Speaking Heads‘ Jerry Harrison and King Crimson‘s Adrian Belew have introduced their 2025 ‘Stay In Gentle’ UK and European tour.
The five-date run will see Harrison and Belew make their manner throughout the EU and UK starting with a gig in Stockholm on Might 18. From there, the duo will make stops in cities reminiscent of Oslo, Copenhagen, Cologne, Warsaw and Luxembourg earlier than heading over to the UK with stops in Manchester and Wolverhampton. The tour will wrap up on June 7 in London.
The tour is called ‘Stay In Gentle’ which additionally serves because the title of Speaking Heads’ 1980 LP. It marked the third and last of the band’s albums to be produced by Brian Eno, and noticed various further musicians introduced in to contribute to the LP, together with Belew, who performed guitar.
In line with a press launch, Harrison and Belew can be joined by their all-star backing band to carry out renditions of Speaking Heads classics reminiscent of ‘As soon as In A Lifetime’, ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Take Me To The River’ in addition to alternatives from their storied respective solo careers.
Cool Cool Cool will function a Particular Visitor on all dates. Tickets will go on basic sale this Friday (December 6) at 10am native time. Go to right here to buy tickets and take a look at a full checklist of dates under.
Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew ‘s 2025 ‘Stay In Gentle’ UK and European tour dates are:
MAY
18 – Stockholm, SE
19 – Oslo, NO
21 – Copenhagen, DK
22 – Hamburg, DE
25 – Warsaw, PL
28 – Groningen, NL
29 – Eindhoven, NL
30 – Utrecht, NL
JUNE
1 – Brussels, BE
3 – Luxembourg, LU
5 – Manchester, UK
6 – Wolverhampton, UK
7 – London, UK
Final yr, Harrison opened up about his emotions about Speaking Head’s re-release of their movie Cease Making Sense and the way it acted as considerably of a “therapeutic expertise” for the band.
“We personal the movie collectively, [so we had] to work collectively to decide,” he mentioned whereas showing as a visitor on the Kyle Meredith With… podcast. “‘Is A24 the precise distributor for us, the precise accomplice for us?’ We needed to have conversations about that, and that is one thing we did collectively. Then A24 goes like: ‘Right here’s the provide — we’re going to get actually behind this, in the event you assist us.’ And so it was like, ‘clearly, we have to work collectively to make this successful.’”
In addition to Cease Making Sense coming again into cinemas earlier this yr and the remastered 4K model of the 1984 film being shared, the long-lasting band additionally reunited at a particular screening as a part of the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Since then, the members have opened up concerning the movie’s creation in an interview on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon in June, saying that they didn’t need it to be “too Spinal Faucet“.
