Shaman’s Harvest & Blacktop Mojo – UK & Irish Tour 2025 Announced
With a staggering 400+ million streams and over a decade of pent-up anticipation, high-octane Missouri rock band Shaman’s Harvest will be stepping foot in the UK and Ireland for the first time on their March 2025 About Time’ tour with Texan rocker’s Blacktop Mojo.
They will be starting on 5th March at the Fleece, Bristol. They will then call through Southampton (The 1865), London (O2 Islington Academy),Birmingham (O2 Institute 2), Manchester (Rebellion), Glasgow (Cathouse), Newcastle (Anarchy Brew), Belfast (Limelight 2), Dublin (The Academy) and finish on 21 March at Cyprus Avenue, Cork.
For the past 25 years, the band has had seven albums out and been crushing stages in the US with their blend of alternative metal and smouldering dark hard rock. They’ve prowled stages on their relentless touring with the likes of Nickelback, Cheap Trick, Seether, Black Stone Cherry, Theory Of A Deadman, and In This Moment. They shared the biggest stages with AC/DC, Alice In Chains, Killswitch Engage, Stone Sour, Godsmack, Shinedown, Rob Zombie, Ghost and more. For over two decades, they’ve blown away audiences on speedways, casinos, amphitheatres, theatres, arenas, dive bars, and festival stages.
If you zoom in for a real snapshot of why fans continue to go back and listen to the band time and time again, you find the band’s incredible back story – they have survived tornados levelling their town, throat cancer, crushed ankles and a run through of everything you can within the industry and beyond.
Guitarist Josh Hamler said of the tour, “Being a rock band for 25+ years is almost unthinkable. But here we are. A lot of what keeps the fire burning are those bucket list moments that happen along the way. This opportunity to tour the UK and Ireland alongside our talented friends in Blacktop Mojo is one of those moments. It’s about time we teamed up to make this dream a reality.”
Singer Nathan Hunt added,” For more than a decade now, a bucket list item for the band has been to get to the UK and Ireland for a run of shows. Typically, you wait to go over with a band that’s already drawing crowds, and we’ve come close a few times, but they always seemed to fall through in the final hour. It got us wondering if we could potentially do this thing ourselves and who would be a great partner to run with. Over a 3 hour conversation with some of the guys in Blacktop Mojo and a few glasses of liquid courage, we realized both bands were bobbing in the same dingy, so why not try to bring this package over. With great risk and all that. I’ve not been this excited to play our brand of rock n roll in a long time.”
The bands’ last three albums via Mascot Records have seen them hit a creative streak with Smokin’ Hearts & Broken Guns (2014), the Billboard Top 20 Rock album Red Hands, Black Deeds (2017) and the Billboard #11 Hard Rock Album charting Rebelator (2022). Hit songs have led the way; ‘In Chains’ has clocked up 8.3 million views and, at the time of release, spent over four months in the iTunes Top 10 Metal Songs Chart, ‘Dragonfly’ has over 8m views and 5m for ‘Dangerous’.
UK fans may have been waiting a long time for Shaman’s Harvest to come over, but you might like to consider the decade of struggles, heartbreak, pent-up hope and anticipation that the quartet of singer Nathan Hunt, guitarists Josh Hamler and Derrick Shipp and drummer Adam Zemanek are going to unleash on those first few days of the tour… For fans it’s likely to be monumental.
You can check out Rebelator by Shaman’s Harvest here and 2025 UK and Irish tickets are available here.
