Shack reunite for 2025 UK tour

3 March, 2025

Mick Head

Shack have announced a 2025 UK tour, set to kick off this spring. Check out all the dates and ticket information below.

The legendary indie band, led by frontman Michael Head, recently announced a hometown Liverpool show at The Olympia, marking their first gig in over a decade. When the news was shared, guitarist Nathaniel Laurence revealing he would be joining the band onstage.

The lone date sold out in a matter of hours last Saturday (March 1), and now the Liverpudlian outfit have announced further dates on their highly anticipated UK reunion tour, following the unprecedented demand for their initial Liverpool date.

Per a press release, the tour will see Head and co perform a curated selection of their most beloved songs, and will see them revisit classics from previous albums like ‘Waterpistol’ and ‘HMS Headful’. Tickets go on sale this Friday (March 7) at 10am, and you can find yours here.

Shack’s 2025 UK tour dates are:

April:
25 – Liverpool Olympia (SOLD OUT)

May
1 – Glasgow St. Luke’s
2 – Manchester O2 Ritz
5 – London Union Chapel

Made up of Head, his brother John on guitar, Peter Wilkinson on bass and Mick Hurst on drums, the band debuted in 1988 with ‘Zilch’. Follow-up ‘Waterpistol’ arrived several years later in 1995 after all the masters of the album were destroyed in a fire at the band’s then-record label.

They re-formed after a split, releasing ‘H.M.S Fable’ and ‘Here’s Tom With The Weather’, and later signed to Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label where they released ‘The Corner Of Miles and Gil’ in 2007.

Head has since shared music with Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band, whose album ‘Dear Scott’ was released on The Coral‘s record label Modern Sky UK.

Last year, he opened up to the Guardian about his struggles with addiction, recalling a period in 2019 when The Red Elastic Band guitarist Laurence checked in on him frequently.

“He’d say, ‘I promise you I’m gonna sort this out, we’ll finish that record because the songs are amazing,'” Laurence said of that time. “Conversations were getting repetitive. He wouldn’t let us see him. We really thought we were gonna get a call to say he’d gone.”

Head went on to explain that sobriety allows him “to put my money where my mouth is and do the things I want to do – keep writing, keep the reconnection with my family. It’s too much to lose”.

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