Nickelback have announced plans for a UK tour in 2015, Digital Spy said.

The Canadian band will play eight shows across the nation in November, kicking off at Sheffield's Motorpoint Arena on Friday 13.

Tickets will go on sale on Friday (December 5) at 9am.

The tour announcement arrives after a Kickstarter campaign aimed to raise enough money to ban Nickelback from performing in the UK.

Earlier this year, frontman Chad Kroeger laughed off the anti-Nickelback mood, saying: "I love it. More controversy that surrounds either myself, my personal life, the band, whatever - I think it's hilarious."

He added: "All these critics, they're just tireless. They keep ragging on the band.

"If they had stopped writing all this stuff about us, there would be no controversy left in the band and we probably would have died out years ago. They don't know that they're still responsible for us being around today."