“Here we go again!” The Who's Roger Daltrey announces Alive And Kicking...And Having Fun solo tour, featuring nightly audience Q&A sessions

Roger Daltrey
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The Who's Roger Daltrey is to embark upon a special UK solo tour next year, performing Who classics and solo hits, in addition to hosting a nightly Q&A session for fans.

The 80-year-old singer's Alive And Kicking...And Having Fun tour will call at London, Brighton, Southend-on-Sea, Wolverhampton, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Gateshead and Manchester in April/May.

“Here we go again!” says Daltrey. “After touring the US with this band of phenomenal musicians, I can’t wait to get back on the road in the UK with these shows. It’s a joy to be on stage performing - up close and personal for the audience, chatting with them and playing familiar songs in an unfamiliar way.”

The Alive And Kicking...And Having Fun tour visits:

Apr 20: Brighton Dome
Apr 21: London Palladium
Apr 23: Southend-on-Sea Cliffs Pavilion
Apr 24: University of Wolverhampton The Halls
Apr 26: Dundee Caird Hall
Apr 28: Glasgow SEC Armadillo
Apr 30: Edinburgh Usher Hall
May 01: Gateshead Glasshouse Sage 1
May 04: Manchester Bridgewater Hall

Tickets go on sale Friday November 15, at 10am, here.

In August, Daltrey's Who bandmate Pete Townshend admitted that he doesn't know if the legendary British band has a future.

“I don’t know what’s gonna happen with The Who,” he told The Daily Beast. “I’m hoping Roger and I can find some common ground and find some way to work again, possibly without an orchestra, because I think we’ve done that.

“I’m encouraged by seeing what Roger’s doing in his solo tour,” he added. “It seems to me that if we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great. But Roger and I don’t converse. We don’t talk. So, it might be difficult to land on something that we both share an interest in. But it’s there for the taking, I think.”


Paul Brannigan
Contributing Editor, Louder

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.