BILLIE EILISH ANNOUNCES HIT ME HARD AND SOFT UK TOUR DATES

Billie Eilish has announced a new tour and will be coming to the UK next summer.

The 22-year year old's show is named after her latest album - Hit Me Hard And Soft - and will kick off in North America in September.

It will then head to Australia in February 2025, before travelling across Europe and arriving in the UK on 7 July when she will perform for two nights in Glasgow, at OVO Hydro.

Eilish will then play six nights at the O2 in London, and four nights at the new Co-Op Live arena in Manchester - a venue that has been beset with problems as it prepares to open to the public.

The singer will then play two gigs in Dublin, Ireland, at the 3Arena.

A vocal environmentalist, fans are being encouraged to take "sustainable transport" during the tour, which will also feature "eco-villages" and encourage plant-based food options.

The tour will partner with the plant-based food organisation Support + Feed - an initiative founded by Eilish's mother Maggie Baird - and environmental non-profit organisation REVERB.

The concerts will also aim to reduce "greenhouse gas pollution, decreasing single-use plastic waste, supporting climate action", the promoters Live Nation said.

Eilish's third studio album comes out on 17 May, a month after Taylor Swift's much lauded album The Tortured Poets Department.

Like Swift, Eilish is encouraging fans to listen to the collection as a whole, saying on her website that the new body of work should be listened to chronologically as it "hits you hard and soft both lyrically and sonically, while bending genres and defying trends along the way".

She's not released any singles in advance, encouraging fans to listen "in one go".

The album cover features Eilish on her back under dark water with a white door open above her.

Eilish's last album was 2021's Happier Than Ever, and her debut record When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released in 2019.

The youngest person ever to have won two Oscars, she took home the award for best original song Oscar gong for Barbie's What Was I Made For? in March, and won the same prize for James Bond's No Time To Die in 2022.

Tickets for Hit Me Hard And Soft go on general sale on Friday.

Billie Eilish's UK tour dates:

Mon 7 July, 2025 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro

Tue 8 July, 2025 - Glasgow, UK - OVO Hydro

Thu 10 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Fri 11 July, 2025 -London, UK - The O2

Sun 13 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Mon 14 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Wed 16 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Thu 17 July, 2025 - London, UK - The O2

Sat 19 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Sun 20 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Tue 22 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Wed 23 July, 2025 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

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