Jeff Lynne performing on opening night of his 2024 tour at Palm Desert, CA (Photo: Jason Stoltzfus via Live Nation)
Jeff Lynne has announced second dates in his home town of Birmingham and Manchester for his 2025 UK tour. The October 31 news described “overwhelming demand” for his final tour of Jeff Lynne’s ELO. The arena shows are in advance of what is billed as the band’s final concert, to be held at London’s Hyde Park on July 13. That performance, first revealed in The Times (U.K.) on October 20, 2024, included a brief quote by the Electric Light Orchestra mastermind. “My return to touring began at Hyde Park in 2014,” Lynne told The Times. “It seems like the perfect place to do our final show. We couldn’t be more excited to share this special night in London with our U.K. fans. As the song goes, ‘we’re gonna do it One More Time!’” At the time, no mention of whether the London concert—which quickly sold out, and is part of the annual BST Hyde Park program—would be the culmination of a 2025 U.K. tour, though it was anticipated that Lynne would do a summer run there. Of note, Lynne’s Oct. 29 announcement now refers to the shows as the “Over and Out Tour UK,” implying that there will be more. A pre-sale for the two new dates for the initial Birmingham and Manchester dates began on October 30. The general on sale starts November 1 at 10 a.m. here.
Related: Our review of the tour’s final U.S. performance, on Oct. 29, 2024
The band’s 2014 Hyde Park concert led to a pair of shows at small venues in New York and Los Angeles in 2015. In subsequent years, Lynne booked larger and even larger venues in North America, the U.K. and Europe.
Related: Our reviews of the 2014 Hyde Park concert, 2015 at NYC’s Irving Plaza, 2016 at Radio City Music Hall and 2018 at Madison Square Garden
Jeff Lynne’s ELO, as the band has been known for a decade, is currently finishing its “The Over and Out” 2024 North American tour. The 31 shows, that began on August 24 and end on October 29, represented his first tour in five years. But there was never a hint about a U.K. run. The original 2024 tour announcement on March 19, billed as the final tour, followed a pair of teaser posts on his various social media accounts. (Those were preceded by a Facebook post on Christmas Eve that noted, “I look forward to seeing you in the New Year.”) Tickets for the final U.S. show in Phoenix are available here.
Lynne, who turned 76 last Dec. 30, made his first stage performance in four years when he played a 10-song set at Joe Walsh’s VetsAid benefit concert on November 12, 2023.
Watch Jeff Lynne’s ELO perform “All Over the World” during their VetsAid set
Lynne’s most recent studio album was From Out of Nowhere, released in November 2019 and the first from Jeff Lynne’s ELO since 2015. Order it in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. It followed 2015’s Alone in the Universe, which initiated a burst of activity from the maestro. Lynne resumed touring with a new edition of the Electric Light Orchestra, now dubbed Jeff Lynne’s ELO. The band did a 2019 summer tour in the U.S. and had booked a 2020 U.K. tour which was canceled due to the pandemic.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO performing on opening night of their 2024 tour at Palm Desert, CA (Photo: Jason Stoltzfus via Live Nation)
Related: Our recap of opening night of the 2024 tour
Jeff Lynne’s ELO “The Over and Out” US Tour (Tickets are available here)
Aug 24 – Palm Desert, CA – Acrisure Arena
Aug 27 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Aug 28 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
Aug 30 – Portland, OR – Moda Center
Sep 01 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Sep 06 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
Sep 07 – Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Sep 09 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
Sep 10 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
Sep 13 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center
Sep 14 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
Sep 16 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Sep 17 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Sep 20 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Sep 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Sep 23 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
Sep 25 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
Sep 27 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Sep 28 – Chicago, IL – United Center
Sep 30 – St, Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
Oct 02 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
Oct 09 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
Oct 11 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
Oct 12 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Oct 15 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
Oct 16 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
Oct 18 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
Oct 23 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
Oct 25 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
Oct 26 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
Oct 29 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center (rescheduled)
2025 – UK Tour (Tickets are available here)
July 05 – Birmingham – Utilita Arena
July 06 – Birmingham – Utilita Arena*
July 09 – Manchester – Co-op Live
July 10 – Manchester – Co-op Live*
July 13 – London – Hyde Park
*Added on Oct. 31
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Jump into a conversationThe ELO Show in Detroit was the best I’ve ever experienced in over 50 years of going to rock shows….
It was such a great show, I wish I could do it all over again.