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Top Tickets This Week: Lorde, WWE Live, Roy Harper, The Rest Is Politics

Thursday, 15 May 2025 Written by Jon Stickler

Lorde

Photo: Thistle Brown

The Grammy-winning New Zealand artist will take her Ultrasound World Tour across North America between September 17 and October 22, commencing at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas and wrapping up the leg at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

The European leg will take place later in the autumn and includes two dates at London's O2 Arena, as well as single shows at Manchester's AO Arena, Glasgow's OVO Arena, Birmingham's Utilita Arena, and Dublin's RDS Simmonscourt between November 15 and 22.

Support will come from special guests The Japanese House, Blood Orange, Oklou, Empress Of, Nilüfer Yanya, Chanel Beads and Jim-E Stack on various dates.

Tickets for all shows go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (May 16) - Compare and buy tickets here. £1 from every ticket sold for the UK leg of the tour will be donated to the Live Trust, a new funding initiative from LIVE that will offer much needed financial support to those working across live music and the grassroots music sector.

The tour will support the singer-songwriter's upcoming fourth studio album, 'Virgin', due out through Republic Records on June 27. It'll include her recent single, and first original solo track in four years, What Was That.


WWE Live

WWE Live's Road To Clash In Paris Tour will take over arenas in Dublin, Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Cardiff in August. Dublin will be a Friday Night SmackDown show, as will the August 29 stop at the LDLC Arena in Lyon, France. The Birmingham show, meanwhile, will be a RAW production.

The line-up will feature undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, World Heavyweight Champion Gunther, WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton, Jey Uso, Seth Rollins, Rhea Ripley, Sami Zayn, Charlotte Flair, Kevin Owens, Bianca Belair, Rey Mysterio, Penta, The Bloodline, and more, though the line-up is subject to change.

The tour is called the Road To Clash In Paris because it leads up to two shows in the French capital at the La Défense Arena, with Clash In Paris taking place on August 30 and RAW on September 1.

Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on May 16. Tickets for Paris are on sale now - Compare and buy tickets here.


Roy Harper

The British prog-folk legend will be accompanied by his son Nick Harper for shows at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on September 27, the London Palladium on September 29, and Birmingham Symphony Hall on October 2.

The three performances are billed as The Final Tour: Part Two, which follows the first part of the trek in 2019. Tickets go on general sale at 9.30am on Friday (May 16) - Compare and buy tickets here.

Ahead of the new dates, Harper is set to play the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival on June 25. 

He has released 22 studio albums across a near 60-year career, including his most recent, 'Man And Myth', in 2013.  


The Rest Is Politics

Former Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy Alastair Campbell and cabinet minister Rory Stewart will take a live version of The Rest Is Politics podcast to Bournemouth, Glasgow, Manchester, and London for two nights, between November 9 and 16.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday (May 16) - Compare and buy tickets here.

The US edition of the Rest Is Politics live podcast will take over London's Indigo At The O2 on July 16. Tickets for that date are already on sale.


Also Announced This Week:

  • Post Malone has added second shows in London and Berlin to the UK and European leg of The BIG ASS World Tour
  • Bad Bunny has added extra shows to his DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour next year.
  • Kae Tempest has announced a UK and European tour for the autumn.
  • The Libertines have been announced for the Eden Sessions.
  • Big Special have announced UK and European tour dates.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck will bring his ongoing The Last Waltz Farewell Tour ​back to the UK later this year.
  • Nation Of Language will return to the UK and Ireland this autumn.
  • Nothing More have announced UK, European and North American shows for an extensive world tour supporting their latest album, 'Carnal'.
  • Billy Strings has announced UK, European and US tour dates for the autumn. 
  • The Red Clay Strays have announced the European leg of their Get Right Tour.
  • Long Way Chat, a special event celebrating the Long Way travel series with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, will take place in Nottingham this summer.
  • The Talking Sopranos podcast will tour the UK and Ireland in 2026.
  • Classic Ibiza have announced new UK shows.
  • Hot Wheels Stunt Show will head to three UK arenas this autumn.​​

Head here for a full list and to find your tickets.

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