ARF has already confirmed dates for next year: June 19, 20 and 21, 2025.
Azkena Rock Festival opened its doors today to kick off the first day of its twenty-second edition. A day of reunion with the most loyal audience that has visited Mendizabala for so many years for their devotion to enjoy the best music on the stages of the rock & roll festival par excellence.
10 GREAT MOMENTS OF TODAY’S DAY
Txopet (Photo: Jordi Vidal)
1. Opening doors
The moment when Azkena Rock Festival opens its doors is one of the most exciting, every year, both for the public and the organization. Txopet from Bilbao have given the starting signal.
Photo: Paco Poyato
2. Weddings
What Azkena unites, let no one separate. Weddings have been celebrated again in Mendizabala by the rite of rock in the purest Las Vegas style and officiated by the comedian Iñigo Salinero.
Jane’s Addiction (Photo: Óscar L. Tejeda)
3. Jane’s Addiction
Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins have given the expected recital at the height of this revered cult band that, at last, recovers its original line-up.
Ty Segall (Photo: Óscar L. Tejeda)
4. Ty Segall
One of a kind, Ty Segall’s incredible talent has had audiences mesmerized.
Los Sírex (Photo: Paco Poyato)
5. Los Sírex
Trashville has hosted the live performance of one of the most veteran bands of the national rock scene, Los Sírex, who have had an especially devoted audience during their anthem “Si yo tuviera una escoba”.
Carlos Tarque (Photo: Jordi Vidal)
6. Tarque & La Asociación del Riff
The incomparable voice and charisma of Carlos Tarque and the unquestionable guitar skills of Carlos Raya together with the whole Tarque & La Asociación del Riff band have demonstrated their virtuoso live performance in Mendizabala.
Photo: Paco Poyato
7. Crash cars
Between concerts there are also moments to stop by the bumper cars that have become a tradition of the festival.
Photo: Paco Poyato
8. Greetings from Azkena
The Association of Design Professionals of Alava has created 10 different models of postcards that can be sent from the mailboxes installed in Mendizabala and in the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca during the concerts.
Photo: Paco Poyato
9. The stages
Find that phrase you wrote in the forum, identify the logos of your favorite bands.
Photo: Paco Poyato
10. Mendizabala will host the ARF 2025 edition on June 19, 20 and 21.
Today we can already confirm the dates on which ARF will be held next year, which remains on the third weekend of June, on 19, 20 and 21 June 2025 and in Mendizabala, in Vitoria-Gasteiz. The first vouchers can be purchased only and at an exclusive price at the info point located at the festival site.
Tomorrow the festival continues with Lisa & The Lips, stellar formation with the powerful vocalist of The Bellrays at the head, who will perform at 13:30h in the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca with free access. Already in Mendizabala, at 17:30, the fierce formation of grunge and stoner of the Galician Bala will open the day in which we can enjoy the raw sound of L7 performing their most successful album Bricks Are Heavy, the Murcian phenomenon Arde Bogotá, the virtuoso bassist Barry Adamson, the punk pearl Demolition 23. or the huge Queens of The Stone Age.
