Irie Révoltés return for one year in 2025 and go on a big festival tour

Thousands of people have been waiting years for this: Irie Révoltés are back! The band is celebrating their “IRIEUNION” and shaking up the festival stages one last time. After 17 years of band history, 5 albums, countless political actions and over 500 concerts in 25 countries, Irie Révoltés bid farewell in 2017 with a legendary concert in front of 11,000 fans. Countless people had hoped that it wasn’t a farewell forever. Now the wait is over: out of nowhere, the band is reuniting for a one-year “IRIEUNION” to go on a major festival tour in 2025. The “IRIEUNION” tour will conclude with another gigantic finale in Mannheim’s Maimarkthalle – the same venue where Irie Révoltés celebrated their farewell. 

When Irie Révoltés storm the stage, all fists go up. The audience goes completely crazy from the first note and brings every festival site, every club, every demonstration to a boil. Anyone who has ever attended an Irie Révoltés concert knows that the band literally turns the world upside down with their sound. Their unique blend of reggae, ska, dancehall, rap, punk and electro not only gets their fanbase jumping and dancing, but also provides the soundtrack for the revolution. With Irie Révoltés, music and politics belong together. Boundless euphoria and ecstasy on the dance floor are inseparable from uncompromising statements against all the incredible injustices of our world. Now, eight years after their break-up, Irie Révoltés have the unique opportunity to experience them live once again. For the last time, frontmen Mal Élevé and Carlito will heat up the audience with their two-part vocals and their German-French lyrics, rapper Silence will fire off his rhyming chains, and the musicians with trumpet, saxophone, bass, guitar, keyboards and driving drums will play the unmistakable melodies that so many people have missed for so long. 

Irie Révoltés have always felt part of a movement. Now they are taking the stage one last time to stand up for a better world together with the next generation. In the face of the global shift to the right, the climate catastrophe, increasing wars and violent conflicts, Irie Révoltés want to send a signal once again, 25 years after their foundation, that another world is possible if we fight for it together.