Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, make their opening gambit for 2025 with the release of ‘Do Things My Own Way‘. A teaser for their 28th studio album, MAD! – due this year on new label home, Transgressive Records – the single also functions as something of a manifesto for the Maels – Sparks are a band who have always, always done things their own way.

Whilst further details about the album remain under wraps (watch this space!), fans can look forward to the MAD! Tour. Having wowed audiences and critics alike on their 2023 tour – including sold out shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall (two) and Sydney Opera House, a hometown triumph at Hollywood Bowl, and a headlines-stealing set at Glastonbury Festival – Sparks will be returning to the live stage this June kicking off with the Japanese, UK and European legs of their world tour.

The Times ★★★★★ “a magnificent night”
Mojo “a unique and glorious spectacle”
The Guardian ★★★★ “Proper musical thrills”

SPARKS MAD! TOUR DATES:

08/06/2025, Japan, Kyoto, ROHM Theatre
10/06/2025, Japan, Osaka, Zepp Namba
12/06/2025, Japan, Tokyo, EX Theater
13/06/2025, Japan, Tokyo, EX Theater
18/06/2025, UK, London, Eventim Apollo
19/06/2025, UK, London, Eventim Apollo
21/06/2025, UK, Manchester, O2 Apollo
22/06/2025, UK, Manchester, O2 Apollo
24/06/2025, UK, Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
26/06/2025, Netherlands, Haarlem, PHIL Haarlem
28/06/2025, Belgium, Brussels, Cirque Royal
30/06/2025, France, Paris, La Salle Pleyel
01/07/2025, Germany, Cologne, Gloria-Theater
03/07/2025, Denmark, Copenhagen, The Koncerthuset
04/07/2025, Sweden, Stockholm, Grona Lund Tivoli
06/07/2025, Germany, Berlin, Uber Eats
08/07/2025, Italy, Milan, Teatro degli Arcimboldi

Get tickets here.

Most acts, by the time they’ve been making music together across seven different decades, would have slowed to a crawl, creakily playing the oldies on the heritage circuit and releasing nothing more modern than the occasional Greatest Hits collection.

Sparks aren’t most acts. And, if anything, their rate of productivity has sped up in recent years: since the millennium the duo have released eight new studio albums, a radio opera (The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman), a side-project (Franz Ferdinand collaboration, ‘FFS’), a live album, a film musical (2021’s Annette, which won a ‘Best Director award for Leos Carax and the Best Original Score at the César Awards for the Maels), toured the world numerous times, and been the subject of The Sparks Brothers, an acclaimed documentary by Edgar Wright. Their laurels remain resoundingly unrested-upon.