It's 1st June - should we be expecting something from The 1975?

It’s 1 June 2025, which in the cult calendar of The 1975 is practically a national holiday - and so it should be no shock to anyone paying attention that the band seemingly are starting to spark into new activity, ahead of their Glastonbury headline set later this month. Yesterday (May 31), the band deleted every post from their Instagram grid, sparking speculation that something new might be teased today. The link in their social media bio has also switched to an email sign-up form, something which tends to happen as an act begins the promotional activity for new material.

The date choice is deliberate. The band’s name traces back to a handwritten note dated “1 June, The 1975” found by front-man Matty Healy in a copy of Jack Kerouac's On The Road. Over the past decade the group have used the same day to signal new eras, including the first teasers for their 2018 ‘Music for Cars’ campaign and their post-hiatus return in 2022.

The blackout arrives more than two and a half years after The 1975 released their fifth studio album, ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’, on 14 October 2022. The record earned widespread acclaim and an Album-of-the-Year nomination at the 2023 BRIT Awards. A global run of shows followed under the banner ‘At Their Very Best’, later extended as ‘Still… At Their Very Best’, concluding in Amsterdam on 24 March 2024. During that final performance Healy told the audience the band planned to step back from touring “for a bit”.

Work on a sixth album has been progressing in the background. Dirty Hit founder and manager Jamie Oborne described early sessions as “pretty extraordinary” during a podcast appearance, noting that the band were not rushing a release schedule. The social reset precedes The 1975’s headline set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage later this month. The festival appearance is currently the band’s only scheduled show of 2025.