The tour, entitled ‘Still At Their Very Best’, includes two nights at London’s 02 Arena and will round out all touring off the back of their latest album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language.

The band kicks off the tour in the UK on February 9 at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, before heading to London for two nights at the 02 Arena on February 12 and 13. The Band rounds up the UK portion of tour with dates at Manchester’s AO Arena on February 18 and then Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena on February 21.

The European portion of the tour begins in Lisbon, Portugal on February 26 whilst then heading to Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Prague and Milan just to name a few before rounding the tour out in Cologne, Germany on March 22.

This UK/EU tour follows the 1975’s massive 32-date tour of North America which includes headline shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

The 1975. Still… at their very best
UK & Europe 2024

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General sale 8th September at 10am local time.https://t.co/tJ6XE1uDF9 #The1975 pic.twitter.com/nFuR6D7BHl

— The 1975 (@the1975) August 31, 2023

This upcoming tour announcement was hinted by the band as teaser posters were spotted at Reading Festival last week, which the band headlined in replacement of Lewis Capaldi by playing their entire debut album, The 1975, in celebration of its 10-year anniversary from its release in 2013.

Tickets for the tour will be available to purchase via a fan-exclusive presale, which you can sign up for here, on Wednesday, September 6 at 10am BST. General sale will be available on Friday, September 8 at 10AM BST and tickets can be found here.

The full tour dates are as follows:

UK Dates

09/02/2024 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow, UK

12/02 – 02 Arena – London, UK

13/02 – 02 Arena – London, UK

18/02 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK

21/02 – Resorts World Arena – Birmingham, UK

EU Dates

26/02 – Campo Pequeno – Lisbon, Portugal

27/02 – WiZink Center – Madrid, Spain

01/03 – La Zenith – Paris, France

02/03 – AFAS Live – Amsterdam, Netherlands

03/03 – Forest National – Brussels, Belgium

05/03 – Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany

07/03 – Oslo Spektrum – Oslo, Norway

08/03 – Annexet – Stockholm, Sweden

10/03 – KB Hallen – Copenhagen, Denmark

12/03 – Verti Music Hall – Berlin, Germany

13/03 – Torwar Hall – Warsaw, Poland

14/03 – Fortuna Hall – Prague, Czech Republic

16/03 – Hallenstadion Zurich – Zurich, Switzerland

18/03 – Zenith – Munich, Germany

19/03 – Mediolanum Forum – Milan, Italy

21/03 – Jahrhunderthalle – Frankfurt, Germany

22/03 – Palladium – Cologne, Germany

Dirty Hit Limited are the private company behind Dirty Hit, the record label with whom The 1975 have released their entire discography. Healy was appointed director in December 2018 and was active in the role until his termination in April 2023.

Pitchfork were informed that the move was “administrative in nature” though neither The 1975 nor Dirty Hit Limited have commented on the change.

Fans are speculating over the reasoning behind Matty’s termination however, linking his controversial behaviour on social media and on tour to the change in role, though this has not been confirmed by either party involved.

One fan suggested Matty “pretends it’s a choice” following his social media accounts being banned in addition to no longer being a company director, but is ultimately scathing towards his recent actions.

imagine matty’s twitter was actually banned and now his insta is too and he was fired as dirty hit director but he pretends it’s a choice and all “new era of not being a fucking asshole”

— eva (@ratthealy) April 10, 2023

Another fan joked that this is simply due to tax reasons, owed to the timing of Matty’s termination.  

Matty ‘resigning’ from dirty hit at the end of the tax year? He’s just tryna commit tax evasion guys — niche internet micro celebrity land_sam02 (@land_sam02) April 6, 2023

The link between The 1975 and Dirty Hit runs deep, leaving fans questioning what this means for the band moving forwards. Matty has collaborated with multiple artists also signed to Dirty Hit, including No Rome, Beabadoobee and the Japanese House, in essence making Matty the face of the label.

Matty literally is Dirty Hit so like…I’m intrigued

— Emily (@Emily__483) April 6, 2023

Healy is no stranger to being at the centre of controversial news, recently facing backlash for his comments on women as a guest on The Adam Friedland Show, in addition to judging Harry Styles for his “queerbaiting” behaviour and mocking Scottish English.

This followed a string of questionable behaviour during The 1975’s At Their Very Best tour, which saw Matty doing everything from eating raw meat on stage to pulling fans up on stage to kiss them.

so matty healy just french kissed me pic.twitter.com/2v06jUZPBS — giulia (@dntyoumind) January 8, 2023

Matty’s behaviour has been questioned by fans and news outlets alike, ultimately leaving them questioning whether this truly is performance art or whether this show of personality is reason enough for his directorship to be terminated in the interest of PR.

The 1975 are set to play multiple festivals across the UK, with tickets available to purchase here.

07/06/2023 – St. Anne’s Park – Dublin

11/06/2023 – Parklife Festival – Manchester

02/07/2023 – Finsbury Park – London

09/07/2023 – TRNSMT Festival – Glasgow

Stream The 1975’s latest album, Being Funny In a Foreign Language, here.

As part of their role as ambassadors, their live performance at The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra will take place on Saturday 22 April. Their double LP recorded in 2016 features tracks from the band’s early career. Primary songs from different albums include, “Somebody Else”, “Chocolate” and “The Sound”. Participating record stores will be available for release.

The 1975 frontman, Matt Healy spoke about the importance of record stores. He says, “The guys and I are really proud to be ambassadors for Record Store Day this year. Independent record stores are the lifeblood of the music industry and have played a crucial role in our story so far. It couldn’t be more important to support their vital community and culture.”

Previous ambassadors including the likes of Taylor Swift, Noel Gallagher, The Big Moon and Sir Elton John remain dedicated to inspiring the team who run record stores all year.

Though they are not strangers to the cultural environment of record stores, they inspire music lovers to feel the joy of collecting vinyl by creating limited-edition versions of their albums which eventually will be compatible on the shelves of independent shops.

An exclusive white vinyl accompanied the band’s latest album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language. This was specifically made for record shops only plus an intimate performance at Kingston’s Banquet Records, the night before the release.

Ever since its release back in October 2022, their album vastly became the best-selling records in the UK and for the first time in 35 years, vinyl oversells CDs.

Three available formats from The 1975’s release come as follows: a 2xLP clear vinyl in a gatefold packaging, 1xCD and 1x cassette of this album released like never before. It will be available on the counter only and will be participating in RSD shops, on a first come first served basis commencing on Saturday 22 April. Please see below the order of the tracklist:

1. “I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It.”

2. Love Me

3. A Change Of Heart

4. Somebody Else

5. Loving Someone

6. Please Be Naked

7. Lostmyhead

8. If I Believe You

9. Chocolate

10. The Sound

The concept of their latest album started during the 2020 lockdown when band’s postponed shows ultimately cancelled in early January 2021. Matt Healy, the lead singer used that opportunity to tease newer music from his band under the previous album name, Drive Like I Do. Unfortunately, the band confirmed that there was no exact day they were going to finish writing, recording and mixing their fifth album.

On February 14 2022, the band had to temporarily deactivate their socials, indicating new material was all set to be released, after a 7 month wait. In terms of musical style, Being Funny In A Foreign Language is a mix of Pop-Rock, Indie Folk, Baroque Pop and Electropop.

Part Of The Band Official Performance @Vevo_UK https://t.co/uXOf6lpwLL #the1975 #bfiafl pic.twitter.com/CBzQJqSt7F

— The 1975 (@the1975) October 19, 2022

The 1975 At Their Very Best UK tour Dates:

08/01/2023- The Brighton Centre- Brighton

09/01- Bournemouth International Centre- Bournemouth

10/01- Westpoint Area- Exeter

12/01 and 13/01- The O2- London

15/01- Resorts World Arena- Birmingham

Tickets are still on sale and can be purchased here.

English Pop singer, Ellie Goulding makes a comeback following the release of her fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven which will be released on February 3rd 2023. Her album is preceded by three singles: “Easy Lover”, “All By Myself ” and “Let It Die”. Out of all her three singles, the lead single is “Easy Lover” which was released on July 15 2022. The song features American Rapper, Big Sean who is also one of the co-writers of this lead single.

The concept of her album started around the time she performed at Rock in Rio in Lisbon, Portugal in June 2022. She announced in July, she will release new music and temporarily deactivate her socials, just like The 1975 did. On July 4 2022, she announced the release of “Easy Lover”. 3 months later, following the release of  “All By Myself”, on October 7 and “Let It Die” twelve days after the second single. The musical style in Higher Than Heaven is mainly focused on Electropop and Dance-pop elements.

.@elliegoulding says “Easy Lover” has been a long time coming. Watch the English pop singer kick off her new era in music with her @bigsean collaboration.
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▶️ https://t.co/u1ZAu5H2na pic.twitter.com/A0CZKJryPx

— Vevo (@Vevo) July 16, 2022

Following the release of her new single on February 3rd, she will also perform at KOKO in London on February 7 and 8.

On sale tomorrow // After selling out her first show at London's Koko, @elliegoulding has added a second night, set to take place on 7th February 2023.
Click the link below at 10am tomorrow for tickets:https://t.co/a7Bp9IDah5

— Ents24 (@Ents24) December 8, 2022

Tickets will be available here.

.@SpotifyUK Pop Up

15th October
The Truman Brewery#the1975 #bfiafl pic.twitter.com/ScQmyuD3Ra

— The 1975 (@the1975) October 6, 2022

The 1975 are currently in the midst of one of the most tantalizing album release schedules in recent memory. After returning back to the scene for a few shows in Japan, and then a surprise headline slot at the now legendary Reading and Leeds Festival, the group have made a number of promises – UK, US, EU, and Australian tours; album announcements, a pretty solid Jools Holland appearance, and a bunch of other band-y stuff. Now, we are finally approaching new album day. You can view the pro-shot performance of one of their latest singles, “I’m In Love With You” on “Later… With Jools Holland“ below.

News of the band’s UK and EU tour at the start of last month. Since then, ticket release day has come and gone, with most of the tickets to the original 14-date tour gone; the band announced extra shows in London and Glasgow. These tickets have, also, all but gone – but you can still check here for any of the few remaining slots at any of the shows. Set to kick off in Belfast, next January, the tour is yet to see any information regarding support acts. The naming alone promises the band will be “at their very best”, and at the moment this is something we’ll just have to believe in. Their Reading and Leeds Shows both came with high praise, and that’s about as good a start as we can hope for.

Matt Healey, the band’s overtly outspoken frontman, took to Instagram recently in a tirade against Aussie radio station Triple J. The station shared an image announcing The 1975’s upcoming Australian tour. This apparently tipped Healey icer the edge as he screenshotted the coverage and reposted it onto his personal Instagram account exclaiming, “Play our music then before you start licking our arse just cos you’ve finally realised we’re mint.” He then took to Twitter shortly after stating, “You literally have nothing to do with us coming to Australia don’t start getting involved now. You don’t have a monopoly on cool and the head of your company is a knobhead so yous can fuck off.” Kinda wild.

On August 9^th, Måneskin released a statement explaining, “We are sad to announce that unfortunately due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we are no longer able to perform at Readings & Leeds festival this year. We love and miss the UK and all of our beloved UK fans and we’re absolutely gutted to no longer be able to play these shows.” Before concluding, “We’re really excited for the year to come and want to thank you for your support and patience, we’ll hopefully be back in the UK soon and we can’t wait to see you.” It seems like they were almost hoping we’d forgotten about this, to be honest. R+L then issued the above statement yesterday showing their disappointment. Harlow is yet to comment on the situation, but at this point, it basically speaks for itself.

Only 2 days into their rescheduled 2020 tour, Rage Against The Machine frontman, Zac de la Rocha sustained an injury on his leg at a show in Chicago. The band continued with Rocha performing mostly sat down, but now it has been announced that they will be cancelling their UK and EU leg of the tour to follow ‘medical guidance. Their headline slot at Reading and Leeds Festival fell within the cancelled dates, so yesterday the festival announced the new Sunday headliner. The 1975.

Statement from @RATM pic.twitter.com/urPCtGpYd6

— Rage Against The Machine ★ (@RATM) August 11, 2022

Matty Healey and co. are currently in the leadup to the release of their 5^th LP, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, you can pre-order the album here. The announcement for their appearance at Reading and Leeds Festival comes together with a lengthy US tour set to take place in November. This, paired with 2 appearances at Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival, ends The 1975’s known tour dates. But that being said, we can essentially guarantee an announcement of a UK tour coming soon.

We heard you @the1975 will now be headlining #RandL22 Don’t say we never treat you pic.twitter.com/c8DzAcbVfN

— Reading & Leeds Fest (@OfficialRandL) August 12, 2022

After Rage Against The Machine made the surprise announcement of their live return back in 2019, their plans quickly fell apart. Their headline slot at Reading and Leeds Festival 2020, as well as a long list of dates worldwide, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the rescheduled dates have finally come along, and again any European fans hoping to finally get a glimpse of the band have been left disappointed. A night at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre, and headline slots at Rock en Seine Festival, Andalucia Big Festival, and Mad Cool Sunset have all also been cancelled – as well as 7 other headline shows spread across Europe. The band are set to return to the stage for the second leg of their North American tour in February 2023.

On a slightly lighter note, now Rage Against The Machine have been forced to remove themselves from the festival, there is room for new headliners – The 1975. Matty Healey and co. are currently in the leadup to the release of their 5^th LP, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, you can pre-order the album here. The announcement for their appearance at Reading and Leeds Festival comes together with a lengthy US tour set to take place in November. This, paired with 2 appearances at Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival, ends The 1975’s known tour dates. But that being said, we can essentially guarantee an announcement of a UK tour coming soon.

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So far, 2 singles have been released from the 11-track album. “Part of the Band”, and “Happiness” have received a reasonably positive response from fans and critics, but some have argued that the band’s subtle change in direction – from their buoyant, bouncy production style to something quieter and more subdued – may not gain the same level of interest. That being said, The 1975 have shown no signs of slowing down since they really hit it big with their 2^nd LP, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (what a pretentious mouthful), so let’s not judge them just yet.

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Most of the teasing in the leadup for the album began over a month ago, In true 1975 spirit, June 1^st continues to be a bit of an in-joke amongst the fandom. After deriving their name from an inscription in a poetry book that read “1st June, The 1975″, June 1^st just seems to be the date where things happen. This time around, the posters started popping up and they also started sharing new images on their socials with the caption “Your new album. Your new era. Your old friends. The 1975”. A handful of other cryptic images and captions later, we come to the present, with the promise of a new album set for release in… October. That’s right, October 14^th. You can pre-order the record here. You’ll have forgotten you’d even ordered it by the time the release date actually comes around. Treat yourself. You can watch the video for single 1, “Part of the Band” below.

The 11-track album may come as a warm surprise to some fans as their previous 2 records – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships and Notes On A Conditional Form – were well received by critics and fans, have been described as a little bloated, and a few too many unnecessary interludes and throw away tracks. Aside from the recurring “The 1975” intro, there’s hardly any space for filler. If the lead single is anything to go by, their now practically trademarked blend of slick and shiny pop-production meets Beach Boys-esque instrumentals has very much been adhered to. You can see the album’s tracklist, as shown on the band’s twitter, below.

Being funny in a foreign language track list #the1975 pic.twitter.com/XCVAx18yCk

— The 1975 (@The1975Updates) June 29, 2022

As of yet, the band are only scheduled to make 2 appearances in the foreseeable future. This August, both Tokyo and Osaka will be hosting Japan’s own Summer Sonic Festivals. But, that being said, traditional marketing would suggest that they’ll probably announce a few smaller dates, probably around the UK, quite soon. Before embarking on the usual world tour situation… you know the drill. Watch this space.

Photo Credit: Mara Palena

Most of the teasing from the band began over a month ago, In true 1975 spirit, June 1^st continues to be a bit of an in-joke amongst the fandom. After deriving their name from an inscription in a poetry book that read “1st June, The 1975″, June 1^st just seems to be the date where things happen. This time around, the posters started popping up and they also started sharing new images on their socials with the caption “Your new album. Your new era. Your old friends. The 1975”. A handful of other cryptic images and captions later, we come to the present, with the promise of a new album set for release in… October. That’s right, October 14^th. You can pre-order the record here. You’ll have forgotten you’d even ordered it by the time the release date actually comes around. Treat yourself.

The 11-track album may come as a warm surprise to some fans as their previous 2 records – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships and Notes On A Conditional Form – were well received by critics and fans, have been described as a little bloated, and a few too many unnecessary interludes and throw away tracks. Aside from the recurring “The 1975” intro, there’s hardly any space for filler. If the lead single is anything to go by, their now practically trademarked blend of slick and shiny pop-production meets Beach Boys-esque instrumentals has very much been adhered to.

While the announcement of a new album, and lead single is all well and good, what we’re really after is a tour. As of yet, the band are only scheduled to make 2 appearances in the foreseeable future. This August, both Tokyo and Osaka will be hosting Japan’s own Summer Sonic Festivals. But, that being said, traditional marketing would suggest that they’ll probably announce a few smaller dates, probably around the UK, quite soon. Before embarking on the usual world tour situation… you know the drill. Watch this space.