Billy Bragg has announced a handful of tour dates across the UK and Ireland. Tickets for the shows go on sale at 10am on Friday 31 March. Scroll to the bottom of this article to find a detailed list of Bragg’s UK and Ireland tour dates. 

Titled the Roaring Forty Tour, the shows mark 40 years of Bragg’s unique mixture of folk and punk-infused protest music. 

Bragg said, ‘Doesn’t seem like just that long ago that I was playing Thursday nights at the Tunnel in Greenwich, opening for whoever was headlining that night. I learned my chops there in late 82 / early 83 and I’m still putting those lessons to good use 40 years later. Hope to see some of you on the Roaring Forty Tour this autumn.’

Aside from the tour, Bragg also announced a gargantuan retrospective boxset titled The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023. The 14-disc epic will be released on Friday 27 October and is available to preorder now.  

Billy Bragg’s 2023 UK tour dates: 

Friday 19 May – O2 Academy Oxford
Tuesday 14 November – Brighton Dome
Wednesday 15 November – Portsmouth Guildhall
Thursday 16 November – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Monday 20 November – Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Tuesday 21 November – National Concert Hall, Dublin
Wednesday 22 November – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Friday 24 November – Tramshed, Cardiff
Saturday 25 November – Town Hall, Birmingham
Sunday 26 November – O2 Academy Leeds
Tuesday 28 November – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Thursday 30 November – O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 1 December – Sage, Gateshead 
Saturday 2 December – Rock City, Nottingham
Tuesday 5 December – Beacon, Bristol 
Wednesday 6 December – Roundhouse, London 

Tickets for Billy Bragg’s UK and Ireland tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 31 March.