Ocean Colour Scene announce 2025 UK tour with Kula Shaker

Ocean Colour Scene have announced a 2025 UK headline tour with Kula Shaker – you can find all the details below.

The Britpop band – best known for their hit ’90s singles ‘The Riverboat Song’ and ‘The Day We Caught The Train’ – are due to hit the road next spring for a run of headline performances.

Kicking off in Leeds on March 27, the forthcoming trek will also include shows in Birmingham, Sheffield, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Dublin and other locations until late April.

Kula Shaker are set to open for OCS on select dates of the tour, and are billed as “very special guests”.

Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST next Friday (October 4) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access pre-sale tickets at the same time on Wednesday (2) by signing up here.

We’re excited to announce we will be touring the UK & Ireland in 2025 with very special guest Kula Shaker (selected dates)!
Tickets go on general sale 4th October at 10am, sign up here to gain early access to the pre-sale from 2nd October at 10am – https://t.co/GPCuNjpL1n pic.twitter.com/fQhVCFjJCx

— Ocean Colour Scene (@OCSmusic) September 27, 2024

In a statement, Kula Shaker said: “We go way back with OCS – great musicians and even better friends. Some of our earliest gigs were with them, including shows at the Splash Club in London before Kula Shaker were signed.”

Ocean Colour Scene’s 2025 UK and Ireland tour dates are: 

MARCH
27 – O2 Academy, Leeds (with Kula Shaker) 
28 – Stockton Globe, Stockton (with Kula Shaker) 
29 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham (with Kula Shaker) 
31 – Cliffs Pavilion, Southend (with Kula Shaker) 

APRIL 
01 – City Hall, Sheffield (with Kula Shaker) 
03 – Guildhall, Portsmouth (with Kula Shaker) 
04 – O2 Academy Brixton, London (with Kula Shaker) 
05 – Swansea Arena, Swansea (with Kula Shaker) 
07 – Hall For Cornwall, Truro (with Kula Shaker) 
08 – Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth (with Kula Shaker) 
09 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol (with Kula Shaker) 
11 – Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge (with Kula Shaker) 
12 – O2 Apollo, Manchester (with Kula Shaker) 
13 – Rock City, Nottingham (with Kula Shaker) 
15 – O2 Academy, Glasgow (with Kula Shaker) 
16 – O2 Academy, Glasgow (with Kula Shaker) 
18 – Music Hall, Aberdeen (with Kula Shaker) 
19 – Alhambra Theatre, Morecambe (with Kula Shaker) 
20 – Liverpool University Mountford Hall, Liverpool (with Kula Shaker) 
22 – Live At The Big Top, Limerick 
24 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin 
26 – Ulster Hall, Belfast 

Ocean Colour Scene’s 10th and most recent studio album, ‘Painting’, was released in 2013. Kula Shaker’s seventh and latest studio effort, ‘Natural Magick’, came out in February of this year.

This summer, OCS performed on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury 2024. They also appeared on the bill at this year’s edition of the Edinburgh Summer Sessions, and made various stop-offs elsewhere in the UK.