Nearly 45 years since their formation, and 25 years on from their exaltant reunion in 2000 – CHAMELEONS – are ecstatic to announce a new run of shows for later this year.
The Middleton post/punk band’s second major tour in as many years, the announcement follows a triumphant series of UK performances that saw them play some of the UK’s biggest and most iconic spaces last December, including a night at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
And in 2025, Mark Burgess and the band will be expanding their horizons with 8 shows locked-in nationwide throughout November.
Kicking off at Southampton‘s 1865 on 13th November, the cult band will also be visiting Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, and London‘s infamous Electric Ballroom. I
In London and Manchester, Chameleons will be joined by very special guests Kirk Brandon (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny) aKoustiK featuring Sam Sansbury on cello, who will be playing a career-spanning set.
As is now customary, the tour will also see the return of Chameleons’ legendary pre-Christmas homecoming show ‘HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS… 2025‘. Planning a very special night for what will be the 11th Anniversary in this series of shows, the band will headline Manchester’s salubrious Albert Hall venue once again on 21st November.
Chameleons spent 2024 recording and releasing new music, sharing their new live album, ‘Return of the Roughnecks (Live at The Ritz)’, and a new EP titled ‘Tomorrow Remember Yesterday’. This year, they will release their highly anticipated new album, Arctic Moon, which will mark their first full-length studio record in over two decades.
The Chameleons’ live band for these dates will feature Mark Burgess (bass / vox), Reg Smithies (guitar), Todd Demma (drums), Danny Ashbury (keyboards), and Stephen Rice (guitar). With an incendiary setlist already in mind, expect a broad, career-spanning collection of classics plus new material from their forthcoming album ‘Arctic Moon‘ (due out on Metropolis Records later this year).
With additional very special guests for Manchester and London still to be announced, support for the entire tour is confirmed to come from: The Veldt. Emerging in the 1980s, the North Carolina shoegaze soul heroes carved out a distinct niche within the first wave of shoegaze bands worldwide. With their music a mesmerizing blend of ethereal atmospheres, sultry melodies, and irresistible rhythms, they established themselves as a standout presence in the genre. Collaborating with an array of influential artists across their career, including TV On The Radio, Mos Def, and Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite), The Veldt released their magnum opus in 1994: ‘Afrodisiac’; a record that has since been ranked as one of Pitchfork’s “Top 50 Shoegaze Albums Ever Released”.
The full list of shows can be found below. Tickets go on pre-sale tomorrow @ 10AM, and general sale this Friday @ 10AM.
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CHAMELEONS – NOVEMBER 2025 TOUR
13.11.25 – 1865, Southampton
14.11.25 – Electric Ballroom, London
15.11.25 – Trinity, Bristol
16.11.25 – XOYO, Birmingham
17.11.25 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
19.11.25 – Glasgow, Garage
21.11.25 – Albert Hall, Manchester
22.11.25 – Camp & Furnace, Liverpool
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TICKETS
Tickets are on General Sale from Friday 31st January at 10AM:
https://pinkdot.seetickets.com/tour/chameleons
Pre-sale from Wednesday 29th January at 10AM here:
https://pinkdot.seetickets.com/tour/chameleons?pre=artist
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Formed in Greater Manchester in 1981 by singer and bassist Mark Burgess, Chameleons have remained one of the city’s most revered bands among musos ever since their inception. With notable fans including the likes of Noel Gallgher to Interpol, The Charlatans to Moby, their music has been passed down through the generations like an elixir of eternal inspiration. And here in 2025, a growing fandom of their immense canon sees Chameleons finding immortality as something of a cult phenomenon.
With their dedicated advocates finding awe in the “sonic cathedrals” in which they have constructed over the past four decades, Chameleons have released four iconic studio albums (‘Script of the Bridge’ (1983), ‘What Does Anything Mean? Basically'(1985), ‘Strange Times'(1986) and latterly ‘Why Call It Anything’ (2001)), plus many Peel sessions, live records, compilations and an EP (‘Tony Fletcher Walked on Water…. La La La La La-La La-La-La’ (1990)). Shimmering, shadowy, and shrouded in deepest mysteries, their distinctive and towering post-punk songs sound as vital today as the moment they were built.
Acknowledging their supporters with an annual homecoming every December for the last ten years, a typically breathtaking pre-Christmas celebration of their music entitled ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is‘, demand for the Chameleons on the live stage has surged to all time high. And with word spreading across the UK, in 2025, the band now set their sights on one of their biggest and most far-reaching UK tours yet.
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