Nova Twins, Frank Turner, Soft Play and more to perform BRITs Week 25 concerts for War Child
See the line-up so far
Nova Twins, Frank Turner and Soft Play are among the artists playing BRITs Week 25 concerts next month raising money for the War Child charity.
Coinciding with The BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard ceremony on Saturday 1st March 2025, a series of BRITs Week 25, delivered by DHL for War Child concerts will take place in London, Glasgow and Bexhill.
The unique concerts running from Monday 17th February to Tuesday 4th March give fans the chance to witness up-close-and-personal, one-off performances from some of finest live acts on the circuit.
Performers confirmed for the War Child gigs so far include Nova Twins, Frank Turner, Soft Play, Kasabian, Blossoms, Rag ‘N’ Bone Man, Tom Walker, Clean Bandit, Rachel Chinouriri, Joy Crookes and Cat Burns.
How to buy BRITs Week 25 tickets:
Only a limited number of tickets are available for each show. The War Child pre-sale will starts at 10am on Thursday 16th January and general sale tickets follow at 10am on Friday 17th January.
Fans can sign up to the War Child pre-sale HERE and snap up general sale tickets HERE.
Proceeds from ticket sales will raise money for War Child which aims to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children whose lives have been devastatingly affected by war.
Since its inception in 2009, the total amount raised for War Child across BRITs Week is over £7,430,000.
Right now, it’s estimated that 1 in 5 children are currently living in or fleeing from conflict, but with your support War Child can help children put the pieces back together, and by experiencing one of these intimate, one-off BRITs Week 25 performances you will be directly contributing to helping these children rebuild their lives.
BRITs Week 25, delivered by DHL for War Child line-up so far:
FEBRUARY 2025
Cat Burns at MOTH Club, London – 17th
Joy Crookes at Islington Assembly Hall, London – 18th
Rachel Chinouriri at Omeara, London – 20th
Frank Turner at 93 Feet East, London – 21st
Nova Twins at Omeara, London – 24th
Kasabian and Blossoms at London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – 25th
Clean Bandit and friends at The London Palladium – 28th
MARCH 2025
Tom Walker at Glasgow King Tuts – 2nd
Rag‘N’ Bone Man at De La Warr Pavilion – 3rd
Soft Play at London Village Underground – 4th
25 rock stars when they were young:
Mick Jagger
A school photo of a 9-year-old Mick Jagger in 1951 at Wentworth Junior County Primary School in his home town Dartford
Rod Stewart
Roderick David Stewart aged 8 in 1953.
Charlie Watts
Charles Robert Watts – Rolling Stones legend Charlie Watts - aged 2 with his mother Lillian and father Charles in Trafalgar Square in 1943.
Sting
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner – aka Sting – aged 10 at his home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1961.
Ronnie Wood
Ronald David Wood (Ronnie Wood) aged 4 in 1951, taken at his home in Whitehorn Avenue, Yiewsley, West London.
Bob Dylan
A childhood photo of Robert Allen Zimmerman – Bob Dylan – aged 2 in 1943.
Iggy Pop
Punk legend James Newell Osterberg Jr. – Iggy Pop – aged 18 months in 1948.
Paul McCartney
Future Beatles icon James Paul McCartney, nowadays known as Paul, aged 8 in Liverpool in 1950.
Janis Joplin
Late-great rock icon Janis Joplin aged 9 in 1952. She died just 18 years later.
David Bowie
A seven-year-old David Jones, soon to be known as David Bowie, in Bromley, London in 1954.
Neil Young
Feted rocker Neil Young as a young boy, aged 11 in 1956.
Jim Morrison
The Doors' Jim Morrison, aged 15, in his high school yearbook photo in 1958.
Bono
A one-year-old Paul David Hewson – future U2 frontman Bono – at his home in Dublin in 1961.
Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad – aka Billy Idol – aged 10 in 1965.
Bruce Springsteen
16-year-old Bruce Springsteen in his high school yearbook photo in 1965.
Chrissie Hynde
The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde aged 17 in her high school yearbook in 1968.
Larry Mullen Jr
U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr aged 13 in 1974.
Freddie Mercury
An eight-month-old Farrokh Bulsara – future Queen frontman Freddie Mercury – at his home in Zanzibar.
Debbie Harry
Blondie's Debbie Harry aged 17 in her high school yearbook photo in 1962.
Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich, the son of Danish tennis player Torben Ulrich, accompanies his father to Wimbledon in June 1966. Lars was two-and-a-half at the time.
Tina Turner
17-year-old Anna Mae Bullock, rock icon Tina Turner, in her high school yearbook photo in 1956.
Jack Black
Tenacious D rocker and acting legend, Jack Black, aged 16 in 1985.
Tom Petty
17-year-old Tom Petty as seen in his 1967 Gainesville High School yearbook photo. © Alamy
Elvis Presley
The King of Rock and Roll himself, Elvis Presley, aged 5 in 1940.
Jimi Hendrix
A three-year-old Johnny Allen Hendrix with his dad Al in late 1945. When he was four in 1946 – a year after the above photo was taken – Johnny was renamed James 'Jimmy' Marshall Hendrix after his dad and Al's late brother Leon Marshall Hendrix.
John Lydon
The Sex Pistols' John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten – aged 7 in 1964.
Sid Vicious
Simon John Ritchie - aka future Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious - aged 12 in 1969.
Ian Curtis
A five-year-old Ian Curtis in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1961.