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KIP MOORE ANNOUNCES UK AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES FOR MAY/JUNE 2025

Tickets On Sale Friday, 29th November

New “Wildfire” Official Video Dropping Today At 4pm GMT

 Multi-platinum singer/songwriter Kip Moore has announced his first batch of international tour dates for 2025. Kicking off in May, Moore will storm through Europe, with dates across the UK including London, Birmingham, Leeds, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow and Manchester, as well as shows in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

Tickets and VIP packages will go on-sale this Friday, November 29th at 10:00amlocal time. Full tour dates can be found below and tickets can be purchased here.

The tour announcement arrives on the heels of his 2024 International Artist Achievement Award received last week at The 58th Annual CMA Awards, an award Moore also earned a nomination for in 2023. This accolade caps off a busy year on the road for Moore as he continues to cement his place as one of country music’s top global powerhouses.


EUROPE & UK TOUR DATES 2025:
17th May – Stockholm, SW – Nalen
18th May – Oslo, NO – Rockefeller Music Hall
21st May – Hamburg, DE – Docks
23rd May – Cologne, DE – E-Werk
24th May – Stuttgart, DE – Im Wizemann – Halle
25th May – Zurich, CH – Kaufleuten
28th May – Tilburg, NL – 013 Poppodium
30th May – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy
31st May – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy
1st June – Belfast, UK – SSE Arena
4th June – Newcastle, UK – O2 City Hall
5th June – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro Arena
7th June – London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy
8th June – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo

Following the CMA Awards last week, Moore unveiled his new song “Flowers in December” which was also accompanied by an official video, as well as the surprise second track “Wildfire“. Available everywhere through Virgin Music Group, “Flowers in December” is a forlorn, melancholic ballad co-written with Erich Wigdahl and co-produced by Jaren Johnston. The pair of tracks continue to tease new music on the horizon, kicked off earlier this fall with “Live Here to Work“, Moore’s first new song in nearly two years. Billboard called it “blistering” while Rolling Stone named it a Song You Need To Know. He also released “Learning As I Go“, a resilient anthem that Whiskey Riff called “gritty, rough, and rowdy” and Country Now lauded as “honest” and “powerful”. 

The acclaimed singer/songwriter will be sharing the official video for “Wildfire” today at 4pm GMT via YouTube, a raw and poignant visual to accompany the soaring, wistful tune, co-produced with Oscar Charles and co-written with Charles, Dan Couch, and Hank Born.

Moore wrapped a marathon run of tour dates last month throughout Australia and New Zealand where he performed in sold-out arenas and theaters across Christchurch, Auckland, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane, and more. He also made his highly anticipated return to South Africa, which kicked off with a performance at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria where a crowd of over 23,000 fans welcomed him back for the second year in a row. It was followed by a headline performance at Cape Town Stadium in front of 25,000 fans for the inaugural Cape Town Country Festival. Additional performances included Zac Brown Band, Darius Rucker, Brothers Osborne, and more. Moore will close out his whirlwind two-year run of The Nomad World Tour next month.

(Kip Moore in South Africa 2024 / Credit: PJ Brown)


ABOUT KIP MOORE:

Hailed as “an uncompromising, genre-defying artist firing on all cylinders” (Vice/Noisey) and “one of country’s more thoughtful artists” (Billboard), multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter Kip Moore has blazed his own trail and earned his place as one of music’s most beloved artists. Beginning with his auspicious debut in 2012, Moore has since released five critically acclaimed albums and penned over a dozen chart-topping singles, including the multi-platinum hits “Something’ ‘Bout a Truck”, “Hey Pretty Girl”, “Beer Money”, and “More Girls Like You”. With over 1 billion streams and 2.5 million monthly listeners, he’s performed sold-out headline shows in stadiums, arenas, and theatres around the world. A truly remarkable performer and “one of country music’s most tireless and powerful live draws” (Rolling Stone), Moore has spent the bulk of 2024 out on the road where he’s renowned for his signature sound and blistering live shows. He kicked off the year by joining Billy Currington as part of a limited Billy Currington & Kip Moore: Live In Concert run, which was followed by a stint out on HARDY’s QUIT!! Tour, in addition to his ongoing two-year headlining Nomad World Tour.

MULTI-PLATINUM ARTIST TEBEY RELEASES VIBRANT COUNTRY TAKE ON MAROON 5’S ‘PAYPHONE’

Platinum-selling, award-winning country artist Tebey unveils his vibrant, country twist to Maroon 5’s global hit ‘Payphone‘. Available for streaming today, his reimagined version injects the pop classic with a lively, twangy energy, seamlessly transforming it into a country hit. Blending upbeat banjo picking and Tebey’s signature vocal tone, the track adds a fun, foot-tapping layer to the familiar story of lost love — proving that great music knows no genre boundaries.
Maroon 5 has long been one of my favourite bands, and if I was going to cover one of their songs, it was definitely going to be Payphone,” shares Tebey. “Not every song can transcend genres. It has to have a melody (and lyric) that can stand on its own two feet, no matter how it’s sung or produced. Payphone has both, and that’s why it was so fun for me to turn it country.


Building his reputation as one of the most innovative and versatile artists in today’s country genre, ‘Payphone’ isn’t the first countrified cover that Tebey has released — his CCMA Award winning country re-imagination of ‘Blinding Lights‘ took social media by storm earlier this year after Tebey released a short clip on his channels, which led to over 13 million views in just one week. His unique country twist on the acclaimed, record-breaking pop song rapidly captured the attention of users worldwide, leading to the official DSP release in a matter of days, and has since garnered over 15 million streams worldwide and over 75 million impressions across social platforms. The track has now been added to country radio in over 15 countries and won Innovative Campaign of the Year at the 2024 CCMA Awards.


The release follows Tebey’s recent single ‘Hangover At My Place‘ with multi-award winning country artist Tenille Arts. The classic call-and-response track seamlessly blends Tebey and Tenille’s vocals, creating a captivating interplay between the sweeping chorus and irresistible harmonies. Quickly gaining over 500k steams, the single has recently been serviced to radio in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Benelux, Sweden and Norway. The track marks a brand new chapter of original music for Tebey as he heads into the New Year. 


For more information about Tebey and new music, be sure to follow Tebey across platforms or visit www.tebeyofficial.com.

ABOUT TEBEY:

Peterborough, Ontario native and current Nashville resident, Tebey is an award-winning artist, producer and accomplished songwriter with over 113 million streams, 670,000 Canadian radio spins and an audience of 998 Million to date (Mediabase). Overall, he has had four Top 5 Canadian country radio singles, five Top 10 singles and five Top 20 singles as a recording artist. Though he’s been experiencing a steady trajectory for well over a decade, the past five years have yielded some of Tebey’s biggest successes. These accomplishments include three #1 songs as a writer: a US Billboard #1 with Justin Moore’s ‘Somebody Else Will’ a Canadian #1 with Gord Bamford’s “Dive Bar” and his first #1 as an artist and writer with his Gold single “Who’s Gonna Love You”, which also received a SOCAN award. His massive hit “Denim on Denim” reached Platinum status and another crowd favourite “Happened on a Saturday Night” also hit Gold in sales. 


Tebey’s most successful album to date, The Good Ones, included multiple Top 10 hits including the title track, a duet with Quebec pop star Marie Mai, followed by the Sink With The Sun EP in 2022. Tebey released his single “Hold Your Horses” this past January, followed by his viral sensation “Blinding Lights – Country Version” and then his countrified take on Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home”. He has also continued to perform shows around the world, including two headline tours across Canada, The Good Ones Tour (2020) and the Shotgun Rider Tour (2022/2023) and more recently shows in Sweden and the UK. 

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