British hip-hop icon Dizzee Rascal has announced he will be heading to Australia in 2025.
The Bonkers hitmaker, 40, who was last in the country in 2022, will take his We Want Bass tour to five Australian cities.
The tour will kick off at The Forum in Melbourne on February 1 before moving to Sydney’s Enmore Theater on February 4.
The rapper will then take his show to Adelaide’s Hindley Street Music Hall before concluding at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on February 7.
Before the February race begins, Perth fans will have the chance to see the Wiv Me dance hitmaker at a New Year’s Eve party at the Palace Motel.
Dizzee took to social media to announce the tour, writing: “You guys have been asking for a while… Australia, New Zealand and Bali, I’m finally coming back.”
The announcement was met with joy from the rapper’s Australian fans with one saying: “I used to pray for times like these.”
Summing up the sentiment of many, another said: ‘Oooooh yes please! Sydney here we come.
British hip-hop icon Dizzee Rascal has announced he will be heading to Australia in 2025.
Dizzee, whose real name is Dylan Mills, is currently in the middle of a UK tour to celebrate 15 years since the release of his groundbreaking album Tongue n’ Cheek.
The rapper burst onto the UK hip-hop scene with his Mercury Prize-winning debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003.
Dizzee, who started out as a DJ at the tender age of 14, parlayed that early success into a career spanning 25 years and led many to consider him a pioneer of UK hip-hop and grime music.
Dizzee has released eight albums, and his 2009 album Tongue n’ Cheek peaked at number three on the UK album charts.
Dizzee took to social media to announce the tour, writing: “You guys have been asking for a while… Australia, New Zealand and Bali, I’m finally coming back.”
He has also scored four UK number one singles – Dance Wiv Me, Bonkers, Holiday and Dirtee Disco – and has collaborated with artists including Robbie Williams, Calvin Harris and Ty Dolla Sign.
However, his long career has not been free of controversy, as the rapper was convicted of assaulting his ex-partner Cassandra Jones in 2022.
In January 2023 an appeal against his conviction was dismissed and he received a community order including a 24-week curfew and a retraining order preventing him from contacting Cassandra for 12 months.
The rapper lost an appeal against the conviction in 2023.
Dizzee, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills, is currently in the middle of a UK tour to celebrate 15 years since the release of his groundbreaking album Tongue n’ Cheek.
In a statement issued after Dizzee lost her appeal, Cassandra, who shares two children with the star, said the appeal had been “hugely upsetting” for her, adding that the experience has helped her understand why “so many women abandon criminal justice”. system’.
“This verdict today demonstrates once again that wealth and status cannot be used to silence women,” she said in the statement.
‘Domestic abuse is a crime that affects one in four women throughout their lives.
“I would like to thank my family and friends and the specialist organizations that have supported me throughout and also tell other women experiencing abuse that regardless of money or influence, support is available and that they are not alone.”
Live Nation pre-sales for the tour begin at 10am on Thursday, October 31 and general tickets will go on sale at 11am on Friday, November 1.