OCEAN COLOUR SCENE ANNOUNCE UK TOUR

After an incredible run of festival appearances last summer, indie-rock legends Ocean Colour Scene have announced a 33-date UK and Ireland tour for 2025.

Front man 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 Trentham Estate on 30th May. The tour also includes dates at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 4th April and Dublin’s 3 Olympia Theatre on 24th April.

Looking ahead to the tour, Simon Fowler said, “Having had such a great time playing festivals all through last 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 last 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 five 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 forty singles, which included nine successive top twenty 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 fan base.

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 sing alongs 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 number one in the UK Album Chart and included the top ten hit singles Tatva, Hey Dude, Govinda, and Hush. They have since released a further six studio albums, including the UK top ten album Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts and their current album Natural Magick, which was released in February last year.

TOUR DATES 2025

March

April

May

Tickets are now on sale

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