The Enemy have announced a massive 2025 UK tour set to kick off later this autumn as a way to “experiment with some of the new tunes”.
The indie giants are set to kick off their run of dates with a gig on October 10 at the O2 Academy in Oxford. From there, they will make their way across the UK with stops in Margate, Cardiff, London, Wolverhampton and more.
They will wrap up with a show on November 14 at HMV Empire in Coventry. General ticket sales will commence on Friday (February 28) at 10am local. Visit here to purchase tickets and check out a full list of tour dates below.
The Enemy autumn 2025 UK tour dates are:
OCTOBER
10 – O2 Academy, Oxford
11 – Dreamland, Margate
16 – University Great Hall, Cardiff
17 – Electric Ballroom, London
18 – Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
30 – Leadmill, Sheffield
31 – Beckett Students’ Union, Leeds
NOVEMBER
1 – New Century, Manchester
6 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
7 – Asylum, Hull
8 – Rock City, Nottingham
14 – HMV Empire, Coventry
Speaking about the tour in a press release, The Enemy frontman Tom Clarke shared: “We’ve been working long days in the studio recording new material, so we’re really excited to get out on the road again. The plan is to experiment with some of the new tunes, maybe different ones on different shows to see how the crowds react and which ones connect with fans, and let that guide the track listing on the record which is nearing completion.”
Andy Hopkins – the bassist of the band – also opened up about the tour and added: “My favourite part of being in a band is having those nights with the fans where the atmosphere is electric – I think this tour is going to be really special for the 3 of us. It’ll be the first time we’ve been back to some of these cities in a long time, in venues we absolutely love and have been really important to us on the way up – Electric Ballroom was the first venue we ever played in London supporting The Fratellis, I drove us there with all the amps & guitars in my Fiesta!”
Speaking to NME last year about their plans for a comeback album, Clarke said: “We started writing this time last year, tentatively putting a few ideas down, feeling how it might sound. There was a pause, then once we got back to it, the floodgates opened.
“All these Enemy-sounding songs came out and it’s felt like the beginning again, before the demands of: ‘We need another ‘Had Enough’. When you pick them apart, a lot of the songs on ‘We’ll Live And Die In These Towns’ are quite weird. We’ve found that weirdness again. We’ve demoed the songs at our home studios, and in a fortnight we’re going into the studio with our producer, Matt Terry.”
After being asked if the new music sounds like “big primary-coloured Enemy anthems under the weirdness”, Clarke responded with: “Yes, but without trying to. What annoys me about our third record, ‘Streets In The Sky’, is that I can hear it was written to a brief. It was a record label saying: ‘We’ve got a limited budget, so what we need from you is XYZ.’ That record is the sound of me delivering that formula, saying: ‘If that’s what you want, it’s your money.’
“Writing our first album, we weren’t signed. There was no committee and that’s the case on this record too. It’s what we want to make. We’re so much freer again, saying: ‘What if the chorus doesn’t hit after 70 seconds?’ We’re making it at our own pace, but we’ve all said it’s got to be out next year.”
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