Cage The Elephant have announced plans for a UK and European tour in 2025.
The band will be hitting the road on February 13 at the O2 Academy in Glasgow before calling at Manchester, Wolverhampton and London. They will go on tour various dates in Europe before wrapping up at the Zenith Arena in Paris on February 26. The shows are their first in the UK and Europe since 2019.
Fans can sign up for a pre-sale, which starts tomorrow (November 12) at 10am local and can be purchased here. Tickets will go on general sale this Friday (November 15) at 10am local time and can be purchased in the UK here and Europe here.
Support on all dates comes from Sunflower Bean and Girl Tones. You can view the full list of dates below:
FEBRUARY 2025
13 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
14 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
16 – University of Wolverhampton
17 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
20 – Palladium, Cologne
21 – Columbiahalle, Berlin
23 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam
24 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
26 – Zenith, Paris,
It comes after the band were recently announced to be joining Oasis on their forthcoming tour of North America.
Cage The Elephant CREDIT: Cassilyn Anderson
Speaking about their support slot, frontman Matt Shultz said: “It’s an absolute honour being asked to support such a legendary group as Oasis, as well as being one of my all-time personal favourites. I’ll definitely be catching their set every single night on tour. A true blessing, couldn’t be more thrilled.”
The band released their sixth studio album ‘Neon Pill’ earlier this year, based on songs and lyrics that the band wrote as a result of Shultz spending three years in psychosis before he was arrested on gun charges.
Shultz was detained in a hotel in New York in January 2023 for carrying firearms which were only licensed in Kentucky and Tennessee. The arrest, a court found, was the result of psychotic delusions which Shultz had been suffering from as a side-effect of medication he’d been prescribed.
After eight months of treatment, he told NME: “It’s a lot better now than it was, for sure. The things that happened in the past three years, I never would have dreamed of or imagined.
“I was prescribed the medication and never could have guessed that there would have been the adverse effects that there were. I slipped into psychosis, unknowingly, and was in psychosis for three years because I believed that the medication was saving my life, and it was actually destroying my life.”
Speaking about the album, he continued: “These lyrics had meant something completely profound to me, but that was totally based in a reality that was not reality. And so to go back and try to make sense of it was really fascinating. I had to start looking for the sentiment that I was reaching for and not so much what I believed was happening or what the songs were about. I’d written a lot of lyrics in code.”
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