By Andrew Mosley
WHEN?: Friday 7 November, tour runs through 10 July 2026
It’s bouncing off the bumps of Yorkshire’s country roads in Richard Gostling’s VW Beatle while When Smokey Sings blasts from the cheap radio. It’s cringing in the pub as Phil Robinson quotes lyrics from the band’s songs as chat-up lines to what he sees as potential girlfriends.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN? Saturday 1 November, tour runs through 25 November 2025
I’ve tried to work out how many times we’ve seen the Ant Man himself; maybe 10? These have all been in his recent tours since 2010, with The Good, The Mad and the Lovely Posse.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK? ****
WHEN? Thursday 6 November 2025, tour runs through 18 July 2026
Setlist: (Don’t) Give Hate A Chance; Little L; Space Cowboy; Dynamite; Feels Just Like It Should; Alright; Cloud 9; World That He Wants; Tallulah; Disco Stays The Same; Runaway; Travelling Without Moving; Shadow In The Night; Canned Heat; Queen Machine; Cosmic Girl; Love Foolosophy; Virtual Insanity
Jamiroquai debut 3 songs tonight from their new album out next year, they’re bangers in the same vein as the funk for which they are best known and in the marvellous Disco Stays The Same have a track they could top charts with as they did in their 90s heyday.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN? Tuesday 14 October, tour runs through 1 November 2025
I can’t count how many times we’ve seen Welly, kings of observation-ridden indie pop for the thinking fan.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN? Sunday 12 October, tour runs through 11 July 2026
Setlist: Achilles; The Last Time I Saw The Old Man; When The Lights Go Out All Over Europe; Rainy Sunday Afternoon; Have You Ever Been In Love?; Norman And Norma; Generation Sex; Leaving Today; The Plough; The Man Who Turned Into A Chair; Songs Of Love; At The Indie Disco; Neapolitan Girl; Mar-a-Lago By The Sea; A Lady Of A Certain Age; Our Mutual Friend; The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter; Other People; Absent Friends; Becoming More Like Alfie; Something For The Weekend; National Express; The Booklovers; Invisible Thread; Tonight We Fly
We’re in the 12th row of this sold-out 1,943-capacity venue for the 2nd consecutive night here by this band and the fan in the seat next to us slips off his shoes shortly before curtain up to appreciate the gig better.
By Andrew Mosley
WHEN? Friday 10 October, tour runs through 19 October 2025
It’s almost 40 years since I first clapped eyes on and lent ears to the wonder of The Go-Betweens.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK? ****
WHEN? Saturday 4 October 2025, tour runs through 26 March 2026
Setlist: London, Can You Wait?; Be My Light, Be My Guide; We Could Be Kings; Your Love, It Lies; Where Are They Now?; Truth, Rest Your Head; Long Sleeves For The Summer; Stop; Sleep Well Tonight; Rising For Sunset; Save Me, I’m Yours; O Lover; Speak To Me Someone; A Car That Sped; Walking In The Shallows; The British Disease; Haunted By You; Olympian; For The Dead; You’ll Never Walk Again; Sick, Sober and Sorry; Fighting Fit; I Can’t Help Myself; Somewhere In The World; Who Said This Was The End?
Does absence make the heart grow fonder?
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN? Tuesday 26 August, tour runs through 21 February 2026
Setlist: Disintegrate; Dancing With The Europeans; Antidepressants; Sweet Kid; The Sound And The Summer; Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star; Broken Music For Broken People; Criminal Ways; Trance State; June Rain; Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment
Snowblind; She Still Leads Me On; Personality Disorder; Shadow Self; No Tomorrow; Tides; Turn Off Your Brain And Yell; The Only Way That I Can Love You; It Starts And Ends With You; Outsiders
This is not supposed to happen.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Sunday 24 August 2025 (press ticket)
The sun kindly shone on the only UK seaside festival the whole weekend. We all remember the fun we had in the torrential rain during that Prodigy set back in 2018, but it certainly helps when it’s dry. I’m sure I had white Birkenstocks when I went on Friday, but the dust has turned everything brown.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Saturday 23 August 2025 (press ticket)
In our attempt to fill the sad Welly gap, before we realised that Hot Wax were possibly the new best thing, we knew The Pill, who opened the Common Stage today, were a cert. We’d seen them support Welly in Southampton earlier this year, and we could see and sense the potential.
