Pearl Jam world tour dates announced - including huge gig in Manchester

Rock titans Pearl Jam have announced the release of a new album which will be followed by a world tour with two UK dates including Manchester. The band announced today that they will release their twelfth studio album, Dark Matter, on April 19 their first release since 2020.

What will follow is a huge world tour across 2024. It is the first time the band has announced a new album and tour simultaneously and first time the group has unveiled all worldwide tour dates at once.

The global tour will head to nine countries and 25 cities. It will kick off at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, before heading across North American including their first hometown performance in six years at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena.

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The tour continues with performances in the UK and Europe, including their first performance at Manchester's new Co-Op Live Stadium on June 25 followed by London’s brand new state-of-the-art Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 29.

The band has also asked fans, rather unusually, to pre-register for the tour ticket sale. This is in a bid to crack down on bots and touts in what they hope will enable "real people" to get hold of the tickets.

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Jeff Amen, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Matt Cameron recorded the new album in 2023 after retreating to studios in Malibu and created Dark Matter in just three weeks. They say it "channels the shared spirit of a group of lifelong creative confidants and brothers in one room playing as if their very lives depended on it".

Vedder said: "We’re at this time in our lives when you could do it or you could not do it, but we still care about putting something out there that is