February 2025

We are excited to let you know that have A new tour in February 2025 in which we will play top tracks from Wake Up! and C'mon Kids as well as some surprises. Dates below.

We fall headlong into our 35th year with a new tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of our number one album Wake up! We will mash-up our hit number one album Wake Up! With its acclaimed follow up C’Mon Kids. Featuring songs never before played live, as well as surprises from our extensive back catalogue.

 Still feeling the warmth of the words and gestures of thousands of fans that returned to sing and dance through their most recent six-date co-headline UK Tour with CUD in October 2023, the band with three top-twenty albums to our name, including 1995’s Number One hit, Wake Up! jump, rejuvenated, into a hopeful New Year!

 Dates:

Wednesday 12th February 2025 – Bristol Exchange

Thursday 13th February 2025 – Yes (Pink room) Manchester

Friday 14th February 2025 – Glasgow Mono

Saturday 15th February 2025 – London Moth Club

Sunday 30th March 2025 – Rough Trade Liverpool – special event Wake up! Album played in full

Friday 28th – Sunday 30th – 10th Anniversary Shiiine On Weekender Butlins, Skegness

Made up of the three, original members, Sice, Brown and Cieka, the quarter of a century between Creation Records’ money-burning approaches to recording and marketing and the new age of independence, The Boo Radleys find themselves in a new, perfect state of freedom. Democratic writing processes and the gift of home technology as powerful as any residential studio of the nineties has set the band on a new path, closer to the targets the trio had in mind all along.

"Wow, now THIS is what music can be!"
The Quietus on Giant Steps

“It deserved the accolades and praise heaped on its shoulders.”
The Line of Best Fit

“A masterwork...”
Pitchfork

"One of those rare treasures you find yourself putting on to shake off a bad day when normally only 'Pet Sounds' or 'Revolver' or even 'Bandwagonesque' will do."
NME

NME’s 1993 Album Of The Year, named in the Top 20 of Pitchfork’s The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time and lauded as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, The Boo Radleys’ classic album, Giant Steps will be reissued in three, special remastered vinyl editions almost 30 years to the day since its original release. With a clutch of rarities pressed onto bonus discs coming with limited, coloured variants of the three new vinyl editions, the band’s genre-ambiguous and widely-acclaimed masterpiece will become available to fans old and new on Fri 1 September 2023 via Two-Piers.

Strictly limited to 1000 copies, a soon-to-be-sought-after Dinked Edition, comprised of two marble-coloured discs with a special, bonus 12” featuring alternate, non-album mixes of four tracks, Lazarus, Rodney King and Peachy Keen leads in the collectors’ stakes. A deluxe, double LP on orange and purple-coloured vinyl, including a separate 10” record featuring remixes by fellow end-of-century voyagers in sound, Saint Etienne joins the running, 500 copy Boos Store-only edition comes with a special edition pin badge.

with a standard black double-vinyl edition, also on offer. which is just the same a the original release

All versions, comprising the same 17-track running order, have undergone remastering in a collaborative process undertaken by all four original band members, Simon ‘Sice’ Rowbottom, Tim Brown, Martin Carr and Rob Cieka.

Coming at the closing stages of a celebratory and dates-packed year for the band, the vinyl reissues are preceded by the band – touring without Carr – taking to the road for seven Giant Steps Tour live dates, opening with a SOLD-OUT warm-up date at Reading, South Street Arts Centre