Cigarettes After Sex Announce Three-City India Tour in 2025

American dream-pop band, who released their new album ‘X’s’ this month, will perform in Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru between Jan. 24 and Jan. 28

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Anurag Tagat

July 17, 2024

On the back of Cigarettes After Sex releasing their new album X’s in July, the American band will return to India for a fourth time for their debut three-city tour.

Cigarettes After Sex perform in Gurugram on Jan. 24, in Mumbai on Jan. 25 and in Bengaluru on Jan. 28 as part of their X’s World Tour which kicks off in August in Canada and goes through Europe in October before reaching Asia in January 2025. The tour is produced by marketing company Laqshya Media Group and curated by live entertainment wing BookMyShow Live, a division of entertainment and ticketing company BookMyShow.

While tickets are expected to go on sale from July 19 onwards on BookMyShow, venues and the full lineup for each show on the X’s World Tour – India will be announced at a later date.

India has always been a part of Cigarettes After Sex’s history so far, right from when they made their debut at Bacardi NH7 Weekender festival in Pune in 2017 and indoor shows in Mumbai in 2019. Most recently, they were back to perform at the inaugural edition of Lollapalooza India in Mumbai in 2023.

The band’s frontman Greg Gonzalez recently told Rolling Stone India about their Lollapalooza India show, “It was just so beautiful, looking out over that crowd. I think it was sunset when we were playing and everything.”

While they’ve had festival sets and two shows, Gonzalez says they’ve “been trying to do a tour forever, since 2017.” He adds, “We’re finally going to be able to go to some cities. We’ve only been to Mumbai, and now we can actually go to a few more cities. We’re going to New Delhi, which will be awesome because we’ve never been, and then Bangalore, which is great too. It was always like, ‘Let’s do a tour of not just Mumbai, let’s go to India and do more cities.’ So finally. […] That’s really, really exciting.”

Among the things that Gonzalez says stood out for him when touring countries like India was how he’d often be spotted by fans in public. “I don’t really get recognized that much in the States or anything. Once in a blue moon, it’ll happen, but over there, it felt like there was a chance to have a mob around us or something,” he says with a laugh.