Royel Otis have announced a brief run of UK headline shows for 2025. Find all the details below.
The Sydney band and NME 100 alumni are due to head to London’s O2 Academy Brixton, the O2 Academy Glasgow, and Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse this November.
The shows form part of the trio’s wider European leg of their ‘Meet Me In The Car’ tour in support of their second studio album, ‘Hickey’, which was released last Friday (August 22).
Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST this Friday (August 29) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. You can find details on how to access a pre-sale via Ticketmaster. Check out the announcement post and full schedule below.
Royel Otis’ 2025 UK headline dates are:
NOVEMBER
21 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
25 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
28 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Royel Otis performed at Reading & Leeds 2025 over the weekend. At the southern edition of the dual-site festival, the group brought out Sophie Ellis-Bextor to perform her classic hit ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’.
The duo spoke to NME recently about the inclusion of ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ in their setlist, and whether they planned to keep playing the song at their shows now that they have more original tracks under their belt.
“At the moment, yes, because if I go to see a band, I wanna see the songs that [I know],” Otis Pavlovic explained. “They’re the ones that people want to hear, and if other ones take over, they can have the foot up.”
Royel Maddell added: “It’s so hard, because ‘Murder…’ gets everyone hyped and [The Cranberries‘] ‘Linger’ gets everyone singing along, which makes us feel better. It’d be nice to not do them – not because we don’t like the songs, but because they’re not our songs, it feels like a cop out, sometimes.”
In a four-star review of the duo’s new album, NME wrote: “There is no mistaking that ‘Hickey’ is Royel Otis at their most self-assured.
“Their time playing live over the past two years has allowed them to find the recipe for building back-to-back summer anthems, guaranteed to bring a feel-good vibe to any occasion.”
