Michael Kiwanuka has announced a UK and European tour for 2025 – buy tickets here.
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The singer-songwriter will be touring in support of his upcoming album ‘Small Changes’, which is out on November 15, and he’ll be playing in four cities in his native UK as well as eight in mainland Europe. The tour is set to start on February 25 in Hamburg and finish in Manchester on March 13.
Kiwanuka is currently on a co-headline tour with former Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard in North America, playing New York City tonight (October 3). Meanwhile, he’s shared four singles from ‘Small Changes‘ so far: ‘Floating Parade‘, ‘Lowdown (part i)’, ‘Lowdown (part ii)’ and ‘The Rest Of Me’.
Tickets to the UK and European dates will go on general sale at 10am BST next Friday (October 11) and you can find tickets here.
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‘Small Changes’ follows Kiwanuka’s Mercury Prize-winning, Grammy-nominated third album, 2019’s ‘KIWANUKA’. At the time, NME gave it a five-star review, saying: “Looking ahead even as he evokes the work of greats as such as Bill Withers and Gil Scott-Heron, Michael Kiwanuka’s bravura self-titled record sees him fiercely reclaim his identity.
“It’s the sound of an artist examining the politics of prejudice that have led him to self-doubt and out of it again. It’s also the sound of an artist coming into his own through brave and dizzying experimentation. ‘Be free,’ he sings on ‘Light’. It finally sounds like he is.”
Michael Kiwanuka’s 2025 UK and European tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
25 – Hamburg, Germany – Sportshalle
26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live
28 – Paris, France – Le Zenith
MARCH
01 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
03 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
04 – Zurich, Switzerland – Halle 622
06 – Munich, Germany – Zenith
07 – Frankfurt, Germany – Jahrhunderthalle
09 – Wolverhampton, UK – Civic Hall
10 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo
12 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall
13 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo
The singer has recently been speaking out about the rise in touring costs, too, as he fears it could put off musicians. He told Music Week last month, “I just finished festival season and I could feel the hole it made in my pocket. For artists that make music that has a human touch to it, you need to tour to connect with people. That’s something you can’t replicate, something where you can create a synergy and a fan for life, and on top of that, you can pay back the fans that are streaming, listening and spreading your music to people.
“If it gets too pricey, you can’t do that. I worry that the quality of artists we produce may diminish because they don’t learn the grassroots, what it is to play and connect with your audience.”
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