NECK DEEP announce the Dumbstruck Dumbf**k UK Headline Tour for January 2025
Support comes from The Wonder Years & One Step Close
Music video for ‘Sort Yourself Out’ out today
UK pop-punk kings, NECK DEEP, who play double sets at this weekend’s Reading & Leeds Festivals, have today announced the Dumbstruck Dumbf**k UK Headline Tour for January 2025. The seven date run kicks off in Birmingham at the O2 Academy, before shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Nottingham and Bristol, culminating in a show at the Swansea Arena.
Speaking of the tour, frontman Ben Barlow says, “We’re stoked to be back in the UK. It seems we’re always everywhere else, all the time – but when we do come back home, we go big. Having The Wonder Years out is always fun, they’ve been a big inspiration to us over the years, with so many great songs they always put on an amazing show. One Step Closer are a band we’ve been following closely for a few years, they’re deservedly growing a lot right now and it’s been cool to see the progression. I’m excited to see how they go down with our fans because we love them.”
JANUARY 2025
24: BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
25: MANCHESTER O2 Victoria Warehouse
26: GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow
28: NEWCASTLE NX
29: NOTTINGHAM Rock CIty
30: BRISTOL O2 Academy Bristol
31: SWANSEA Swansea Arena
Tickets for the tour go on sale Friday 30th August at 10AM:
In the little over a decade since Neck Deep formed in the Barlow brothers’ spare room in Wrexham, Wales, a lot has changed. From the scrappy, naively hopeful beginnings that define the starting of so many teenage bands, the pop-punks have gone on to be one of British Rock music’s most successful global exports in recent memory: top 5 records in both the US and UK, global touring, viral hits and over a billion streams just some of the fruits of ten years spent mastering their craft.
But now, with their fifth, self-titled LP, there’s an acknowledgement that the more things change, the more – in some ways at least – they stay the same.
“This album is the sound of us knowing ourselves and knowing our ability,” explains frontman and youngest Barlow sibling Ben. “It’s unapologetically us. We’re professional songwriters now and we’ve really honed in on what we’re good at – but it’s also about having fun and enjoying writing these tracks. And there are those little sonic signatures in the mix that even I can’t really put my finger on that just make it Neck Deep. It happens when we get in a room together and it clicks – it’s us just doing our thing like we always have.”
For this record, the band, completed by Ben’s older brother and bassist Seb, guitarists Matt West and Sam Bowden and drummer Matt Powles, took ‘doing their own thing’ – and only their own thing – to the next level. Eschewing a keen list of collaborators and producers eager to work with one of rock’s hottest properties and choosing, instead, to write and record in their own warehouse space, mere miles from where they grew up. Old school, just like it used to be.
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Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
