Two years ago, The Dollyrots and Don’t Panic played a fun co-headlining tour across the UK. Both bands enjoyed it so much they’ve decided to recreate it in 2025!
Hailing from Los Angeles, The Dollyrots, consisting of Kelly Ogden (vocals, bass) and Luis Cabezas (guitar, vocals), will be bringing along their brand of sunny, bubblegum pop punk as the days get longer and the weather gets brighter. Since they were last over they’ve released a new album, 2023’s ‘Night Owls’, so expect plenty of new songs amongst the hits. Kelly had this to say about the tour “The UK is a place we hold near and dear to our hearts, and it’s been a whole two years since we’ve been able to bring our cheeky American bubblegum punk overseas. Last time around we toured the UK with Don’t Panic and it went so awesomely that we decided to make the sequel! We all come from punk rock roots & the Bowling For Soup family, so in a lot of ways this is a joyous reunion. Let’s kick this tour in the bollocks, or nuts, or whatever you wanna say, let’s just get awesome!”
Don’t Panic on the other hand have a more straight up rock sound though certainly with elements of pop punk. From the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, the band includes Ted Felicetti (vocals, guitar), Anthony Paesano (drums), AJ Larsen (guitar, backing vocals) and Zack Falcow (bass) and they recently put out an EP of covers ‘Under Cover, Vol. 2’, which features guest vocals from Kelly Ogden on Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’! Will they play it on the tour? You’ll have to attend to find out! Ted in particular is looking forward to returning, “Coming to the UK has become our band’s favo(u)rite annual tour. Yes I added the extra ‘U’ just for you guys over across the pond! Our first time coming there as a full band was with our friends The Dollyrots, and it was so amazingly fun a few years ago that we decided, hey, let’s do that again! So we are back baby! Twice the fun, twice the awesome and all the rock and roll you can handle. We will be bringing some new music, some new merch, and we plan on binge watching all the ‘Naked Attraction‘ we can stomach. You are not going to wanna miss this show”.
The full list of dates includes;
April 25th – Glasgow – Attic Bar
April 26th – Manchester – AATMA
April 27th – London – New Cross Inn
April 28th – Nottingham – Bodega
April 29th – Birmingham – Asylum 2
April 30th – Swansea – The Bunkhouse
May 1st – Southampton – The Joiners
May 2nd – Milton Keynes – Craufurd Arms
May 3rd – Leeds – Key Club
Joining for the majority of the tour will be indie/pop/rock artist Danny Gruff with the exception of Manchester which will feature up and coming pop rock band When Suddenly.
Tickets are on sale now with VIP upgrades available, which include a pre-show acoustic performance from both bands, meeting and greeting, photos,a signed poster and early access to the shows merch table.
https://the-dollyrots.myshopify.com/pages/tour
Whichever or however you attend a show, it’s sure to be a good night. Because they’re awesome!
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