Eurovision winner Loreen announces 2025 UK and European tour

Girls Aloud are kicking off their UK and Ireland tour on Friday, 17 May, but it will be bittersweet as Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts will perform without their late bandmate, Sarah Harding. Sarah sadly passed away from breast cancer in September 2021, aged 39, after valiantly battling the disease.

Irish rock band The Script have announced a UK and Ireland stadium tour will take place later this year. The rockers have also also confirmed a new album, 'Satellites', will be released in August.

The Story So Far have shared details of a UK and European tour, set to take place later this year – find ticket details below.The upcoming tour will comprise 13 shows across the UK and Europe, and kicks off with an opening slot at the Engine Rooms in Southampton on October 23. From there, seven more headline dates are scheduled for Bristol, Oxford, Glasgow, Newcastle and Norwich.A slot at Outbreak festival is also listed amid the headline shows, taking place in Manchester on October 27, and the last of the UK dates are set for the O2 Institute in Birmingham and The Roundhouse in London on November 1 and 2 respectively.From there, Parker Cannon, Kevin Geyer, Ryan Torf and Will Levy will head overseas for four gigs across Europe.These include a show at the Trix venue in Antwerp on November 5, and continue with shows in Hamburg (6) and Cologne (7).

Eurovision bosses have defended the recent decision to disqualify Joost Klein from the 2024 final.The 26-year-old singer was selected to represent the Netherlands with his song ‘Europapa’ for this year’s edition of the song contest, but was withdrawn from the competition just hours before Saturday’s final (May 11).The incident marked the first time in the competition’s 68-year history that an act had been disqualified after reaching the Grand Final.

The Last Dinner Party have announced an autumn 2024 European tour set to kick off later this year.The 13-date trek will kick off on October 28 in Paris and will see the band make stops in various cities such as Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Lyon, Munich, Berlin and more. The tour will wrap up on November 16 in Luxembourg.It immediately follows the band’s long-since sold-out UK tour throughout September and October.

Jimmy Eat World have announced details of a 2024 tour across the UK and Europe. Find ticket details below.Announced today (May 13), the run of tour dates are set to kick off with an opening night at the Columbiahalle in Berlin on November 7, and continue with two more shows in Germany, before heading to the Netherlands for a show in Amsterdam on November 9.From there, the Arizona rock icons will head over to the UK for three final shows.

Eurovision winner Nemo hit out at the competition’s “double standard”, branding its organisers as “unbelievable”, moments after their victory.The Switzerland entrant won the contest last night (May 11) in Malmö, Sweden with their song ‘The Code’, after topping the jury vote and coming in fifth in the public vote.Nemo’s victory is the first for the country since Celine Dion picked up the win in 1988 with ‘Ne partez pas sans moi’. They are also the first ever non-binary winner in the competition’s history.During their appearance at the post-show press conference, Nemo took the opportunity to criticise the way that the contest was run by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), making specific reference to their policy of not allowing non-binary flags into the arena.“I had to smuggle my flag in because Eurovision said no, but I did it anyway, so I hope some people did that too,” they said.

At the end of a nail biting week of musical performances, the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 finally declared its winner on Saturday evening when Switzerland's Nemo won with their song The Code. The winning performance came after a tense week of surprising mishaps, in which controversy had dogged the 68th edition of the annual song contest for months in the run up to the live shows.

Eurovision enthusiasts were left scratching their heads over Olly Alexander's performance, feeling that 'something wasn't right'.

Eurovision host Malin Akerman might be a familiar face to some - and it's not surprising why. The actress is making her Eurovision debut as she co-hosts the Song Contest alongside presenter Petra Mede this year.

here.A post shared by Monster Magnet (Official) (@monstermagnetofficial)The band’s frontman Dave Wyndorf said of the upcoming tour via a press release: “Hot damn! 35 years and it feels gooood! Of course, this celebration will not be spent by us hanging around our homes huddled over some cake with too many candles on it. We gotta get on that bus and blow out some serious noise in multiple locations! It’s called a tour.

Catfish & The Bottlemen have announced a North American headline tour for this year – find all the details below.The Van McCann-fronted band will hit the road in the US and Canada this autumn, with gigs scheduled in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and other locations.Tickets go on sale at 10am local time this Friday (May 10) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can sign up for a pre-sale to access tickets at the same time today (8).Check out the announcement post and the full list of dates below.A post shared by Catfish and the Bottlemen (@catfishandthebottlemen)OCTOBER04 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits05 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium08 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater11 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits14 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre17 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre18 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works19 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern21 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre22 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall23 – Chicago, IL – The Riviera Theatre25 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre26 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s27 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall29 – Boston, MA – Royale30 – New York, NY – Terminal 5NOVEMBER01 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall02 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts03 – Washington D.C. – 9:30 ClubIn February, Catfish returned with the single ‘Showtime’ – marking their first new music in five years.

It's the moment many people across the globe have been waiting for, as the Eurovision Song Contest officially kicked off on Tuesday for the first semi-finals.

Travis Scott has announced details of a new UK and European tour. Find ticket details below.Titled the ‘Utopia: Circus Maximus tour’, the new run of tour dates see the rapper head across the pond to celebrate the release of his record-breaking album ‘Utopia’, and arrives on the heels of his sold-out run of shows across North America.Set to take place across this summer, the dates kick off with an opening night at the GelreDome venue in Arnhem on June 28, before continuing throughout July with stops in Krakow (2), Zurich (4), Nice (6) and Antwerk (9).From there, two UK shows are lined-up – one of which is set at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and will mark his largest UK headline show to date.

Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Sweden this weekend, a huge two-time winner from the country has announced they’ll be touring Europe and the UK next year.

Bruce Springsteen kicked off his UK and European tour last night (May 5) in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium – read on for the full setlist and footage from the gig.The Boss played his first show in Wales for 11 years at the start of a three-month string of dates that will take him up to two climactic shows at London’s Wembley Stadium on 25 and 27 July.The three-hour, 29-song setlist opened with a deep cut in the form of ‘So Young And In Love’, an outtake from the 1974 recording sessions for ‘Born To Run’ that finally saw a release as part of the 1998 box set ‘Tracks’. It was the song’s first performance since 2013.SO YOUNG AND IN LOVE OPENS CARDIFF! Thank you @mightyfraz Jason Farrelly via Spring-Nut Facebook Page! @springsteen #SpringsteenTour2024 #Springsteen #estreetband pic.twitter.com/HN6H93rTvD— Spring-Nuts (@SpringNuts_) May 5, 2024“It’s great to be in Cardiff, it’s good to be in Wales,” Springsteen said to introduce the show.

Overmono have announced a ‘Pure Devotion’ world tour that will take place across five dates in autumn 2024. See all the details below.The Welsh electronic duo, made up of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, had already been confirmed for an extensive list of festival appearances for the summer, and they will now be adding major shows across the globe to their schedules.They will begin at Brooklyn’s Paramount on October 4, before heading north to Toronto’s Opera House the following night.

Pop singer Mike Nolan, who soared to fame after winning Eurovision - which returns later this month - for the UK in the band Bucks Fizz, has announced that he is stepping down from the group after 43 years. The band have been continuing to perform under their new name, The Fizz, with original members Mike, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston over recent years. However, appearing on Michael Ball’s Radio 2 show this week, they made the sad announcement.

AURORA has added two extra shows in Dublin and Edinburgh to her upcoming UK and European tour – see all the dates below. The Norwegian alt-pop singer is preparing to release her new album ‘What Happened To The Heart?’ in June, after which she will be playing a string of shows around the continent in September and October.

Eurovision organisers have confirmed that they reserve the right to remove Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols during the contest in Malmö, Sweden next week.The contest’s communications head has said that ticket buyers will only be allowed to display the flags of competing countries – including Israel – and the Pride flag. In a message to the Associated Press, they also said that “clothes, items or posters that can be used as instruments to be shown on television screens” featuring pro-Palestinian symbols may also be banned.Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are expected to take place in protest of Israel’s controversial participation in the contest following the current tensions with Hamas that have been ongoing since October.