Embrace to headline Sunday night at 2025’s Sign of the Times Festival
Embrace will take the Sunday night headline spot to close 2025’s Sign of the Times Festival.
The five-piece from West Yorkshire join Friday night’s top name 10cc on the bill, leaving just Saturday’s star to be revealed.
Other new acts confirmed for June’s three-day event at Church End, near Little Hadham, include The Sugarhill Gang and The Furious 5, and Roachford.
They join Haircut One Hundred, Ultravox singer, Band Aid legend and solo star Midge Ure and Paul Young, who is appearing with Los Pacaminos, a Tex-Mex band he formed in 1992.
Embrace, appearing on June 22, were formed in 1990 by singer Danny McNamara, his brother and guitarist Richard, bassist Steve Firth, drummer Mike Heaton and Mickey Dale on keyboards.
They scored three number one albums and six top 10 singles including All You Good Good People, Come Back to What You Know and My Weakness Is None of Your Business.
The band’s eighth album, How To Be A Person Like Other People, was released in August 2022.
The Sugarhill Gang and The Furious 5 are hip-hop pioneers. The former’s track, Rapper’s Delight, was the first rap single to hit the mainstream.
Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious 5, formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978, found fame with hits like The Message.
Singer-songwriter Andrew Roachford is the driving force behind Roachford, the band best known for 1989’s successes Cuddly Toy and Family Man and 1994’s Only To Be With You.
Other acts already announced for Sign of the Times, from June 20 to 22, include crossover tribute band Elvana, Newton Faulkner, Ferocious Dog, GUN, Hugh Cornwell, The Blockheads, Skinny Lister, When Rivers Meet, The Commoners, Kissmet, Xander and The Peace Pirates, Groovetrain, The Pistol Daisys, and The Jacques, who formed in 2014 and shared a bill with The Libertines at Hyde Park.
With one more headliner and other acts yet to be announced, Sign of the Times promises three packed days of rock, indie, pop, punk, britpop, ska, mod and alternative music for a fifth year.
