Bob Dylan to return to UK and Ireland for 13-date tour

Singer Bob Dylan is to return to the UK and Ireland for a 13-date tour following a successful run of gigs last year that included three nights at the Royal Albert Hall.

The 84-year-old will perform in Dublin, Glasgow and Swansea, as well as Brighton, Leeds and Coventry in England as part of his Rough And Rowdy Ways world tour, which has been running since November 2021.

The shows will be phone-free, and people will be asked to put their phones in a Yondr pouch, which closes automatically when in the venue and unlocks in the venue’s concourse.

It comes amid a surge in interest in the Hurricane singer’s career, following the release of the biopic A Complete Unknown last year, which starred Timothee Chalamet as Dylan and followed the story of his career beginnings and infamous decision to go electric in the mid-1960s.

The singer is one of the most acclaimed songwriters of all time, winning 10 Grammys and being nominated on 38 further occasions. Dylan has had six UK top 10 singles and nine UK number one albums.

He began his career in 1962 with the single Mixed-Up Confusion, which failed to chart in the UK and US.

But he shot to stardom with a string of successful singles in 1965, including The Times They Are A-Changin’, Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like A Rolling Stone.

The tour comes amid a surge of interest in the singer’s career following the release of A Complete Unknown. PA Media

He was the first songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, with the Swedish academy crediting him with “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.

Dylan’s songs have been covered by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Rolling Stones and Adele.

Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Friday July 18 at 10am.

Bob Dylan’s 2025 UK and Ireland tour in full

November 7 – Brighton Centre, Brighton

November 9 – Building Society Arena, Swansea

November 10 – Building Society Arena, Swansea

November 11 – Building Society Arena, Swansea

November 13 – Building Society Arena, Coventry

November 14 – First Direct Arena, Leeds

November 16 – Armadillo, Glasgow

November 17 – Armadillo, Glasgow

November 19 – Waterfront, Belfast