Forget the hurt, it’s been 35 years of pure joy for Lightning Seeds, one of the country’s best loved bands. And to celebrate, they have extended their greatest hits tour in 2025, following a fully sold out run in 2024. The 11 new dates will take the band’s huge catalogue to new cities and new venues, with tickets on sale at 10am on Friday 28th March.
Alongside the tour, the band released their ‘best of’ compilation: Tomorrow’s Here Today: 35 Years of Lightning Seeds. It’s an absolute masterclass in modern pop songwriting from Ian Broudie. Kicking off with their classic debut single ‘Pure’, this really is a greatest hits disc worthy of the title from a band who have sold over 8 million albums. Across 20 tracks the LP features Lightning Seeds favourites including ‘The Life Of Riley’, ‘Change’, ‘Lucky You’, ‘Sense’, ‘All I Want’, ‘Sugar Coated Iceberg’, ‘You Showed Me’, ‘Emily Smiles’, ‘3 Lions’ and more.
Ian Broudie said: “Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 35 years! Our first single ‘Pure’ really opened the door to a life’s worth of songs, shows and recordings. I owe everything to ‘Pure’ and I’m really looking forward to celebrating the 35th anniversary of its release with ‘Tomorrow’s Here Today: 35 Years of Lightning Seeds’ greatest hits album and tour in 2024.”
Lightning Seeds 35th Anniversary began in ,2024, with all 22 dates sold out across the UK and a new run of dates added for 2025 due to overwhelming demand.
Lightning Seeds play the following dates:
October 2025
Thu 02 Ipswich Corn Exchange
Fri 03 Bath Forum
Sat 04 Northampton Roadmenders
Thu 09 York Barbican
Fri 10 Leicester O2 Academy
Sat 11 Holmfirth Picturedome
Thu 16 Middlesbrough Town Hall
Fri 17 Lincoln Engine Shed
Sat 18 Keele University Student Union
Fri 24 Bournemouth O2 Academy
Sat 25 Chesterfield Winding Wheel
