The Who’s Roger Daltrey announces 2025 UK solo tour
The Who‘s Roger Daltrey‘s has announced plans for a UK solo tour next year.
The frontman will be hitting the road for a series of dates kicking off at the Brighton Dome on April 20.
Further stops will call at London’s Palladium the following night (April 21) before moving on to Southend-On-Sea, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and finally wrapping up at Manchester Bridgewater Hall on May 4.
Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday (November 15) at 10am GMT and can be purchased here.
Daltrey and his nine-piece band will perform a mix of acoustic and semi-acoustic performances of The Who classics, solo hits and deep cuts, followed by a Q&A session with fans. You can view the full list of dates below.
Roger Daltrey 2025 UK solo tour dates are:
April 2025
20 – Brighton Dome
21 – London The Palladium
23 – Southend-on-Sea The Cliffs Pavilion
24 – University of Wolverhampton
26 – Dundee Caird Hall
28 – Glasgow SEC Armadillo
30 – Edinburgh The Usher Hall
May 2025
1 – Gateshead The Glasshouse – Sage 1
4 – Manchester Bridgewater Hall
He said of the tour: “Here we go again! After touring the US with this band of phenomenal musicians, I can’t wait to get back on the road in the UK with these shows.
“It’s a joy to be on stage performing – up close and personal for the audience, chatting with them and playing familiar songs in an unfamiliar way.”
Elsewhere, The Who will “definitely” return in 2025, Pete Townshend recently confirmed. Though he never explicitly shared what the band’s plans entail, his comments suggested that the band could be hitting the road sometime next year.
The guitarist went on to explain: “The album side of it… Roger’s not keen. But I would love to do another album and I may try to bully him on that. The last big tours that we’ve done have been with a full orchestra, which was glorious, but we’re now eager to make a noise and make a mess and make mistakes.”
Previously when speaking to NME in June he said that he was “pretty sure” there would be more Who shows, and that “the story of the end of The Who is gonna be when either Roger or I drop dead or can’t function anymore on the stage”.
On the topic of a new record, he added: “If there was a need or a place for a Who album, could I write the songs for it within six weeks? Of course I fucking could, it’s a piece of cake. The problem is I don’t think Roger wants to do it again. For me it would be a joy because I love writing songs, I love writing to a brief, I love having a commission, I love having a deadline and I love the feedback.”
Townshend also recently admitted that he found Daltrey’s stance on Brexit “very problematic”.
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