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Blossoms to make Scarborough Open Air Theatre debut on July 10 2025. When do tickets go on sale? Find out here

Blossoms: Heading to the Yorkshire coast next summer

BLOSSOMS will headline TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre on July 10 next summer, supported by Inhaler and Leeds indie band Apollo Junction.

Tickets for the chart-topping Stockport indie group go on sale at 9am on Friday  scarboroughopenairtheatre.co.uk and ticketmaster.co.uk

 Since forming in Stockport in 2013, Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock have released six Top Five albums.

The latest, Gary, went to number one on release on September 20, taking its name from an 8ft fibre-glass gorilla  stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre in early 2023.

Blossoms’ self-titled 2016 debut hit the chart peak for two weeks en route to earning BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominations. 2018’s follow up, Cool Like You, charted at number four, spawning the anthemic singles I Can’t Stand It, There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) and How Long Will This Last?.

 2020’s Foolish Loving Spaces was the band’s second UK number one, a feat matched by April 2022’s Ribbon Around The Bomb, featuring standout tracks Ode To NYC, The Sulking Poet and Care For.

Dublin band Inhaler’s 2021 debut album, It Won’t Always Be Like This, went straight to number one, leading to tours with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Pearl Jam and Arctic Monkeys.

Their 2023 follow-up, Cuts & Bruises, entered the charts at number two. Now the band – U2 frontman Bono’s son Elijah Hewson, Robert Keating, Josh Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon – are teasing new material for 2025.

 Apollo Junction are no strangers to Scarborough OAT, having supported fellow Leeds act Kaiser Chiefs at the 8,000-capacity venue in August 2021.

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Venue programmer Julian Murray, of promoters Cuffe and Taylor, says: “We are delighted to announce Blossoms as the next headliner unveiled for summer 2025. They are a band we’ve wanted to bring here for some time, so we are thrilled to have been able to make this happen.

“Blossoms have an incredible catalogue of indie anthems that we know will make this one of the most popular shows of the summer. Together with the brilliant Inhaler and Yorkshire’s very own Apollo Junction, this will undoubtedly be one of the gigs of 2025.”

Already booked for 2025 at Scarborough OAT are:June 14, Shed Seven, Jake Bugg and Cast; July 5, The Script and Tom Walker, and July 26, Texas. More acts will be announced.

A record-breaking 114,000 tickets were sold for 2024’s 18 Scarborough OAT shows by  the likes of Jess Glynne, Simple Minds, Anne-Marie, Fatboy Slim, Paul Weller, Deacon Blue, Korn, Becky Hill, Tom Jones, Madness, James and comedian Bill Bailey.

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Shed Seven to play “extraordinary” York Museum Gardens two-nighter for 30th anniversary with Peter Doherty on bill

Shed Seven: 30th anniversary celebrations in 2024. Picture: Barnaby Fairley

SHED Seven will mark their 30th anniversary next year with a brace of “extraordinary” outdoor concerts in York Museum Gardens on July 19 and 20. Tickets go on sale on Friday (3/11/2023) at 9am at seetickets.com.

“It’s been a long time coming, and now we can finally announce two special homecoming shows,” says the York band’s website.

“We’re already planning something truly extraordinary for these shows, so you can expect special guests and grand ideas galore. It’s going to be a jubilant celebration of the last 30 years of Shed Seven and a performance like nothing we’ve done before.”

The announcement continues: “We’re thrilled to be joined by special guests Peter Doherty, The Lottery Winners, Brooke Combe, Serotones and Apollo Junction throughout the weekend.”

Doherty recorded a guest vocal for Throwaways, the closing track of Shed Seven’s upcoming sixth studio album, A Matter Of Time, when his band, The Libertines, were at work on new recordings in their Margate studio.

Throwaways is an anything-but-throwaway duet with Sheds’ singer Rick Witter. “We played Bingley Festival a couple of summers ago when The Libertines were headlining the main stage, and as we played, there was Peter at the side of the stage, singing along to all our songs,” recalls Rick.

“When I met him afterwards, he said he used to sit on his bed learning our guitar parts, so I said, ‘would you sing on our new album?’.

“We sent Peter the song Throwaways and he did some harmonising and ad-libbing. It’s a song about outsiders. We’ve always been outsiders, and The Libertines have that about them too.”

A Matter Of Time will be released on Shed Seven’s new label, Cooking Vinyl, on January 5 2024 and can be pre-ordered from shedseven.com.

This will be the first Sheds’ album to feature new members Rob ‘Maxi’ Maxfield, from Audioweb, on drums and Ian Brown band member Tim Willis on keys, along with Witter, guitarist Paul Banks and bass player Tom Gladwin, band stalwarts from the Britpop era.

Did you know?

SUPPORT act Serotones feature Rick Witter’s son, Duke, on vocals, alongside original Sheds’ drummer Alan Leach’s son, Sonny, on guitar.

Did you know too?

SHED Seven’s Museum Gardens shows will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut single for Polydor Records, the double A-side Mark and Casino Girl (March 7 1994), and debut album Change Giver (September 5 2024), rather than the 30th anniversary of the year they formed in York (1990).