Creamfields 2025: Swedish House Mafia confirmed as Saturday headliner

Swedish House Mafia will headline the Saturday night of this year’s Creamfields Festival.

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The EDM trio will play the Arc Stage on Saturday, August 23, in what is billed as a UK festival exclusive.

Swedish House Mafia have a storied history with Creamfields. They were part of its Cream club nights in the early 2000s and first played the festival in a history-making set back in 2007.

Creamfields returns across the August Bank Holiday weekend from August 21-24 in Daresbury, Cheshire.

Last month, Anyma was confirmed as the first headliner and is set to close out the festival on Sunday night (August 24).

Also set to perform are David Guetta, Boris Brejcha, Chase & Status, Eric Prydz, Fisher, Sara Landry, Hardwell, Amelie Lens, Dom Dolla, Hannah Laing, Camelphat, Ewan McVicar, Duke Dumont, Jamie Jones, Patrick Topping, Sonny Fodera, Fatboy Slim, Josh Baker, Andy C, Gaskin, HorsegirL, Eats Everything, Franky Wah, AZYR, Ben Hemsley, Ben Nicky, Martin Garrix, and Gorgon City. More acts are still to be announced.

Creamfields have also confirmed that its 2025 edition will be the first to feature a new 360° Halo “mega stage”.

The new stage will feature “a monumental 45 metre diameter, cyclical outdoor arena with pioneering 360 and overhead video, lighting and sound”, which was designed in partnership with design studio Lucid Creates.

NME caught up with Swedish House Mafia in 2021 ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Paradise Again’. They discussed their decision to split up in 2013 at the height of their popularity, following hits like ‘Antidote’, ‘Greyhound’ and their biggest hit ‘Don’t You Worry Child’.

“Things did not happen overnight for us, but towards the end we felt like it was hard to feed the monster that was Swedish House Mafia,” said Axwell. “We’ve always made music that feeds off excitement and energies. The way that Swedish House Mafia was going though, it had to be much more controlled to feed the animal it had become. We all had the realisation of: ‘Wait, is this now work?’ The band started to feel like an office job.”

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