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Chrissie Hynde Kicks Off Low-Key UK Tour: Set List and Videos

Chrissie Hynde kicked off her deliberately low-key U.K. tour Wednesday night with a 17-song set that, equally deliberately, avoided her best-known cuts.

The performance at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge featured her band His Lordship, which played to an audience of around 200 people. Video clips and the complete set list can be seen below.

The show consisted of 11 Pretenders tracks – “Turf Accountant Daddy,” “Time the Avenger” and “Hate for Sale,” among them – and five solo numbers, including “Dark Sunglasses” from her 2014 solo debut Stockholm . It concluded with a cover of Jimi Hendrix 's classic “Foxy Lady”

Ahead of the performance, Hynde expressed relief at returning to the stage, saying  on social media, “As I frantically try to remember basic three-chord songs, I recall the old adage: If you don’t use it, you lose it. Bear with me, girls! I was lost but now I’m found … almost.”

Watch Chrissie Hynde Perform ‘Domestic Silence’

Hynde previously outlined her aim for the road trip, telling fans that “we will be playing some of my all-time favorite songs: obscure Pretenders … some new, unreleased material and, as I promised, not a greatest hit in the lot. (You’ve had 40 years to see those, so if you missed it, more fool you – the moment has passed).”

She added, “Sorry, we’re only playing 200-capacity venues, but that’s my choice.”

Watch Chrissie Hynde Perform ‘Junkie Walk’ and ‘Foxy Lady’

The brief tour ends on Oct. 18. All shows are sold out.

Chrissie Hynde, Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 10/12/22 1. “Losing Sense” 2. “A Love” 3. “Turf Accountant Daddy” 4. “The Adultress” 5. “Downtown (Akron)” 6. “The Buzz” 7. “Domestic Silence” 8. “Gotta Wait” 9. “Maybe Love Is in NYC” 10. “Dark Sunglasses” 11. “Biker” 12. “Don’t Cut Your Hair” 13. “Time the Avenger” 14. “Let The Sun” 15. “Hate for Sale”

Encore: 16. “Junkie Walk” 17. “Foxy Lady”

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Past Events

Here are the most recent UK tour dates we had listed for Chrissie Hynde. Were you there?

• Dec 02 2022 London, Royal Festival Hall Sir Peter Blake: Celebrating His 90th Year Madness, Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller, Chrissie Hynde, Baxter Dury
• Oct 18 2022 Cardiff, The Globe Chrissie Hynde
• Oct 17 2022 Birmingham, Hare & Hounds Chrissie Hynde
• Oct 16 2022 Stockton-on-Tees, Georgian Theatre Chrissie Hynde
• Oct 14 2022 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club Chrissie Hynde
• Oct 13 2022 Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms Chrissie Hynde
• Oct 12 2022 Hebden Bridge, Trades Club Chrissie Hynde
• Sep 03 2022 London, Wembley Stadium Foo Fighters & The Hawkins Family present Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert Chris Chaney, Stewart Copeland, Liam Gallagher, Omar Hakim…
• Dec 26 2021 Online / Streaming Events Chrissie Hynde & Co Sing Bob Dylan
• 2021 Aug 22 Aug 25 2021 Edinburgh, The Queen's Hall Chrissie Hynde - Socially Distanced

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Chrissie Hynde: ‘I’m more relaxed now. Ageing is like being a pothead again’

The Pretenders frontwoman and punk pioneer takes questions from Observer readers and famous fans on her relentless creativity spanning half a century, rethinking her hippy youth, and her cruelty-free farm

C hrissie Hynde has called the Pretenders’ new album – their 12th – Relentless . The name fits. Since she moved to London from Akron, Ohio exactly 50 years ago, there has always been a defiant, determined, take-on-all-comers momentum to the singer’s storied life and career. Hynde worked first at the New Musical Express in its heyday, and in Vivienne Westwood’s Kings Road shop, Sex, and so was a formative spirit in British punk, involved at the beginning with the Clash and the Sex Pistols (she almost married both John Lydon and Sid Vicious in order to obtain a work permit). The Pretenders’ eponymous first album, released in 1979, was one of the all-time great rock debuts, showcasing not only Hynde’s era-defining voice, look and attitude but also her indelible songwriting gift on tracks that included Brass in Pocket, the first new No 1 of the 1980s. Since then, like one of the band’s driving guitar lines, she has never let up.

Performing a memorable set at Glastonbury in July, with friends on stage including one-time bandmate Johnny Marr of the Smiths and Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, Hynde’s voice, still so pure and edgy and seductive in its phrasing, transported the crowd across five decades of the Pretenders’ music, from Back on the Chain Gang and Don’t Get Me Wrong to tracks from the new album. Relentless inevitably addresses some of that inspiring longevity. “We don’t have to get fat / We don’t have to get old… We don’t have to fade to black,” Hynde sings, and, at 71, she seems living proof of that faith. She is an advocate for keeping on keeping on, as she told NME , with “no abatement of intensity. It’s the life of the artist. You never retire. You become relentless.”

As well as being a pioneering woman in music, Hynde has focused that intensity on other parts of her life. She is the devoted mother of two daughters: Natalie, from her relationship with Ray Davies of the Kinks, and Yasmin, from her marriage to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds. She has been an outspoken and effective campaigner for issues close to her heart, particularly animal rights and environmental issues; from the 1980s onwards she was fronting action against animal testing and the fur trade, and creating pressure groups for more plant-based and organic food in supermarkets. A vegetarian since her teens, she is now a champion and supporter of a model dairy farm in Rutland, based on ancient Indian Vedic principles of doing no harm. She is, she says, these days far more interested in finding solutions than in protest.

Having lost many friends and band members to drugs and addiction over the years (her first songwriting collaborator and Pretenders guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, died after a reaction to cocaine aged 25), Hynde is these days drug- and alcohol-free. She has even given up smoking. She has lived alone for a decade or more, in north-west London, where she paints – portraits and landscapes and abstracts – and writes. A book of 200 of her paintings, Adding the Blue , came out in 2018. She published an autobiography three years earlier, Reckless , which recounted in unflinching detail not only her early music journey but some of the darkest events of her life, including the trauma of gang-rape by a gang of Hells Angels in the 1970s. She could not have written the book, she said, until her parents in Ohio, Bud and Dolores, had died.

She has always been deeply sceptical of the trappings of celebrity. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 but has often said since she would cheerfully give up the dubious honour. “I was living a happy life in Rio when I got the call I was being inducted,” she once recalled. “My heart sank because I knew I’d have to go back for it as it would be too much of a kick in the teeth to my parents if I didn’t. I’d upset them enough by then, so it was one of those things that would bail me out from years of disappointing them – like moving out of the US and being arrested at Peta protests and my general personality…”

This interview took place in a photo studio in Islington last week in a break from a touring schedule that has taken in 50 gigs already this year, some in intimate clubs, some at stadiums as special guests of Guns N’ Roses. In a couple of weeks the band will head to the States for more of the same. Hynde is no great lover of the business of album promotion or journalist’s questions (as she once admitted to the Observer : “I can’t be arsed usually and it doesn’t help that I’m not a show-off… OK, on stage I am, but only on stage”). Though she was adamant she didn’t want any fuss, it took her a little while to settle; she wasn’t keen on sitting in a dressing room with strip lights and mirrors – too much like the dentist’s – which prompted her suggestion that she would rather be having her teeth pulled than sitting looking back over her life again. But she warmed to the idea once a calmer place to sit had been found – she is, after all, nothing if not a trouper. The first question came from her old friend Paul McCartney, and we went on from there.

Paul McCartney

You’re from Akron, Ohio, why don’t you eat meat? Akron wasn’t a farming place, it was full of tyre factories. It was known as the rubber capital of the world. Why don’t I eat meat? Gosh, it’s been so long now. There wasn’t a moment. It started back in hippy days. I heard the word “vegetarian” and thought about it for about a minute, and decided, yeah. I was 16 or 17. Since then I’ve gone to jail because of it, I’ve been in Peta for many years. I had a vegan restaurant at one point. It’s what made me friends with Linda [McCartney]. But why? Well, because I don’t see any reason to kill an animal if I don’t have to – if an animal is trying to kill me, well, maybe. But my real question is: why does anybody do that if they don’t have to? It blows my mind every day of my life.

Writer and frontman and bassist of the Membranes

How is your cruelty-free ahimsa farm doing? Ahimsa is a Vedic term, meaning non-aggressive. It’s kind of like yoga farming. It’s doing well. We have about 40 cows on the farm, which is in Rutland. We don’t slaughter the male calves. There is no artificial insemination. We let one bull in the field run with a cow if it’s time for her to get pregnant. The cornerstone of Vedic culture are the four principles of cow protection: number one, never kill a cow. Number two, the calves must suckle from their mothers. Number three, you milk by hand. Number four, you give the oxen meaningful work. If that is done you replenish the topsoil, you don’t need any fossil fuels. So that is my number one interest. How often am I there? Well, I’m there when I can be, but, you know, I’m also a rock singer.

Chris Packham

Environmentalist

We live in a time when protest is being restricted but – with a climate and biodiversity emergency – is more important than ever before. Still, there is a dearth of protest singers. Is it time for songwriters to put pop to one side and to pick up their pens with more purpose? I don’t think songwriters should do anything except what they want to do. Which is express themselves. It’s good for people to protest, but everyone knows what the problems are. What we need are solutions. That is what the ahimsa farm is about, trying to set examples of what could be done. Do I think people should pick up a guitar and sing about it? Well, you know, Masters of War was a great protest song – but I’m not Bob Dylan. The thing with art is that it’s personal to you, it’s self-expression.

Chrissie Hynde: a life in brief

Christine Ellen Hynde is born on 7 September in Akron, Ohio, to Dolores, a former model, and Melville Grant “Bud” Hynde, an employee of Ohio Bell telephone company.

While an art student at Kent State University, joins the band Sat Sun Mat. On 4 May witnesses the Kent State shootings, in which four college students protesting the Vietnam war are killed by the Ohio national guard.

Moves to London, working successively at an architectural firm, NME and Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s clothing store Sex.

Meets bassist Pete Farndon, guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and drummer Martin Chambers, and together they form the Pretenders. They release their self-titled debut the following year, with the album’s third single, Brass in Pocket, reaching UK No 1 in January 1980.

Honeyman-Scott dies of heart failure caused by a cocaine overdose; the following year, Farndon is found dead following a heroin overdose.

Natalie, Hynde’s daughter with the Kinks’ Ray Davies, is born.

Marries Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds, and they have a daughter, Yasmin, the following year. Between 1997 and 2002 she is married to Colombian artist Lucho Brieva.

I’ll Stand By You, a ballad from the Pretenders’ sixth album, Last of the Independents , is released as a single to wide commercial success.

Opens vegan restaurant VegiTerranean in Akron, serving Italian-Mediterranean food; it closes in 2011. She later becomes a supporter of Ahimsa, a slaughter-free dairy farm in Rutland.

Releases her first solo album, Stockholm ; it is followed by Valve Bone Woe in 2019 and Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan in 2021.

Releases memoir, Reckless: My Life As a Pretender .

Publishes book of nearly 200 of her paintings, Adding the Blue. Kathryn Bromwich

With regards to songwriting – from the first spark of an idea to playing it in front of 10,000 people, which is your favourite part of the process? Chris Bacon, Observer reader, Derry Farm

I suppose everyone has their own way of doing it. I don’t really like talking about my way of doing it, partly because every time is a bit different. In terms of performing, I think there’s this idea that you get all this energy from the audience – and that’s great. But really, I always get off on the band. And if anyone else likes it… well, great.

Stella Creasy

Don’t Get Me Wrong taught me about “light refract ed” and Brass in Pocket about “Detroit leaning” and how to “us e my sidestep” to get attention . Where does the inspiration for such lyrics come from and do you know when you’ve written something which will be an earworm? You pick up phrases. “Detroit leaning” is an expression I heard that was used to describe the way someone leans back in their car seat with one wrist on the wheel, an affected way of driving. “Use my sidestep” – we were all doing skanking reggae dancing at the time and I think it was a reference to that. The phrase “brass in pocket” came from some guys in Wakefield I knew, in a band. They had been to the dry cleaners, and one asked: “Was there any brass in pocket?” I heard it over dinner. Light refracting? Sometimes you are just looking for a word that rhymes. But it’s funny, I don’t even think of myself as a songwriter or even a musician. I just feel as if I’m doing my thing, and I’ve got away with it. I started writing because I wasn’t good enough to play along to the radio and I was too shy to play with the guys in my high school. I had to write my own tunes, so I had something to play when I was learning my baritone ukulele.

Alan Johnson

Writer and former Labour minister

The stand out track from the Pretenders’ first album is the epic Lovers of Today . In its last line you sing that you’ll never feel like a man in a man’s world – is the music industry still a man’s world and have you ever felt like a man in it? Have I ever felt like a man? No. When I was 17, I read Charlie Mingus’s autobiography. He described this island, this colourless island, where musicians and artists lived. And that’s how I’ve always thought of it. Writing music is not about gender, race, or any belief system, none of that sort of thing. I have been asked hundreds of times over the years, especially by female journalists, if I had to work harder because I was a woman. Or I had to fight more. But the truth is, I actually feel I was probably given more credit than I was due, because I was a novelty. I was a girl doing this.

Johnny Marr

Not many people know that you were at Kent State University when the National Guard shot and killed four students (the subject of the Neil Young song Ohio ). That must’ve have been insane. What are your thoughts about that time? That’s a huge subject, Johnny. I was there; I heard the shots. I was right in the middle of it and I knew one of the guys that got killed. We were protesting at Nixon invading Cambodia. Was it a defining moment for me? Well, I already knew I wanted to move on. I knew I was never going to finish school, that I was just biding my time [to get away]. But if I’m honest, my lasting thoughts on that whole wider situation is that all of us hippies were conned, in some ways, by the peace and love thing. During the Vietnam war there was a draft system, and if you were in university, you didn’t get drafted. My dad had been a marine in the war and my parents were hard- working ordinary people. They didn’t go to university, but they worked to put me there. All of us who were against the war, we were in the university, but the kids whose parents couldn’t put them there were in Vietnam. That is what us hippies didn’t see. We’d see Green Berets coming back from Vietnam, you know, and we’d be shouting and giving them the finger and everything. Now I’m ashamed of that. Those kids were 19, like me, but they didn’t have a choice. Looking back, I realise I was conned and got it wrong. No politician sent their own kids to Vietnam. If they’d had to, they would have thought differently about it.

Where do your strength and determination come from? Anne McDonell, Observer reader, London

If there is any, it probably comes from the fact that I always had a job since I was 16. Because then I had no choice. I did waitressing and modelling in art colleges and making picture frames and cleaning hotels and houses. And I prefer doing this. So a lot of strength and determination comes from having no choice. I find it interesting when I hear people say, you know, why is Paul McCartney still playing? Why is Bob Dylan on the road? It’s because it was what we chose to do. We like it.

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What is the purpose of music? For me, it’s a matter of divinity. It’s a way of connecting us with the supreme and finding a sort of self-realisation. If you hear birds singing in the morning, that’s maybe the purest form of it. Music awakens the spirit.

John Banville

Cillian Murphy tells me he reads four or five novels a week when he is making a film. Do you read books when you’re on tour – or are you too busy trashing hotel rooms? Ha ha, very funny John. I do read on tour. I don’t understand people who say that they don’t read novels. I mean, I’ve never read a self-help book. What could you learn from that? But you can learn everything from a great novel because it can lift you into this transcendental state of understanding. And, wow, John Banville is a master of that. His books make you activate all of your imagination: what the people in them look like, what they sound like, what they smell like. I was a bad student. I never really got through the school system and I certainly didn’t get any good grades. But I knew from an early age that you can learn everything from books. What am I reading at the moment? Tender Is the Night , for the first time. I bought it at the airport the other day. And before that I read the most recent Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun , an odd, wonderful book.

Irvine Welsh

What is the most extravagant [dressing room] rider you’ve ever asked for? My version of a rider is to strip everything out of the room and put it out in the corridor or outside the tent, because I don’t want very much [around me]. I ask just for black tea. English breakfast, not Earl Grey. And a mug, not a cup. I think once someone must have put berries on my rider because I always seem to get piles of blueberries. I don’t eat them. If you have to get on stage and sing, you don’t want to eat anything for about four hours before you go on. Certainly not bars of chocolate or anything. It’s kind of dangerous, because you will eat it if it’s there. Or I will.

Brett Anderson

Musician, Suede

Who was the funniest Sex Pistol? It would have to be John [Lydon]! And John is the one I was probably the closest to in the early days. I just remember taking long walks with him. I’m closer with Paul [Cook] now than I ever was. Steve [Jones], I have a certain history with; Sid [Vicious] was probably too fucked up to get philosophical or funny. He went down in flames very fast. I still see Glen [Matlock]. John had this cosmic consciousness that I don’t think he’s recognised for. But if you go back and look at the bands he liked it was like, Van der Graaf Generator. That side was always lurking there, under the surface.

Glen Matlock

Former Sex Pistol

In retrospect, was it the best way to engage Mike Smith of the Dave Clark Five in conversation by banging out Bits and Piece s on the pub table when he came in for a swift half while we were sitting in the Roebuck together one lunchtime in 1976 ? I don’t remember that. But I will say that Dave Clark Five were a great band. They were massive in America and Mike Smith was one of the great British rock singers. They were from Tottenham, local boys. I remember when they showed Bits and Pieces on television in America. They were wearing these sort of Cuban-heeled boots. The camera just started on their boots. That made a huge impression on me.

Ronnie Wood

Rolling Stones guitarist

I love your painting. And I love your voice. So when are we going to paint and play together? And which painting are you most proud of? Ha! Well we were actually supposed to get together and do something today, after this. But Ronnie blew me out. He said he couldn’t find a studio. A Rolling Stone who can’t get a studio? Right. I noticed it was Mick’s birthday yesterday. Though I don’t think Ronnie will have a banging hangover today, like in days of yore. But thanks, so much. Ronnie is my neighbour – we live around the corner from each other [in Maida Vale]. And which painting of mine am I most proud of? I wouldn’t say proud of any of them. I’ve got them all stacked up in the warehouse somewhere.

Catherine Mayer

Author and co-founder of the Women’s Equality party

It has “annoyed the fuck out of me lately”: that was you on feminism in 2015. Since then, progress for women has stalled or, in many cases, reversed. Feminism can indeed be fucking annoying, but would you now agree that it is urgently needed? Well, first, I think I’m a poster girl for feminism. There’s nothing about me that is not feminist, through and through. Is feminism needed? It has a different agenda every decade as it must and as it should. When I grew up in the 60s, as a teenager, I thought we fixed it. You know, I thought we could move on from that, and women could do what they wanted. The big change for me was pre-birth control and after. Only 80 years ago, women might have had 30 pregnancies including miscarriages by the time they were 50. I think modern feminists sometimes forget that. Some of the problem since has been what people are watching on television, you know, Sex and the City , things like that. That put it way back. I mean, who talks about dating? I never went on a date in my life. In certain areas, yes, of course, there’s equality that has to be addressed. But in the arts, I don’t see that. I don’t want to let Catherine down. Because I’m sure she’s doing great work.

Rufus Wainwright

We share a love for Sarah Siddon s’s grave and monument in Paddington Green and have watched it being restored. Is there another monument you admire that needs some TLC ?

I still pass Sarah Siddons daily, Rufus, to make sure someone hasn’t knocked her nose off again. Someone took a crowbar to her. But don’t worry, Rufus, she’s still looking good. Another monument that I would like to see restored? Well. OK, I don’t know if they count as monuments but any of the Oscar Niemeyer buildings that are starting to crumble now because they’re made out of concrete. I was living in Rio at one point, in the building that had his studio is at the top. One time, it was during Carnival, I was with the guy I was going out with at the time, and we got in the lift with Oscar Niemeyer. When we got out and my friend turned to me he said, that was the soul of Brazil, not Carnival. He was right, I loved what Niemeyer did for Brazil. So I would go back and restore all of his buildings.

Is there a band or a musician you would love to collaborate with? Michelle, Observer reader, New Jersey

Well, Iggy Pop offered me a song once. And we didn’t pull that off. And I always regretted that, because Iggy was always my number one when I was growing up. And then he wrote this song and he sent it to me. It was handwritten and everything. I don’t know what I did to turn him off the idea, but then I never heard from him. And he ended up doing the song with Kate Pierson [of the B-52’s]. The song was called Candy .

How did writing for a music magazine influence your songwriting and how you handled star dom later on? Ezra Fink, Observer reader, Jerusalem

I didn’t intend to write for a music magazine. Someone I knew just offered me the job because I had opinions about bands and records. I never was a journalist. But they allowed me to keep doing what I did, because I started getting hate mail immediately. I was getting like 20 quid for writing some bullshit. And one thing I learned – no offence to you, Tim – is that most writers, they’re not qualified or anything. They are blagging it, mostly wandered in, like I did. Did that prepare me for fame? Well, nothing ever prepared me because I’m just the least gracious famous person around. If you want to call me a famous person. I definitely have failed at it. I like doing ordinary things like getting on the bus or the tube. I don’t like being approached. I don’t like being recognised. All of it makes me squirm.

I can’t believe that you’re 71 , any more tha n I can believe I’m 61. Do you have any regrets about things left undone? Jane, Observer reader, Texas

I don’t mind getting older. I do mind getting uglier. Come on, there’s only one thing we know of that is definitely going to happen to us. That’s all the information we have in this life. You know, a lot of my friends didn’t get old. I’m not a worrier, by nature – and there are so many great things about getting older. For example, I don’t think there’s very many things that I know now that I didn’t know when I was 16 – but there’s a big difference between knowing something and realising it. Realising something takes 50 years. I’m more relaxed now, if you can believe it. This is the real mellow version of me. Ageing is like being a pothead again. Though that’s not to say there are not things that wind me up daily.

What advice would you give to your 20-year-old self, knowing what you know now? Janet Shepherd, Observer reader, France

Put a cork in the bottle.

Having lost a number of band members to drugs, what was the point at which you said: “Right, I’ve had enough”? Phil Curry, Observer reader, Kent

I think probably by the time I was in my 60s. For a long time you’d go to a funeral of someone who’d ODed and everyone would still be standing around the grave scoring dope and making [drug] deals. Because, you know, it’s an addiction. My advice would be, read Allen Carr – not the comedian, the author of books on the way to quit addiction – he’s a hero of mine. It takes a while. People think that you have problems, and that’s why you become an addict. But in my experience, most of us just wanted to get loaded, because all our heroes did it and we wanted to find out what it was like. It’s not necessarily trauma-born, but it certainly becomes a trauma.

Pauline Murray

Lead singer in punk band Penetration

Like me, you were in a band in a music business dominated by men. What advice would you give to young female musicians starting out today? Do your thing. But I wouldn’t give advice just to women specifically, I would just give advice to anyone who’s getting into a band. And it would be the same as it’s been since the 60s: do what you want to do. And keep working.

If you were to choose three people dead or alive to have dinner with, who would they be? Savoy, Observer reader, San Francisco

Jimi Hendrix. Elvis Presley. And Maria Callas.

In past interviews, you’ve said that [late band member] James Honeyman-Scott was the last guitar hero. What is your definition of a guitar hero? Gary , Observer reader, Tampa, Florida

James was not the last, but he was one of the last. What’s the definition of a guitar hero? Well, one is someone who, at a party, will find another guitar bore, and they just go off into a corner and talk guitars for the next three hours. But guitar heroes are what rock’n’roll is all about. It was great to be on stage, for example, with both Johnny Marr and [Pretenders guitarist] James Walbourne at Glastonbury. They are both incredible. I’ve always had great guitar players in the band. It’s a point of pride.

You once answered a question about your personal life with the epically assured response: “Who the fuck wants to know?” I’ve never laughed harder. With that in mind, would you mind telling me how your personal life is going these days, you absolute legend? Robert McLiam Wilson, novelist and Observer reader, Paris

It’s great, thanks. I have found that the best way to keep [your personal life] separate from the public is just not to have one.

Would you do it all again? Helen Weddell, Observer reader, Winchester

No. Not if I didn’t have to.

The Pretenders’ new album, Relentless , is out 15 September via Parlophone

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The Pretenders "hold tight" as UK tour rescheduled and extended to October 2024.

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14 Feb 2024, 11:23

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Injury forces Chrissie Hynde and Co. to postpone, but more dates added for autumn.

Frontwoman Chrissie Hynde, in a statement dripping with good humour, revealed that a knee injury is the reason behind the delay.

"Hi all! We’re champing at the bit to get back on the road, but looks like we’re gonna have to hold tight for a while. I have a knee injury which will have to be dealt with first," shared Hynde in a message that blended a rock 'n' roll spirit with a touch of knee-slapping humour.

"I was hoping I could limp through the next 6 weeks, but it’s just getting worse. (I’ll spare you the gory details…)," she continued.

The rescheduled concerts are now set to rock through October, with existing ticket holders in for the long haul.

However, for those who can't dance through the revised dates, a refund option is on the table.

Adding a bit of spice to the mix, The Pretenders also announced extra shows in Portsmouth’s Guildhall (October 11), Hull’s Connexin Live (19), and Ipswich’s Regent Theatre (26).

The encore even includes a third night at London’s Palladium on October 24, promising fans a triple dose of The Pretenders' magic.

Tickets for these freshly-squeezed gigs will be up for grabs starting at 10 am GMT this Friday (February 16). Fans eager to secure their spot in the audience can grab theirs on the official website.

Last summer, The Pretenders shared the stage at Glastonbury Festival 2023 with special guests Johnny Marr and Dave Grohl .

They continued to captivate audiences by opening for Guns N’ Roses at BST Hyde Park in London and making waves at BBC Radio 2 In The Park in Leicester.

The Pretenders are far from a one-hit-wonder, and this summer, they are set to open for Foo Fighters on selected dates of their Everything Or Nothing US tour and are also on the lineup for the Isle Of Wight Festival 2024.

So, while the knee may be taking a break, The Pretenders are gearing up for an extended encore that promises to be well worth the wait.

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Pretenders reschedule UK tour after Chrissie Hynde injures knee

Pretenders  have been forced to postpone their upcoming U.K. tour so frontwoman  Chrissie Hynde  can recover from an injury.

“We’re champing at the bit to get back on the road, but looks like we’re gonna have to hold tight for a while. I have a knee injury which will have to be dealt with first,” Chrissie  writes on Instagram . “I was hoping I could limp through the next 6 weeks, but it’s just getting worse. (I’ll spare you the gory details…)”

The tour was supposed to kick off February 24 but will now start on October 11 in Portsmouth and run through October 28 in Manchester. A complete list of dates can be found at  thepretenders.com . 

Tickets purchased for the original shows will be valid for the rescheduled dates, with refunds available to anyone who can’t make the new dates.

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The Pretenders Announce 2024 US Tour

Stopping in Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC

The Pretenders have set a US headlining tour for Summer 2024 in support of last year’s Relentless .

Planned around the Chrissie Hynde -led group’s opening dates on Foo Fighters’ summer stadium run , the tour will open on July 13th in Red Bank, New Jersey, making subsequent stops in Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and more. See The Pretenders’ full touring itinerary below.

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Ahead of The Pretenders’ headlining tour and gigs opening for Foo Fighters, the band will play a string of European festivals. Following their US run, they’ll head back across the pond for a tour of Europe and the UK. Grab your seats here .

Relentless was released this past September as the follow-up to 2020’s Hate for Sale . Revisit Hynde’s sitdown with Kyle Meredith about the latter record below.

The Pretenders 2024 Tour Dates: 06/14 – Bilbao, ES @ BBK Bilbao Music Legends Festival 06/21 – Newport, Isle of Wight @ Isle of Wight Festival 06/30 – Madrid, ES @ Noches del Botanico 07/01 – Barcelona, ES @ Les Nits de Barcelona 2024 07/03 – Cognac, FR @ Blues Passions 07/04 – Belfort, FR @ Eurockeennes 07/07 – Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter 07/13 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for the Arts 07/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia 07/16 – Lenox, MA @ Tanglewood 07/17 – New York, NY @ Citi Field † 07/19 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway 07/21 – Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre 07/23 – Akron, OH @ Goodyear Theater 07/25 – Cincinnati, OH @ Great American Ball Park † 07/26 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago Theatre 07/28 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Field † 07/29 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater 07/31 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom 08/01 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater 08/03 – Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High † 08/06 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 08/07 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater 08/10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre 08/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ BMO Stadium † 08/13 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic 08/14 – Sacramento, CA @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain 08/16 – Portland, OR @ Providence Park † 08/18 – Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park † 09/06 – Randers, DK @ VÆRKET 09/08 – Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene 09/09 – Stockholm, SE @ Cirkus 09/11 – Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio 09/12 – Hamburg, DE @ Hamburg Docks 09/14 – Liege, BE @ OM 09/15 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal 09/17 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 09/18 – Luxembourg, LU @ Den Atelier 09/19 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks 09/21 – Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp 09/22 – Zurich, CH @ X-TRA 09/24 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 09/25 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall 09/27 – Warsaw, PL @ Stodola 09/29 – Berlin, DE @ Metropol 09/30 – Munich, DE @ Muffathalle 10/02 – Lyon, FR @ Transbordeur 10/03 – Paris, FR @ Pleyel 10/11 – Portsmouth, UK @ Guildhall 10/12 – Bristol, UK @ Beacon 10/13 – Oxford, UK @ New Theatre 10/16 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall 10/17 – Gateshead, UK @ The Glasshouse 10/19 – Hull, UK @ Connexin Live 10/20 – Nottingham, UK @ Royal Concert Hall 10/22 – London, UK @ Palladium 10/23 – London, UK @ Palladium 10/24 – London, UK @ Palladium 10/26 – Ipswich, UK @ Regent Theatre 10/27 – Birmingham, UK @ Symphony Hall 10/28 – Manchester, UK @ Bridgewater Hall

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Chrissie Hynde might be the textbook definition of effortlessly cool. Sure she’s 63, but don’t let that fool you into thinking she’s any less astounding to see live than she was in the late seventies. At the iTunes festival this year, her relaxed posture, on-point sound and post-punk stylings served as a reminder that this woman is in charge of her stage. Chrissie’s voice is synonymous with alternative-rock band The Pretenders, and thankfully she has no intentions of denying her roots. Classic hits such as Don’t Get Me Wrong and Message of Love were perfectly interlaced with new work from her recently released album, Stockholm. Chrissie knew what we wanted and she didn’t disappoint.

Seeing Chrissie live I could tell how totally amped she is about her new material. While we may have had to wait years for some truly solo work, we always knew she’d deliver. After all, this is a woman who famously had several false starts at fame in bands alongside the likes of Mick Jones, Malcolm McLaren and Mark Mothersbaugh before striking gold with The Pretenders: she is clearly a grafter.

I can’t recommend enough that you catch Chrissie live on one of her tour dates. Her trans-Atlantic rock ‘n roll voice is still as fresh and unique on those Pretenders hits as it ever was, plus her new material is pretty damn impressive. Don’t believe me? Go see her for yourself.

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I had never seen Chrissie Hynde perform before nor gone to the Hollywood Bowl, and neither disappointed! Chrissie was performing songs from her upcoming jazz-oriented Valve Bone Woe album, as well as play her classics and her performance was spectacular and the Bowl sound system was fantastic.

The show started with a full orchestra playing a few songs then Chrissie came out. She got right to business crooning and belting out her jazz songs. After about 8 or 9 songs she finished the first set with Brass in Pocket then she and the band took a break.

When they returned, she continued with a few more jazz songs. Whereas the first half of the set was really good, the second half was simply a phenomenal marquee performance! Chrissie is like 70 years old and her voice sounded stupendous. She also had a very sweet and disarming stage presence which added to her aura.

After the remaining jazz songs she proceeded to crank up her guitar to her classic songs including Talk of the Town, My City was Gone, Message of Love, Kid, Back on the Chain Gang, Don’t Get Me Wrong and I’ll Stand by You. Chrissie exhibited incredible power and command on stage.

Of course , I wasn't there in person but I have been at all the shows in spirit and with encouraging thoughts . I am very proud Chrissie has , at last come clean and has made her own album and is promoting it , even if it is with half of the band I found for her . Martin Chambers . Pretenders Drummer .

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Chrissie Hynde bringing the Pretenders to Phoenix. Here's how to get tickets

The Pretende r s will bring their summer tour to Arizona Financial Theatre in downtown Phoenix on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024.

This is the first Pretenders show in metro Phoenix since 2016, when they joined Stevie Nicks on the opening night of the 24 Karat Gold Tour at Footprint Center (then called Talking Stick Resort Arena).

Chrissie Hynde joined Nicks on stage that night for a crowd-pleasing version of Nicks’ iconic Tom Petty duet, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”

The Pretenders tour is set to launch July 13 at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey, and features a handful of stadium dates as special guests of Foo Fighters.

From there, the Pretenders will embark on a nearly sold-out European tour, including shows in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Poland, France and the U.K., culminating Oct. 28 with a sold-out show at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

The Pretenders 2024 tour is in support of 'Relentless' album

This tour follows the release of an acclaimed new album called "Relentless," produced by David Wrench (Courtney Barnett, David Byrne) at Battery Studios in London.

“Relentless” marks the second full-length songwriting collaboration by Hynde and Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne following 2020’s “Hate for Sale.” The album includes “Losing My Sense of Taste,” “A Love” and “Let the Sun Come In."

It closes with “I Think About You Daily,” featuring composer Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, who provides the string arrangement and conducted the 12 Ensemble for the recording.

MOJO hailed the album’s “persistently brilliant songwriting … surely how Chrissie Hynde always wanted The Pretenders to sound” while Uncut praised it as “the new prime of Chrissie Hynde,” and Record Collector proclaimed it “the best Pretenders album in 20 years.”

Chrissie Hynde interview: 'I have only ever wanted to play with a band'

How to get tickets to the Pretenders in Phoenix

Presales begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 20. The general on sale is at 10 a.m. Friday, March 22, at livenation.com.

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The Pretenders have announced that their planned UK tour in February and March will now take place in October 2024.

Chrissie Hynde has shared a message with Pretenders fans that she’s suffering from a knee injury and needs time to recuperate.

“We're champing at the bit to get back on the road, but looks like we’re gonna have to hold tight for a while,” Chrissie Hynde wrote.

“I have a knee injury which will have to be dealt with first. I was hoping I could limp through the next 6 weeks, but it’s just getting worse. (I’ll spare you the gory details…)

“We will be rescheduling the postponed shows to later in the year. So sorry for the inconvenience but look forward to seeing you then.”

All planned concerts in Gateshead, Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Oxford, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham have been rescheduled for October.

There will also be additional four shows in Portsmouth, Hull, London and Ipswich. Tickets to these dates go on sale from Absolute Radio Tickets at 10am on Friday 16th February.

The tour follows the September 2023 release of The Pretenders’ 12th studio album ‘Relentless’, the band’s highest-charting record in 23 years and 14th UK Top 40 release.

The setlist each night will feature Pretenders classics alongside newer songs from their back catalogue.

The Pretenders’ UK tour dates:

OCTOBER 2024

Portsmouth Guildhall – 11th (NEW DATE)

Bristol Beacon – 12th

Oxford New Theatre – 13th

Edinburgh Usher Hall – 16th

Gateshead The Glasshouse – 17th

Hull Connexin Live – 19th (NEW DATE)

Nottingham Royal Concert Hall – 20th

London Palladium – 22nd (tickets from Wednesday 28th Feb valid for this date)

London Palladium – 23rd (tickets from Thursday 29th Feb valid for this date)

London Palladium – 24th (NEW DATE)

Ipswich Regent Theatre – 26th (NEW DATE)

Birmingham Symphony Hall – 27th

Manchester Bridgewater Hall – 28th

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Manic Street Preachers and Suede are heading on a co-headline tour in June and July 2024. Following adding an extra concert to the line-up, the two legendary bands will start the string of shows at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod on Friday 28th June 2024, playing in Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds, before wrapping in London on Thursday 18th July. The two bands will be taking turns closing the shows, with Suede doing the honours in London, Leeds and Dublin, and Manics closing in Llangollen, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester. Buy tickets here

Heart - 2024

Rock legends Heart will be embarking on their first UK tour in eight years this July. The Royal Flush Tour 2024 will see the band play six huge arena shows with special guests Squeeze, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary. The tour will open at London's The O2 on Monday 1st July 2024, then visit Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester and Leeds before concluding at Glasgow OVO Hydro on Tuesday 9th July 2024. Buy tickets here

AC/DC - 2024

Rumours were rife last year that AC/DC were 'looking at 2024 tour dates' to coincide with their 50th anniversary, and after the rock legends' live return at October 2023's Power Trip festival in California, it has been confirmed that they will in fact perform two colossal concerts at London's Wembley Stadium this summer. As part of 'The Power Up Tour' through Europe, named after the band's chart-topping 2020 album 'PWR UP', the shows are scheduled to take place on Wednesday 3rd and Sunday 7th July 2024. The two huge Wembley shows will mark eight years since AC/DC have performed live in the UK. Opening proceedings for all 24 European dates of 'The Power Up Tour' will come from New York City rockers The Pretty Reckless. Buy tickets here

Kasabian - 2024

Although it's not a tour, one of the UK's best and biggest bands, Kasabian, will be heading to their hometown of Leicester to play a massive headline show at Victoria Park on 6th July 2024. It's been 10 years since the band last played Victoria Park, with the upcoming show promising 'an explosive set list that takes in their remarkable career'. 2024 will prove a big year for the group, with them also releasing their eighth studio album 'Happenings'. On the huge upcoming show, Kasabian - consisting of Serge Pizzorno, bassist Chris Edwards, drummer Ian Matthews and guitarist Tim Carter - said: "We are truly honoured to be playing Victoria Park in our beloved hometown, with all our people for summer solstice two. We cannot wait to get out there and play the biggest party of the summer with you all. See you in the mosh pit."

Catfish and the Bottlemen

Although it's not a complete UK tour, 'Cocoon' legends Catfish and the Bottlemen will be performing a massive outdoor show in Liverpool's stunning Sefton Park this summer. Taking place on 11th July 2024, the show will serve as the band's biggest headline show of their career to date - with the site holding a whopping 32,000 capacity.

Stevie Nicks - 2024

Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks will headline American Express presents BST Hyde Park this summer, topping the bill at the London festival on Friday 12th July 2024. Not only that, but Stevie will be playing two arena shows in the UK prior to the festival, taking place in Glasgow on Saturday 6th July and Manchester on Tuesday 9th July. Buy tickets here

Scottish-American rockers Garbage will play five headline shows in the UK in 2024, serving as their first headline tour here in five years. As well as their show at Glasgow's TRNSMT Festival on Friday 12th July 2024, Garbage will play their own headline concerts in Edinburgh, Bridlington, Wolverhampton and Manchester before concluding with a huge gig at London's Wembley OVO Arena on Saturday 20th July. Buy tickets here

Kendal Calling - 2024

Kendal Calling returns for another year, following another triumphant year in the hallowed fields of Lowther Deer Park in 2023. The 2024 festival will take place at the slightly later date of Thursday 1st - Sunday 4th August, with the line-up including huge acts such as Paul Heaton - with guest singer Rianne Downey - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Streets, Paolo Nutini, Keane, Feeder, Declan McKenna, Pale Waves and Kate Nash - as well as over 120 more acts announced - check out the complete line-up right here . Buy tickets here

Boardmasters - 2024

Beachside festival Boardmasters, inspired by freedom, adventure and creativity of surfing and music, returns from 7th-11th August 2024, at its usual location of Newquay, Cornwall. With the lineup boasting 50+ acts, headliners include Sam Fender , Stormzy and Chase & Status as the huge acts head to the Cornish coast. Buy tickets here

Reading & Leeds Festival - 2024

The world-renowned Reading & Leeds Festivals will be returning in 2024, from Wednesday 21st - Sunday 25th August. Giving festival goers an extra day to recover, the Summer bank holiday will take place on Monday 26th August in 2024. Headliners for the events are yet to be announced. Buy tickets here

The Long Road Festival - 2024

The iconic Long Road Festival will return in 2024 over the August Bank Holiday, seeing the return of the three-day extravaganza. Celebrating the music, lifestyle and influences of Country, the line-up is yet to be announced. From Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th August 2024, the festival returns to Stanford Hall estate in Leicestershire with over 60 artists across five stages. Buy tickets here

Texas - 2024

Texas will hit the road in September 2024 for the UK tour dates, with an extra date added to the string of shows due to phenomenal demand. Originally set to start on 6th September 2024, the extra date will now see Sharleen Spiteri and co. kick off their tour at London's The O2 on 5th September 2024. The tour will then see them travel through Leeds, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Cardiff Birmingham and Glasgow. The band have also confirmed that their musical kindred spirt KT Tunstall is the very special guest at all dates. Buy tickets here

Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve - 2024

Elvis Costello and long-time collaborator Steve Nieve will head on an 11-date UK tour , starting on Thursday 5th September 2024 at Glasgow Theatre Royal. Shows will then take place in Gateshead, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Oxford, Bristol, Poole, London and Ipswich before culminating at Wolverhampton Civic Halls on Wednesday 25th September. After the UK dates, the musical kindred spirits head over to Ireland for a four-night stand at Dublin Vicar St. Buy tickets here

The Libertines - 2024

This autumn, The Libertines will head on their 16-date UK & Ireland tour , beginning in Dublin on Monday 23rd September 2024. Playing another show in Belfast, the English rockers will then continue dates into October, touring through Birmingham, Norwich, Cambridge, Cardiff, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Nottingham and Leeds, then playing two shows in London before their final dates of the tour in November. Buy tickets here

The Last Dinner Party - 2024

Rising indie rock band The Last Dinner Party have lined up a 16-date headline UK and Ireland tour for 2024, in support of their debut album 'Prelude to Ecstasy'. With their album released in February, their tour will begin on Monday 23rd September 2024 at Newcastle's O2 City Hall, before they visit Leeds, Sheffield, Norwich, Lincoln, Cardiff, Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol, Southampton, Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and Cambridge before concluding with a massive show at London's Eventim Apollo on Wednesday 16th October 2024. Buy tickets here

Steve Hackett - 2024

October 2024 will see guitar great Steve Hackett embark on his fresh 15-date 'Genesis Greats, Lamb Highlights & Solo' UK tour . Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Genesis' epic sixth studio album 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway', the setlist will boast a selection of hits from the album, as well as Genesis favourites and songs from his solo repertoire. The tour will open at Aylesbury Friars Waterside on Wednesday 2nd October 2024, and visit Portsmouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff, Guildford, Stoke, York, Nottingham, Glasgow, Gateshead, Manchester and Reading before concluding at London Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 23rd October. Buy tickets here

The Pretenders - 2024

The Pretenders had originally lined up a nine-date headline UK tour for February and March 2024, however due to Chrissie Hynde's knee injury this has been moved to October - as well as adding an extra four shows. Dates now begin at Portsmouth Guildhall on 11th October 2024, playing shows in a number of cities - including three shows at London Palladium - before wrapping at Manchester Bridgewater Hall on 28th October. Buy tickets here

Alice Cooper - 2024

Icon and pioneer Alice Cooper will bring his 'Too Close For Comfort Tour' across the pond in October 2024 , marking his first performance in the UK since 2022. Alice and his award-winning band will begin the string of shows in Glasgow on Monday 14th October, before heading to arenas in Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, before finishing with two shows at London's Eventim Apollo on Sunday 20th and Monday 21st. Buy tickets here

Adam Ant - 2024

October and November 2024 will then see 80s music icon Adam Ant perform his 17-date UK 'ANTMUSIC Tour' . Opening at Cambridge Corn Exchange on Friday 18th October, Adam will call in at Southend, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Guildford, Liverpool, Nottingham, Cardiff, Sheffield, York, Glasgow, Gateshead, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and Leicester, before bringing the stretch to an end in London on Saturday 9th November 2024. The trek will see the singer perform his 'most successful hits and his personal favourites'. Buy tickets here

Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro are set to perform six very special UK concerts in October 2024. The 'A Celebration of Beginnings' tour dates will see the Scottish rock band perform their first three studio albums - 2002's 'Blackened Sky', 2003's 'The Vertigo of Bliss' and 2004's 'Infinity Land' - from start to finish, plus other tracks from their back catalogue. Shows begin in London from 20th-22nd October 2024, before the band travel up for a series of shows in Glasgow from 24th-26th. Find out which albums will be played at which shows . Buy tickets here

Journey with special guests Cheap Trick - 2024

Rock legends Journey will be bringing their 50th Anniversary Freedom Tour to the UK & Ireland in October 2024. With special guests Cheap Trick at all 11 dates, who are also celebrating their 50th anniversary, dates begin at Cardiff Utilita Arena on Wednesday 30th October, continuing through Nottingham, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and Newcastle before concluding at London The O2 on Sunday 17th November. Buy tickets here

Deep Purple - 2024

Rock legends Deep Purple will head on their five date UK tour 'The =1 More Time Tour' this November. Opening at Birmingham Resorts World Arena on Monday 4th November, they'll visit London, Leeds and Manchester before concluding at Glasgow OVO Hydro on Sunday 10th November - with the brilliant Glastonbury rockers Reef joining them at all dates. Buy tickets here

Suzi Quatro - 2024

Suzi Quatro will celebrate her 60th anniversary in the music business with a five-date UK tour in the autumn of 2024. Playing in prestigious venue throughout the UK, her tour opens at the world-famous London Palladium on Wednesday 13th November 2024. She'll then play dates at York Barbican, Cardiff New Theatre and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall before closing at Leicester De Montfort Hall on Wednesday 20th November. Buy tickets here

Shed Seven - 2024

Chart-topping indie icons Shed Seven will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year, heading on an extensive 23-date UK tour in November and December, joined by special guests The Sherlocks. The tour begins at Sheffield Octagon on Thursday 14th November, and after 21 more shows will wrap up exactly a month later at London O2 Academy Brixton on Saturday 14th December. Buy tickets here

The Human League - 2024

'Don't You Want Me' legends The Human League play eight huge shows in 2024, heading on their 'Generations' tour . Dates begin at the Cardiff Utilita Arena on 5th December 2024, and run up until 14th December when they will play a show at London's OVO Arena Wembley - with the very special guests at all gigs being serial-hitmaker Sophie Ellis-Bextor and their fellow 80s icons T'Pau. Buy tickets here

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The 25 Concert Tours You Can’t Afford to Miss This Summer

From the stones to j. lo, pearl jam, journey, foo fighters and robert plant, it’s all about big shows and big stars. grab your tickets now.

Edna Gundersen,

After a massive slump during COVID , the concert industry is again sh-boom, sh-booming! The gross for the top 100 North American tours in 2023 reached $6.63 billion, up 39.5 percent over 2022, with attendance nearly doubling, to 15,008 per show, according to Pollstar.

And this year is shaping up to be another box office blowout. Despite the national outrage over price spikes for eggs, airfare and gas , music lovers seem immune to ticket shock. Ticket prices climbed 22 percent last year, to an average of $135.88, compared to $111.49 in 2022. And the trend is pointing skyward.

Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour and Beyonce’s “Renaissance World” tour ranked first and second last year, but boomer acts remain the tour circuit’s lucrative and reliable summer tentpole, delivering packed arenas and sheds year after year as fans flock to relish the oldies and rekindle the past.

Here are the acts to catch this sunny season.

​Heart (April 20–May 24, Aug. 10–Nov. 22)

Sisters Ann Wilson, 73, and Nancy Wilson, 70, haven’t released an album since 2016’s Beautiful Broken , but they have decades of hits, including “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” “These Dreams” and “Alone,” to draw from on their “Royal Flush” tour . Cheap Trick opens.

Kenny Chesney (April 20–Aug. 23)

After hitting arenas last year, country star Chesney, 56, has booked 18 stadiums for shows with openers including the Zac Brown Band, Megan Moroney and Uncle Kracker, his duet partner on chart-topper “When the Sun Goes Down.” All but one of the shows are on Saturdays.

​Billy Joel (April 26–Nov. 9)

The Piano Man, 74, has scheduled only 13 dates , four of them at New York’s Madison Square Garden, so ticket stampedes are likely. Fans are curious to know if “Turn the Lights Back On,” Joel’s first single in 17 years, will be added to his hit-heavy repertoire.

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​The Rolling Stones (April 28–July 17)

Mick Jagger , 80, Keith Richards, 80, Ron Wood, 76, and company continue their global “Hackney Diamonds” tour , named after last year’s highly praised album , the group’s first batch of originals since 2005’s  A Bigger Bang . Expect  Diamonds  cuts and lots of hits.

​Stevie Nicks (May 3–June 21)

Between Fleetwood Mac’s songbook and her own solo catalog, singer-songwriter Nicks, 75, has a huge well of material to draw from as she extends a tour that started in February. She’s been performing crowd favorites “Landslide,” “Dreams,” “Rhiannon” and “Edge of Seventeen” as well as Tom Petty hits in honor of her late friend.

George Strait (May 4–July 20, Dec. 7)

A touring juggernaut, honky-tonk country singer-songwriter Strait, 71, resumes the record-breaking stadium tour he kicked off in 2023. He’s joined by Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town. The King of Country serves up “his own Eras tour, leading a well-curated, decades-spanning set of songs,” according to  Billboard .

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​Roger Daltrey (May 6, June 10–29)

Daltrey, 80, the Who’s charismatic singer, headlines a solo electric and acoustic tour that showcases the British band’s songs, tunes from his own catalog and personal stories. KT Tunstall, Dan Bern and Leslie Mendelson rotate opening slots.

Pearl Jam (May 10–May 30, Aug. 22–Sept. 9)

Seattle’s grunge pioneers (whose average age is 59) have mapped out their high-demand “Dark Matter” world tour to follow the April release of their 12th studio album,  Dark Matter . Ten Club members can register for the presale. Nonmembers? Watch the secondary ticket market sites.

​Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire (May 15–Sept. 7)

The brass-driven rock band and the R&B group join forces for the return of their “Heart & Soul” tour . The night features each legendary act’s full set and culminates in a finale with both on stage.

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Lionel Richie (May 23–June 16)

After selling out 2023’s “Sing a Song All Night Long” tour, the soul-pop superstar, 74, returns for another 13 dates , performing solo hits “Hello,” “Dancing on the Ceiling” and “All Night Long” as well as such Commodores classics as “Easy,” “Brick House” and “Three Times a Lady.” With Earth, Wind & Fire ("September," "Boogie Wonderland").

​Red Hot Chili Peppers (May 28–July 30)

The California funk-rock quartet’s exhaustive “Unlimited Love” tour began in 2022 to celebrate that year’s pair of number 1 albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen . Shows have been a mix of hits and covers of Funkadelic, the Clash, Elton John and others.

​Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (June 2–Sept. 1)

The unlikely duo of the former Led Zeppelin wailer, 75, and bluegrass/country queen, 52, take their eclectic Americana duets on the road . JD McPherson opens the shows and also plays guitar in the band. Plant and Krauss first linked talents for the hit 2007 album  Raising Sand , with a second collaboration,  Raise the Roof , arriving in 2021.

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Janet Jackson (June 4–July 30)

The R&B/pop singer, 57, best known for “Control,” “Nasty,” “Miss You Much” and precision choreography, extends her 2023 “Together Again” tour with 35 dates in amphitheaters and arenas. Nelly (“Not in Herre”) opens.

​Alanis Morissette (June 9–Aug. 10)

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of her Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie album, the alt-rock singer, who turns 50 on June 1, is staging the “Triple Moon” tour , featuring guests Joan Jett, 65, and the Blackhearts and Morgan Wade. The album’s standout “Thank U” is likely on the set list, along with Jagged Little Pill selections.

​Foreigner and Styx (June 11–Aug. 28)

Ten years after linking up for their “Soundtrack of Summer” trek, vintage rock bands Foreigner (“Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “I Want to Know What Love Is”) and Styx (“Come Sail Away,” “Lady,” “Mr. Roboto”) are together again for a classic rock showdown they’re calling the “Renegades and Juke Box Heroes” tour. John Waite, 71, is the opener.

Blink-182 (June 20–Aug. 13)

The high-energy pop-punk band, featuring Mark Hoppus, 52, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker, will play stadiums and arenas in support of their album  One More Time…  Dubbed the “Blink-182” tour , it’s a maturity leap from their 1998 outing, the “PooPoo PeePee” tour.

Jennifer Lopez (June 26–Aug. 17)

The “This Is Me … Live: The Greatest Hits” tour , the first outing for J. Lo, 54, since 2019, celebrates her past while also serving up fresh cuts from her February studio album,  This Is Me … Now,  released along with companion films This Is Me … Now: A Love Story and The Greatest Love Story Never Told .

​Journey and Def Leppard (July 6–Sept. 8)

Journey, whose 18-times-platinum “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” was recently crowned the biggest song of all time, co-headlines with fellow legacy rock band Def Leppard on a stadium tour , with rotating guests Heart, the Steve Miller Band and Cheap Trick.

Jewel and Melissa Etheridge (July 11–Oct. 5)

Jewel, 50 on May 23, and Etheridge , 62, team up for a co-headlining tour that spans their catalogs, with emphasis on their ’90s peaks. Jewel will dip into 2022’s  Freewheelin’ Woman , and Etheridge, coming off her “I’m Not Broken” tour , revives “Come to My Window” and “I’m the Only One.”

The Pretenders (July 13–Aug. 14)

The British-American rock band, led by original members Chrissie Hynde , 72, and Martin Chambers, 72, will launch a sprawling world tour to promote last September’s release of their album  Relentless . The set list also dives into a deep bag of hits that include “Brass in Pocket,” “My City Was Gone,” “I’ll Stand by You” and “Precious.”

Foo Fighters (July 17–Aug. 18, May 1–9)

In their biggest headlining U.S. shows so far, the Foo Fighters will play stadiums on their “Everything or Nothing at All” tour , with rotating support acts that include the Hives, L7 and the Pretenders. In 2023, the Seattle band, led by Nirvana member Dave Grohl, 55, released  But Here We Are , its first studio album since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022.

Green Day (July 29–Sept. 28)

The punk trio takes on stadiums in its extensive “Saviors” tour , named after the new album that spawned “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Look Ma, No Brains!” Openers include Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid.

Pink (Aug. 10–Nov. 23)

The rock belter’s “Summer Carnival” tour , which began last year, covers a wide range of material, from hits “So What,” “Get the Party Started” and “Who Knew” to the title track from her latest album,  Trustfall,  to such covers as Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” and Janis Joplin’s signature tune “Me and Bobby McGee.”

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Aug. 15–Sept. 15)

Many 2023 tour dates were postponed when the Boss called in sick with peptic ulcer disease and E Street members got COVID. Springsteen, 74, is back at work and promising a wider selection of songs than the fairly static set list played earlier in the tour .

​Crowded House (Aug. 29–Sept. 28)

The Australian rock band, best known for “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and “Something So Strong,” will launch its “Gravity Stairs” tour to support its eighth studio album, Gravity Stairs , out May 31. In 2019, a reshuffled lineup added original producer Mitchell Froom and founding member Neil Finn’s sons Liam and Elroy to the lineup.

Edna Gundersen, a regular AARP music critic, was the longtime pop critic for  USA Today .

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