GIG REVIEW: Hurts celebrate 15 Years Of Happiness at 02 Academy Brixton

By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHEN? Thursday 22 May 2025, tour runs through to 16 August 2025

Setlist: Silver Lining; Wonderful Life; Blood, Tears And Gold; Sunday; Stay; Illuminated; Affair; Evelyn; Better Than Love; Devotion; Mother Nature; Unspoken; The Water; Verona; Miracle; Some Kind Of Heaven; Rolling Stone; Somebody To Die For; Voices; Ready To Go; Nothing Will Be Bigger Than Us; Under Control; Wings

We join Hurts at their 1st UK gig for ‘7 or 8 years’ where lead singer Theo Hutchcraft describes the band’s debut album Happiness as their passport from the dole in Manchester to the rest of the world, making their dreams come true in the journey.

  • Read on for reasons including why founder member Adam Anderson was unable to join the band
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SONG OF THE WEEK: Voices by Hurts (week ending 23/5/20)

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

OUT: now

The look is very lockdown: singer Theo Hutchcraft has longer hair than we’ve ever seen him sporting before and multi-instrumentalist Adam Anderson’s beard is fuller than we remember.

  • Read on for reasons including everything we know about Hurts’ 5th album

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