ICYMI: The Very Best Of Billy Ocean – UK Tour Announced for 2025

With multiple dates sold out, Billy Ocean has today announced three extra dates to his huge UK tour for 2025 due to demand. ‘The Very Best of Billy Ocean’ will see him now perform all of his greatest hits and fan favourites across 17 dates including new shows at Stockton Globe, Oxford New Theatre and Birmingham BP Pulse Live next summer. The news follows 40th anniversary of his landmark album ‘Suddenly’ and special vinyl re-release.

Billy Ocean had enjoyed chart success with a pair of #2 hits prior to ‘Suddenly’ (‘Love Really Hurts Without You’, ‘Red Light Spells Danger’) but this record catapulted him to new heights. Its lead single ‘Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)’ raced to #1 in the States and #6 in the UK, with the follow-ups ‘Loverboy’ and the title track also international smash hits. The album was similarly successful, leading to his first Top 10 album positions in both the UK and US, while ‘Caribbean Queen’ would later be rewarded with a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Performance.

Billy Ocean’s success continued in the wake of ‘Suddenly’, achieving similarly great things with the subsequent albums ‘Love Zone’ and ‘Tear Down These Walls’, as well as further signature hits such as ‘When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Gets Going’, ‘There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)’ and ‘Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car’.

After some years out of the spotlight, his reputation flourished again in the 21st century with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the MOBOs, a return to the upper reaches of the charts with both the ‘Here You Are’ compilation and the ‘One World’ studio album, an Ivor Novello for International Achievement, and an MBE. His recent UK tours have included major London shows at the Royal Albert Hall and the Palladium, while his total global album sales have exceeded 30 million.

Following a run of summer festival shows and a North American headline tour next month, Billy is excited for his major UK tour in summer 2025. Tickets for the new dates go on general sale at 10am on Friday 4^th October with all remaining dates on sale now HERE.

UK TOUR DATES 2025

Wed     04        June                Manchester O2 Apollo          SOLD OUT
Fri        06        June                Glasgow SEC Armadillo
Sat       07        June                Edinburgh Usher Hall
Mon     09        June                Newcastle O2 City Hall                       SOLD OUT
Wed     11        June                Bristol Beacon
Fri        13        June                Brighton Centre
Sat       14        June                Bournemouth International Centre
Fri        20        June                Blackpool Opera House                      SOLD OUT
Sat       21        June                Leeds First Direct Arena
Mon     23        June                Liverpool Empire Theatre                   SOLD OUT
Wed     25        June                London Royal Albert Hall
Fri        27        June                Wolverhampton Civic Hall              SOLD OUT
Sat       28        June                Cardiff Utilita Arena
Mon     30        June                Nottingham Royal Concert Hall          SOLD OUT
Wed     02       July                  Stockton Globe                                   NEW DATE
Fri        04        July                  Oxford New Theatre                           NEW DATE
Sat      05        July                  Birmingham Bp Pulse Live                 NEW DATE