Into The Music
Jack White is heading to Europe this summer, and the itinerary he just announced is the kind that makes you pull out a map and start doing math on flights. Eighteen dates across twelve countries, starting May 30 in Latvia and running through June with stops in Poland, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Belgium, and Italy, closing at the INMusic Festival in Zagreb on June 22.
The run includes two-night stands at Paris’s L’Olympia and Brussels’s Ancienne Belgique, which tells you something about where his audience is sitting right now. He’s not struggling for ticket buyers. The festival dates include Northside in Aarhus, Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands, and Les Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon, places that lean toward serious music listeners rather than pure spectacle crowds.
Before any of that happens, White is also scheduled as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on April 4, with Jack Black hosting. That pairing is either completely inspired or the universe just rolling the dice, and honestly either way it will be worth watching.
His most recent album, No Name, came out in 2024 and arrived in the characteristically White fashion of releasing it without announcement and letting people figure it out. That approach worked well enough that he’s now taking it around Europe for a season. Tickets went on general sale this week; presales had already kicked off through his Vault fan club.
The routing through Eastern Europe at the start stands out. Latvia and Poland aren’t typical first stops for a tour of this profile, and it suggests either genuine affection for those markets or a booking situation that worked out unusually well. Either way, Sigulda Castle as a concert venue is not something that comes along often.
What makes White’s live shows worth the trip, to the extent that people are already scrambling for tickets in multiple countries, is that he still treats the guitar like it has something left to prove. There’s no nostalgia economy running those shows. He’s not coasting. Whether that holds eighteen dates into a European summer remains to be seen, but the demand clearly says people are willing to find out.
There’s something almost unbearably romantic about Jack White taking his guitar across twelve countries , the image of him landing in city after city with that singular sound, like he’s carrying some kind of electric flame that refuses to go out. I hope he plays somewhere small and strange and the ceiling is low and the walls shake. That’s when he’s at his best.
Jack White doing eighteen dates across Europe , that’s not a tour, that’s a STATEMENT. The man plays guitar like he’s trying to settle an argument with physics. Eighteen cities and every one of them is gonna feel it the next morning. “Seven Nation Army” alone can raise the dead, and I say this as someone who thinks the groove peaked with Sly Stone. He gets it.