Echo & The Bunnymen to celebrate 40 years on May 2021 UK tour
They're playing 16 shows
Last updated 23rd Jun 2020
Liverpool music icons Echo & The Bunnymen will hit the road in May 2021 on an extensive 16-date UK tour dubbed Celebrating 40 Years of Magical Songs.
Opening at Sheffield City Hall on Friday 7th May, the lengthy trek calls in at Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Cambridge, Norwich, Northampton, Leeds, Bristol, Bexhill De La Warr, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Gateshead and Nottingham before concluding at Manchester Albert Hall on Monday 31st May.
As the name suggests, the Celebrating 40 Years of Magical Songs tour will feature many of the seminal songs that have brought the group twenty top 20 hits and nine Top 20 albums during their distinguished four-decade career.
Frontman Ian McCulloch enthuses: “Well then, here are the dates for our 2021 U.K. tour! I can’t wait to be out there with the band on all those stages in all those cities and towns, doing what I love most, playing our magical songs to our brilliant fans and, hopefully, making all our lives a little bit happier along the way.”
Echo & The Bunnymen tickets:
Tickets to the tour go on sale from Absolute Radio Tickets at 9.30am on Friday 26th June.
Cited as a major influence by artists including Coldplay, The Killers and The Flaming Lips, Echo & The Bunnymen released a series of timeless, chart-denting albums in the 1980s including 'Crocodiles', 'Heaven Up Here', 'Porcupine' and 'Ocean Rain', while more recent records including 'Evergreen', 'What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?', 'Siberia & Meteorites' and 2018’s ‘The Stars & The Oceans & The Moon’ have rightfully been lavished with commercial praise.
Thanks to Netflix’s Stranger Things, their 1984 Ocean Rain song 'Nocturnal Me' has been brought to new audiences worldwide, while 'The Killing Moon' and ‘My Kingdom’ were used on 13 Reasons Why.
See Echo & The Bunnymen at the following shows:
MAY 2021
Sheffield City Hall – Fri 7th
Birmingham O2 Academy – Sat 8th
Liverpool Philharmonic – Mon 10th
London Roundhouse – Wed 12th
Cambridge Corn Exchange – Fri 14th
Norwich UEA – Sat 15th
Northampton Derngate – Sun 16th
Leeds O2 Academy – Tue 18th
Bristol O2 Academy – Wed 19th
Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion – Fri 21st
Bournemouth O2 Academy – Sat 22nd
Cardiff St David’s Hall – Sun 23rd
Glasgow Barrowland – Tue 25th
Gateshead Sage – Wed 26th
Nottingham Rock City – Fri 28th
Manchester Albert Hall – Mon 31st