Coldplay announce London and Hull stadium shows, with 10 per cent of proceeds for Music Venue Trust
Coldplay have announced details of huge stadium shows in London and Hull for next year – marking the band’s only UK and European shows of 2025 and promising 10 per cent of their proceeds to Music Venue Trust. Check out dates and ticket details below.
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The band first teased the news over the weekend with posters in the Dublin Castle in Camden – the location of the band’s first gig under then name ‘The Coldplay’. Now, the Glastonbury 2024 headliners have confirmed that they’ll be performing shows at Hull’s Craven Park Stadium in Hull before a run of dates at London’s Wembley Stadium next August in support of their upcoming 10th album ‘Moon Music‘.
They’ve also confirmed that 10 per cent of the band’s proceeds from the shows will be donated to the Music Venue Trust – helping to keep UK grassroots music venues open and fighting for the survival and development of upcoming artists.
“Coldplay are the perfect example of a UK band who came through the grassroots circuit on their way to worldwide stadium-filling success,” said MVT CEO Mark Davyd. “It’s fantastic to see them celebrating their own pathway to Wembley by giving back to the grassroots music venues that supported them and recognising the artists and promoters that are struggling more than ever to build their own careers.”
Davyd added that the money will “go directly into work that ensures communities right across the country will continue to have access to great live music on their doorstep”.
“The band’s support really will stop venues closing, make tours happen and bring the joy of live music to thousands of people,” he continued. “After months of discussing Coldplay’s potential support around these UK shows with them, we’re so happy and grateful that the news is finally out there!”
Donations will also be made to Music Venue Trust by the concerts’ promoters (SJM Concerts, Metropolis Music and Live Nation), the band’s booking agent (WME), the venues (Wembley Stadium and Hull Craven Park) and the official ticket agents (Ticketmaster, See Tickets and AXS).
Promising another “world first for a stadium show”, Coldplay will also be powering the Wembley shows’ production with 100 per solar, wind and kinetic energy – collected at the venue and elsewhere in the UK – and delivered by a specially-designed electric battery system. One of the satellite stages at each show will be fully powered by energy generated by the audience via kinetic flooring and power bikes.
Dates and ticket details
The general sale for tickets to the Wembley and Hull shows will behind at 9am on Friday September 27, with tickets available here.
Fans can also gain access to a pre-sale (at 9am on Thursday September 26) by pre-ordering ‘Moon Music’ here before 11.59pm on Tuesday September 24, with those who have already pre-ordered the album automatically be eligible.
Also, 50 per cent of the tickets to the gigs in Hill (the band’s first ever concerts in the city) will sold to local fans with HU, YO, DN or LN postcode via Ticketmaster on Thursday September 26 at 6pm.
Check out the full list of dates below:
AUGUST 2025
18 – Hull, Craven Park Stadium
19 – Hull, Craven Park Stadium
22 – London, Wembley Stadium
23 – London, Wembley Stadium
26 – London, Wembley Stadium
27 – London, Wembley Stadium
30 – London, Wembley Stadium
31 – London, Wembley Stadium
AUGUST 2025 LONDON & HULL DATES ANNOUNCED
Exclusive first ticket access to fans who order Moon Music from the official Coldplay UK or EU Stores, at https://t.co/G2iiva4kgH (inc those who already have).
These are the only UK/European cities where the band will perform next… pic.twitter.com/ZnDlgyfJyp
— Coldplay (@coldplay) September 17, 2024
After the general and pre-sales, Coldplay will make a limited number of ‘Infinity Tickets’ available for the shows via Ticketmaster at 12pm on Friday November 22, affordably priced at just £20 per ticket but limited to two tickets per purchaser and must be bought in pairs.
The band’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour recently became the biggest rock tour of all time, grossing $945.7million and selling 8.8million tickets since it began in March 2022. The shows have been praised for “setting a new standard” when it comes to an eco-conscious approach to live music, thanks to a slew of sustainable initiatives introduced by the band.
In June, it was revealed to have already produced 59 per cent less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour in 2016 and 2017. This already beats the original target that Coldplay had set to ensure they beat those of previous tours by 50 per cent.
It has also been revealed that 7million trees have been planted globally thanks to the success of the live shows. This comes as a result of the band promising to have one tree planted for every person who attends the tour.
Music Venue Trust have been calling for a ticket levy on all gigs arena sized and above, with the money paying back into the grassroots just as The Premiere League does with football. This comes after a report was shared earlier this year, showing the state of the sector for 2023 and revealing a “disaster” facing live music, with venues closing at a rate of around two per week.
Presented at Westminster, the MVT’s levy proposals and for major labels and larger venues back into the grassroots scene argued that “the big companies are now going to have to answer for this”.
Back in May, the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee shared a report highlighting the importance of grassroots venues, calling for immediate financial help through “a levy-funded support fund and a targeted temporary VAT cut to help stem the tide of closures“, as well as calling for “a comprehensive fan-led review of live and electronic music” to “examine the long-term challenges to the wider live music ecosystem”.
The economic impact of losing 125 music venues means that artists have lost around 16 per cent of all opportunities to perform across the UK (around 30,000 shows) – as well a loss of around 4000 jobs in total. The Music Venue Trust also argued that there was a “very significant blockage” in the talent pipeline as a result – leading to the “concern about whether the UK is going to continue to bring up the exceptional talent that we’ve dominated the world with for the last seven decades.”
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DCMS’ report also said that “given the urgency of the crisis, a voluntary levy on arena and stadium concert tickets would be the most feasible way to have an immediate impact, creating a support fund for venues, artists and promoters administered by a trust led by a sector umbrella body”.
The report added that the industry must also ensure that the levy cost is not passed on to music fans – with Enter Shikari proving that this can be done with their own system last year – and that “if there is no agreement by September or if it fails to collect enough income to support the sector, the Government should step in an introduce a statutory levy”.
MVT also recently made headlines by reminding fans that just 11 of the 34 grassroots venues played by Oasis on their first UK tour remain open. The Britpop heroes’ reunion tour has caused controversy due to employing dynamic surge pricing, leading to an investigation by the Competition And Markets Authority.
Coldplay release ‘Moon Music’ on October 4. Martin spoke to NME in 2021 about the “intense” pressure of releasing new music. “We’re going to make 12 albums. Because it’s a lot to pour everything into making them,” he explained at the time.
“I love it and it’s amazing, but it’s very intense too. I feel like because I know that challenge is finite, making this music doesn’t feel difficult, it feels like, ‘This is what we’re supposed to be doing’.”
Later, the singer said that the plan to only make three more Coldplay records “feels right to us”. Martin added: “I think we’ll keep touring, and we’ll always be together as a group of musicians and friends. But I think the story of our albums ends then.”
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Andrew Trendell
NME
