Listen Festival announces the first live acts, curators and locations for its upcoming edition

Building further on its solid reputation as a Brussels-wide city festival for alternative music, Listen is adding a lot of exciting live acts to its line-up this year. The first live acts who will play Listen Festival 2025 are: Alabaster DePlume, Cortex Ensemble, Echt!, ganavya, Leftfield, Loverman and Princess Nokia.

Listen is also expanding on its proven recipe of working with the most exciting curators and venues and drawing influence from all angles of Brussels’ music scene. The first curators for this year's events include the likes of Viciosa, Not Your Techno, Gloom Club, Spek, Gay Haze, Local Slang, Breaxx, AliA, Mo Mamba, Alliance Club and many more.

Unique locations

As each year Listen is headed to some unique locations. One of the stand-out events for the 2025 edition will be the opening concert in the National Basilica of Koekelberg, the 5th largest church in the world, with Loverman and Cortex Ensemble. Other highlights for this edition include a take-over of Brussels-Central train station, a concert night and a day-time party at Les Halles de Schaerbeek, three nights and days of parties at K1 and much more. Listen focusses even more on live-shows with concerts at Botanique, Bozar, Flagey and even Fuse will host a concert by ECHT! this year.

Blind clubbing passes

New this year are the blind clubbing passes. These passes give access to all clubbing events at the reduced price of 30 euros, while the clubbing line-up is still a secret. These passes are only available until mid June, when the line-up for the club events will be released and all individual tickets will be on sale.

Tickets for the concert events and a limited number of ‘blind clubbing passes’ are available now: https://listenfestival.be/tickets

About Listen Festival

Listen takes pride in being an eclectic festival, showcasing the diversity of the alternative music scene with concerts and club nights spanning a variety of genres and music styles. With sounds spanning from Indie over House to Drum-'n-bass and from Techno to all-round global sounds, Listen is connecting the dots regardless of musical style and orientation.

With the previous edition attracting about 25.000 people, of which more than 60% visiting from outside of Brussels, Listen aims to bring even more foreign visitors for its 2025 edition. The main goal remains to give the music-scene in Brussels an international platform and by cooperating with various local curators

Tickets and information: https://listenfestival.be/