $249 for the general pass, $349 for general plus, $459 for VIP tickets, and at $1029 for the Clubhouse. Additonally, there are also hotels and passes packages available. Packages are priced at $458 per person for the Cruel Package, $934 per person for Crueler Package, and $181 per person for just the Hotel. All prices are inclusive of fees. Payment plans are available from $49.99 down payment.
Payment Plans are divided into 2 Payment or 4 Payment plans, with the first payment being the down-payment. The payment plan info is listed below:
- Payment Plan available for orders over $150, not exceeding $1025.
- Only $5 fee per installment for either payment plan, added to your order at check out.
- You may pay in full if you do not want to use the payment plan.
- You must select the payment plan during the checkout process. If you miss this, you’ll be charged in full. There will be no account adjustments.
- Exact payment amounts may vary by a few cents due to rounding, but the total due will not exceed order total.
- Payments are automated and may take up to 72 hours to process.
- No refunds, cancellations, or exchanges.
- For any order that defaults on their payment plan, all money will be issued as a Cruel World Credit via FanAccount. Please note, the funds will expire one year from time of issuance.
Cruel World announced the 2025 edition lineup via a post on their official Instagram page on October 21, 2024:
Cruel World 2025 lineup
The lineup for the Cruel World 2025 is given below:
- New Order
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- The Go-Go's
- Stereo's MC
- Social Order
- She Wants Revenge
- Wisteria
- She Past Away
- Provoker
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
- Nation Of Language
- N8NOFace
- Midge Ure
- Mareux
- Madness
- Light Asylum
- Kite
- Garbage
- Devo
- Depresion Senora
- DECEITS
- Death Cult
- Clan of Xymox
- Chelsea Wolfe
- Buzzocks
- Blacmange
- Alison Moyet
- ACTORS
- Til Tuesday
Cruel World festival site has listed out their list of acceptable goods, which are given below:
- Backpacks (Medium) 18"x13"x8.5"
- Bandaids
- Binoculars
- Blankets
- Breast Pump (Manual, Battery Operated, Or Powered Devices)
- Cameras (Non-Pro Digital, Disposable, Polaroid and Film)
- Chapstick and Lip Balm
- Doc Martins
- Ear Plugs
- Eye Drops
- Face Masks
- Fanny Packs and Hip Bags
- Fishnets
- GoPros
- Gum (sealed pack)
- Hand Sanitizer
- Hats
- Hydration packs (Empty)
- Inhalers
- Lighters
- Makeup / Black Eyeliner/Lipstick
- Mobile Phones and Chargers
- Parasols
- Plastic Water Bottles (Empty and Reusable)
- Prescription Medication (Name On Medication Must Correlate With Person’s Drivers License or other appropriate state identification)
- Purses and Handbags (no larger than 12”x6”x12”)
- Service Animals (See ADA Page)
- Stored Breastmilk or Formula
- Strollers (for baby/toddlers only)
- Sunblock (Non-Aerosol)
- Sunglasses
- Towels (small-medium size)
- Water Misters
Cruel World is run by GoldenVoice, which was also the festival's founder. The festival is presented by FKOA.
Previous editions of the festival have featured acts such as Duran Duran, Morrissey and Echo & the Bunnymen.