Top Tickets This Week: Pierce The Veil, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys, Eric Clapton, Brett Young

Pierce The Veil

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The San Diego trio will bring their I Can't Hear You World Tour to Dublin's 3Arena, London's OVO Arena Wembley, Manchester's Co-Op Live, Glasgow's OVO Hydro and Birmingham's Utilita Arena in September. 

Following the UK and Ireland dates, the band will call in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Munich and Antwerp between September 29 and October 4. The UK and European run will feature support from Cavetown, Hot Mulligan and Crawlers.

The North American leg of the trek will commence on May 13 in Charlotte, North Carolina, with Sleeping With Sirens as direct support, plus Beach Weather and Daisy Grenade on select dates. 

Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (December 6), except for their shows in Düsseldorf and Munich, which go on sale at 10am local time on Thursday (December 5) - Compare and buy tickets here.

Kings Of Leon

The Tennessee rockers will headline the new Cardiff concert series Blackweir Live at the Blackweir Fields on June 29, before a performance at Lytham Festival in Lancashire on July 2.

Get pre-sale tickets via Ticketmaster now, ahead of general sale at 9am on Friday (December 6) - Compare and buy tickets here.

Kings Of Leon, whose latest album is this year's 'Can We Please Have Fun', will also headline the inaugural edition of Newcastle's Come Together Festival in June, and Victorious Festival in Portsmouth in August. 

The Black Keys

Photo: Larry Niehues

As part of their European tour, the Ohio duo will headline Sounds Of The City shows at Leeds' Millennium Square on July 8 and Manchester's Castlefield Bowl the following day. They've also lined up a huge show at Alexandra Palace Park in London on July 11.

Tickets for all three dates go on general sale at 9am on Friday (December 6) - Compare and buy tickets here.

The Grammy-winners released their new album, 'Ohio Players', this April. An extended edition, 'Ohio Players (Trophy Edition)', followed in November and featured appearances from Alice Cooper and Beck.

They'll continue to support it with an appearance at Arizona's Innings Festival on February 22, and a spring Latin American leg of their International Players Tour, to which they've recently added a stop at the Tecate Pa’l Norte Music Festival in Monterrey, Mexico.

Eric Clapton

The legendary guitarist will play Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena on May 18, before a return to London's Royal Albert Hall for shows on May 21, 23 and 24.

The dates will mark his only UK shows of 2025, and tickets go on general sale at 10am this Friday (December 6) - Compare and buy tickets here.

The 79-year-old toured the UK and Ireland earlier this year, calling in Newcastle, Liverpool, Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester and London, where he performed four nights at the Royal Albert Hall.

Clapton released his new album, and 22nd overall, 'Meanwhile', digitally in October. Physical formats are set to arrive on January 24.

Brett Young

The American country star will bring his Back To Basics World Tour to Europe in autumn 2025, calling in Belfast, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and London between October 31 and November 6, as well as stops in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. 

He'll kick off the tour with North American dates, commencing on February 13 in Springfield, Illinois and concluding in Reno, Nevada on May 3.

He'll then visit Australia for shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Rockhampton and Brisbane between May 17 and 25, before the autumn European leg.

Tickets for all dates go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (December 6) - Compare and buy tickets here.

In May, Young released 'Across The Sheets (Barefoot Edition)', an acoustic edition of his fourth studio album, 2023's 'Across The Sheets'. He recently put out the single Kiss To Forget, which followed Say Less, and Goodnight Into Good Morning.

Also Announced This Week:

• Riley Green will bring his Damn Country Music Tour to the UK and Ireland in September.
• The Human League have announced a summer UK tour.
• WWE Live will return to UK and European arenas in the spring.
• Nao has announced tour dates that will run throughout the first half of 2025.
• Ludovico Einaudi has added an extra Scottish show to his UK and Ireland tour next summer.
• Sting has announced two shows in London for autumn 2025.
• The Beach Boys have announced a show at Englefield Estate in Pangbourne near Reading, Berkshire for July.
• Duran Duran have announced summer shows in Devon and Chelmsford.
• Father John Misty has announced new UK and Ireland shows for the summer.
• Kidz Bop Live will return to London in the spring.
• Smokey Robinson has announced summer UK arena shows for The Legacy Tour.
• Mario will return to the UK and Europe in the spring.
• Fontaines D.C. will play a show in Newcastle next summer.
• The Teskey Brothers have confirmed further outdoor summer shows in the UK.
• Ani DiFranco has added UK and European shows to her 2025 tour plans.
• Il Divo will head to West Yorkshire and Scotland in summer 2025.
• Jason Mraz has announced his first UK and European tour in six years.
• Graham Nash has announced a run of UK and European shows for autumn 2025.
• Martin Garrix will play his biggest headline UK show to date at London's Gunnersbury Park in August.
• Greentea Peng has announced a UK and European shows for the spring.
• Texas have joined the line-up for the Bristol Sounds concert series.
• The Academic have confirmed their biggest UK and European tour to date.
• Ocean Alley have confirmed a show at London's Alexandra Palace for September.
• McFly have announced outdoor UK shows for summer 2025.
• The Boomtown Rats will tour the UK in autumn 2025.
• Roger Daltrey has announced summer shows in Halifax and Margate.
• ABC will take The Lexicon Of Love Tour back on the road in autumn 2025.
• Iggy Pop has announced a show at Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse for the spring.
• Parcels will play London's OVO Arena Wembley as part of a European tour for next autumn. 
• Leftfield have announced 35th anniversary shows in London and Glasgow for next year.
• Richard Ashcroft has announced a new open-air summer show at Newmarket Racecourse.
• Alison Moyet has joined the line-up for London's Kew The Music concert series.
• Due to demand, Ricky Gervais has added more shows to his Mortality Tour.
• Joanne McNally has announced her new Pintophile UK and Ireland stand-up tour for 2025 and 2026.
• GK Barry will take her podcast Saving Grace across the UK in 2025 for a trek she's billed as the Jungle Fever Tour.
• The full celebrity line-up for the 2025 Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour has been revealed.
• Falling In Reverse have postponed their upcoming UK and Ireland tour.​

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