🇲🇽🇺🇸 'Holy Smoke (2025)' Tour // United States & Mexico
Tickets go on sale Thursday 6 March, 10am local time.
For the first time since the release of All Hell, we’re headed back to North America, for ‘Holy Smoke (2025)’: 5 big US shows, and our first gig in the great nation of Mexico since 2009!
23 May - Foro Puebla, Mexico City (TIX)
25 May - Empire Garage, Austin TX (TIX)
27 May - The Belasco, Los Angeles CA (TIX)
29 May - Metro, Chicago IL (TIX)
30 May - The King of Clubs, Columbus OH (TIX)
31 May - The Brooklyn Monarch, Brooklyn NY (TIX)
Tickets go on sale 10am local time on Thursday 6th March.
(Except CDMX which is on sale now!)
A whistle-stop tour, covering as much ground (8,500 miles!) as we possibly can in little more than a week. As always, you know we’d love to hit up 100 other cities, but we’ve done the best we can with child-care, vacation allocation and, y’know, the general expense involved with flying to the other side of the world to play rock concerts! We’re really excited about where we’ve landed.
No other shows will be added to this tour, and these will be our only North America shows of 2025. Looks like you get to have a nice weekend away in Texas/New York, huh?
The finer details…
5% of tickets are available at a reduced price, for purchase by unemployed/low income fans. If you are unable to attend a concert without the discount, these tickets are intended for you. These tickets are just $10, and can be purchased in the same way as a regularly priced ticket, no questions asked. Regularly priced tickets are around the $30 mark.
All venues are accessible. Full information on accessibility can be found at each venue’s website. If you require reserved seating, please contact the venue immediately after purchasing your ticket.
All of these shows are ALL AGES.
Los Campesinos! concerts are a safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, race, sexuality or religion. All-gender restrooms will be in operation.
Special guests To Be Announced
If you’ve any Qs about the shows, or our shows in general, please feel free to ask in the comments.
We’ll drop another email on Thursday, to remind you that tickets have gone on sale!
I also wanna draw close attention to the fact we’re back in Mexico for the first time since 2009! Tickets for our show in CDMX are on sale NOW.
This feels like a long-time coming, but we’re overjoyed to finally make it back to Mexico, after all these years. In our very early days as a band, it felt like we had a huge following in Mexico. This was doubtless due to Spanish speaking music fans interest being piqued when seeing our name while consuming English language music journalism, but I distinctly remember a lot of interactions with Mexican fans via Myspace circa 2007. What I don’t remember, unfortunately, is basically anything at all from our March 2009 shows in Mexico! We were so busy back then that I guess I kind of took things for granted, and a lot of it washed over me. We played CDMX and Guadalajara as part of the ‘Indie-O Festival’, mid-way through the recording of Romance Is Boring. I have some recollection of the van journeys, between airports and gigs, and writing the “minor realisation” lyric from Straight In At 101, upon seeing some particularly striking scene of natural beauty, but that’s about it. If you have any photos, or memorabilia from these shows, please do share it with us!
And what I’m building up to saying is, if at any point you’ve uttered the words “Come to Mexico!” to us in the past 16 years…you’ve got to be there to hold up your end of the bargain! We’ll lose several thousand US dollars playing this show, the fee we’re being paid won’t even cover the flights, but that won’t matter to us one bit if we’re playing to a room full of excited people. We’ve got lost time to make up for. We’ll see you there?
New Shirt Designs Online
These sick new All Hell-centric designs were available at our recent Troxy double-header, and you can now get them online, on both our UK and US stores.
We’ve recently changed our online store provider, so if you’re having trouble viewing the store, you may need to clear cache or something like that.
We’re playing Green Man Festival!
Another addition to our Summer schedule is the incredible Green Man Festival! One of the UK’s finest, in the beautiful Brecon Beacons, little more than an hour away from our spiritual home of Cardiff. This is our only UK festival of the Summer, but it was also the one we most wanted to play. Feeling very chuffed (and surprised) to have such a large font size, but fully ready to live up to that and steal the show. The festival’s long sold out, but I understand there are tickets available on reliable resale sites in case you want to get in on the action. If you’re gonna be there, let us know, and we can’t wait to see you at the front.
Here’s a throwback to our only other appearance at the festival, back in 2008. Me, barefoot, jeans rolled to my knees, amongst the assembled audience (which, tbh, is probably a lot smaller than a buzz band like ours would have expected to play to lol). This caused me to look back at our itinerary from that Summer, and this show took place on a Sunday where we’d played festivals in Belgium and Holland on the previous two days. That’s a lot of miles travelled, I don’t think we’d have it in us these days. My other abiding memory of that weekend is our bus getting stuck in the mud when trying to leave the festival site. It’s gonna be scorching sun this year though, I can just tell.
Thank You Troxy Goers!
A big, belated thank you to all of you who attended our Valentines 2 Night Stand a couple of weeks ago. What a joy it is to share these occasions with you all. Thank you for bringing so much love and energy to Troxy two nights in a row, across nearly 4 hours of Los Camp! performance. Whether it’s your first or fifteenth Los Camp! show, I think both were nights to remember. We certainly will.
Further thanks to our amazing squad, pictured above. Bernie, Blossom, Holly, Ewan, Emma, Viva, Foley, Sonny, Achey, Ratters, Lily and Franki. All performing vital roles either onstage or off, and doing so while being fantastic, talented friends. We appreciate you!
If you weren’t at the gigs, maybe make yourself further jealous by peeping the setlists below, and check out loads of Sonny’s amazing photography, over at our Instagram. And you can submit your own possibly rubbish and shaky photography to our gig archive over at our website.
A few of you weekend ticket holders didn’t collect your 2 Night Stand enamel badge at the shows. If that’s you, please forward your proof of tickets to band@loscampesinos.com, along with your postal address, and I’ll send yours out to you FOC. Do it before Friday, cos after that I’m putting the leftover pins for sale online.
Okay, that’s enough from me for now! As mentioned, I’ll write again on Thursday as a reminder that tickets have gone on sale, and I’ve got to keep some stuff back for you guys for whom the shows aren’t relevant!
If there’s anything you’d like included in Thursday’s mailer, or any questions you want asked, go at it in the comments and I’ll see what we can do!
With love,
LC! x
HEY, SO, FIRST OF ALL, THANKS FOR THE MEXICO CITY GIG. As someone who was finally able to travel last year to see their favorite band EVER, I can't help but feel very fortunate as I never, in a million years, thought I was going to be able to see y'all not once but TWICE, two years in a row and IN MY HOME COUNTRY. Not in my wildest dreams. Thank you again, really (I am crying while typing this), I still can't believe it. LC!4LYF.
Any plans to be able to do more Canadian shows the coming years? I’ve been doing my part to introduce people to hopefully get a good turn out up here. Won’t be able to make this tour, but hope you give ‘em hell.