Ocean Colour Scene press shot (photo credit Brian Sweeney)
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 27th March and ends at Ulster Hall in Belfast on 26th April. The tour also includes dates at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 4th April and Dublin’s 3 Olympia Theatre on 24th April.
Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 9.00am on Friday 4th October, available from www.oceancolourscene.com
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.”
Steve Cradock said, “We were quite sad when the summer shows finished this year. We’d had such a brilliant time out on the road and each audience was fantastic. Our tour in March and April 2025 is gonna be a buzz coz my son Cass is playing with us on keys again, and this time we have Oscar’s lad Leon playing percussion too – a proper family affair. Plus we’re performing at some venues that we’ve not played for a while. Always nice to mix it up. I can’t wait, I’m looking forward to it a lot!
Echoing Craddock’s comments, Oscar Harrison said, “What a great tour to look forward to. And expanding the band to include my boy Leon on percussion is something I’m very excited about. It’s going to sound immense. Roll on March!”
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
