Three Years Is Too Long

Justin got into The Cure and The Smiths when he was ten years old. Peter Gabriel. Cocteau Twins. The Stone Roses. Radiohead. The music that shaped everything about Blue October - the way we write, the way we feel, the way we perform - came from across the Atlantic.

So when Foiled broke through in 2006, and people in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands started singing our songs back to us, it wasn’t just a career milestone. It felt like a homecoming to a place we’d never actually been.

There’s something different about playing in Europe. We don’t get over there nearly enough, and our fans know it. So when we do show up, every room feels like it’s been waiting. The energy is there from the first note. And the venues - old halls, historic rooms, cities with centuries in the walls - there’s a weight to playing those stages that hits you the second you walk in.

It’s been three years since we’ve been over. That’s too long.

This May and June, we’re coming back - and we’re bringing Foiled with us. The full album, front to back, the way it was meant to be heard. Every song. Yes, “Hate Me,” “Into the Ocean,” and “18th Floor Balcony.” But also the ones we almost never play - “Sound of Pulling Heaven Down,” “Everlasting Friend,” “Overweight,” “What If We Could.”

We’ve played “It’s Just Me” eleven times in our entire career. Eleven. If that doesn’t make this tour special, we don’t know what does.

After the full album, we’ll keep the night going with favorites from across every era.

Six stops across Germany and the Czech Republic - including Prague, which Justin has called his favorite city in the world to perform. Amsterdam’s Paradiso. And four UK shows: Nottingham, Glasgow, Manchester, and London.

The London show is at the Roundhouse - a room where Hendrix, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd all played. It was restored and reopened in 2006, the same year Foiled came out. We didn’t plan that. Playing our album there, twenty years on, isn’t the kind of thing you engineer. You just show up, and the room does the rest. Foiled turning twenty in a room like that isn’t poetic. It’s just what happens when you refuse to disappear.

And then we close the way it was always going to have to end - with a four-night getaway in Albufeira, Portugal, right on the water. 300 fans. One private resort. No barriers. Just music, sunsets, and the ocean that started all of this.

TOUR DATES

24 May — Munich, Germany — Muffathalle

26 May — Prague, Czech Republic — Lucerna Music Bar

27 May — Leipzig, Germany — Täubchenthal

29 May — Berlin, Germany — Astra

30 May — Hamburg, Germany — Docks

31 May — Cologne, Germany — Live Music Hall

1 June — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Paradiso

3 June — Nottingham, England — Rock City

4 June — Glasgow, Scotland — SWG3

5 June — Manchester, England — Albert Hall

6 June — London, England — Roundhouse

10–14 June — Albufeira, Portugal — Into The Ocean Getaway

Tickets at blueoctober.com. See you over there.