Top Tickets This Week: Kendrick Lamar And SZA, Beyoncé, The Smashing Pumpkins, Black Sabbath
Thursday, 13 February 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Kendrick Lamar and SZA
Kendrick Lamar and SZA will bring their co-headline Grand National Tour to Europe in the summer.
The new leg includes UK shows at Glasgow's Hampden Park, Birmingham's Villa Park, Cardiff's Principality Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, alongside dates in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland and Sweden.
The Grand National Tour will launch in North America this spring, running between April and June. Tickets for those dates are already on sale.
The trek will support Lamar's new album, 'GNX', which arrived in November. SZA features on the songs Luther and Gloria, with the two having previously teamed up on All The Stars from Lamar's 2018 Black Panther album. SZA put out her second album, 'SOS', in 2022.
Lamar, who performed at the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans last Sunday, was honoured with Grammy Awards earlier this month for Record and Song Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song and Best Music Video for his Drake diss track Not Like Us.
To coincide with her guest appearance at Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show, SZA released the highly anticipated 'SOS Deluxe: LANA'.
Beyoncé
Photo: Mason Poole
The 35-time Grammy-winning superstar has announced the Cowboy Carter Tour, confirming shows in the US, UK and Europe for the spring and summer.
The trek includes five-night runs at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium between April 28 and May 9, East Rutherford's MetLife Stadium between May 22 and 29, and six dates at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium between June 5 and 16.
The singer will also play three shows apiece at Chicago's Soldier Field between May 15 and 18 and Paris' Stade de France on June 19 and 22, and Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium on July 10 and 13. She has also scheduled two dates at Houston's NRG Stadium on June 28 and 29, and Washington D.C.'s Northwest Stadium on July 4 and 7.
Tickets for the US, European and London dates on June 5, 7, 10 and 12 go on general sale at 12pm local time on Friday (February 14), with the newly added London shows on June 14 and 16 on sale the same day at 2pm - Compare and buy tickets here.
The tour shares its name with Beyoncé's 2024 album, which won Album Of The Year and Best Country Album at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month. The singer was also honoured with the award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for II Most Wanted with Miley Cyrus.
The Smashing Pumpkins
The renowned alt-rock band has announced a run of UK shows for the summer. They'll take The Aghori Tour to London's Gunnersbury Park on August 10, before a show in Halifax two days later as part of the Live At The Piece Hall series. They'll then head to Scarborough Open Air Theatre on August 13 before a performance at Colchester Castle Summer Series the next day.
Joining the group on the bill in London and Colchester will be Skunk Anansie and White Lies, with White Lies only supporting in Halifax and Scarborough.
The dates are part of a summer European tour that also includes appearances at Hills Of Rock in Bulgaria, Rock In Roma in Italy and Pstereo Festival in Norway. Tickets for their headline dates go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (February 14) - Compare and buy tickets here.
The Smashing Pumpkins put out their most recent album, 'Aghori Mhori Mei', in August 2024.
Black Sabbath
The original line-up of Black Sabbath — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi (pictured), Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — will headline a special concert billed as Back To The Beginning on July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham.
The show will see 76-year-old Osbourne, who has battled health problems in recent years, play his own short set before joining fellow heavy metal pioneers for what will be his final performance. The special concert will also mark their first performance together in 20 years.
Support during the all-dayer will come from bands Black Sabbath have inspired, including Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Halestorm, Alice In Chains, Gojira, Anthrax, Lamb Of God and Mastodon.
There will also be a performance from a "supergroup of musicians" featuring Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns N' Roses, Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and more. Further names are still to be revealed.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am on February 14, and all profits from the show will support Cure Parkinson's, the Birmingham Children's Hospital and Acorn Children's Hospice, a Children's Hospice supported by Aston Villa - Compare and buy tickets now.
Formed in 1968, Black Sabbath (known as Earth at the time) performed their first show at The Crown Inn in Birmingham city centre, less than four miles from Villa Park. They went on to sell over 75 million albums worldwide, becoming one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time. They released '13', their 13th and final studio album, in 2023.
Also Announced This Week:
Kane Brown will bring The High Road Tour to the UK and Europe this autumn.
Alessia Cara has announced two UK shows for the summer.
Sam Fender has announced three major outdoor summer shows in the UK and Ireland as part of his ongoing People Watching Tour.
James Bay has announced an outdoor UK show for the summer.
Kool and The Gang have announced shows in Manchester and Surrey for the summer.
Sugababes have announced a new outdoor UK show for the summer.
Will Mellor and Ralf Little will take their Two Pints podcast out on the road later this year.
Chelsea Handler has announced UK and Ireland shows for the spring.
Razorlight have scheduled a UK tour for the spring.
Jason Manford has rescheduled some shows on his A Manford All Seasons Tour.
Tim Minchin has added extra dates to his Songs The World Will Never Hear Tour.
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