Acclaimed progressive rock icon FISH has announced his farewell ‘Road To The Isles’ tour, bidding a final goodbye career in music spanning 4 decades. He will be touring across both Europe and the UK, with the mainland Europe dates being announced today. The European dates kick off in Dudlange, Luxembourg on October 2nd 2024, finishing in Berlin Germany on November 3rd 2024. Tickets for these shows will be on-sale to the general public on Feb 2nd 2024. A full set of UK dates will take place in February / March 2025 and will be announced on February 27th with UK on-sale March 1st 2024.
“Nominating a tour as a ‘farewell tour’ has a certain amount of gravitas,” comments FISH, “and I’m so glad that I have managed to bring together a ‘best of’ line up of musicians from across my live career to come out on the bus with me on my final sortie out on the road. They’re not just highly talented musicians but old friends and co-writers of some of the finest songs I’ve released in the 35 years as a solo artist. It feels more like a Hollywood movie of veterans getting back together for one final mission rather than a rock and roll tour and the personalities and characters involved will ensure it’s going to be fun both on and off stage.”
The ‘Road to the Isles’ tour is inspired by the fact that Fish and his wife Simone are retiring to a croft they have taken over on an island in the Outer Hebrides. They are permanently moving to the Western Isles at the end of this year and Fish is selling the former recording studio and house in Haddington, East Lothian in May after living there since he left Marillion in 1988.
“It’s going to be sad in some ways to leave East Lothian after so many years and having written, recorded and created so much here at the Studio. All my solo albums apart from ‘Vigil’ were recorded in this building. It was a strange feeling recently sifting through the demo material for the 2024 ‘Vigil’ and ‘Internal’ re-releases and listening to the early versions of those songs that were written here soon after I moved to Haddington. I’ll be leaving behind a lot of memories in the house and the garden where I’ve lived since 1988 and it will always hold a special place in my life. The croft however is a completely new adventure and one my wife and I are excitedly looking forward to.”
The 24 date European leg of the tour starts in Luxembourg on October 2nd 2024 and traverses five shows in Holland, seven in Germany, four in Poland, two in Norway, two in Sweden and a show in each of Denmark, Switzerland and Austria.
Following a short break Fish will embark upon the 13 date UK leg of the tour commencing in his home Haddington Corn Exchange on February 19th 2025 and finishing up with a rousing last ever show at the Glasgow O2 Academy on Sunday March 9th 2025.
At that point, we can finally say that Fish has well and truly left the building!
European Tickets on-sale Feb 2nd 2024– www.fishmusic.scot
‘ROAD TO THE ISLES’ EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
Wed Oct 2nd 2024 Centre Culturel Opderschmelz, DUDELANGE, LUX
Fri Oct 4th 2024 Muziekgieterij, MAASTRICHT, NL
Sat Oct 5th 2024 Muziekcentrum, ENSCHEDE, NL
Sun Oct 6th 2024 Oosterpoort, GRONINGEN, NL
Tues Oct 8th 2024 Tivoli Vrendenburg, UTRECHT, NL
Wed Oct 9th 2024 Tivoli Vrendenburg, UTRECHT, NL
Thurs Oct 10th 2024 Grosse Freiheit 36, HAMBURG, DE
Fri Oct 11th 2024 Carlswerk Viktoria, COLOGNE, DE
Sun Oct 13th 2024 Im Wisemaan, STUTTGART, DE
Tues Oct 15th 2024 Volkhaus, ZURICH, CH
Wed Oct 16th 2024 Muffathalle, MUNICH, DE
Thurs Oct 17th 2024 Arena, WIEN, AU
Sat Oct 19th 2024 A2, WROCLAW, PL
Sun Oct 20th 2024 Progeresjam, WARSAW, PL
Mon Oct 21st 2024 Studio, KRAKOW, PL
Tues Oct 22nd 2024 Srtary Manez, GDANSK, PL
Thurs Oct 24th 2024 Rockefellar, OSLO, NOR
Sat Oct 26th 2024 Byscenen, TRONDHEIM, NOR
Mon Oct 28th 2024 Pustervik, GOTHENBURG, SW
Tues Oct 29th 2024 Berns, STOCKHOLM, SW
Wed Oct 30th 2024 Amager Bio, COPENHAGEN, DK
Fri Nov 1st 2024 Alter Schlachtof, DRESDEN, DE
Sat Nov 2nd 2024 Tollhaus, KARLSRUHE, DE
Sun Nov 3rd 2024 Metropol, BERLIN, DE
