Stereophonics announce 2025 ‘Stadium Anthems’ UK and Ireland tour – including huge London show
Stereophonics have announced they’ll be embarking on a ‘Stadium Anthems’ UK and Ireland tour next year.
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The tour marks the Welsh rock veterans first in three years, and will kick off in Belfast before culminating in a huge hometown gig at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Special guests for the tour have not yet been announced.
The ‘Stadium Anthems’ run will see Stereophonics play some huge venues, including Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park as part of Summer Sessions, Dublin’s St. Anne’s Park, Cork’s Virgin Media Park, London’s Finsbury Park and Huddersfield’s John Smith’s Stadium. They’re also set to join Justin Timberlake and Sting headliners at Isle Of Wight Festival 2025.
Frontman Kelly Jones said of the tour: “Being on the road again with my best friends, playing all the hits of this band’s catalogue, for people in huge outdoor gatherings through the summer of 2025 makes me so excited, we should make a new album…oh wait …we already did that! See ya there for more good times….TUNE!!! TUNE!!! TUNE!!”
Details surrounding their latest album are scarce, with no title or artwork as yet revealed, but it is set for release in 2025.
Stereophonics ‘Stadium Anthems’ 2025 tour dates are:
June
5 – Belfast Belsonic
6 – Dublin St. Anne’s Park
07 – Cork Virgin Media Park
14 – Huddersfield The John Smith’s Stadium
28 – Glasgow Bellahouston Park smmrsessions.com
July
4 – London Finsbury Park
12 – Cardiff Principality Stadium
Tickets go on general sale Friday October 11 at 9am, and you can find tickets here. Fans who pre-order the upcoming album before 2pm BST on Tuesday October 8 will be able to get priority access to tickets on Wednesday October 9.
Jones spoke to NME earlier this year about going solo after the announcing his new solo album, ‘Inevitable Incredible’ in March. He touched on “fear of stepping outside the success of Stereophonics” that “gripped” him for a long time.
“But a lot of music I was creating was getting lost,” he said. “New music sometimes needs a concentrated space to be appreciated fully in its correct surroundings and context, many great songs I presented under Stereophonics got overlooked by the anthems and radio favourites.
“I want to make music like filmmakers make films. Different subjects and landscapes and tones from one project to the next. I saw Ethan Hawke say somewhere, something like, No one gives a fuck about poetry or Yeats until their Dad dies and then they need a verse to tell them what it all means at the funeral. I think this album is a little like that.”
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Poppy Burton
NME
