{"id":2364702,"date":"2026-04-08T21:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2364702"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:20:47","slug":"rick-astley-returns-with-new-music-ahead-of-reflection-tour-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rick-astley-returns-with-new-music-ahead-of-reflection-tour-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Astley returns with new music ahead of &#8216;Reflection&#8217; tour launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Before kicking off his \u2018Reflection\u2019 tour of the UK and Ireland on Friday (April 10), <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/retropopmagazine.com\/artist\/rick-astley\">Rick Astley<\/a> will release his new single \u2018Raindrops\u2019. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Set to premiere on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Gary Davies, the release comes hours ahead of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/retropopmagazine.com\/rick-astley-shares-details-of-2026-reflection-arena-tour\/\">the \u2018Together Forever\u2019 hitmaker\u2019s return to the stage at Glasgow\u2019s OVO Hydro that evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW3xeSRjMhv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/><p> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s ready for new music,\u201d he wrote on social media. My new song \u2018Raindrops\u2019 is out this Friday, April 10th!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t wait for you to hear this one!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tour will see Astley \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/retropopmagazine.com\/rick-astley-celebrates-milestone-birthday-with-new-single-waiting-on-you\/\">who marked his 60th birthday in February with previous single \u2018Waiting On You\u2019<\/a> \u2013  play in Newcastle, Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bournemouth and Cardiff throughout the month, before wrapping with gigs in Nottingham, Birmingham and, finally, London, on April 25.<\/p>\n<p>All shows will feature\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/retropopmagazine.com\/artist\/rick-astley\">Gabrielle<\/a>\u00a0as a special guest.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Remaining tickets are on sale now and are\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fave.co\/4lgTlPU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available here<\/a>. The full list of dates is below.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>APRIL<br \/><\/strong>10 \u2013 OVO Hydro, Glasgow<br \/>11 \u2013 Utilita Arena, Newcastle<br \/>13 \u2013 SSE, Belfast<br \/>14 \u2013 3Arena, Dublin<br \/>16 \u2013 M&amp;S Bank Arena, Liverpool<br \/>17 \u2013 Co-op Live, Manchester<br \/>18 \u2013 First Direct Bank Arena, Leeds<br \/>20 \u2013 International Centre, Bournemouth<br \/>21 \u2013 Utilita Arena, Cardiff<br \/>22 \u2013 Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham<br \/>24 \u2013 BP Pulse LIVE, Birmingham<br \/>25 \u2013 The O2, London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v14.0&#038;appId=155857782406931&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" nonce=\"OgXCyBEA\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source retropopmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before kicking off his \u2018Reflection\u2019 tour of the UK and Ireland on Friday (April 10), Rick Astley will release his new single \u2018Raindrops\u2019. Set to premiere on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Gary Davies, the release comes hours ahead of the \u2018Together Forever\u2019 hitmaker\u2019s return to the stage at Glasgow\u2019s OVO Hydro that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2364703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[364731,21940,313919],"class_list":["post-2364702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-1980s","tag-pop","tag-rick-astley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rick-Astley-returns-with-new-music-ahead-of-Reflection-tour.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364704,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364702\/revisions\/2364704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}