Announcement: Legendary guitarist reveals that the band are “still gonna be touring” after 2025 UK farewell tour
The UK portion of the tour will begin in February.
Following their final gigs in the UK in 2025, Uriah Heep will continue to tour, according to guitarist Mick Box.
The 1969-formed London rock group announced the UK leg of their last tour in September. The run of performances, which is scheduled to begin in February, will include headlining appearances in Birmingham, Bristol, Gateshead, Glasgow, Manchester, London, and Bexhill.
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“Who can believe next year is 55 years since the band started?” Box remarked in a statement at the time. And I am aware that a large number of you have been with us from the start. Unfortunately, we have decided to stop touring the world starting next year because none of us is getting any younger.
He has now disclosed that the UK performances would be a part of a multi-year tour. “Well, it’ll take two to three years to go around, and once we’ve done that, we’ll still be doing festivals and weekend work and stuff like that, but the long arduous tours we’re not going to do anymore,” he remarked in an interview with Planet Rock.
Furthermore, given the current situation with carnets for equipment to pass between regions, I don’t believe it’s logistically feasible at this time. The cost of buses quadrupled. It’s becoming really difficult to make such things work since we had 11 flights the previous month, and five of them had to be canceled.
Box continued by talking about his future ambitions after Uriah Heep. He concluded by saying, “I suppose we’ll do [some] writing and go in the recording studio and do other aspects of the game.” However, as I mentioned earlier, we will continue to tour and perform. Simply said, we aren’t doing the lengthy things. Instead of making one big purchase, we will do it in little chunks.
The dates of Uriah Heep’s 2025 UK tour are:
Symphony Hall in Birmingham, February 19
20. Bristol’s Beacon
22. Gateshead’s Glasshouse
23. Glasgow’s King’s Theatre
25-Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall
26-London’s Palladium
27-Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion
“Under the very appropriate title of ‘The Magician’s Farewell,’ we will begin our final journey on the road,” Box said in a statement at the time the tour was announced. This won’t be one of those drawn-out farewells, but we do plan to perform as many venues as we can over the next two to three years and say goodbye to everyone one final time. After we finish traveling, I would want to restate that the band will continue to perform as long as possible, but only at one-time festivals and such events.
