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Happy New Year! It’s set to be a stellar 12 months in live music – and your first resolution should definitely be to see more gigs.
You should already have Sam Fender’s ‘People Watching’ Stadium tour, Oasis’ long-awaited reunion and Coldplay’s Wembley extravaganza in your diary, as well as massive shows from Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo and Lana Del Rey. To ease yourself into 2025, why not try some (or all) of the below concerts in January? They’ll set you up perfectly for the bigger dates later this year.
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ATEEZ
K-pop boyband ATEEZ are starting 2025 by bringing their ‘Towards The Light: Will To Power’ world tour to Europe. Following a celebrated run across North America and a showstopping performance at Coachella last year, these gigs will celebrate the band’s sprawling ‘The World’ series and their recently released ‘Golden Hour’ EPs across a six-act, all-singing, all-dancing theatrical epic. Light sticks at the ready.
ATEEZ play:
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JANUARY
27 – The O2, London
28 – The O2, London
30 – AO Arena, Manchester
Bullet For My Valentine & Trivium
The ‘Poisoned Ascendancy’ tour sees Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine joining forces for a rotating co-headline run to celebrate 20 years of iconic metal albums ‘The Poison’ and ‘Ascendancy’.
Bullet’s Matt Tuck has described the run as “the metal tour of the year” while Trivium’s Matt Heafy also told NME the two bands are treating the tour like “one supergroup, all fulfilling the same goal,” before teasing collabs and other surprises for their most ambitious jaunt so far. “We’re all in our prime right now, so this is the absolute best time to do this tour.”
Bullet For My Valentine & Trivium play:
JANUARY
26 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
27 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
28 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
30 – Co-op Live, Manchester
31 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham
FEBRUARY
1 – The O2, London
Neck Deep
Neck Deep head out on their ‘Dumbstruck Dumbfuck’ UK tour this month and are bringing fellow pop-punk heavyweights The Wonder Years with them alongside buzzy hardcore mob One Step Closer. As well as celebrating their self-titled 2024 album, the Welsh titans will also mark the 10-year anniversary of breakout record ‘Life’s Not Out To Get You’, so expect a snotty, career-spanning set from five lads who are out to prove buoyant, rebellious punk anthems are very much still in fashion.
Neck Deep play:
JANUARY
24 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
25 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
26 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
28 – NX, Newcastle
29 – Rock City, Nottingham
30 – O2 Academy, Bristol
31 – Arena, Swansea
The Xcerts
Cult rockers The Xcerts released their beloved third album ‘There Is Only You’ towards the end of 2014 and this month sees them heading out on an overdue 10-year victory lap. Filled with emotionally-charged, noise-pop bangers, ‘There Is Only You’ was written for sweaty, smaller rooms such as the venues they’re booked in for later this month. After that, the band are supporting You Me At Six on their farewell tour and have already started teasing new music.
The Xcerts play:
JANUARY
16 – Actress And Bishop, Birmingham
17 – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
18 – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
19 – The Cluny 2, Newcastle
21 – The Key Club, Leeds
22 – Rebellion, Manchester
23 – Colours, London
24 – Concorde 2, Brighton
Kehlani
After getting her start with teeny boppers PopLyfe back in 2011, Kehlani has gone on to bigger and better things – always in her own unique style. Across four brilliant solo albums, she’s mixed neo-soul, R&B and swaggering pop to soundtrack hard-hitting stories stuffed with emotional, heartfelt lyrics.. These massive UK shows are part of her ‘Crash’ world tour that’s seen Kehlani continue to toy with expectations and genre, making this the first unmissable tour of 2025.
Kehlani plays:
JANUARY
29 – The O2, London
31 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Rise Against
Straddling the line between furious rebellion and community-driven optimism, the music of political punk rockers Rise Against feels even more vital in 2025. The Chicago mob’s recent US headline tour had them performing a greatest hits set – and on this UK leg they’ll also be joined by emo supergroup L.S. Dunes and progressive hardcore group Spiritual Cramp.
Rise Against play:
JANUARY
29 – The Telegraph Building, Belfast
FEBRUARY
6 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
8 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
9 – O2 Academy, Birmingham