Legendary rock band announce first UK tour in 15 years ahead of new album release
THEY stormed the charts in 2003 with Are You Gonna Be My Girl? and now they’re making a comeback to UK shores after 15 years away.
This Australian rock group announced a brand new UK headline tour, having last appeared here in 2009.
Jet, who also released songs Cold Hard B***h and Rollover DJ, are now on a resurgence mission ahead of their fourth studio album next year.
They are best known for their debut album, Get Born, which spent a year in the UK Top 40 when it was released in 2003. It’s since gone platinum.
The group, composed of brothers Nic and Chris Cester, Cameron Muncey and Mark Wilson, first formed in 2001 and released three albums before they announced they had broken up in 2012.
Chris Cester later told Mess+Noise magazine it was due to ongoing fights within the band.
“I think the band’s been slowly disintegrating and slowly breaking up since the Shine On sessions in 2005 or 2006,” Cester said to the site .
“We just never really talked about it. I dunno. We never really wanted to drum up any kind of bulls**t between us.”
“But really, Nic’s the one who is mainly responsible for pulling the pin officially,” he added.
“I think the rest of us were happy to go on and keep making records in the hope that things would get better between all of us. And like I said things have been strained between us for years now, and we just soldiered on because we didn’t know any better.”
In 2016, the band announced they had solved their issues and reunited, joining Bruce Springsteen on tour the following year.
They briefly disbanded again in 2019 to focus on solo projects, before reuniting once again in 2023 in order to celebrate the band’s 20th anniversary of Get Born.
They are now currently completing an Australian tour before heading to the UK in October.
In the years that have passed, they still get six million listeners a month on Spotify – despite shooting to fame six years before the streaming service even existed.
Vocalist/guitarist Nic Cester said of the upcoming tour: “Get Born was a rare and unique moment of total planetary alignment where we somehow managed to capture lighting in a bottle. We’re all really excited to come back to the UK & Ireland for these shows.”
Last year, they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame for their contribution to music. Tickets for the shows go on sale from 10am on Friday, May 24 here.
JET - UK Tour Dates
Here's where you can catch the band performing later this year
OCTOBER
3rd – Dublin, The Academy
4th – Belfast, The Telegraph Building
6th – Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanizers
7th – Birmingham, O2 Institute 1
8th – Manchester, O2 The Ritz
10th – Nottingham, Rock City
11th – Bristol, Marble Factory
12th – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
