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The Lottery Winners announce autumn 2025 UK tour

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The Lottery Winners have announced an autumn 2025 UK tour, making stops at towns and cities including Cambridge, Frome, Edinburgh, Halifax and Cardiff.

This is the second leg of their  ‘Keep On Keeping On’ tour, after the first leg took place in February and March, and sees them celebrate their latest album ‘KOKO’ (Keep On Keeping On) – their second Number One LP.

The November leg of the tour will also stop at Newcastle, Oxford, Llandudno, Southampton, Cambridge, Lincoln, Norwich, and Coventry.

Tickets go on sale on Friday (May 2) at 10am, and you can buy yours here.

The Lottery Winners’ 2026 autumn tour dates are

NOVEMBER
11 – Edinburgh, La Belle Angele
12 – Newcastle upon Tyne, NX
13 – Halifax, Victoria Theatre
14 – Oxford, O2 Academy Oxford
15 – Llandudno, Venue Cymru – The Arena
18 – Cardiff, Tramshed
19 – Southampton, 1865
20 – Cambridge, Cambridge Junction
21 – Lincoln, Engine Shed
22 – Norwich, Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
25 – Coventry, Empire, Coventry
26 – Frome, Cheese and Grain

‘KOKO’, named after the motto ‘keep on keeping on’, features the single ‘Ragdoll’, which includes a guest appearance from Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, who the band got to know when they supported the ‘How You Remind Me’ rockers on a UK and European arena tour last year. Other guests on the album include Frank TurnerShed Seven and Reverend & The Makers.

The band from Leigh, in Greater Manchester, is made up of Thom Rylance, Robert Lally, Katie Lloyd and Joe Singleton. Speaking about their album ‘KOKO’ reaching the top of the albums chart, they said: “‘KOKO’ is the UK’s Official Number 1 album! It’s been a lot of work, but this makes it all worth it. It’s such a whirlwind of emotions. We’re so grateful to everybody to be supporting us and the album.

“Go back in time and tell 12-year-old us that we’d have two Number One albums, it’s amazing. This is for grassroots music. This is for the working class. This is for Leigh. This is for anybody who has a dream – go out there and get it. Make it happen!”

Last year The Lottery Winners frontman Thom Rylance spoke to NME about his regret at starting a row with Kate Nash over the lack of working-class representation in the arts. Rylance tweeted that Nash shouldn’t try to represent working class musicians, as well as criticising her background as a former pupil of the BRIT School, mistakenly labelling it a fee-paying establishment.

Apologising to Nash, he said: “I’m sorry, genuinely. What Kate is doing is great, because she’s highlighting the systemic problems working class people face in the arts. The lack of access working class people face is very disproportionate in the music industry and other arts. I agree with everything Kate is saying, and I want to join her in being a voice too.”

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Written by: Brady Donovan

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