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Support for these gigs comes from the winners of a Battle of the Bands contest held by Bombay Bicycle Club. On their website they wrote, “we got our start playing Battle of the Bands events when we were teenagers. We wanted to offer a similar opportunity to the next generation of teenagers.”

The winners were West London band, Tight Lines, who will be supporting The Camden Assembly gigs and Leeds-native band, Call Me Animal, who will support the Nambucca gigs.

Tickets for these shows will be available via prize draw. Each entry costs £10, and results in two tickets for each fan chosen. The proceeds go to the Universal Music UK Sound Foundation, a music education charity for children. More information on this charity can be found at their wesbite.

These nostalgic and intimate gigs come as further celebration of the band’s 20^th anniversary. Previously, it was announced that the band will be playing a one-off show at London’s LIDO Festival on June 14 with support from Metronomy, Alice Phoebe Lou, Billie Marten, Lucy Rose and more.

At LIDO, Bombay Bicycle Club will perform their 2009 debut album, ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ in full. It is an album the BBC remarked as “the sound of a band with a immense future ahead.” A live recording of the album at London Brixton Academy was released in 2019 and critics said it ‘creates an almost painful longing for live music’ and that ‘it’s enough to make you miss the feeling of spilt beer on your skin and hearing more of what your neighbour is belting than the actual band you came to see.’

The band returned to recording new music after a three year hiatus in 2023. Their latest album, ‘My Big Day’ was given four stars by Far Out Magazine, saying in their review, “this album feels like a maturation of the original starter kit that saw them turn into ready-baked brilliance 15 years ago.”

Bombay Bicycle Club says, “it’s not lost on us how rare it is and how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to make music and to still have so many people who care about our music and support us by coming to our shows.” And their 20-year celebrations—created with future, past and present fans in mind—show this thoughtful appreciation.

Tickets for the London LIDO Festival can be found on the festival’s website. And to enter the prize draw for the upcoming March gigs, visit this site.

Just be sure to line up a ride after, as the band says their “parents will be picking [them] up after the gigs.”

Bombay Bicycle Club 2026 Live Dates

13/3 – The Camden Assembly – London, UK

14/3 – The Camden Assembly – London, UK

20/3 – Nambucca – London, UK

21/3 – Nambucca – London, UK

14/6 – LIDO Festival – London, UK

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Both of these shows will take place just before their slot at All Points East 2025, which features a stacked lineup full of favourites for indie fans, including The Macabees as headliners. It will be The Macabees first live show since disbanding in 2017.

Also on the bill for All Points East 2025 are The Cribs, Dry Cleaning, Nilüfer Yanya, The Murder Capital, Divorce and Prima Queen.

Ticket sales for the new Bombay Bicycle Club tour dates have opened up for sale – you can visit here to purchase.

The band’s latest album was 2023’s ‘My Big Day’. The album provided an eclectic sound, with influences from soul, rock, indie and electronic music all shining through in the production. The record also played host to some notable features, including Chaka Khan, Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya and Holly Humberstone.

The album was well received among critics. In their review, Clash Magazine wrote: “The band’s sixth album – and first in three years – ‘My Big Day’ has a wonderfully organic feel. The songwriting is easy-going, the risks taken effortlessly; more than 15 years into their time together, Bombay Bicycle Club are still taking chances, and still reaping the rewards.”

In an interview with NME, guitarist Jamie MacColl spoke of how the band wanted to innovate and explore new sounds, rather than treading familiar waters within their music.

“I think nostalgia is the enemy of creativity and progress, to be honest. I think with the way streaming works, so much of the music ecosystem now services nostalgia so I think you have to constantly fight against that,” he said.

The band have been around since the mid-2000’s, dropping their debut album ‘I Had The Blues But Shook Them Loose‘ in 2006. Since then, they’ve released several critically acclaimed albums, experimenting with different sounds such as folk, electronica, world music and more.

Bombay Bicycle Club stayed active through 2024, with the indie quartet touring the UK and Europe and performing at Glastonbury 2024. During their sunny set, they were joined onstage by Blur/Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn. They also played their biggest headlining show ever, a hometown performance at London’s Alexandra Palace on July 12.

Later in November, the group gave a zoetrope vinyl reissue of their fourth album, ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’, the band’s first ever No.1 record.

Bombay Bicycle Club UK Tour Dates 2025:

AUGUST
22 – Barbican, York
23 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
24 – Victoria Park, London (All Points East w/ The Maccabees) 

The London band had previously promised via Radio X that they would bring out a special guest for their performance at Worthy Farm who had appeared on their album ‘My Big Day’. Then X account @secretglasto hinted at who the mystery guest was going to be saying that the guest “could make Bombay Bicycle Club’s set go by in a Blur.”

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Albarn thanked Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman and then and then took to the stage and addressed the crowd on “three things” that “You have to show me how you feel about it,” which he said during the performance of ‘Tender’. He then attempted to encourage the Glastonbury crowd to vote in the coming UK general election which looks like it is going to be an overwhelming victory for Labour over the conservatives.

He addressed the crowd on how they felt about Palestine. “Are you pro-Palestine? Do you feel that’s an unfair war?”

He then continued, telling fans they need to vote. “The importance of voting next week. Now I don’t blame you for being ambivalent about that, but it’s still really important.”

Before saying “And thirdly, maybe it’s time we stop putting octogenarians in control of the whole world” probably in reference to the USA election which will see voters choosing between 81-year-old Joe Biden and 78-year-old Donald Trump. The two engaged in a debate on the 27th of June.

Speaking to Sky News Bombay Bicycle Club said that they “were never expecting to have him on the record or to be playing a show with him, but… we just kind of asked, and he was really up for it. You don’t ask, you don’t get.”

The first day of Glastonbury also saw a secret DJ set played by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker in the early hours of Saturday Morning. This came after Kevin Parker appeared alongside Dua Lipa on her headline set of the Pyramid stage on Friday (June 28). The two had previously collaborated on Dua Lipa’s last album ‘Radical Optimism’ and they paired up for a performance on Tame Impala’s huge psychedelic hit ‘The Less I Know The Better’.

As well as this, elsewhere in Worthy farm on the first day of the festival Paul Heaton and Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) paired up for a Housemartins reunion where they performed their 1986 hit ‘Happy Hour’ on the Pyramid stage. IDLES also brought out Danny Brown as a special guest during their closing set on the Other stage where the rapper joined the Bristol band for a performance of the band’s song ‘Pop Pop Pop’.

In 2019, Tramlines was acquired by festival promotion giant Superstruct Entertainment. Superstruct, after an acquisition spree that peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now the world’s second largest festival promoter. According to IQ magazine, the company currently owns 85 festivals across Europe and Australia, including the UK’s Boardmasters, Bluedot, and Truck festivals. Under the control of Superstruct Entertainment, Tramlines festival has been consistently securing big names in the UK’s alt scene. Announced today, Tramlines’ line up for 2024 continues this trend.

Headliners include Scottish singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini, English singer Jamie T, and Dundee alt-rock band, Snow Patrol, who will be playing on Friday 26th, Saturday 27th, and Sunday the 28th of July respectively. This is not the first time that the two Scottish acts have performed at the same event as both played at Hyde Park’s BT London Live, an event that promoted the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Brighton indie rock band The Magic Gang, who have recently announced their decision to part ways, are on the festival’s bill. For those unable to attend the band’s farewell UK tour in May, Tramlines festival will be one of the last places that the group will be performing.

As well as acts at the end of their lifespan, acts who have recently found a new lease on life will be attending Hillsborough Park. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who has recently shot back up into stardom with the resurgence of her 2001 hit ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’, will be playing in Hillsborough Park on Friday the 26th. As well as newfound fame, Tramlines will likely be hosting some newly released music. Off the back of their soon-to-be-released EP, Fantasies, London’s Bombay Bicycle Club will be performing at Tramlines. Since Fantasies is set to release on the 23rd of February, there is a chance that those at the festival will be some of the first to hear a live rendition of the upcoming EP.

With 25,000 people already signed up to the festival’s pre-sale list, tickets are sure to sell out fast. Presale tickets for Tramlines go live tomorrow at 12pm, so if you haven’t signed up yet, you can do so here. Weekend tickets will be available for £130, and day tickets will cost £45. Although it is likely that there will be some tickets available after the pre-sale, prices before and after the pre-sale period may be subject to change. Additionally, Tramlines does not offer on-site camping, meaning that accommodation for those from outside Sheffield will have to be organised separately.

Surprise! We have a new EP coming out next month.

Pre-order/pre-save Fantasies – https://t.co/ztMSLZkRu6

Stream Fantasneeze – https://t.co/6vv8966oKg pic.twitter.com/hph7m0cLIi

— Bombay Bicycle Club (@BombayBicycle) January 9, 2024

This latest unexpected venture that will surely please fans of the indie rock group comes after the release of their latest studio album, My Big Day, which was released in October of last year via Island Records. Bombay Bicycle Club have also released a new single, “Fantasneeze“, that will feature on the new EP, featuring London-based indie folk singer Matilda Mann.

Listen to “Fantasneeze”, a sneak peek of Fantasies, below:

Fantasies enlists the help of several other musicians, featuring English singer-songwriters Matilda Mann, Liz Lawrence, Rae Morris and Lucy Rose, rendering the EP a ‘Bombay and Friends record’, according to the band. The band has also stated that the EP is “a continuation of My Big Day as it was recorded around the same time and in the same spirit”.

Formed in 2005 in Crouch End, London, Bombay Bicycle Club has continually been at the forefront of the UK indie rock scene, while at various points also experimenting with different genres such as indie folk and electronica. The group consists of lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist Jack Steadman, otherwise known as Mr Jukes by those who know, guitarist Jamie MacColl, bassist Ed Nash and drummer Suren de Saram. Since releasing their first album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose, in 2009, the band has gone on to cultivate a strong cult following, releasing a total of six albums, with their latest, My Big Day, coming in October last year.

Fantasies can be pre-ordered here.

See below for the band’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates:

29/01/2024 – The Telegraph Building – Belfast
30/01 – 3Olympia Theatre – Dublin
31/01 – 3Olympia Theatre – Dublin
02/02 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
03/02 – The Brighton Centre – Brighton
05/02 – Bristol Beacon – Bristol
06/02 – Rock City – Nottingham
08/02 – Sheffield Octagon – Sheffield
09/02 – Norwich Nick Rayns LCR UEA – Norwich
10/02 – Cambridge Corn Exchange – Cambridge
12/02 – Barrowland – Glasgow
13/02 – Barrowland – Glasgow
14/02 – O2 Academy – Leeds
15/02 – O2 City Hall – Newcastle
16/02 – O2 Apollo – Manchester
17/02 – O2 Guildhall – Southhampton
18/02 – Great Hall, Cardiff University Student Union – Cardiff

You can purchase tickets for these live shows here.

Alongside the tour announcement the band announced and released new song ‘Tekken 2’, featuring R&B legend Chaka Khan. The track will be included on the band’s upcoming album, My Big Day, which has already had singles like ‘Turn The World On’, ‘Diving’, ‘I Want To Be Your Pet’ and the title track for the album. The new single released alongside a video which can be view below

Frontman Jack Steadman spoke about the track, as he said: “It has been a pretty crazy journey, from sitting on my sofa messing around with a keyboard and drum machine to sitting across from Chaka Khan in a fancy LA studio giving her singing directions. Chaka was an absolute superstar and the whole experience was so positive. I think the song reflects that – it’s about coming together, putting any bad thoughts aside and just enjoying the moment.”

Chaka Khan also commented on working on the track, as she said: “After Jack invited me and then sent the song, I loved it, the ethereal part drew me in. The band has such innovative and passionate energy, truly great musicians. Absolute vibes.”

The upcoming album, The Big Day, which releases October 20^th, features a plethora of guests including Damon Albarn, Holly Humberstone, Jay Some, Nilüfer Yanya and as mentioned earlier Chaka Khan.

Jack Steadman has also previously spoke about working with Damon Albarn on the album, stating: “I actually went and played him the album, cause I value his opinion a lot. It was just one song, where instead of giving me a few notes or feedback, he just got his engineer to bring him a microphone and just started singing this melody.  It was kind of a curse as well as a blessing. It’s so good but am I ever going to persuade him to actually finish it and write the lyrics?”

Tickets for the upcoming tour are available on presale on October 25^th at 9am (BST) and go on general sale on October 27^th at 9am (BST). Tickets can be found for both the presale and general sale here.

Tour dates:

29/01/2024 – The Telegraph Building – Belfast

30/01 – 3 Olympia Theatre – Dublin

02/02 – 02 Academy – Birmingham

05/02 – Beacon – Bristol

06/02 – Rock City – Nottingham

08/02 – 02 Academy – Nottingham

09/02 – The Nick Rayns LCR – Norwich

10/02 – Corn Exchange – Cambridge

12/02 – Barrowland – Glasgow

15/02 – 02 City Hall – Newcastle

16/02 – 02 Apollo – Manchester

18/02 – Great Hall – Cardiff

12/07 – Alexandra Palace Park – London

The set was confirmed by the festival on Thursday but still took some festival goers by surprise, even though the indie legends had previously hinted at a possible return to Reading and Leeds last month on Twitter (X).

If only there was a way we could play this on stage @OfficialRandL this year let’s work something out https://t.co/RGHxqQTqzA

— Bombay Bicycle Club (@BombayBicycle) July 21, 2023

The North London based indie heavyweights blasted their way through an eight track setlist, incorporating well-known classics like “Always Like This“, “Luna” and “Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)” with material from their upcoming album, My Big Day, set to be released later this year on October 20th via Island Records, including the lead and title track from said album, “My Big Day“.

Frontman Jack Steadman, perhaps referencing their previous Reading and Leeds set back in 2014 when they played to an empty tent, admitted part way in the set, “We weren’t sure anyone was going to show up”. This time, however, the gates were well and truly open and the indie legends filled the dance tent with ease, with Steadman offering his thanks for making this a reality, saying, “This is wonderful. Thank you, guys. It’s good to see you”.  Watch footage of Bombay Bicycle Club’s opening set below:  

@officialrandl Welcome back @Bombay Bicycle Club ❤️ #randl23 #readingfestival #festival ♬ original sound – Reading & Leeds Festival

The full setlist can be found below:

“Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)”
“Shuffle”
“My Big Day”
“Lights Out, Words Gone”
“Evening / Morning”
“Luna”
“Carry Me”
“Always Like This”

Earlier this week on Wednesday Bombay Bicycle Club also released a brand new single, “I Want To Be Your Only Pet“, another track, the third released to date after “My Big Day” and “Diving“, a Holly Humberstone collaboration, that will feature on the band’s upcoming sixth studio album.

The indie rock group, consisting of Jack Steadman (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jamie MacColl (guitar), Ed Nash (bass), and Suren de Saram (drums), formed in 2005. After releasing demos of songs on Myspace, the band entered the music scene for good after winning Virgin Mobile’s “Road to V” competition in the summer of 2006, enabling them to perform at the 2006 V Festival with the opening slot. And now here they are opening Reading and Leeds to a set of adoring fans, the very definition of full circle.

Our sixth album, My Big Day, is coming out Oct 20. It is a shared endeavour with old and new friends and we can’t wait to share it with you. The title track is out now and you can preorder the album here – https://t.co/7DjzS4qaEj pic.twitter.com/xqTCyS12wy

— Bombay Bicycle Club (@BombayBicycle) June 14, 2023

The North London based band have also shared the title track from the upcoming LP, complete with an absurdist music video that combines frontman Jack Steadman (or Mr Jukes as he is known by those who know) as a newscaster, the song’s lyrical content and wacky headlines and stories.

Watch the music video for “My Big Day” below:

The indie rock group, consisting of Jack Steadman (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jamie MacColl (guitar), Ed Nash (bass), and Suren de Saram (drums), formed in 2005 with all but Nash attending the same secondary school, with Nash joining the band a year later. After releasing demos of songs on Myspace, the band entered the music scene for good after winning Virgin Mobile’s “Road to V” competition in the summer of 2006, enabling them to perform at the 2006 V Festival with the opening slot.

Bombay Bicycle Club then released their debut EP, The Boy I Used to Be, in 2007 and recorded their debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose, the following year, eventually releasing it in the summer of 2009. The LP received a reasonably positive reception, peaking at number 46 on the UK Albums Chart, and the lead single, “Always Like This“, released two months prior to the album, reaching number 97 on the UK Singles Chart.

Watch the music video for “Always Like This” below:

The band’s next album, Flaws, an acoustic dive into indie folk, came in 2010, reaching number 8 on the UK Albums Chart, marking a significant increase in the group’s popularity. The group then returned to their electric guitar based indie rock beginnings with their following two albums, with A Different Kind of Fix released in 2011, and So Long, See You Tomorrow in 2014.

Bombay Bicycle club announced an indefinite hiatus in 2016, with Steadman and Nash each releasing solo material, before returning in 2020 with the group’s fifth studio album, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. 2020 also saw the band release a charity EP, Two Lives, covering Bonnie Raitt, release a live album wherein they performed their debut album in full at Brixton, and perform a virtual livestream at Konk Studios. They also headlined Latitude Festival in 2021. Their sixth and most recent album, My Big Day, will be released on October 20th and you can pre-order the album here.

See below for summer tour dates:

15/06/2023 – Concert Hall, EartH – London
16-18/06 – Festival 8 2023 – Vilnius
24/06 – Hangar 34 – Liverpool
06-08/07 – Mad Cool Festival 2023 – Madrid
07-09/07 – Otherside 2023 – Slane
26/07 – Project House – Leeds
28-30/07 – Low Festival 2023 – Benidorm
28-30/07 – Y Not Festival 2023 – Matlock
17-20/08 – Pukkelpop 2023 – Kiewit-Hasselt

You can purchase tickets for these live shows here.

The organisers spoke of the new acts on the Instagram post below, saying “SO excited to welcome The Lathums, Sea Girls, Mystery Jets, Pigeon Detectives, Heather Small, Yonaka, Caity Baser, Thomas Headon, CMAT, late night DJs Hannah Wants & Faithless, comedy headliners Dom Joly & Angelos Epithemou, the return of Barrioke + LOADS LOADS MORE to the Peaks this summer. It’s going to be the biggest one yet.”

There are plenty of acts for fans and festival goers to be excited for.

The rock duo Royal Blood are headlining after the surprise release of a new single “Honeybrains” in March, and with rumours circulating of a new album. They are playing in between other festivals, supporting Muse on select dates for their world tour, and their own tour dates. They tweeted about their headline slot:

They keep on coming. We’ll be headlining @ynotfestival in July. It’s time to roll with the rockers so we can rock with the rollers. https://t.co/u90sdSXlLH pic.twitter.com/vZFrfSGshc

— Royal Blood (@royalblooduk) February 2, 2023

Alongside them are rock band Kasabian, playing the festival after the success of their seventh album The Alchemist’s Euphoria last year. The band sold out their last UK tour in the winter, with fellow YNOT-performers The Lathums as support.

Liverpudlian indie rock band The Wombats will also be returning to headline the festival. The band formed in 2003, and achieved their first UK number one album last year, with Fix Yourself, Not The World. The festival announced their return on Instagram below, saying “In a few months’ time we’ll be chilling in the fields listening to The Wombats boys do what they do best. Who’s excited for this one??”

Pop sensation Maisie Peters is also set to perform after a gigantic fews years supporting Ed Sheeran on his world tour, performing her own sold out tour over the past few months, and after the release of her second album The Good Witch, which will be out on June 16th 2023.

It is the festivals 16th year, since its creation in 2005. Their website says “Starting life as a house party in 2005, our party spilt over into a festival in some of the most stunning countryside around. Some 14 years on, we still have the same ethos at heart – Enjoy amazing music, great food and carefree fun in the heart of the beautiful Peak District.”

The offical YNOT 2023 playlist can be streamed below, featuring all of the festivals’ top acts for fans to prepare for the epic weekend.

The festival takes place between 28th and 30th of July in Pikehall, Derbyshire.

You can buy tickets from Gigantic here.

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This year, I was lucky enough to play the festival and get a chance to snoop around (I moonlight as a wannabe popstar), and to cut to the chase, was pretty blown away by what Josh and his team have managed to put together over the years. Scattered with 3 stages, Barn, Outdoor, and Main, and accommodating no more than 2000 people, the site is small but bustling with more charm and sincerity than most festivals I’ve attended. Taking advantage of it’s status as a working farm, you can find ostriches, alpacas, donkeys, enormous pigs, and horses casually walking amongst the fields whilst interested and usually inebriated festival goers look on both amused and enamoured. There are hammocks, outdoor beds, orchards, and even the curious new addition of “Grandma’s House” to enjoy as you wonder around the site, the latter being the creation of chief festival designer Harriet Lily. Grandma’s House, a tiny wooden shack with an overgrown lawn and bras and stockings hanging on a washing line, remained a mystery until it’s opening at 19.00 on the Friday night, when it soon became swarmed with people looking to enjoy the late night DJ set that went on inside. Only able to house 15 people at a time, you are allowed to enjoy an aptly designated 15 minutes of dancing before being kicked out for the next batch of clubbers, with 220 Kid even dropping by to play a surprise set this year. Elsewhere James Bay, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Vaccines, Maisie Peters, Easy Life, Maverick Sabre, and Tom Walker headlined across the various stages over the weekend, with Holly Humberstone, Beabadoobee, Griff, and many other hotly tipped rising stars playing just beneath them.

As an artist playing there, the first thing you notice is an overwhelming sense of acceptance and welcome on arrival. The green room is the same for everyone, whether you’re me or Bombay Bicycle Club, everyone is put under one big barn roof that I can only imagine houses tractors during it’s everyday running as a farm. On the first weekend of July every year though, it’s home to hundreds of creatives from around the world as they wait to get on stage. With beer, cider, food, coffee, tea, and even a very friendly man named Tom’s bake off worthy homemade brownies scattered around the room, anything you want- the wonderful green room staff have got you covered.

Unfortunately I only get 500ish words to write this article, so I’m going to have to stop prattling on, however I would highly highly recommend checking this festival out and going next year. I think it’s my favourite I’ve attended so far and can’t sing it’s praises enough. For more info click here.