Burna Boy has announced a headline show at Manchester’s Co-op Live next April

Don’t be Last Last, be first – tickets on sale now >> https://t.co/hdPnmiI3F3 pic.twitter.com/WoyP7wHJX2

— ticketmasteruk (@TicketmasterUK) December 20, 2024

This announcement follows Burna Boy’s historic performances, including being the first African artist to headline a UK stadium at London Stadium in June 2023. He returned to the same venue on June 29, 2024, as part of his ‘I Told Them…’ tour, delivering electrifying performances with guest appearances from artists like Stormzy, Dave, and J Hus.

Tickets for upcoming concert went on general sale on December 20, 2024. Premium packages, including VIP experiences, are available through Seat Unique, the presenting partner for this event. These packages offer various exclusive amenities, such as access to VIP lounges, premium seating, and pre and post-show events.

Burna Boy has previously collaborated with the British singer Lily Allen on the track ‘Heaven’s Gate’ from his 2018 album ‘Outside’. The song blends Afrobeat with reggae influences, creating a unique sound that highlights both artists’ versatility.

Additionally, Lily Allen invited Burna Boy to collaborate on her ‘Your Choice’ song from her 2018 album ‘No Shame’. No Shame marked a significant moment in Lily Allen’s career as a deeply personal and introspective album. In ‘Your Choice’, Allen reflects on her personal experiences, including the end of her marriage and her struggles with substance abuse. These collaborations broadened Burna Boy’s presence in the UK music scene.

In addition to Burna Boy’s live performances, he has been active in the studio. He announced his eighth studio album, ‘No Sign Of Weakness’, set for release in 2025, and recently released a new single titled ‘Bundle By Bundle’. Burna Boy uses the song to flaunt his achievements while embracing the carefree, celebratory essence of Nigerian street culture. The song features the classic rhythmic patterns of Afrobeats, Burna Boy’s usual style. 

Given Burna Boy’s reputation for dynamic performances and the exclusivity of this UK arena show, it’s advisable to secure tickets promptly to avoid disappointment. Tickets can be found on Ticketmaster and DICE.

Twenty One Pilots have teased us with a fairly last-minute London show.

After having kicked off the ‘Clancy Era’ in a live environment (playing New York’s tiny Bowery Ballroom on May the 2nd), Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun are set to visit the capital on May 9.

The pair will be playing the Electric Ballroom in Camden on the 9th of May. Tickets are available here.

The Irish, West London-based artist, (real name Jessica Smyth), took to socials this week to unveil the benefit gig, stating: “The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is one of the most horrific I’ve seen in my lifetime. There have been so many lives destroyed and dreams taken from innocent people. I wanted to hold an event to raise money to support the people that have been affected and to spread awareness to what’s happening in real time.”

The Cork native gave thanks to her friends and artists participating in the night of music; a stellar lineup of acoustic performances and DJ sets from the likes of Kojaque, Maverick Sabre, Lava La Rue, Mac Wetha, Jelani Blackman, and Yunè Pinku. She went on to also thank the venue for hosting and Choose Love for their extended humanitarian efforts around the world.

In 2016, Choose Love, formerly known as Help Refugees, became the largest grassroots organisation and distributor of aid in Europe, and has gone on to support refugees and displaced people across the globe for nearly a decade.

Emma Stevenson, Deputy CEO of Choose Love, commented: “We’re so grateful to Biig Piig choosing love and helping us get essential aid to the 2+million people trapped inside Gaza. It’s unbearable to witness the devastation and suffering of so many people. But by Choosing Love there is always something we can do when we come together. Biig Piig and everyone who attends the event on February 4th will be making a huge difference.”

The singer confirmed that 100% of all profits raised from ticket sales and merchandise will go towards the non-governmental organisation and will directly support emergency response work in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.

Since the conflict reached its boiling point in October 2023, other artists across the industry have banded together to express their concern, most recently with Dua Lipa calling for a ceasefire and urging for world leaders to take a stand.

Tickets for the sold out show are still available here at £25, with an opportunity to join a waiting list. Doors are expected to open at 6:30pm, with the event starting at 7pm, plus appearances from special surprise guests.

The second round of New Order’s outdoor shows will be an all-day event and homecoming performance held at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park on August, 24. The exciting hometown show will feature UK artists Johnny Marr and Roisin Murphy as supporting acts.

We are pleased to announce two UK shows, at Cardiff’s Alexander Head with @thecharlatans, and at Wythenshawe Park in Manchester with @Johnny_Marr and @roisinmurphy.

Presale tickets are on sale at 10am on 04/12 General on sale begins at 10am on Tuesday 05/12.#NewOrderLive pic.twitter.com/ddJvOEZoxy

— New Order (@neworder) November 29, 2023

In 2023, the iconic synth-pop band celebrated the 40 year anniversary of their legendary track “Blue Monday”, and announced a reissued edition of their best selling compilation album Substance 1987 to celebrate the occasion.

Moreover, founding member of the group Bernard Sumner recently joined forces with American band Gorgol Bordello to cover Angelic Upstarts’ classic punk hit “Solidarity” in order to donate profits to a relief charity in Ukraine.

When it was first recorded, the song was written in support of the anti-Communist Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, and went on to be the band’s most famous hit. Now, Gogol Bordello have introduced a new, alleged modern meaning to the original track, with the lyrics relating to ongoing attack on Ukraine.

Sumner had also spoke out on his feelings towards the conflict in Ukraine in his recent collaboration with Mella Dee on the song “Riptide”. When speaking to NME about the song, he said: “It was all about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and I was just seeing that all of the time. I’d been in a vacuum so I wrote it about politics, really, and the war. I wanted to write it about something that meant a lot to me,” he added: “I didn’t know what else I could write a song about. It was a bit like that scene out of A Clockwork Orange where he’s got his eyes pinned back and he’s made to watch all these horrible films.”

Presale tickets for New Order’s outdoor UK shows will become available at 10am on December, 4, with general sale for tickets starting at 10am the following day on December, 5. You will be able to purchase your tickets here.

Tour dates:

22/08/2024 – Cardiff Bay – Cardiff
24/08 – Wythenshawe Park – Manchester

UK I’m playing at @cardiff_castle and #CastlefieldBowl with the one and only @simpleplan next July 2024. Come rock out with us!

Tickets on sale Dec 1st: https://t.co/vzpVRmAHZh pic.twitter.com/YMOhMRKMov

— Avril Lavigne (@AvrilLavigne) November 28, 2023

Before the shows with Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan will be in the UK for their Hard As Rock tour with New York band State Champs and Florida based band Mayday Parade, which kicks off at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on February 9, and wraps up at London’s Eventim Apollo on February 16, 2024. Throughout this tour, the equivalent of $1 (equivalent to 79p) from each ticket sold will be donated to the Simple Plan Foundation, whose aim is to help young people in need, by easing their difficult passage to adulthood and by supporting the victims of life threatening illnesses.

Lavigne released her seventh studio album Love Sux on February 25, 2022. The album charted at number three in the UK and included the singles “Bite Me”, “Love It When You Hate Me” and “I’m A Mess”. The “Girlfriend” singer will be hitting the road in Europe this summer, alongside her UK shows, to promote the album, produced by Blink-182’s Travis Barker.

Her European tour will kick off next June at Rock For People in Czechia, and continue with dates in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France and Spain. More information can be found on Lavigne’s official website.

In other Avril Lavigne news, last month the pop-punk icon made a surprise appearance at When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. While onstage, she first joined American Rock band All Time Low for “Fake As Hell”, her new collaborative track with the band, before pleasing the crowd with a performance of her classic hit “Sk8er Boi”.

Tickets for both UK shows will become available this Friday, December 1. Click the link here to purchase your tickets.

Tour dates:

14/06/2024 – Rock For People – Hradec
15/06 – Novarock – Nickelsdorf, Austria
22/06 – Hurricane Festival – Schnee
23/06 – Southside Festival – Neuhausen Ob Eck
27/06 – Tinderbox – Odense, Denmark
02/07 – Cardiff Castle – Cardiff
03/07 – Castlefield Bowl – Manchester
09/07 – I-Days Festival – Milan
10/07 – Festival de Nimes – Nimes
12/07 – Festival Cruilla – Sant Adria De Besos

Speaking on the impact of the album, Alana Haim said, “The crazy thing about ‘Days Are Gone’ is that the first thing that we ever came out with was the ‘Forever’ EP and we put that out on the internet without knowing how to promote things.”

She continued, “We didn’t know how to get music out there. The only thing that we knew was that we were super proud of what we had finally created after being a band for six years at that point. We had finally gotten a recording that we loved, and we were like, ‘Cool, we have this. What do you do with it?’ So we put it on the internet with absolutely no idea what was going to happen. And it completely changed our lives.”

Bassist Este Haim also shared, “A lot of the songs we’ve written when we were in our twenties mean something different to us now that we are in our thirties. I don’t know if we are any wiser, though.”

Following its release in 2013, Days Are Gone reached No.1 on the UK charts, No.2 on the Billboard Top Alternative Rock Album chart and No.6 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Haim have also created a special edition vinyl reissue of the album, availabe to pre-order here, set to be released on 29th September.

Haim took to Twitter to celebrate the Days Are Gone 10th anniversary, writing, “This year marks the 10 year anniversary of our first record, and our baby, “ Days Are Gone”. This record was a labor of love, with songs we’d been writing since high school in our living room.”

This year marks the 10 year anniversary of our first record, and our baby, “ Days Are Gone”. This record was a labor of love, with songs we’d been writing since high school in our living room. To celebrate, we made a special edition re-issue of our vinyl and cd that comes out… pic.twitter.com/iuoglUrVMU

— HAIM (@HAIMtheband) July 12, 2023

Tickets for the Shepherd’s Bush Empire show will be available on pre-sale on 29th August at 12pm for fans who pre-order any format of the 10th anniversary reissue of Days Are Gone from Haim’s official website. Tickets are available on general sale from 12pm 30th August and can be purchased here.

Stream Haim’s debut album, Days Are Gone, here.

LONDON WE ARE COMING BACK!
We are only doing 1 headline show so get your tickets quick! Tickets on sale Friday:https://t.co/Z9qLzVDA6O pic.twitter.com/4UHqGuRj6s

— The Lazy Eyes (@TheLazyEyesband) May 9, 2023

The group’s last visit to the UK came back in May of last year, where they played The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and five other headline shows throughout England, supporting, in the process, the release of their debut album, Songbook.

Songbook, which was released on April 21st last year via The Orchard, was met with widespread favourable reviews, with Atwood magazine labelling it “An enchanting tapestry of colorful, psychedelic sonic wonder ready to whisk us into a radiant, groovy daydream“.

Watch the music video for “Where’s My Brain???” below:

The record remains the group’s only album release to date, but with the abundance of creativity that presides in it, fans and critics alike can expect to be hearing a lot more of the Sydney band in the near future, particularly if The Lazy Eyes can not only meet their clear inspiration in fellow Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard in musical prowess and creativity but also in productivity, given the aforementioned has released a staggeringly prolific 23 studio albums in 11 years, with another, PetroDragonic Apocalyse, scheduled to be released later this week.

The Lazy Eyes were formed in 2015 in Sydney, Australia, whilst the band members were schoolmates at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. The lineup consists of Harvey Geraghty (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Itay Shachar (vocals, guitar), Leon Karagic (bass) and Noah Martin (drums).

The latest psychedelic rock band to come out of Australia have sold out shows wherever they go and, similarly to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and their Gizzfest, have their very festival, Lazyfest, which they founded in 2021. The Sydney psych-rock outfit are regularly found on Triple J, an Australian alternative music radio station, and recently covered the Bee Gees’ “More Than A Woman” on the station’s Like A Version segment, whilst also performing their own track “Fuzz Jam“.

Watch the music video for “Fuzz Jam” below:

Whilst this second visit to the UK for the Aussie psych-rock outfit only has one show in store for fans, the band’s continual growth in popularity here in Europe will surely see them visit the other side of the world more often. Indeed, for psychedelic rock fans, our prayers will surely be answered.

You can purchase Songbook here.

You can purchase tickets for the headline show at Dingwalls, London here.

The band took to Twitter to announce the surprise show, writing “London! We’re headed your way for One Night Only at Royal Albert Hall on April 14th. How has it been 3 years since we last played a show for you?!”

London! We’re headed your way for One Night Only at Royal Albert Hall on April 14th How has it been 3 years since we last played a show for you?? pic.twitter.com/ctgVSfSCRI

— Jonas Brothers (@jonasbrothers) March 10, 2023

They also posted “Let’s get it London!”

Let’s get it London! See you 14th April for the show at Royal Albert Hall Pre-order THE ALBUM at https://t.co/IWX6zduLra for early ticket access. Tickets onsale 17th March at 10am GMT! pic.twitter.com/lg14kzUJVV — Jonas Brothers (@jonasbrothers) March 10, 2023

Fans will gain access to presale tickets by preordering the new Jonas Brothers album before 14th March. Standard ticket sale starts on 17th March. Tickets can be purchased here.

The brothers announced their new project earlier this year titled The Album, due to be released on 12th May. This is the band’s sixth studio album and is reportedly “inspired by 70s influences.”

In an interview with E! News, Nick Jonas revealed, “We’re taking the roots of what our sound is, but also going back to our roots and pulling from those ‘70s influences we grew up listening to.”

They have cited The Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder and Boston as influences for their new project and have hinted at a tour to follow. Kevin Jonas said a tour “will be coming very soon.” He continued, “We are going to be doing a bunch of shows leading up to the album release as well. A lot of exciting things this year and the years to come.”

Sharing his brothers’ excitement for their new project, Joe added “A lot of things happened obviously in the last couple of years, so we never got the time to just connect, stay in one room and work on new music. To be able to do that and have that outcome that we had, we are so thrilled.”

The band released “Wings“, the first single from The Album back in February. The track teased their new 1970s inspired approach, coming in at No.91 on the UK Singles Sales chart.

The Album was originally scheduled to be released on 5th May but has been pushed back by a week. The brothers took to Instagram to announce that “Sometimes the best projects take a little longer than originally planned. We’re moving THE ALBUM release date back one week to May 12th and releasing it on vinyl too.”  

 

 

 

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Having documented their tumultuous relationship eventually leading to disbanding, fans are excited to see the Jonas Brothers ushering in another new positive era after the success of their last album, Happiness Begins.

UK fans have already shared their excitement surrounding this one night only performance in London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall.

JONAS BROTHERS AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL DOING A ONE NIGHT ONLY SHUT UPPPP

— sera (@tearsnessa) March 10, 2023

Tickets will be available to purchase here.

Preorder The Album here.

Stream “Wings” here.

The gig is set to be hosted in the town’s National Bowl. Further acts supporting the band will be announced at a future date. Tickets go on sale at 10 am on Thursday, January 16.

A pre-sale of tickets will go live the day before (January 15). Fans can sign up for these tickets through Live Nation here. Since it’s conception in 2012, Knotfest has expanded into Mexico, France, Japan, Colombia and now the UK.

The first ever #KnotfestUK is coming to The National Bowl in Milton Keynes on 22 August. Line-up, on-site activities + ticketing info coming soon. Outside The 9 Fan Club pre-sale begins 19 December.

Join OT9: https://t.co/2G4kIH928D
More info: https://t.co/dUiG7jAbrupic.twitter.com/fVYamDEQVT

— Knotfest UK (@knotfestuk) December 11, 2019

Last year, Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan discussed plans for Knotfest to come to the UK with NME.

He said: “It definitely will happen but it has to be the right thing,” 

He further said: “Right now we do a lot of festivals with a lot of great people and you’ve got to find a time and a zone and it’s got to be right.”

On January 14, Slipknot kicked off their 2020 UK and European Arena Tour at the 3Arena in Dublin. Check out their full schedule below:

14/1/20 – 3Arena, Dublin.
16/1 – Manchester Arena, Manchester.
17/1 – Utilita Arena, Newcastle.
18/1 –  The SSE Hydro, Glasgow.
20/1 – FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield.
21/1 –  Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham.
22/1 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff.
24/1 – Birmingham Arena, Birmingham.
25/1 – The O2 Arena, London.

Frontman Corey Taylor said: “It feels good to be coming back for an extensive tour of Europe and the UK,” 

“No matter how many times we come there, it always feels like we can never get enough, nor play ALL the cities we want to.  But one thing’s for certain: the audiences are ALWAYS some of the best in the world.”

Slipknot released their critically acclaimed sixth studio album, ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ back in August 2019.