The Beach Boys announce huge outdoor concert as their only UK show for 2025

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The Beach Boys have announced an outdoor UK show for 2025 – and it’s set to be their only in the country. Check out all the information below.The UK-exclusive gig will take place at Englefield House in Berkshire on Sunday July 20, and comes as part of the band’s ‘The Sounds of the Summer’ tour.David Essex is on board to perform as a special guest, as well as Lulu, who earlier this year announced her retirement from touring after 60 years in music.Ticket presale will begin next Wednesday (December 4) at 9am, and you’ll be able to register here.

After that, general sale will commence on Friday December 6 at 9am, here.It marks the first concert to be announced of a wider weekend of shows at the venue.

Giles Cooper of Heritage Live Festivals said: “It’s been a huge ambition of ours to host a show for the legendary Beach Boys for some time now, and we’re delighted to not only make it happen; but also to have their only UK show for next year!“This is going to be really special – the perfect summer band for the perfect summer concert and a show that will be etched in our memories for many years to come!”Check out the show’s poster below.The current iteration of The Beach Boys will not feature founding member Brian Wilson, who retired from touring in 2022.

Wilson was recently placed under a court conservatorship due to a “major neurocognitive disorder”.Recently, Frank Marshall’s The Beach Boys documentary was released, pipped as a “celebration of the legendary band that revolutionised pop music”.In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “That the film cuts the story short before Dennis’ death by drowning in 1983, though, gives this classically traumatic rollercoaster tale a certain lightness.