The New York-based band released their highly acclaimed fourth studio album in February 2021 which peaked at Number 6 on the UK album chart. The album delivered a succession of huge singles including “And So It Went”, “Death by Rock and Roll”, “Only Love Can Save Me Now” and the awesome “25.” Their record followed on from previous releases; Light Me Up, 2014’s Going To Hell and 2016’s Who You Selling For.

The Pretty Reckless will head to the UK and Ireland in October, playing gigs in Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham. The tour then continues in early November, with dates set in Bristol, Southampton, Norwich and London. You can view the tour poster below.

The dates will follow their already-announced US run this spring, which kicks off on April 1 in Spokane and will end on September 25 at the Louder Than Life Festival in Kentucky. It’s the quartet’s first tour in five years, following 2016-2017’s Who You Selling For Tour.

Alongside the tour dates The Pretty Reckless will also come to the UK a little earlier to perform live at this year’s Download Festival, which is set to take place from June 10-12 and will be headlined KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro. Fans can view the dates below and purchase tickets for The Pretty Reckless’ UK headline tour from here. They will go on general sale today at 10am.

23/10/22 Ulster Hall – Belfast
24/10 Olympia Theatre – Dublin
26/10 Barrowland – Glasgow
27/10 Academy -Manchester
29 /10 O2 City Hall – Newcastle Upon Tyne
30/10 O2 Academy – Birmingham
01/11 O2 Academy – Bristol
02/11 O2 Guildhall – Southampton
03/11 UEA – Norwich
05/11 O2 Academy Brixton – London

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— Years & Years (@yearsandyears) October 29, 2021

Years & Years used to be a synth-pop trio made out with singer Olly Alexander, bassist Mikey Goldsworthy and keyboardist Emre Turkmen. The split in 2015, after releasing a single “King” that reached No 1 spot in UK Charts.
In April this year, Alexander announced that the band now will be a solo project. He put some highlights with regards to split saying: “I’ll tell you the honest truth of what happened was is; me, Mikey and Emre met, like, ten years ago“.
“We’ve been in this band for a decade, and in that time, we’ve just kind of grown apart musically, right. We kind of stopped making music together, and when we announced that I was going to be Olly Years & Years, it had kind of been a long time coming if that makes sense” he added.
Along with the album announcement, Alexander shared a new single “Crave” and a video for it. You can watch the video below.

Speaking about the upcoming album Alexander said: “I’ve been writing all the songs for this new album, and Emre’s working on other stuff, he’s got his family to raise and so it’s just an honest thing. We didn’t fall out, we’re all mates and stuff, it’s definitely different but I’m really excited as well to kind of do my thing this time“.
Asked why did he choose to stay with the band name and not release music under his own name, he commented: “These songs I’ve written like ten years ago, some of them, I don’t want to let them go, I still want to do it, so I felt like, this is just felt right to stay as Years & Years I think“.
Last month Years & Years collaborated with Kylie Minogue on a single “A Second To Midnight”. He has also been recently announced as a headliner at next year Glasgow festival – Colourboxx that will take place in June 2022.
Years and Years UK and Ireland tour will begin in May in Brighton and will end up in June in Glasgow. Tickets to the tour are available here from 9 am on the 5th of November.
See full dates of Years & Years 2022 Tour below:

19/05/22 – Centre – Brighton
20/05 – International Centre – Bournemouth
21/05 – Resorts World Arena – Birmingham
26/05 – Wembley Arena – London
28/05 – AO Arena – Manchester

24/06 – National Museum of Ireland – Dublin
25/06 – Colourboxx Festival at Bellahouston Park – Glasgow