The Beach Boys have announced an outdoor UK show for 2025 – and it’s set to be their only in the country. Check out all the information below.
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The UK-exclusive gig will take place at Englefield House in Berkshire on Sunday July 20, and comes as part of the band’s ‘The Sounds of the Summer’ tour.
David Essex is on board to perform as a special guest, as well as Lulu, who earlier this year announced her retirement from touring after 60 years in music.
Ticket presale will begin next Wednesday (December 4) at 9am, and you’ll be able to register here. After that, general sale will commence on Friday December 6 at 9am, here.
It marks the first concert to be announced of a wider weekend of shows at the venue. Giles Cooper of Heritage Live Festivals said: “It’s been a huge ambition of ours to host a show for the legendary Beach Boys for some time now, and we’re delighted to not only make it happen; but also to have their only UK show for next year!
“This is going to be really special – the perfect summer band for the perfect summer concert and a show that will be etched in our memories for many years to come!”
Check out the show’s poster below.
The current iteration of The Beach Boys will not feature founding member Brian Wilson, who retired from touring in 2022. Wilson was recently placed under a court conservatorship due to a “major neurocognitive disorder”.
Recently, Frank Marshall’s The Beach Boys documentary was released, pipped as a “celebration of the legendary band that revolutionised pop music”.
In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “That the film cuts the story short before Dennis’ death by drowning in 1983, though, gives this classically traumatic rollercoaster tale a certain lightness. Touches such as their teenage harmonising and their popular resurgence following 1974’s ‘Endless Summer’ compilation shine through.
“We learn that, by getting their family to phone in radio votes for their 1961 debut single ‘Surfin’’, they were arguably one of the first “industry plants”, and much is made of their formative influence on the Californian dream. The film’s most heart-breaking moment comes with Love in tears over the fact that the band’s legal issues left them so dislocated that he couldn’t tell Brian that he loves him – but we end on a shot of the band’s surviving members gathering on a beach, differences set far aside. Vibrations remain good.”
This summer, the Beach Boys were joined on tour by Full House actor John Stamos, who played drums with the band for 16 shows as they commemorated the 50th anniversary of their 1974 compilation album ‘Endless Summer’.
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