Blues-Rock’s resilient icon Walter Trout continues his prolific tour schedule as he returns for the second part of his ‘Broken’ UK Tour in May 2025, where he will be playing songs from his latest album along with classic’s from across his career. You can pick up tickets HERE.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of his recent October tour and when he returns he will begin on 6 May at the Arts Centre in Warwick and will call through, Cardiff (Tramshed), Southampton (The 1865), Exeter (Phoenix), Cambridge (Junction) and will finish at the Concorde 2 in Brighton on 11 May.
Talking about the tour Trout says, “We just returned to California from our UK tour in October and we kept getting messages from people saying that we had not appeared in the South of the UK for a long time so i’m excited to announce that in May 2025 we’ll be coming back to the UK to play shows to those fans. I wanna see you there.”
Released in March 2024 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group, ‘Broken’ is his 31st album and was a #1 Billboard Blues Album Chart hit proving that the fire still burns formidably in the mind and fingers of one of Blues-Rock’s true modern heroes. The album included the single “I’ve Had Enough” ft. Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) to which Trout says, “Dee Snider from Twisted Sister put up a live cut of me on his Twitter and said: ‘Listen to this fucking guitar hero’. We started talking and became friends; he came into the studio, and I knew I had to write him a song. So I’m thinking, ‘Well, he did We’re Not Gonna Take It’. So I wrote I’ve Had Enough. And it’s rockin’.”
The New Jersey-born icon has previously revealed the videos for “Broken”, ft. Beth Hart, Talking to Myself and “Bleed”. The latter features harmonica virtuoso Will Wilde, whilst Hart joined Trout for the first time. “I thought my friend Beth Hart could relate to the title track, Broken,” he says of the warrior princess whose fiery vocals coil with his own.
Trout’s unbelievable story are well-known: the traumatic childhood in Ocean City, New Jersey; the audacious move to the West Coast in ’74; the auspicious but chaotic sideman shifts with John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton; the raging addictions that somehow never stopped the boogie when he was with Canned Heat in the early-’80s.
Even now, some will point to Trout’s mid-’80s guitar pyrotechnics in the lineup of John Mayall’s legendary Bluesbreakers as his career high point. But for a far greater majority of fans, the blood, heart and soul of his solo career since 1989 is the main event, the bluesman’s songcraft always reaching for some greater truth, forever surging forward, never shrinking back.
It’s a peerless creative streak underlined by the guitarist’s regular triumphs at ceremonies including the Blues Music Awards, SENA European Guitar Awards, British Blues Awards and Blues Blast Music Awards. The iconic British DJ ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris spoke for millions when he declared Trout “the world’s greatest rock guitarist” in his 2001 autobiography, The Whispering Years.
Walter Trout offers a both charismatic and moving live experience that can’t help but fail to inspire.
UK Tour Dates
Tickets are available HERE
Tues 6 May – Arts Centre, Warwick
Weds 7 May – Tramshed, Cardiff
Thurs 8 May – The 1865, Southampton
Fri 9 May – Phoenix, Exeter
Sat 10 May – Junction, Cambridge
Sun 11 May – Concorde 2, Brighton
