Franz Ferdinand announce 2025 North American tour
Franz Ferdinand have announced a North American headline tour for 2025 – find all the details below.
The Scottish band will head to the US and Canada next spring in support of their long-awaited sixth album ‘The Human Fear’, which is due for release on January 10 (pre-order/pre-save here).
“We’ve seen all of your comments and we are happy to announce that we’re heading back to North America in March and April next year,” they wrote on social media to confirm the dates.
Kicking off in Seattle on March 24, the forthcoming trek is also scheduled to visit Vancouver, San Francisco, Kansas City, Washington DC, Brooklyn, Montreal, Toronto and other cities.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time tomorrow (September 27) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale now by using the password ‘humanfear’.
Check out the announcement post and full itinerary below.
Local Pre-sale starts Thursday 26th September at 10AM Local and general sale starts Friday 27th September at 10AM Local. Tickets available here: https://t.co/B9MLhEVMUh.
— Franz Ferdinand (@Franz_Ferdinand) September 24, 2024
Franz Ferdinand’s 2025 North American tour dates are:
MARCH
24 – Showbox, Sodo – Seattle, WA
25 – Commodore – Vancouver, BC
28 – Warfield – San Francisco, CA
31 – Complex – The Grand – Salt Lake City, UT
APRIL
03 – Midland – Kansas City, MO
04 – The Fillmore – Minneapolis, MN
07 – Anthem – Washington, DC
08 – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA
10 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY
12 – Orpheum – Boston, MA
14 – M Telus – Montreal, QB
15 – History – Toronto, ON
Before those shows, Franz Ferdinand will hit the road in the UK and Europe early next year. Find any remaining tickets here, and see the list of UK gigs below.
MARCH
05 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
06 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
07 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
Franz Ferdinand have already previewed ‘The Human Fear’ with the single ‘Audacious’. The album will follow on from the group’s acclaimed and dance-driven 2018 record, ‘Always Ascending’.
Speaking to NME recently, frontman Alex Kapranos explained: “It feels great to be putting a single out after a wee while, but this is also the beginnings of a new album. That’s a big milestone in Franz Ferdinand history.”
As for what fans can expect from ‘The Human Fear’, Kapranos added: “I’m not going to give away too much now because there’s still a bit of time before the album comes out, but I will say [‘Audacious’] is not the only sound that you’re going to get on the album – quite extremely far from it in some cases.
“I don’t think there’s a single song that you’ll hear on the album and won’t think, ‘Oh, is that Franz Ferdinand?’ At the same time, they will be thinking, ‘Oh, did they really do that?’ That’s not to say I start rapping or anything like that.”
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