BLOOD ORANGE ANNOUNCES HEADLINE SHOW AT MANCHESTER O2 VICTORIA WAREHOUSE

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BLOOD ORANGE ANNOUNCES HEADLINE SHOW AT MANCHESTER O2 VICTORIA WAREHOUSE

PLUS 4 NIGHTS AT ALEXANDRA PALACE, LONDON

ALSO JOINS LORDE & TURNSTILE FOR SELECT DATES

NEW ALBUM ESSEX HONEY OUT NOW VIA RCA RECORDS

Blood Orange - aka Dev Hynes - announces a new headline show at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse on Friday 14th November. Artist presale begins tomorrow, September 9 at 10 AM local time. Tickets will be available for the general public on September 11 at 10 AM local time. Purchase tickets and stay updated on future Blood Orange shows HERE.

This month, Blood Orange kicks off an action-packed fall with a Portola Music Festival set, before joining hardcore-collaborator Turnstile in cities like Richmond and Columbus, and later accompanying Lorde for arena shows that take him to iconic venues like the Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Los Angeles’s Kia Forum.

See below for full routing.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

Sun Sep 21 – San Francisco – Portola Music Festival

Tue Sep 23 – Columbus - KEMBA LIVE! w/ Turnstile

Wed Sep 24 – Richmond – Brown’s Island w/ Turnstile

Fri Sep 26 – Boston – TD Garden w/ Lorde

Sat Sep 27 – Montreal - Bell Centre w/ Lorde

Tue Sep 30 – Philadelphia – Wells Fargo Center w/ Lorde

Tue Oct 14 – Morrison – Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Lorde

Fri Oct 17 – Las Vegas – MGM Grand Garden w/ Lorde

Sat Oct 18 – Inglewood – Kia Forum w/ Lorde

Wed Oct 29 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle

Fri Oct 31 – Torino – C2C Festival @ Lingotto Fiere Torino

Mon Nov 3 - Paris – Pitchfork Festival @ L’Olympia

Tue Nov 4 - Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg

Fri Nov 7 – London, UK – Alexandra Palace Theatre

Sat Nov 8 - London, UK - Alexandra Palace Theatre

Sun Nov 9 - London, UK - Alexandra Palace Theatre

Mon Nov 10 - London, UK - Alexandra Palace Theatre

Thu Nov 13 - Bristol, UK - Electric Bristol

Fri Nov 14 – Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse NEW SHOW

Sat Nov 15 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena w/ Lorde

Wed Nov 19 - Toronto, ON - History

Sat Nov 29 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel

Sun Nov 30 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel

The news follows the release of Blood Orange’s first album in over six years, Essex Honey via RCA Records. Written, produced, and recorded by Hynes, Essex Honey is a soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief. It is also an album about growing up in Essex (outside London) and the way music has inspired, healed, and interwoven itself through Hynes’ life.

Like all Blood Orange albums, Essex Honey comes with an incredible list of collaborators, some who have created with Hynes multiple times, and others who are new to his sonic fold. These include Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Tariq Al-Sabir, author Zadie Smith – singing on an album for the first time – Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Eva Tolkin, The Durutti Column, Wet’s Kelly Zutrau, Naomi Scott, Amandala Stenberg, and Liam Benzvi.

Essex Honey is everything Hynes does best and then some. Lyrically, he taps into the experiences of himself and his close friends, creating a love letter to his musical inspirations, including himself, wrapped in honesty. Close listens reveal refrains from some of Hynes’ influences growing up, including Elliott Smith, The Replacements, and more, allowing Hynes to lean backwards to his comfort listens while moving his own sound forward. Essex Honey is an album tinted with grief and loss, working towards acceptance and resolution, at a time when the culture is collectively feeling grief and loss, collectively trying to work towards resolution and acceptance. It is a beautiful swirl, an elegantly crafted pastiche of melodies and sounds, assembled in the way only Hynes knows how, crafting an intimate, scintillating whole and one of the best albums of 2025.

This fall, Blood Orange goes on the road to share Essex Honey with the masses, with headline dates, major festivals, and opening slots for Turnstile and Lorde for select shows on their respective tours.

More to come from Blood Orange in 2025.