Ocean Colour Scene Announce UK and Ireland Tour for 2025

After an incredible run of festival appearances this summer, indie-rock legends Ocean Colour Scene have announced a 22-date UK and Ireland tour for 2025.

Frontman Simon Fowler, guitarist Steve Cradock and drummer Oscar Harrison will perform their biggest hits and anthems, including The Riverboat Song, The Circle, Traveller’s Tune, Hundred Mile High City and The Day We Caught The Train on the tour that starts at Leeds O2 Academy on 27^th March and ends at Ulster Hall in Belfast on 26^th April. The tour also includes dates at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 4^th April and Dublin’s 3 Olympia Theatre on 24^th April.

Looking ahead to the tour, Simon Fowler said, “Having had such a great time playing festivals all through summer, we now have an incredible tour to look forward to in 2025. And we’re delighted that our old friends Kula Shaker will be joining us for so many of these dates. See you there.”

Ocean Colour Scene formed in Birmingham in 1989 and, after a few years honing their sound,  firmly established themselves as one of the UK’s biggest bands with three Top 5 albums; 1996’s ‘Moseley Shoals’, 1997’s ‘Marchin’ Already’ and 1999’s ‘One From The Modern’.

In addition, Ocean Colour Scene enjoyed a hard-to-beat run of seventeen Top 40 singles, which included nine successive Top 20 singles and led to the band being honoured with numerous awards.

Behind all swagger and style that went hand-in-hand with the nineties, Ocean Colour Scene crafted songs in the spirit of the soul, folk and blues greats who inspired them, with words and melodies that chimed with the hearts and minds of the group’s fiercely loyal fanbase.

Renowned as one of the UK’s best live bands, Ocean Colour Scene’s celebrated concerts unfailingly serve as a communal outpouring of hope and joy, boasting the most life-affirming and full-throated singalongs you’re likely to hear anywhere.

Joining the tour as Ocean Colour Scene’s very special guests will be psychedelic rocker Kula Shaker, whose 1996 debut album ‘K’ reached No.1 in the UK Album Chart and included the Top 10 hit singles ‘Tatva’, ‘Hey Dude’, ‘Govinda’, and ‘Hush’. They have since released a further six studio albums, including the UK Top 10 album ‘Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts’ and their current album ‘Natural Magick’, which was released in February this year.

The full list of dates for Ocean Colour Scene’s UK and Ireland tour in 2025 are as follows (*indicated Kula Shaker as very special guests):

27 Mar            Leeds              O2 Academy *

28 Mar            Stockton          Globe *

29 Mar            Birmingham    Utility Arena *

31 Mar            Southend         Cliff’s Pavilion *

01 Apr             Sheffield         City Hall *

03 Apr             Portsmouth      O2 Guildhall *

04 Apr             London            O2 Academy Brixton *

05 Apr             Swansea          Swansea Arena *

07 Apr             Truro               Hall For Cornwall *

08 Apr             Plymouth        Pavilion *

09 Apr             Bristol             Beacon *

11 Apr             Cambridge      Corn Exchange *

12 Apr             Manchester     Apollo O2 Apollo *

13 Apr             Nottingham     Rock City *

15 Apr             Glasgow          O2 Academy *

16 Apr             Glasgow          O2 Academy *

18 Apr             Aberdeen        Music Hall *

19 Apr             Dunfermline    Alhambra *

20 Apr             Liverpool        Mountford Hall *

22 Apr             Limerick         Milk Market

24 Apr             Dublin             3Olympia Theatre

26 Apr             Belfast             Ulster Hall

Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 9.00am on Friday 4^th October, available from www.oceancolourscene.com