Arctic Monkeys announce 2023 UK and Ireland stadium tour

Arctic Monkeys have announced they’ll head out on their first ever stadium tour of the UK next summer, including two homecoming shows at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Park.

The band, who are gearing up to release their seventh album The Car on October 21, will kick off the new run of dates at Bristol’s Ashton Gate Stadium on May 29th next year, before travelling the length and breadth of the country.

As well as two shows in Sheffield on June 9 and 10, the band will take in two London dates at the Emirates Stadium on June 16th and 17th and a show at Dublin’s Marlay Park on June 20th.

You can check out the tour dates in full below, ahead of tickets going on sale on September 30 at 9AM. Support on all dates will come from The Hives and The Mysterines.

Arctic Monkeys announce their 2023 UK & Ireland Tour with special guests @TheHives & @TheMysterines. Tickets go on sale 30 Sept at 9am. Fan pre-sale begins on 29 Sept at 9am. Pre-order ‘The Car’ from the bands webstore to get access. For more info visit https://t.co/6BDFhmmRyS pic.twitter.com/1PdSCBWmsa

— Arctic Monkeys (@ArcticMonkeys) September 23, 2022

News of the tour comes after the band debuted ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’, the first track to arrive from the album.

The Car is once more produced by long-time collaborator James Ford, featuring ten new songs written by frontman Alex Turner and recorded at Butley Priory in Suffolk, La Frette in Paris and RAK Studios, London.

You can check out the tracklisting in full below.

1. ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’
2. ‘I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am’
3. ‘Sculptures Of Anything Goes’
4. ‘Jet Skis On The Moat’
5. ‘Body Paint’
6. ‘The Car’
7. ‘Big Ideas’
8. ‘Hello You’
9. ‘Mr Schwartz’
10. ‘Perfect Sense’