Bob Vylan have introduced some UK headline dates for 2025, and hit again on the BBC director-general for condemning their Glastonbury set to MPs.
The punk rap duo will hit the highway for his or her ‘We Gained’t Go Quietly’ tour this November, following a summer time of controversy surrounding their slot at Worthy Farm in June.
“After all of the makes an attempt to silence us, we’re about to be louder than ever. We received’t go quietly!” the band wrote when confirming the upcoming reveals this morning (September 9).
Kicking off on the O2 Academy in Leeds on November 4, the trek additionally consists of stops in Manchester, Glasgow, London, Bristol and Birmingham.
Tickets go on normal sale at 10am BST this Friday (September 12) – you’ll be capable of purchase yours right here. An O2 Precedence pre-sale will start on the identical time tomorrow (Wednesday September 10).
Take a look at the announcement put up beneath, together with the complete schedule.
Bob Vylan’s 2025 ‘We Gained’t Go Quietly’ UK tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
04 – O2 Academy, Leeds
05 – Academy, Manchester
06 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
11 – O2 Kentish City Discussion board, London
20 – The Prospect Constructing, Bristol
DECEMBER
04 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
Bob Vylan have additionally referred to as out Tim Davie, the BBC director-general, after he referred to as the company’s determination to broadcast the duo’s Glastonbury 2025 set dwell “a really vital mistake” (through The Impartial).
When going through questions from MPs on the Tradition, Media and Sport Committee at this time, Davie branded Bob Vylan’s slot on the occasion “anti-Semitic” and “deeply disturbing”.
“I don’t suppose I misinterpret it, I simply received there [to Glastonbury] once I heard about it [at] about 5 o’clock,” Davie recalled. “The efficiency was properly performed by then, and at that time, I knew completely that it was an anti-Semitic broadcast.
“So, my determination was to get that off on demand, easy as that. I imply, it wasn’t too difficult in my thoughts […] I do suppose it was deeply disturbing.”
In response, the band labelled Davie a “spineless puppet” and denied any wrongdoing as soon as once more: “There was nothing anti-Semitic or legal about something I stated at Glastonbury. Why do you suppose @metpoliceuk @ASPolice are taking so lengthy?
In addition to being dropped by their company, Bob Vylan have had their US visas revoked and are at the moment below legal investigation over the efficiency. The gig noticed the duo voice their help for Palestine, criticise Israel, and lead the group in chants of “loss of life, loss of life to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]”.
In July, it was reported that police had been nonetheless investigating Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set. Nevertheless, it was confirmed on the time that they’d dropped their inquiry into Kneecap’s efficiency on the pageant.
“Tim Davie is doing his greatest to proceed throwing others below the bus and cling on to energy on the BBC however we see him and the establishment for what they’re,” Bob Vylan wrote this afternoon.
“Purchased and paid for, complicit within the Gaza genocide and a number one pressure within the silencing of these talking up in opposition to it.”
They went on to say that “the rationale [their Glastonbury set] wasn’t lower instantly isn’t due to some oversight on the BBC as they maintain making out, however as a result of there was nothing anti-Semitic in regards to the efficiency”.
Davie stated at this time that “the BBC made a really vital mistake in broadcasting” the present. “The truth that these phrases had been broadcast to that broad viewers […] frankly, it was disturbing,” he added.
Bob Vylan responded: “As a matter of truth I do know there have been workers on the BBC that beloved the efficiency and noticed nothing unsuitable with it till they had been advised there was one thing unsuitable with it. I additionally know another bits and items however let me simply 🤐.”
Following the published, a spokesperson for the BBC stated: “The group had been coping with a dwell scenario, however with hindsight we should always have pulled the stream through the efficiency. We remorse this didn’t occur.”
Lorna Clarke, a Black girl, was so rapidly dismissed from her duties after Glastonbury. Why? Somebody needed to fall and who simpler to take it than a Black girl. However now he’s getting grilled and is exhibiting simply how incompetent and purchased HE is.
— Bob Vylan (@BobbyVylan) September 9, 2025
They continued: “The BBC respects freedom of expression however stands firmly in opposition to incitement to violence. The anti-Semitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan had been totally unacceptable and don’t have any place on our airwaves.”
Bob Vylan have additionally at this time addressed Lorna Clarke stepping down from her function as the BBC’s director of music following the backlash.
“Lorna Clarke, a Black girl, was so rapidly dismissed from her duties after Glastonbury,” they wrote. “Why? Somebody needed to fall and who simpler to take it than a Black girl. However now [Davie is] getting grilled and is exhibiting simply how incompetent and purchased HE is.”
Bob Vylan have spoken out to defend their Glastonbury 2025 efficiency quite a few instances now. They’ve claimed it was very important to “educate our youngsters to talk up for the change they need”, and reiterated that they had been wanting the “dismantling of a violent army machine” – not calling for “the loss of life of Jews or Arabs or another race or group”.
In an announcement, Glastonbury organisers stated they had been “appalled by the statements made out of the West Holts stage by Bob Vylan”.
Shortly after the pageant, the BBC stated it might now not broadcast performances it deemed “excessive threat”. Across the identical time, Tradition Secretary Lisa Nandy accused the BBC of getting a “downside of management”.
