Jet have announced their first UK and Ireland shows for 15 years (Picture: Getty)
Australian rock band Jet have announced their first UK and Ireland tour in 15 years ahead of the release of their first album for over a decade.
The four-piece, who formed in Melbourne in 2001, haven’t touched down for a tour in the UK since 2009, having primarily played shows in their home country and New Zealand ever since.
But the band have arranged a run of UK and Irish dates in October this year, which will see them play in some of the two countries’ most popular venues.
And they’ll be joining a number of 90s and 00s nostalgia acts touring in the UK again after several years away.
The tour will open on October 3 with a show at the Academy in Dublin before journeying northwards to the Telegraph venue in Belfast on October 4.
They’ll then cross the Irish sea to play SWG3 Galvanizers Yard in Glasgow on October 6, before beginning a run of five shows in England.
Lead singer Nicholas Custer got the band back together in 2023 (Picture: Redferns)
Birmingham is the first stop on October 7, playing at the O2 Institute. A Manchester date at the O2 Ritz is then scheduled for October 8.
A two-day break will then give the band time to get to Nottingham, where they’ll play the city’s iconic Rock City venue on October 10.
Bristol’s Marble Factory will host them on October 11, before a final show in London on October 12 at the Kentish Town Forum will bring the tour to a close.
Jet hit the big time in 2003 when their single Are You Gonna Be My Girl became an international hit, charting in the UK and the US, even going Platinum and Gold in those countries respectively.
Jet hit the big time back in 2003 (Picture: Getty)
After their initial breakout their moderate success continued well into the late 2000s, with their second album Shine On being certified Gold in the UK in 2006 and their third album Shaka Rock going Platinum in Australia.
However, band do have the dubious honour of being one of only a very small handful of acts to be given a 0.0 out of 10 album review score by notable music publication Pitchfork.
Shine On was greeted harshly by the magazine that, instead of publishing a standard review, attached a YouTube video of a monkey urinating into its own mouth.
Jet initially went on hiatus in 2012 but have reformed twice since (Picture: Redferns)
Despite the negativity aimed at them by critics, the band continued to have moderate success until the late 2000s, especially in their home country where their songs were charting regularly until their hiatus in 2012.
Nicholas Custer, the band’s lead singer, then spent several years living in Italy, with the band reuniting sporadically to play shows either side of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Despite initially breaking up before Spotify became the dominant force for music listening, Jet still have nearly six million monthly listeners on the platform.
Are You Gonna Be My Girl currently boasts over 600,000,000 streams, while other songs such as Look What You’ve Done have posted almost 100,000,000 in that time.
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