My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Behind Blue Eyes, Substitute… Pete Townshend’s work for The Who stands high in the pantheon of rock greats. His solo albums started well with 1972’s Who Came First, and peaked with 1980’s Empty Glass but kept coming. Buoyed by the success of his rock operas Quadrophenia and Tommy, Pete decided to push boundaries on this 1993 concept album. His biggest fans call it challenging; his detractors call pretentious drivel. The semi-biographical record centres on a washed-up 60s rock star, Ray High, who can no longer write songs and whose manager teams up with a tabloid music reporter to revive his career via a sex scandal apparently involving 14-year-old superfan Rosalyn.

The result is an unlistenable mess, with dialogue and narration inserted between songs along with snippets of Who classics like Who Are You. New numbers like Now And Then and English Boy are sadly submerged under synthesisers. Track two, Meher Baba M3, is one of three instrumental remixes of Baba O’ Riley featured. English Boy is arguably the best song, although you might reasonably ask why Ray/Pete sings it with an American accent.

In the narrative High’s manager beds the tabloid journalist and works with her to create a scandal. Underage Rosalyn sends Ray pictures of herself posing on her mother’s grave baring her “witch’s teats”. Except Rosalyn doesn’t exist, the pictures are of the journalist who just happened to have dodgy pictures of her 14-year-old self. The manufactured scandal has the unlikely effect of boosting High’s record sales. In Don’t Try To Make Me Real, he sings, ‘Make me of pornography in a paedophile wheel’ – this bad taste nonsense happened just a decade before Townshend’s real-life January 2003 arrest on suspicion of using child pornography – he was cleared four months later). At the death the journalist becomes a rock star herself after releasing the song Flame, a collaboration with High, who had known about the scam all along.

The album tanked, failing to even make the US Top 100 – Empty Glass had gone Top 5. Realising the extent of this artistic folly, Townshend re-released it without the constant interruptions and performed stripped down acoustic versions onstage. He later resurrected its characters on The Who’s 2006 album, Endless Wire. Psychoderelict would be his last solo album but it begat a live tour with actors that made more sense and was received better than the record. Later Townshend blamed rock pseuds in the music press who always wanted to talk about the artistic drive behind pop music, “and before you know it you get seduced; for me that was always a great danger, which is why I frequently disappeared up my own arse.”

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Papa Roach have been taking hold of the alternative music scene for decades, and they’re only getting bigger. The American stars have just confirmed a brand new arena tour will be taking place later this year, with some of their biggest shows to date. The shows will kick off on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and run through to the 9th. During this time, the Last Resort singers will be hitting such venues as Manchester’s Co-op Live, Cardiff’s Utilita Arena, Glasgow’s OVO Hydro and London’s O2 Arena.

And the band are already excited. They said: “To say that we were humbled by the response to the first leg of the ‘Rise Of The Roach’ UK tour would be an understatement. All of us are excited to return to the UK and Ireland to play more cities with a few surprises in store for fans.” Tickets for the Rise of the Roach tour will be released on Friday, February 13, 2026. And while there are plenty of options from official websites, there are also options at VIP websites, as well as resale markets. Below, we’ve broken down everything fans need to know.

Papa Roach tickets are available now after being released on Friday, February 13, 2026. These can be purchased from a number of online retailers. Crucially, official retailers Ticketmaster and Live Nation have a plethora of tickets available.

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There are also VIP tickets available. Online retailer Seat Unique gives fans the chance to buy tickets with added bonuses, including access to a Hideaway, as well as food and drinks packages, lounge access and more.

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Finally, resale markets already have tickets available for the upcoming tour.

Second-hand retailers such as viagogo and StubHub give fans the chance to buy their ideal tickets, even if they are sold out by official sellers. And, at the time of writing, some tickets are being sold at around face value, approximately £80 each.

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Emo icons Alexisonfire and Billy Talent have teamed up for an exciting – yet limited – double-headline tour. The Ontario natives are teaming up with the Canadian superstars to play two shows around the world. The first is in London’s OVO Wembley Arena, taking place this June. Next, in July, they’ll be hitting Montreal for a performance at the Bell Centre. Here, the two bands will be celebrating 20 years of their seminal and legendary albums. Alexisonfire will be bringing Crisis to stages once again, while Billy Talent II is also on the docket.

Tickets for this not-to-be-missed night of entertainment are going to be released this week. And considering there are only two shows in the world like this, fans will need to act fast if they want to buy tickets. Below, we’ve broken down what they need to know.

Alexisonfire and Billy Talent tickets will be released on general onsale from Friday, February 13, 2026, at 10am.

These tickets will be fans’ one and only chance to get involved.

Thankfully, there are some options. There will be some tickets available from the official OVO Arena website. But Ticketmaster is where the largest allocation will be.

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TICKETMASTER – Buy Alexisonfire and Billy Talent tickets here.

These monumental nights of entertainment are hugely anticipated for not only the fans but the bands, as well.

Alexisonfire frontman George Pettit said: “It feels like you blink and all of a sudden your album is almost old enough to drink in the United States.

“So many incredible memories of making this record [Crisis]. It felt like we were really coming into our own as a band. We discovered another level of potential that we didn’t have at the start. I’m happy we get to relive it this summer with all of you.”