The shows will kick off at Portsmouth Guildhall on December 8 before wrapping things up at the Barbican in York just two days before Christmas. Tickets will go on sale on September 18 and can be found here.

The newly announced tour will coincide with an upcoming album of the same name, due to hit the shelves on September 26. Joining Plant on the project is the band he has been touring with since 2019, which includes singer Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, cellist Barney Morse-Brown and banjo and string player Matt Worley.

The Led Zeppelin legend has described the upcoming album as a “song book of the lost and found” which he has been working on since the Coronavirus pandemic, with the folk-inspired sound being recorded in studios across the Cotswolds and Welsh borders.

Plant and co. will begin the tour in North America throughout November before coming back over the pond to play the ten festive dates throughout December.

The full tour dates are as follows: 

December:

08 – Portsmouth Guildhall

09 – Eastbourne Congress Theatre

11 – London Royal Festival Hall

14 – Birmingham Symphony Hall

15 – Manchester Apollo

17 – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

18 – Edinburgh Usher Hall

21 – Middlesborough Town Hall

22 – Newcastle 02 City Hall

23 – York Barbican

Joining Plant and his band on the tour will be Burr Island, who have been confirmed as special guests for the tour. The alternative folk duo have previously received high praise from the likes of Paul Weller and Pete Townshend.

The upcoming album, ‘Saving Grace’, will feature a collection of classic songs written by the likes of Blind Willie Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Martha Scanlan and Mimi Parker. One particular song on the upcoming record will standout to Bob Dylan fans, with the folk hero covering ‘Gospel Plough’ frequently in his early years.

‘Saving Grace’ is available to pre-order now from here with a release date set for September 26. The accompanying tour will hit the British Isles in December with tickets going on sale on September 18. Fans who have pre-ordered a copy of the upcoming album will be eligible for the early access sale to tour tickets, from September 15.

Ticket sales began on December 5, 2024.

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Taylor will be joined by Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, Andrew Ridgeley from Wham!, David Palmer from ABC, as well as singer-songwriter Ella Henderson and guitarist Phil X. Together, they will perform a selection of their most renowned songs to an audience consisting of philanthropists, musicians, and two fortunate fans.

The event, set to take place on October 21 at Soho Farmhouse in the Cotswolds, will also encompass a live auction showcasing artworks by Banksy and Picasso and exclusive Fender guitars signed by artists including Lady Gaga, Nile Rodgers and Green Day including a special Fender Guitar to be played and signed by Andy Taylor on the night! Additionally, Katherine Ryan will deliver a comedic performance, while Ridgeley will assume the role of DJ.

In an interview discussing his treatment, Andy said, “There also needs to be a revolution in men’s healthcare about prostate cancer, a breaking down of the stigmas associated with getting tested. The Cancer Awareness Trusts’ vision for a Cancer Platform is what we need and why I’m an ambassador.”  He went on to add, “So many amazing people have come together to put this show together with Andy and I can’t wait to celebrate with them all on the night, but more importantly, I’m looking forward to putting the funds raised to the crucial and urgent work of transforming cancer outcomes.”

Duran Duran, founded in Birmingham in 1978, quickly rose to prominence in the 1980s as a leading musical group, receiving widespread recognition and praise for their exceptional contributions to the industry, boasting chart-topping hits such as “Rio,” “The Wild Boys,” and the James Bond theme “A View To A Kill”. In 2021, the group unveiled their 15th studio album, Future Past.

The funds raised will be allocated to the Cancer Awareness Trust, an organisation aiming to establish a novel platform advancing access to information regarding the disease for individuals affected by it.

The exclusive event with only 100 tickets made available, has attracted a diverse group of attendees. These esteemed guests have generously contributed to the charity in order to secure their attendance, in what will be an outstanding event for the Cotswolds.

Although tickets for this highly anticipated event have been completely sold out, the Cancer Platform announced “We’re offering two lucky fans the opportunity to join us for the evening with Andy Taylor & special guests in this VIP experience. Want to find out how to enter?”

We’re offering two lucky fans the opportunity to join us for the evening with @AndyTaylorLives & special guests in this VIP experience.

We’re offering two lucky fans the opportunity to join us for the evening with @AndyTaylorLives & special guests in this VIP experience.

Want to find out how to enter? https://t.co/7pXFVrixCS

— Cancer Platform (@thecancerplat) September 29, 2023

Although this event is sold out, you can still support Cancer Platform by bidding on incredible items in their Silent Auction or  by joining their thrilling Live Auction at 10:15pm BST on Saturday 21st October.

It has already been announced in weeks prior that the band will be joined on the road by bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss, and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant. As of today, it has been announced that Little Big Town, an Alabama based country band, will also be accompanying Eagles on their upcoming tour. The group shared a very enthusiastic tweet earlier today to confirm their participation in the tour.

We’ve been DYING to share this news. What a bucket list dream come true. We’re headed to Europe, including HYDE PARK, with The Eagles!!!! Tickets on sale Friday, 11/5. pic.twitter.com/bgnKeki5kZ

— Little Big Town (@littlebigtown) October 29, 2021

Little Big Town are no stranger to touring and commercial success, having formed in 1998 and finding great critical acclaim in the early 2010s, with the song “Pontoon” from their fifth album Tornado winning a Grammy award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. The album has also gone on to achieve a gold certification. The group are still very consistent and prolific with their musical output, having released their ninth full-length album Nightfall last year. The album has received favourable reviews, with some critics likening the group’s sound to that of Fleetwood Mac. The album, along with the rest of their musical catalogue, is available on all streaming services, and physical media can be found here.

For many, Eagles need little introduction. With a career spanning fifty years, six number one albums, five number-one singles and six Grammy Awards, the band have had quite an illustrious career, to say the very least. Eagles are perhaps best known for the rock classic “Hotel California” released in 1977, a Grammy award-winning song adored by millions, and boasts what many regards to be one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Eagles intended to play in the UK during the Summer of this year with two dates at Wembley Stadium, as a part of their Hotel California tour.

Tickets for the upcoming Hyde Park show will go on sale on Friday, November 5^th. Tickets to all of the upcoming shows on their European tour can be found here, and the dates for the tour are listed down below.

17/06/2022- Gelredome- Arnhem, Netherlands
20/06- Anfield Stadium- Liverpool, UK
22/06- Murrayfield Stadium- Edinburgh, UK
24/06- Aviva Stadium- Dublin, Ireland, UK
26/06- Hyde Park- London, UK

The new track is a follow up after a lead single “Can’t Let Go” released back in August and it’s the only original track on the upcoming LP. “High And Lonesome” following the vibe of the award-winning album Raising Sand from 2007. Raising Sand has won six Grammys, including Album and Record of the Year and reached No 2 on UK Album Chart.

You can listen to the song below.

Krauss and Plant have been named by USA Today as  “one of the most critically adored odd couples of music”. NPR Music added: “This feels like a warm welcome back from two old friends you haven’t seen in a long time,” and their voices “still fit together like a pair of dusty boots nestled atop a welcome mat“.

The forthcoming album has been recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios at the end of 2019. Kraus commented on the collaboration: “When we started, Robert had said that if it didn’t work, we’ll try it for three days and say goodbye”. “Robert’s singing is the epitome of freedom and spontaneity,” she added. “And I’m pretty regimented, but there’s a romance in contrast”.

“One of my favourite parts of this is the songs and songwriters that I had never heard of. Working with Robert, and with T Bone, is always a great education in musical history” she continues. Plant’s rock background and Krauss’ country background works magic and is definitely an advantage. Both musicians took their collaboration to a new level and finish working on the album just a few weeks before lockdown. 

“I thought I’d got America down, but here was this whole world of country music I’d not encountered,” he said. “That’s the great thing about me and Alison – we’re ably supported by a world of beautiful music that one of other of us doesn’t know too much about”.

“For the two of us, nothing was written in blood. We were ready to do something new and previously knew how good it was, so join us again. You can see where you are going. You have nothing to lose” – added Plant.

The new release is out on 19th November and can be pre-ordered here.

Robert Plant said about the album: “It’s such a far cry from everything I’ve done before“. “I love the whole kaleidoscope of music that I’ve explored, but this is a place where you can think within the song, you can decide how to bring home an emotion. It’s another blend that we’ve got, and long may we have more of them“.

Raise The Roof tracklisting is as follows:

01. Quattro (World Drifts In)
02. The Price Of Love
03. Go Your Way
04. Trouble With My Lover
05. Searching for My Love
06. Can’t Let Go
07. It Don’t Bother Me
08. You Led Me To The Wrong
09. Last Kind Words Blues
10. High And Lonesome
11. Going Where the Lonely Go
12. Somebody Was Watching Over Me

“Finally the doors are open and after 14 years here’s a sequel to Raising Sand. Full of interesting curves and great musicality in the company of great musicians, we “Raise the Roof”. Listen to our first single from the record “Can’t Let Go”, out now!” the musician shared on social media.

Finally the doors are open and after 14 years here’s a sequel to Raising Sand. Full of interesting curves and great musicality in the company of great musicians, we “Raise the Roof”. Listen to our first single from the record “Can’t Let Go”, out now!https://t.co/gsRxjvTEnd pic.twitter.com/9HCqJv5Po1

— Robert Plant (@RobertPlant) August 12, 2021

In a recent interview with MOJO, he commented about the release and working with Krauss again: “The good thing about Alison and I is that we’re a couple of kindred spirits”.

He also commented about heritage bands: “Most musicians form a band, then they stay in the band until it’s over – 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, whatever it is – and it starts to look sadly decrepit. It’s like people hanging onto a life raft, or staying in a comfortable place.” He didn’t want to stay in the group for decades and decided to move forward making his music. 

“For the two of us, nothing was written in blood. We were ready to do something new and previously knew how good it was, so join us again. You can see where you are going. You have nothing to lose” Plant commented on working with Krauss. Raise The Roof is the pair second release and is due on November 19th. You can pre-order the album here.

Led Zeppelin split up in 1980 after drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham died. Since then, the band reunited on several occasions, but only for one-off gigs. The latest one had happened in 2007 in London as a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

Asked about another reunion, Plant commented: “We’re 41 years into it now. It’s a very charming question, and it comes in all languages! but the conversation doesn’t really go now, because that spaceship has [departed].“

Commenting about the album Raising Sand he added: “It’s a miracle, this album. It’s as old as it is new – a couple of people at a certain time in their lives, doing something that neither of them expected. It’s clean”.

“There’s no going back, no going forward, it’s just, ‘This is it, today!’ that’s such a relief for me, and for Alison, too” Robert Pant added at the end.

‘And also, the accountancy job is still open on Stourport-on-Severn … [so] why don’t you just come back home and we’ll pretend all this stuff didn’t happen?’ he added. Plant did not find the letter until a few months ago: ‘it made me feel crazy because I thought about what a pitch it was in those days to chuck everything up in the air and just say, ‘Sorry, I’ve got to this,’ and for them to throw the next card down and say, ‘Well, if you do it, you can’t come back here and live the live you wanna live. It’s academia or you’re out.’ So I went. … I only went back, really, when I got engaged. … I went back and introduced my future ex-wife.’

Zeppelin singer confessed that he spent lockdown ‘in Worcestershire, Shropshire, the Welsh borders; just walking, painting, drawing’. By being forced to stay at home, he had plenty of time to put his house in order: ‘All the adventures that I’ve ever had with music and tours, album releases, projects that didn’t actually get finished or whatever it is — I just put them, itemised them all, and put everything into some semblance of order. So I’ve completely changed the set-up.’

However, these items will only see the light of day after Plant’s passing: ‘I’ve told the kids when I kick the bucket, open it to the public free of charge — just to see how many silly things there were down the line from 1966 to now. It’s a journey.’ For the time being, Robert Plant will headline this year’s Black Deer Festival in Kent.

We’ve been overwhelmed by the support from all the incredible artists & celebrities who will be helping to raise vital funds for our music therapy on Tue 15 Dec for our Christmas concert #SingForNordoffRobbins https://t.co/yt5APxGrNs @HipgnosisSongs @LSEplc @openexc @YourSSE pic.twitter.com/Rqmq6Po9M0

— Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy (@NordoffRobbins1) December 10, 2020

The list of performers for the virtual concert includes Cliff Richard; Rod Stewart; Robbie Williams; Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield; Simple Minds; Neil Young; Tony Bennett; Kaiser Chiefs; Rebecca Ferguson; Freya Ridings; Jack Savoretti and soul songstress Mica Paris. There will also be appearances from Led Zeppelin troubadour Robert Plant, The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Coloradan pop-rockers OneRepublic.

The musical sets will be interspersed with traditional and topical Christmas readings from British stars of stage and screen. Speakers will include Bill Nighy; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Rebecca star Lily James; actor, playwright and singer Kwame Kwei-Armah; Olivier Award winner Noma Dumezweni; and Freddie Fox.

Nordoff Robbins – founded in 1959 by Handsworth-born special education teacher Clive Robbins and American composer and pianist Paul Nordoff – helps provide therapy to music to those affected by life-limiting illness, isolation or disability. The charity works with  over 270 organisations across the UK; including schools, care homes, hospitals, mental health units, hospices, and neuro-rehab centres.

Previewing the gig this week, the charity’s Instagram page states: “Nordoff Robbins has been severely impacted by #COVID-19. Most of our fundraising activities have been cancelled, meaning we are expecting to lose over 50% of our income in 2020, putting music therapy at risk of stopping for the people who need it most. Our #SingForNordoffRobbins online Christmas concert will help raise vital funds for our music therapy.”

Host Nile Rodgers, the guitar behemoth behind the iconic sound of Chic and Sister Sledge, t0ld Music Week that he had a personal connection with the charity. He said “Nordoff Robbins music therapy is a charity close to my heart as I’ve witnessed the power of music first hand. I’ve seen how music connects with people all over the world in a way that nothing else can so when I heard that Nordoff Robbins were taking their annual carol service online, I jumped at the chance to host the event and to bring along some of my closest musical friends to help spread some Christmas cheer.”

The veteran hit-maker added “I know how hard this year has been for everyone, in particular charities. Because of the pandemic, Nordoff Robbins are expecting to lose much of their fundraising income. This means they are able to help less people, including children with autism who rely on music therapy for a sense of connection or those affected by life-limiting illnesses or disability – even though their services are needed now more than ever.“

Led Zeppelin themselves haven’t performed together since December 2007, when they headlined London’s O2 Arena, as part of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, during which over 20 million ticket requests were made for the single date. The concert was eventually released in 2012 titled Celebration Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y

The speculation has arisen today and the total deletion of Robert Plant’s official website, with only the words ‘Any time now…” emblazoned on the website’s black background. In the past, it has been rumoured that Plant who put the kibosh on potential reunions of Led Zeppelin, with fellow surviving bandmates Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones apparently game.

Plant is currently collaborating with The Sensational Space Shifters, which could well be what the post is referring to. However, reports from Feel Numb, suggest that Plant may well have approved a reunion for 2017’s Desert Trip festival, which takes place in October. It is though that the decision could have been made with the impending 50th anniversary  of the band’s formation in mind, and that the celebrations could extend into further gigs into 2018.