{"id":189912,"date":"2025-06-16T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189912\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:55:09","slug":"devo-and-the-b-52s-announce-american-co-headline-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189912\/","title":{"rendered":"Devo and The B-52s announce American co-headline tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Devo-and-The-B-52s-annouce-co-headline-tour-2025-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Devo and The B-52's annouce co-headline tour - 2025\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Mary Ellen Matthews)<\/p>\n<p> Mon 16 June 2025 19:14, UK <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/devo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Devo\">Devo<\/a> and The B-52\u2019s have announced they are set to join forces on a co-headlining tour across North America later this year, which they are calling the Cosmic De-Evolution Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The two bands made the announcement of the 11-date stint on June 16th, evidently inspired by the joint performance they gave at the SNL 50 celebrations earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having embarked on a farewell tour three years ago, The B-52\u2019s have since caved to a Las Vegas residency, which they are currently undertaking, after which they will join up with Devo.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the news, the band\u2019s leader, Fred Schneider, said: \u201cIn 2022, I swore I\u2019d never get on a tour bus again, but we were careful to say to our fans that we would still perform in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/song-defined-cbgb-according-kate-pierson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special situations<\/a>\u00a0that don\u2019t require all of the awful tour travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then continued: \u201cOur Vegas residency is going great, and when we were offered the chance to do a small run of shows with Devo, we all said this is an extraordinary opportunity we couldn\u2019t say no to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over in the Devo camp, their founder Mark Mothersbaugh added: \u201cIt was either fate or luck or the SNL anniversary that brought us all together to create this amazing chance to go out on tour. All I can say is Cosmic Devolution is REAL!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/characters-of-devo-extended-universe-spudland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"classic new wave bands\">classic new wave bands<\/a> will take in 11 stops across North America over the coming months, starting on September 24th in Toronto and ending on November 2nd in Houston. They will be joined on the road by fellow genre prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Lene Lovich as their support act.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Cosmic De-Evolution Tour go on general sale on June 20th via Live Nation, with presale beginning on June 16th.<\/p>\n<p>Devo and The B-52\u2019s North American tour dates:September<\/p>\n<p>24th \u2013 Toronto, ONT \u2013 Budweiser Stage<br \/>25th \u2013 Clarkston, MI \u2013 Pine Knob Music Theatre<\/p>\n<p>October<\/p>\n<p>2nd \u2013 Mansfield, MA \u2013 Xfinity Center<br \/>4th \u2013 Holmdel, NJ \u2013 PNC Bank Arts Center<br \/>5th \u2013 Wantagh, NY \u2013 Northwell at Jones Beach Theater<br \/>16th \u2013 Mountain View, CA \u2013 Shoreline Amphitheatre<br \/>18th \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 Hollywood Bowl<br \/>24th \u2013 Charlotte, NC \u2013 PNC Music Pavilion<br \/>25th \u2013 Alpharetta, GA \u2013 Ameris Bank Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>November<\/p>\n<p>1st \u2013 Austin, TX \u2013 Germania Insurance Amphitheater<br \/>2nd \u2013 Houston, TX \u2013 The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>The Far Out Music Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest music news from the independant voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Mary Ellen Matthews) Mon 16 June 2025 19:14, UK Devo and The B-52\u2019s have announced they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77823,77,269,77824,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-devo","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-the-b-52s","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114695040382889061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}