Babyshambles have added more dates to their 2025 UK reunion tour due to phenomenal demand. Find all the details below.
The indie band will play their first live shows together since 2014 later this year, following a brief onstage comeback at a Pete Doherty solo gig in 2024, and a few of the members getting together to play some classics in Watford.
Their current line-up – Doherty, guitarist Mick Whitnall, bassist Drew McConnell and drummer Adam Ficek – had confirmed 10 concerts for this November and December. These included a night at the O2 Academy Brixton in London.
More performances were scheduled in Norwich, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham and Plymouth. Tickets went on general sale here at 10am BST this morning (Friday September 5), following a pre-sale on Wednesday (3).
This afternoon, Babyshambles took to social media to announce some “extra dates added due to phenomenal demand”.
These consist of a second night at the O2 Brixton Academy on November 17, another stop at Glasgow’s O2 Academy (December 5) and a performance at the O2 Academy in Bristol on December 9.
You can find any remaining tickets here, and see the full list of dates below.
Babyshambles’ UK tour dates for 2025 are:
NOVEMBER
14 – The Nick Rayns LCR, Norwich
16 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
17 – O2 Academy Brixton, London (new date)
26 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
29 – Mountford Hall, Liverpool
30 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
DECEMBER
02 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
04 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
05 – O2 Academy, Glasgow (new date)
07 – O2 Academy, Leeds
08 – Rock City, Nottingham
09 – O2 Academy, Bristol (new date)
10 – The Pavilions, Plymouth
Speaking to NME recently about their return, Doherty explained that the reunion only became possible once he and Whitnall had both been clean for a number of years. He also revealed that original guitarist Patrick Walden – who passed away in June – was meant to be involved in the comeback.
The singer-songwriter said Walden’s death was “a real trigger to get it done”. “My first thought was of just seeing his face up there while we’re playing and that’ll be an important part of it,” he continued.
“There was always talk about it; there was always a desire to play those songs again,” Doherty told NME, “but the centrifugal point of it was addiction really, and the danger that me and Mick would be an unhealthy influence on each other. So it was people around us not wanting to meet up and probably us both knowing that it wasn’t a good idea.”
When asked if Babyshambles would be celebrating 20 years of their 2005 debut album, ‘Down In Albion’, at the gigs, Doherty replied: “I’m not really into doing an anniversary thing, even though I’ve done it with The Libertines. I don’t think it would be possible to be honest. We didn’t even know how to finish those songs at the time.”
The band also discussed whether any new Babyshambles material could emerge. “When we do the bigger shows, it’d be nice to release a single and a couple of B sides,” Doherty told NME. “I’ve got a couple of ideas and when we get in a room, we’ll try them out.”
Babyshambles followed up ‘Down In Albion’ with two further studio albums: 2007’s ‘Shotter’s Nation’ and 2013’s ‘Sequel To The Prequel’.
Last month, The Libertines played a huge show at London’s Gunnersbury Park in support of their 2024 album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’. Doherty released his latest solo record, ‘Felt Better Alive’, this May.
