McFly will hit the road later this year with their ‘Power To Play’ UK tour.
The group will perform 18 shows as part of the nationwide run, which kicks off with two dates at the O2 Academy Bristol on October 23 and 24.
They’ll play shows in Norwich, London, Bournemouth, Southampton, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester, before wrapping in Nottingham on November 22.
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It follows a summer of outdoor shows from the boy band, including dates at Dreamland Margate’s Summer Series and Trentham Live.
Tickets for McFly’s ‘Power To Play’ UK tour go on sale May 5 at 9 am BST.
The full list of tour dates is below.
OCTOBER
23 – O2 Academy, Bristol
24 – O2 Academy, Bristol
25 – Nick Rayns LCR, Norwich
27 – Alexandra Palace, London
28 – BIC, Bournemouth
29 – O2 Guildhall, Southampton
31 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
NOVEMBER
1 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
2 – Nick Rayns LCR, Norwich
4 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
5 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne
6 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne
8 – Barrowland, Glasgow
13 – O2 Academy, Leeds
16 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
19 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
21 – Rock City, Nottingham
22 – Rock City, Nottingham
Due this summer, ‘Power To Play’ sees Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter return to the guitar-driven pop rock that earned them their earliest success, with lead track Where Did All The Guitars Go? a sure fire sign of what’s to come.
“At the start of the process, we all got together and said what they wanted this new album to be. We all had this one thing in common, and it was guitars,” says the band of the 11-song record, which is produced by Danny, alongside their good friend Jason Perry.
“We love being on tour and playing live, and we hate this weird pressure where you don’t get played on the radio if you have guitars in your songs. That was always in the back of our heads, so we decided to forget all about it and that same day Tom wrote Where Did All The Guitars Go? on the way home.”
They add: “On every album, there’s a song which becomes a foundation, a lightbulb moment, and this was it. Guitars, honesty, energy, all these personality traits are what give us the band’s identity. We want to reach that kid with long hair, get them excited about music and make them want to pick up a guitar and jump on their bed. That’s what this record is about.”
‘Power To Play’ is out June 9 via BMG and available to pre-order now.
