John Cale 2025 UK tour: legendary musician set for 8 date tour of the UK in 2025 - how to get tickets

• Legendary British musician John Cale has announced an eight date tour of the United Kingdom for 2025.
• The Velvet Underground founder is set to bring his POPtical Illusion tour to Nottingham, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Newcastle among other locations.
• Here’s when John Cale is set to perform in the United Kingdom and when you can get tickets to the shows - both presale and general sales.

He is considered one of the living legends in music, through his solo efforts and also his time as a member of The Velvet Underground; and in 2025, John Cale is set to hit the road again.

From his time alongside Lou Reed in the hugely influential group The Velvet Underground to his hallowed production work for Patti Smith and the Stooges, Cale has spent half century on the “bleeding edge” of punk, post-punk, and art-rock to come. 

While his curiosity about the way electronics could be more than a gimmick in rock music served as an inspiration to an uncountable number of crucial scenes.

Time and age is not stopping the 82 year old from continuing his prolific output of work, only early this year releasing his latest album, “POPtical Illusion,” and now in honour of his eighteenth (and counting) studio album, Cale has announced an eight-date tour of the United Kingdom throughout March 2025.

Cale’s tour looks to bring him to Nottingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow, Behxill on Sea, Cardiff, Liverpool and of course his own stomping ground - performing at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Where is John Cale touring in the United Kingdom in 2025?

John Cale brings his POPtical Illusion tour to the following venues on the following dates.

• March 20 2025: Playhouse, Nottingham
• March 21 2025: Royal Festival Hall, London
• March 23 2025: Town Hall, Birmingham
• March 24 2025: Pavilion, Glasgow
• March 25 2025: New Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
• March 27 2025: De La Warr Pavilion, Behxill on Sea
• March 29 2025: Wales New Theatre, Cardiff
• March 30 2025: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

Where can I get tickets to see John Cale during his 2025 UK Tour?

Presale access

Those with access to O2 Priority are the first to be able to pick up John Cale tickets, as they go on sale from 10am on September 10 2024. Those then with Ticketmaster presale access will be able to pick tickets up from the following day - September 11 from 10am.

General ticket sales

Once presale access has been completed, general ticket sales for John Cale’s shows will be available through Ticketmaster at 10am on September 12 2024.

What has John Cale been performing live recently?

We don’t have to venture too far back to see what John Cale has been performing, as the musician performed as recently as September 7 2024 at the  Teatro de la Ciudad in Mexico City. According to Setlist.FM, Cale performed the following set.

1. Paris 1919
2. Night Crawling
3. How We See the Light
4. Company Commander
5. Guts
6. Cable Hogue
7. Shark-Shark
8. Wasteland
9. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
10. I'm Waiting for the Man
11. (The Velvet Underground song)
12. Barracuda
13. Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley cover)

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