The Kooks announce 2025 UK arena tour – NME

It includes their biggest ever headline show at The O2 in London
The Kooks‘ have announced plans for a UK arena tour this autumn – check out the full details below.
Luke Pritchard’s band will be hitting the road to tour their upcoming new album ‘Never/Know’ this October. Support will come from The K’s.
The shows will kick off at Manchester’s Co-op Live arena on October 3 before calling at Cardiff, their homecoming town Brighton, Newcastle, Birmingham and their biggest ever headline show at The O2 in London.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 25, at 10am BST with a special pre-sale available to a number of fans on April 23. You can purchase tickets here.
Did someone ask for a UK tour? We CANNOT wait to be back on the road and it wouldn’t be right without some shows at home in the UK… AND our first ever show at The O2!
Pre-order 'Never/Know' from our official store to access pre-sale for the UK tour at https://t.co/mnkU6bw5Ql… pic.twitter.com/LVS7bOYRzh
— The Kooks (@thekooksmusic) April 16, 2025

Before that the band will be heading out on a stripped-back tour of UK grassroots venues next month.
They are due to kick off the special trek at The Leadmill in Sheffield on May 2, before taking to the stage at Bury Met, The Wardobe in Leeds, Nottingham’s Saltbox, Liverpool’s Jacaranda Baltic, and The Fire Station in Bournemouth. You can purchase tickets here and see the dates here.
They will also return to the UK this summer for performances at TRNSMT and Reading & Leeds 2025.
OCTOBER
03 – Co-op Live, Manchester
04 – Cardiff Utilita Arena
05 – Brighton Centre
09 – Newcastle Utilita Arena
10 – Birmingham Utilita Arena 
11 – The O2, London
The band are due to release their new album ‘Never/Know’ on May 9. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Of the new record, the frontman recently told NME: “I didn’t overthink it. It wasn’t necessarily strictly a stream of consciousness, but there was this vibe I was getting when I played it to my wife or my friends. It felt there was maybe a debut-ism to it… trying to get into flow state and let it ride – let it roll.”

Elsewhere, Pritchard recently reflected on a row he once had with Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner.
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