Lightning Seeds have extended their ‘Greatest Hits Tour’ into 2025 with a new 11-date run of UK shows in October.
The tour followed the release of their ‘best of’ compilation ‘Tomorrow’s Here Today: 35 Years Of Lightning Seeds’, which was released last year. The initial 22 dates of the UK tour sold out, and now they have announced an additional 11 nights “due to overwhelming demand”.
The new shows will kick off in Ipswich’s Corn Exchange on October 2 and will take in Bath, Northampton, York, Leicester, Holmfirth, Middlesbrough, Lincoln, Keele and Bournemouth, before rounding off the tour in Chesterfield on October 25.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday (March 28) and you can find yours here.
We’re pleased to announce that we will be extending our ‘Tomorrow’s Here Today: 35 Years Greatest Hits Tour’ with new dates this October. Tickets go on sale this Friday 🍓 pic.twitter.com/W3tqfUzsjM
— Lightning Seeds (@Lightning_Seeds) March 24, 2025
Lightning Seeds will play:
OCTOBER
02 – Ipswich Corn Exchange
03 – Bath Forum
04 – Northampton Roadmenders
09 – York Barbican
10 – Leicester O2 Academy
11 – Holmfirth Picturedome
16 – Middlesbrough Town Hall
17 – Lincoln Engine Shed
18 – Keele University Student Union
24 – Bournemouth O2 Academy
25 – Chesterfield Winding Wheel
Frontman Ian Broudie spoke to NME ahead of the release of the greatest hits album, where he reflected on the band’s legacy. “I love my band, I love playing live, which I never used to like, and I feel like we’re really good,” he said. “And then all of a sudden it’s 35 years since ‘Pure’ so we thought that was a milestone.”
“It just felt like it’d be nice to celebrate 35 years and do a couple of things. Maybe do something for Record Store Day and two or three new tracks and make it a year of celebrating, culminating in the tour and the compilation at the end of next year.”
In addition to the October tour, Lightning Seeds will be making a number of live appearances this summer, including at the Isle Of Wight Festival in June, as well as a support for Richard Ashcroft at Blenheim Palace and for Paul Heaton at Sheffield’s Bramall Lane.