The Black Keys announce UK and Europe summer tour for 2025

2 December, 2024

Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys in 2024

The Black Keys have announced details of a UK and European tour, set to take place across summer 2025. Find a list of shows and ticket details below.

Announced today (December 2), the shows come following the release of their latest album ‘Ohio Players’, which arrived earlier this year and contained singles including ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’.

In total, 15 new shows have been confirmed for next year, running between June and July. These kick off with an opening night in Odense, Denmark on June 26, and continue with a show at Esch-Sur-Alzette in Luxembourg on June 29.

From there, the 13 remaining shows all take place in July beginning with a show at the Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin (1) before continuing with stops across Switzerland and France.

Three UK dates have been lined-up too: a show at Leeds’ Millennium Square (8), Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl (9) and London’s Alexandra Palace Park (11). For these UK shows, support will be coming from Miles Kane.

After then, the tour concludes with gigs in Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and Spain. Tickets for all dates go on sale this Friday (December 6) at 10am, and pre-sale options are available to those who sign up to the band’s email list before tomorrow (December 3) at 9am.

Find a list of shows below, and visit here to buy tickets.

The Black Keys 2025 tour dates are:

JUNE
26 – Tinderbox, Odense (Denmark)
29 – Rockhal, Esch-Sur-Alzette (Luxembourg)

JULY
1 – Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin (Germany)
2 – The Hall, Zurich (Switzerland)
4 – Garorock, Marmande (France)
5 – Beauregard Festival, Herouville Saint Clair (France)
6 – La Nuit De L’Erdre (France)
8 – Millennium Square, Leeds (UK)
9 – Castlefield Bowl, Manchester (UK)
11 – Alexandra Palace Park, London (UK)
12 – Cactus Festival, Bruges (Belgium)
13 – Bospop Festival, Weert (Netherlands)
15 – AMA Music Festival, Vicenza (Italy)
16 – Rock In Roma, Ippodromo Delle Capannelle, Rome (Italy)
19 – Fib Benicàssim, Benicàssim (Spain)

The news of the 2025 tour comes as the band shared a new single with Beck, titled ‘I’m With The Band’, last month.

The collaboration came as they recently teamed up for the aforementioned ‘Ohio Players’ lead single ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’, as well as ‘Paper Crown’.

As well as Beck featuring on the LP, the single ‘Stay In Your Grave’ – which featured in the expanded ‘Trophy Edition’ – also saw the duo team up with rock veteran Alice Cooper, and ‘Mi Tormenta’ featured DannyLux.

In a three-star review of ‘Ohio Players’, NME nodded to its litany of guest stars, including Beck, Noel Gallagher and Juicy J, and wrote: “Playing music with your pals isn’t a radical act – it’s what most musicians do and the bedrock of any scene in any city the world over – so given the fanfare the listener might reasonably expect ‘Ohio Players’ to hum along on the star-wattage of its guest list.

“Instead, this is a pretty good Black Keys record that chiefly serves to underline how wedded they are to the fundamentals of their own process.”

Patrick Carney, one half of the duo, spoke to NME last year and recalled their time working with the “incredible” Noel Gallagher in the studio. “He’s hilarious and super talented,” he said. “We were referring to him as ‘The Chord Lord’ because he’s just a perfectionist with it.”

Before then, The Black Keys announced earlier this year that they had signed up for new management following a public split from their former team.

In June, the band took to social media to claim they were “fucked” after their North American tour was cancelled and they split from their management on June 7. They were due to play their ‘International Players Tour’ in the US and Canada from September to November this year, but it was reported late last month that the entire run of gigs had been abruptly scrapped, with no explanation provided.

Amidst speculation the cancellation was due to low ticket sales, the band opened up about the tour, saying it was axed and re-planned in favour of smaller theatre venues as featured on their recent European dates.

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