In this week’s Gig Guide, we bring you nine recently announced tours for the UK and Ireland!
Held.
Credit: Michael Dubin
Held. will be on their first UK headline tour later this year!
Dates:
November 2026
21 – Liverpool, Loud & Clear Festival
22 – Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy
24 – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
25 – Birmingham, O2 Institute 3
26 – London, Barfly
The Temperance Movement
Credit: Rob Blackham/Blackham Images
The Temperance Movement will be touring the UK towards the end of the year!
Dates:
November 2026
15 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
16 – Southampton, 1865
17 – Manchester, O2 Ritz
19 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
21 – Dundee, LiveHouse
23 – Newcastle, Newcastle University Students’ Union
25 – Nottingham, Rock City
26 – Leeds, Stylus
29 – Bristol, Electric Bristol
30 – Norwich, The Waterfront Studio
December 2026
1 – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
I Promised The World
I Promised The World will be touring the UK later this year – their first shows outside of the USA!
Hunter Wilson said: “To play our first ever show outside of the states, and have the reaction we did at Outbreak is something we could never have expected. It truly blew us away. We can’t wait to get back and play all those cities and make ourselves some new friends along the way”
Dates:
October 2026
20 – Brighton, Daltons
21 – London, New Cross Inn
22 – Birmingham, The Flapper
23 – Leeds, Boom
24 – Manchester, The White Hotel
25 – Glasgow, Classic Grand
27 – Newcastle, The Grove
28 – Bristol, Exchange
Kamelot
Credit: Timo Maczollek / Nat Enemede
Kamelot have announced two UK shows later this year.
Support comes from Exit Eden and Temperance.
Dates:
November 2026
01 – London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
03 – Manchester, O2
Really Good Time
Credit: Sibeal Hanrahan
Really Good Time will be on tour in the UK later this year.
The run of dates follow the release of album Affirmations (August 7).
Dates:
October 2026
15– Leeds, Oporto
18 – Glasgow, McChuill’s
19 – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
20 – Sheffield, Hallamshire Hotel
22 – London, Lexington
23 – Southampton, Heartbreakers
Avatar
Avatar will be performing a special show in the UK in 2027!
The band will be heading to the Royal Albert Hall for a one-off performance to mark the 10th anniversary of landmark concept album Feathers & Flesh!
“Feathers & Flesh changed the entire trajectory of how we work,” explains vocalist Johannes Eckerström.
“Once you’ve started to think of the big picture in your work, you can’t put that genie back in the bottle. We’ve done all kinds of albums since then, and we will continue to do whatever the muses tell us to do. The thing they have in common, whether they’re comedy concept albums or satanic sock hops, is that we view them as paintings. They are cohesive pieces of work with a point.”
John Allfreddson, the band’s drummer and founding member said: “I end up in a rollercoaster ride, emotions run through every bone of my body.
“Half my mind ends up in another time and life in Dresden with this crazy lady laughing, painting owls, playing with microphones and water, hysterically and joyfully clapping her hands. The other half is in this dreamlike forest that only exists in my own mind… I ask myself, did we really create this?”
Date:
March 2027
30 – London, Royal Albert Hall
Joan As Policewoman
Joan As Policewoman will tour the UK later this year!
Dates:
November 2026
5 – London, Union Chapel
6 – London, Union Chapel
7 – Manchester, RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music)
9 – Glasgow, Oran Mor
NOAHFINNCE
Credit: Corinne Cumming
NOAHFINNCE will be on tour in the UK for the first time in a year and a half.
Noah said: “This has been the longest I’ve ever gone without playing a show and I can’t wait to get back into it with some fresh new songs!”
Dates:
October 2026
22 – Cardiff, Y Plas
23 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
24 – Leeds, Stylus
26 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
27 – London, Electric Ballroom
29 – Glasgow, Saint Lukes
30 – Newcastle, Newcastle University
31 – Manchester, Academy 2
Converge
Credit: Nick Fancher
Converge will be in the UK later this year on tour!
Support will come from Sanguisugabogg, Blackbraid, and Pupil Slicer!
Dates:
November 2026
18 – Leeds, Project House
19 – Bristol, Electric Bristol
20 – Glasgow, SWG3
21 – Nottingham, Rock City
22 – London, Electric Brixton
