Enter Shikari announce European headline tour

Enter Shikari have just announced a big 2025 headline tour.

The St Albans gang will be on the road across mainland Europe between Friday, October 17 and Tuesday, November 11, stopping off at cities in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Austria, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 28 at 10am local time. “Some places (Hello Spain!) we’ve not played headline shows in for nearly 10 years!” Shikari say. “Some a little more recently. Looking forward to being back in all of them.” See the full run here.

In other news, the band have also been working on new music lately. Speaking on Kerrang! In Conversation, frontman Rou Reynolds admitted that, “We’re still not sure how we’re gonna do it. It’s tempting to not even really do a record or to hold a record back and just release songs for a while. Having achieved the UK Number One on the last album [A Kiss For The Whole World], it’s a bit like, I just don’t want all the rigmarole of that again. We’ve got that. We can tick that box now. Let’s just move on and go back to releasing music in kind of a fun, interesting way.”

The singer went on to explain: “We’re working on a lot of tracks at the moment in varying degrees of completion. I think, more than anything, I’m trying to concentrate on not streamlining the process, but cutting the anxiety out of the process. I suppose it’s like a classic thing of when you achieve some form of success, however you define success, loss aversion kicks in, and you’re a bit like, ‘Oh, this is even more important now?’ I remember reading Bertrand Russell and he always talked about the surest sign of a mental breakdown is thinking that your work is important. He worded it much better than that, I’m paraphrasing, but that’s become a very real thing for me. And it sort of makes the process not the flowing thrill that it is.

“A Kiss For The Whole World was very much like that because there was all this excitement about, ‘Oh, we’re a band again!’after COVID and everything. So there was this burst of energy like a tsunami. And it just got rid of all the anxiety because it was just too powerful. But now we don’t have that. All the anxieties are there. And so the process is quite fraught and quite tense.

“That’s what I’m concentrating on at the moment. The music’s coming and it’s fun and we’re really excited about it. But the process is kind of jagged and spiky and not enjoyable to the amount that it should be.”

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