MJ Lenderman has announced details of a UK headline tour, set to kick off next year. Find ticket details below.
The new run of tour dates come as the US singer-songwriter recently dropped his latest album ‘Manning Fireworks’ to critical acclaim.
It followed on from the three studio records that the indie guitarist has already released as a solo act, following his time with the band Wednesday: ‘MJ Lenderman’ (2019), ‘Ghost of Your Guitar Solo’ (2021) and ‘Boat Songs’ (2022). Last year, he released the live album ‘And the Wind (Live and Loose!)’.
Now, he has shared a number of tour dates for the UK, set to kick off next year and see him play six shows across the country.
These kick off with a show at The Fleece in Bristol, taking place on May 29. This is followed by a show at Brighton’s CHALK and Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms on May 30 and 31 respectively.
From there, the final three shows will be held at the start of June, and include a gig at Saint Lukes in Glasgow (2) and Gorilla in Manchester (3). The final scheduled date will be held at London’s Electric Ballroom on June 4.
Tickets go on sale at 10am tomorrow (September 12) and will be available here. Find a full list of new dates below.
MJ Lenderman’s 2025 UK tour dates are:
MAY
29 –The Fleece, Bristol
30 – CHALK, Brighton
31 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
JUNE
2 – Saint Lukes, Glasgow
3 –Gorilla, Manchester
4 – Electric Ballroom, London
Before the tour kicks off, the singer-songwriter will be heading over to the UK and Europe for a now-sold-out run of headline shows later this year. These start with a show in Berlin’s Privatcub on November 11, before he heads to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. Then he’ll play two shows in London on 18 and 19 November and wrap up in Dublin on November 24.
Last week, ‘Manning Fireworks’ was given a four-star review from NME, and described as helping the singer “develop his voice with scathing character sketches and empathetic notes on loneliness”.
“‘Manning Fireworks’ is an album that aches for its cast of freaks and losers, and its success in walking that line is a sign of MJ Lenderman’s richly developing voice,” it read.
Before the album’s release, Lenderman spoke with NME about the record, and explained how he came to integrate storytelling into his songwriting.
“I didn’t always write that way, but at one point, I realised that it was fun to do that, that there were so many more possibilities and so many more places you could go,” he said. “My personal feelings and stuff are gonna come through in certain ways, but it’s more freeing to write fiction, in my experience. It was just a huge moment when I realised that…I think I just got slightly tired of hearing my own self.”
