The tour will start in Cardiff and end in Manchester.

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DearALICE were first introduced to the public through the BBC Series Made In Korea: The K-Pop Experience. 

They also performed on Strictly Come Dancing following this BBC appearance, positioning them in the space of British pop and K-pop.

Their official debut came in February 2025, with their single ‘Ariana’, which was quickly followed up by ‘Sweet’.

They released their first EP ‘bitterSWEETsummer’ in June earlier this year, which ranked number 15 on the UK’s Official Album Sales Chart.

With them also being influenced by K-Pop, they have performed at SMTown Live 2025 in both Seoul and London.

They recently announced their first ever tour around the UK and yesterday announced their support act, UK based artist Tommy Lyon, via livestream.

After previously having been in UK boyband Here At Last, Tommy Lyon has released three solo songs, with his debut single ‘Live to Die’.

His most recent single ‘All That I’ve Known’, hit around 500,000 streams in 2 months.

This support tour will be Tommy’s first shows as a solo artist.

DearALICE’s upcoming tour will start October 27 at Cardiff’s The Globe, and will finish October 30 at Manchester’s Club Academy.

London tickets have already sold out, but fans can sign up to the waiting list, and buy tickets to the other dates here.

2025 UK dates:

October 27 – Cardiff – The Globe

October 28 – London – Dingwalls

October 29 – Newcastle – Think Tank

October 30 – Manchester – Club Academy

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Billie Eilish’s stage had an extremely unique layout of a figure eight shape and a 360-degree stage design, including smaller stages within the layout. The stage was centrally located, which allowed a clear view from every angle for the audience, a large-scale LED wall design that displayed original content and unique visual experiences, sunken pits for the band, walkways for Billie to get close to her fans, and a platform that allowed her to jump out of the floor as her entrance. The main stage was in the center of the design, while Billie also included a secondary stage on the other side of the arena, where she surprised fans, as well as including a floating platform.     

Her setlist was broken up into three sections, breaking up the performances between the main and secondary stages. Billie’s setlist included songs ‘CHIHIRO’, ‘LUNCH’, ‘NDA’, ‘WILDFLOWER’, ‘THE GREATEST’, ‘Your Power’, ‘bury a friend’, and ‘THE DINER’. 

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She then snuck off onto the secondary stage to perform ‘everything I wanted’, and ‘Guess’, her song with English singer-songwriter Charli XCX. Billie ended her set back on the main stage performing songs ‘L’AMOUR DE MA VIE’, ‘BLUE’, ‘Happier Than Ever’, ‘What Was I Made For?’, her song created for the 2023 Barbie movie, and ended with ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’. 

Eilish gave incredible crowd engagement throughout her shows by using a handheld camera to reveal the audience during certain songs, talking with her fans, and allowing them to participate with specific movements, and sing-alongs to popular songs. Billie had incredible range vocally and with her stage presence, with a mix of her highly energetic atmosphere, but also created extremely intimate moments during certain powerful songs that allowed for an emotional connection with her fans.

During her shows, Billie also had a moment of silence, recording different vocals on top of each other without the background noise of others, which added a unique layer of intimacy and stage performance.

Billie Eilish released her highly successful album ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ in May 2024, which reached number one in many countries and was the second most consumed album globally last year. 

The singer has been on tour for this album since September, starting in Canada and North America. In 2025, she started with her Australian leg and headed over to Europe in April. Billie’s current UK leg ends in Dublin on July 27. She also later announced two nights in Tokyo, Japan, in August, before heading back to North America for a second round in the Autumn.  

The R&B/electronica project of British producer and artist Dev Hynes will hit home soil in November, with three back-to-back performances at Alexandra Palace Theatre on Nov 8, 9 and 10.

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He will then play at Electric Bristol on Nov 13, before closing out his UK dates with a show at Manchester’s AO Arena on Nov 15. This final show will be as the supporting act for Lorde on her tour celebrating the release of her new album, ‘Virgin’, a record which Hynes had a hand in producing.

The London shows will feature an “in the round” stage production, with Blood Orange performing in the centre of the venue, giving fans an intimate, immersive live experience and a 360-degree view.

These UK stops will follow on from Blood Orange’s US tour dates, which will also see him as a support act for Lorde, and also for punk/hardcore band Turnstile, another act who Hynes helped for the production of their new album, ‘Never Enough’.

Two weeks ago, Devonte Hynes shared the first Blood Orange song in three years, titled ‘The Field’. The dreamy, ethereal tune features contributions from Caroline Polachk, Eva Tolkin, Tariq Al-Sabir and Daniel Caesar. It also contains a sample of  ‘Sing to Me’ by The Durutti Column, the art rock project of instrumentalist Vini Reilly.

Hynes’ last release as Blood Orange came in 2022 with his ‘Four Songs’ EP. Its last full-length project came in 2019, with the ‘Angel Pulse’ mixtape, which received a mainly positive reception. Of the eclectic, multi-genre mixtape, The Guardian wrote that”“Angel’s Pulse demonstrates the most appealing aspect of Hynes’ apparent restlessness: a broad gush of musical ideas and influences.”

Hynes has still been active musically, scoring for film and theatre, providing the soundtracks for projects like Paul Schrader’s drama Master Gardener in 2022. Previously, he’s composed scores for films like the romantic drama Queen & Slim, and has been nominated at the Grammys for the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in 2021 for his work on ‘Fields’, a collab album with Third Coast Percussion.

Tickets for the new shows will go on sale on Friday, July 11 at 10am local time. Pre-orders will be available from tomorrow, July 9. You can visit here for UK tour tickets and details, and find the full list of UK dates below.

Blood Orange – November UK Tour Dates

8 – London, UK, Alexandra Palace Theatre

9 – London, UK, Alexandra Palace Theatre

10 – London, UK, Alexandra Palace Theatre

13 – Bristol, UK, Electric Bristol

15 – Manchester, AO Arena w/ Lorde

The tour will see the metal fusion group travelling to some smaller, more intimate venues in UK areas that don’t often book big names like theirs. As well as stopping by in cities like Bournemouth, Swansea and Wolverhampton, the band will visit venues in towns like Frome, Tenby and Torquay.

Drummer Arya Goggin says, “We as a band are extremely conscientious about venturing outside of just the major UK cities to spread the Skindred sound. This October the “Detour” is our attempt to do just that. As a band we love to play live, but there are so many amazing towns and cities with fantastic venues across the country that get forgotten and need to be supported. That’s where our “Detour” comes in! We can’t wait to head back out across the UK this October on our “Detour.” See you there!”

2024 was an eventful year for Skindred, who were still riding high off the success of their eighth record ‘Smile’ in 2023, which peaked at No. 2 in the UK album charts. ‘Smile’ managed to nab the No. 1 spots in other charts, such as the UK Rock and Metal Albums, UK Independent Albums and UK Vinyl Albums.

They went on to win the award for ‘Best UK Act’ at the Heavy Music Awards in 2023, and ‘Best Alternative Music Act’ at the MOBO’s in 2024. They also played their biggest ever headline show in March last year, at the London OVO Arena Wembley.

Hailing from Newport, Wales, Skindred first stepped on the scene in the late 90’s as innovators of the “ragga-metal” sound, fusing elements of Jamaican music and heavy rock riffs. Their energetic shows have seen them win titles such as ‘Best Live Band’ at the UK Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in 2011.

Skindred’s full touring schedule can be viewed below:

Skindred – ‘THE DETOUR’ 2025 UK Dates
October
16^th – Keele, University Student Union
17^th – Tenby, De Valence Pavilion
18^th – Swansea, Patti Pavilion
23^rd – Buckley, Tivoli
24^th – Frome, Cheese & Grain
25^th – Worthing, Assembly Hall
30^th – Warrington, Parr Hall
31^st – Wolverhampton, KK’s Steel Mill

November
1^st – Middlesborough, Town Hall
2^nd – Wakefield, Venue 23
7^th – Torquay, Arena
8^th – Bournemouth, O2 Academy

14^th – Folkestone, Leas Cliff Academy

For more details, please visit Skindred’s official website here.

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The UK leg of Smith’s tour has had eyebrows raising with its unexpected selections of towns and cities. He will perform at Scarborough Open Air Theatre (24 August), Bute Park, Cardiff (25 August), O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester (27 August), Brixton Academy, London (28 August), and Civic Hall, Wolverhampton (30 August).   

While major cities such as Manchester and London do not come as a surprise, the inclusion of Scarborough, and particularly Wolverhampton, will come as a relief for certain parts of the UK music industry. The Music Venue Trust’s recently released 2024 report highlighted how many areas had fallen from touring schedules in favour of the larger arena-hosting cities. Wolverhampton was named among 17 cities to no longer be included on primary or secondary circuits, a decline that has been four decades in the making.

Presale tickets will be available from 10am on Wednesday, 19 March, with fans being directed to Smith’s website to gain access. Otherwise, general sale for all stops begins Friday, 21 March, again at 10am. Over on the continent, the ‘Switch’ singer will have stops in various countries, including Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, and Norway, with a mixture of headline shows and festival appearances.   

The tour seems to be supporting his upcoming album, ‘Based on a True Story’, set to be released on March 28. Smith released the first single from the album at the end of January, with ‘Beautiful Stars’ drawing inspiration from The Matrix. Smith was approached for the role of Neo before Keanu Reeves eventually got the role, and the music video heavily references various elements, including the red and blue pill scene, which some took to be an allusion to personal growth after the 2022 Oscars controversy. 

Production on the album has been handled by Lexoskeleton, who worked with the ‘Men in Black’ singer on his surprise Coachella appearance last summer, and OmArr, a frequent collaborator on Smith’s film projects, including Bad Boys For Life, who has also worked with Jaden Smith. Smith announced the album last week, posting the tracklist on his Instagram, and saying “Been working on this project for a minute and I’m itchin’ to get it out to y’all.”

 

 

 

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Just on the dates announced alone, 2025 will be the 56-year-old’s most extensive year of touring since 1990. That year, he played 17 shows alongside Jeff Townes, a duo better known as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. With 26 confirmed on this side of the Atlantic, US fans are speculating on the possibility of a tour stateside too, given the absence of North American dates. 

As part of that hip-hop duo, Smith achieved a UK No. 1 with ‘Boom! Shake the Room’, spending two weeks atop the chart in 1993, and has secured ten Top Ten hits in the UK as both a group and solo artist. Whether his newest album matches those past successes remains to be seen; however his larger-than-expected back catalogue will mean that the A-lister will have plenty of hits to fall back on.

According to Far Out Magazine, the full statement read, “Music unites! We will be there with you! Join us all as we celebrate the Summer of Democracy. Old songs and new songs. Old words and new words. Long jams! We will come together this summer. The Chrome Hearts and I are ready for you! LOVE and Democracy reigns in the USA and the world.”

I’m going to guess the U.K. bit will be one of the night at the O2 in London

— B. Al Zebub (Parody) (@pukthis) February 20, 2025

The post was removed for unknown reasons, although several outlets reported on the announcement before it disappeared. Young had already mentioned a summer tour, excited to share new material from his upcoming album when out on the road. This post went a step further, listing the UK, as well as other destinations, rather than just Europe. As of now, Young’s only confirmed performances in 2025 are Glastonbury, and a show in Ontario.

Young’s last European performances came back in 2014, as part of a European tour with Crazy Horse. 2014 was also the last time Young played in the UK as a main act, performing at BST Hyde Park and Liverpool Echo Arena, and his only previous appearance at Glastonbury was in 2009. He supported Bob Dylan at BST Hyde Park 2019.  

The ‘Summer of Democracy’ could be the name of the upcoming tour, given the emphasis placed on the phrase in the headline. The clearest link would be to Canada’s upcoming federal election, brought forward after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his early departure from the position. When Trudeau was first elected in 2015, the musician said “Canada is back”, but was later involved in a push for the PM to reform the first-past-the-post electoral system in 2017.

 

 

 

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Young made headlines last month when he pulled out of Glastonbury, only to backtrack and reverse the decision 72 hours later, claiming that he had withdrawn “due to an error in the information he received”. His initial announcement had claimed that the relationship between the festival and the BBC was a “corporate turn off”, and “not the way I remember it being”.   

Speculation around the dramatic U-turn was rife, with some online claiming that the contract may have been “bulletproof,” though some claimed that “Neil does things his own way,” as he did when he removed his catalogue from Spotify following comments made by  Joe Rogan on the streaming platform. Others believed that, as he did in 2009, Young had specific requests about the broadcasting of his set by the BBC. 

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Given Young’s legendary status, be that as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, his work alongside Crazy Horse, his solo work, or that which is still to come with The Chrome Hearts, fans will be optimistically waiting for a tour announcement.

Support acts have yet to be announced; however fans will be delighted to know that Smith will be joined by two of the musicians who played on the original recordings. Guitarist Lenny Kaye and keyboard player and bassist Jay Lee Daugherty have played with Smith throughout her live career. They will be joined by Tony Shanahan, who joined the group in 1996, and Jackson Smith, who joined in 2016.

The shows will see the album played in its entirety. The studio album comes in at a little over 43 minutes, with reissues including a cover of The Who’s ‘My Generation’, taking it beyond three-quarters of an hour. Smith’s shows tend to last around 80 minutes. When she toured ‘Horses’ in 2005, she performed additional tracks taking her shows closer to the typical runtime. Some of those that found their way onto the setlists included ‘Are You Experienced?’ by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and ‘Because The Night’, the Springsteen-penned ballad that was originally recorded by Smith in 1977. 

Produced by Welsh musician and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale, ‘Horses’ was like nothing that had come before it. The album was a mélange of musical styles, all carried by Smith’s beat-esque prose, sometimes spoken, sometimes sung. UK critics were split on its releases, with Charles Shaar Murray of NME calling it “one in a thousand”, while its detractors called it “amateurish”.

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The album would influence some of the most iconic figures in and around music for the next 15 years. Among them, Morrissey and Johnny Marr, the two guiding hands in The Smiths. Morrissey would also record a live cover of ‘Redondo Beach’ in 2004, released the following year. Michael Stipe of R.E.M. cited the album as an influence, and John Cooper Clarke, who opened for acts like The Clash, The Sex Pistols and The Fall, said “Lyrics became important for a while in the late Seventies. Patti Smith was a poet and a rock star, as much one as the other, the distinctions were a bit blurred and then you get swept up in it.”  

Smith recently made headlines when she collapsed on stage. Performing alongside the Soundwalk Collective, Smith suffered a migraine and was taken backstage in a wheelchair. She later reemerged to perform more songs. The singer later posted on Instagram asking fans not to believe “a grossly exaggerated account being spread by the press and social media.”

 

 

 

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The tagline for the show is: “Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred.” Fans lucky enough to snag a ticket to this show will be witnessing history as Smith appears to be winding down, whether that be celebrations of ‘Horses’, or touring as a whole. For those wanting to join in on the final ride, tickets can be purchased here.

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The Doobie Brothers have kept an intense touring schedule since the mid-90s, with their last visit to the UK being 2024 when they supported Eagles on their Long Goodbye tour over five nights at Manchester’s Co-op LIVE arena. Before that, they hadn’t performed in the UK since 2017.   This tour will be in support of their upcoming album ‘Walk This Road’, set to be released on June 6. Their previous studio album ‘Liberté’ was released in 2021, and songs from the album only made up 12% of all songs played live the following year. If the same happens with ‘Walk This Road’, fans can be almost certain of watching the band play their greatest hits, with a few new tracks sprinkled throughout. 

The dates are as follows:

July 11 2025 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow

July 13 – Hyde Park, London

July 15 – Co-op LIVE Arena, Manchester

July 17 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham

July 19 – O2 Arena, London

July 21 – 3Arena, Dublin

McDonald was instrumental in the band’s shift in sound in the mid-70s. Having previously played with Steely Dan, McDonald came into the Doobie Brothers as an emergency replacement for the band’s main singer and founder Tom Johnston.    The first album that featured McDonald divided opinion, with some enjoying the shift away from typical electric-guitar-based rock to more complex keyboard and synthesiser-driven music. Others thought the change saw the band “lose their rock and roll edge”.

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‘Walk This Road’ is the first album to feature McDonald since 1980’s ‘One Step Closer’. He shared his excitement on the band’s website: “Getting back in with the guys and playing again is great. In my heart, I’ve always been a Doobie Brother. We’ve all remained friends over the years. We’ve all been enjoying it tremendously, even more than we thought we would.”

UK fans have already been snapping tickets up. One X user wrote, “Tickets booked for The Doobie Brothers… They are touring with Michael McDonald so that elevated it to a bucket list must-see.” A glowing review from RGM after their 2024 Co-op LIVE show described the band as “defying their age” with an “electrifying performance”.

Tickets booked for The Doobie Brothers…they are touring with Michael McDonald so that elevated it to bucket list must see

— Carol D (@bluejeanbaby01) February 4, 2025

2025 is shaping up to be a good year for the band, alongside a new album and a return to the UK. They will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June, along with funk legend George Clinton, and Beach Boy Mike Love.

On their first UK headline tour in 8 years, there will be considerable excitement for six dates. Though no support acts have been announced yet, fans will be in for an unmissable night across any of those six dates, tickets for which are available here.

The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of Rum Sodomy & the Lash Ft James Fearnley, Jem Finer, Spider Stacy & special guests.
Tickets go on sale 9:30am Fri 22 Nov. Sign up at https://t.co/PxhZ8bnwBA by 5pm on 19 Nov for presale access pic.twitter.com/hFACjdf7yc

— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 18, 2024

The concerts lined up will see most original band members performing: James Fearnley, Jem Finer and Spider Stacy have confirmed they will be returning to the band for their revival tour. Furthermore, the band has announced there’ll be special guests throughout the nights of tour.

The tour is relatively limited, with only six dates set so far; it will be starting off from Leeds and culminating in Newcastle on May 8. Here are all the stops and venues:

Leeds, O2 Academy (May 1)

Birmingham, O2 Academy (May 2)

London, O2 Academy Brixton (May 3)

Glasgow, Barrowland (May 6)

Manchester, O2 Apollo (May 7)

Newcastle, O2 City Hall (May 8)

The Pogues begun their career in the early 80s in London, with little success at first. They released their first album, titled “Red Roses for Me” in 1984 and successively their hit record “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” the following year. The latter album gained The Pogues critical acclaim and peaked at 13 on UK charts, eventually receiving a gold certification. “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” is perhaps The Pogue’s most successful studio album.

The band kept releasing albums with their front man, Shane MacGowan, until 1991. Their record “If I should Fall From Grace with God” peaked at number 3 on UK charts, making it their highest achieved position on UK charts; the record also includes the hit Christmas song “Fairytale of New York” which comes back to charts every year at Christmas, but always fails to achieve number one.

After firing MacGowan, the band released a few records that weren’t reviewed positively by critics and failed to achieve success. This eventually led the band to break up for some time, to eventually reunite, along with MacGowan, in the early 2000s, and start performing together around the UK and Ireland and played some shows around Europe and the US as well. Their last performance together took place in Hyde Park in 2014, after which the band dissolved once again.

The Pogues have announced that the upcoming tour will see all the songs from “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” performed, along with some other ones.

Tickets will be available on pre-sale on November 20 if fans sign up here before 5 pm on November 19. General tickets will instead be available on Friday November 22 at 9:30 am.

Hendricks is yet to set a release date for the upcoming LP however he confirmed the news in an Instagram post with the very vague caption ‘album is on the way’. Fans haven’t just been left with breadcrumbs however as the avant-garde rapper dropped the first single lifted from the unreleased record ‘don’t rely on other men’ which is the alternative rappers first solo single since 2021 however it was written in collaboration with and frequent appearance on Peggy’s tracks, FREAKY – an extremely elusive and rarely ever pictured Baltimore rapper.

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Hendricks is due to hit the road for his U.S. leg of the ‘Lay Down My Life Tour’ in August which will see him perform in cities all across the U.S. such as LA, Chicago, San Fransisco, Dallas, New York, Orgegan, California and even stop off for a show in Vancouver, Canada however it is speculated that the untitled project won’t be released before then. Lucky for UK fans they don’t all have to scramble for tickets to JPEGMafia’s Albert Hall show as he won’t just be stopping off in Manchester when he touches down in the UK. The rapper has just released tour dates on his Instagram for cities like Glasgow, London, Brighton and Bristol as well as shows all across European cities, including Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels. For a full list of UK dates, see below.

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January 30 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

January 31 – Albert Hall, Manchester, England

February 2 – Barrowland, Glasgow, Scotland

February 4 – Roundhouse, London, England

February 5 – Chalk, Brighton, England

February 6 – O2 Academy Bristol, England

Hendricks has experienced massive amounts of success in the past few years most notably from producing and writing on four tracks from Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s album Vultures 1. The tracks include “Stars”, “Fuk Sumn”, “Beg Forgiveness” and “King”. The album gained commercial success after its release in February, 2024 and gained nearly 170 million official streams, and topping the billboard 200 chart according to an article by The Washington Post.

The rapper also dropped his collaborative project with fellow rapper, Danny Brown, SCARING THE HOES which was released on the 23rd of March of this year.

You can check out tickets for the Albert Hall show directly from their website here or you can access all other dates from the Ticketmaster website here.