The 20 best major music tours and concerts coming to the UK in 2026, from Lily Allen to Bad Bunny

Lily Allen’s West End Girl was one of 2025’s standout records – the concept album was inspired by the breakdown of her marriage to actor David Harbour and marked a return to form from one of the UK’s top songwriters. So, naturally, Brits can’t wait to see it performed in IRL: after an initial run of theatre dates sold out in minutes, Allen followed up with an arena tour and a festival date at London’s Mighty Hoopla.

Dates: March 2-June 30 2026

Locations: Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Cardiff, Birmingham, London, Sheffield, Cambridge and Bristol

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🎤 Everything you need to know about Lily Allen’s 2025 shows.

Puerto Rican pop titan Bad Bunny spent much of 2025 on tour in one place: the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan. The 31-show residency was a monumental success, drawing tourism to Puerto Rico and boosting the island’s economy by a whopping $200 million. And now it’s coming to the UK: the DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour arrives in London for two shows in June.

Dates: June 27-28

Location: London

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🕺 Everything you need to know about Bad Bunny’s 2025 shows.

Fresh from all-conquering festival slots on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and at London’s All Points East in 2025, former Time Out cover star RAYE will play the UK’s biggest arenas in 2026. Does the tantalisingly named This Tour May Contain New Music suggest a sophomore record is on the way? See the singer live to find out.

Dates: February 17-May 20 2026

Locations: Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London

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🎵 Everything you need to know about RAYE’s 2025 shows.

Few contemporary pop stars on the planet can match the cultural heft of The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye). His After Hours til Dawn Tour kicked off in 2022 and played in Manchester and London in 2023 – and it’s still going, coming back to the UK in 2026. Three years and a new album later, Tesfaye has nearly doubled his number of British dates. He’ll play seven (yep, seven) stadium shows in Blighty next summer.

Dates: June 11-August 19

Locations: Manchester and London

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🪩 Everything you need to know about The Weeknd’s 2025 shows.

The M72 World Tour is stopping by Cardiff, Glasgow and London this summer, with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and co supported by the likes of Knocked Loose, Pantera, Gojira and Avatar. It’ll be heavy music heaven – and the London shows are particularly interesting. In the capital Metallica will play a ‘no repeat weekend’, with two different setlists and two different opening acts over two shows.

Dates: June 25-July 5 2026

Locations: Glasgow, Cardiff and London

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🤘 Everything you need to know about Metallica’s 2025 shows.

Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine Tour only features one city outside North America, and it’s here in the UK. At the very least she is playing a whopping 10 nights in that city; the residency will be one of the longest runs at London’s O2 Arena in recent years.

Dates: August 15-September 1 2026

Location: London

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🎤 Everything you need to know about Ariana Grande’s 2025 shows.

Another old Time Out cover star is out on the road this spring, with Olivia Dean marking the release of her second record The Art of Loving. Some of the biggest songs of late like ‘Man I Need’ and ‘Nice To Each Other’ will be belted out by thousands in Glasgow, Manchester and London.

Dates: April 22-June 12 2026

Locations: Glasgow, Manchester and London

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🎶 Everything you need to know about Olivia Dean’s 2025 shows.

Rosalía’s LUX was one of the most critically lauded albums of last year (it came 13th in Time Out’s list) and the LUX Tour will bring that record’s orchestral drama to stages around the world. The Catalan star is only in the UK for two nights, both in London.

Dates: May 5-6 2026

Location: London

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💃 Everything you need to know about Rosalía’s 2025 shows.

Three years after frontman Jon Bon Jovi had his vocal cord surgery (documented in his HBO series Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story), the US rockers are back on tour. The Forever Tour – named after their 2024 album Forever – will see the New Jersey band play four stadium dates across London and Edinburgh in August and September.

Dates: August 28-September 9 2026

Locations: Edinburgh and London

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🎸 Everything you need to know about Bon Jovi’s 2025 shows.

So high was the demand for Dave’s The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour that the London rapper added three more dates to his initial five-show run. Four of those are in the capital, before his headline slots at Reading and Leeds festivals in August.

Dates: March 4-17

Locations: Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Manchester

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🎤 Everything you need to know about Dave’s 2025 shows.

It’s the Euro-Country Tour! No, that’s not just our enthusiasm for CMAT’s run of 2026 dates (though we’re massive fans of the former Time Out cover star), that’s the actual title of her tour. Following the initial shows in March, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson will headline LIDO in London and feature at Glasgow’s TRNSMT.

Dates: March 2-13 2026

Locations: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Brighton, Manchester and London

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One of the greatest hip-hop acts to ever do it is in the process of bowing out. Wu-Tang Clan are doing their rounds and have already taken the Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber tour across the US – next up is Europe, with two dates in London. All surviving members (RZA, GZA, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and Cappadonna) feature on the tour, plus Ol’ Dirty Bastard's son Young Dirty Bastard and Mathematics.

Dates: June 3-4 2026

Locations: London and Manchester

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Last summer Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett performed some very special sets indeed at London’s Copper Box Arena, playing iconic Gorillaz albums Gorillaz, Demon Days and Plastic Beach in full. In 2026 the virtual band are following that up by releasing a new album and going one of their biggest UK tours in years.

Dates: March 20-June 20 2026

Locations: Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Nottingham, Liverpool, Belfast and London

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🎹 Everything you need to know about Gorillaz’s 2025 shows.

Are you on the Zach Bryan hype yet? If not, you’re one of the few – the Oklahoman singer-songwriter is one of modern country music’s brightest stars, having collaborated with Bruce Springsteen, Kacey Musgraves, Kings of Leon and many more. Bryan will follow-up his new album With Heaven On Top with the With Heaven On Tour at UK stadiums in June.

Dates: June 12-24 2026

Locations: Liverpool, Edinburgh, London and Belfast

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🇺🇸 Everything you need to know about Zach Bryan’s 2025 shows.

Everybody Scream is the name of Florence + The Machine’s latest album and upcoming tour – and given the number of hits this band has, we’re sure these shows will have people hollering to the rafters.

Dates: February 6-20 2026

Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, London and Manchester

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Twenty years since they last released an album and nine years after they last played the UK, System of a Down will be back in Britain in 2026. The Armenian-American alt-metal band are at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in July, with support from Queens of the Stone Age and Acid Bath.

Dates: July 13 and 15 2026

Location: London

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💃 Everything you need to know about System of a Down’s 2025 shows.

Legendary Welsh rockers are touring in 2026 for the first time in a decade. Gruff Rhys and co are promising career-spanning sets across nine dates in May and June, culminating in a show with the Beta Band in London in July that is set to be glorious.

Dates: May 8-July 12 2026

Location: Glasgow, Cardiff, Manchester, London, Bristol and Llangollen

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One of the world’s most popular K-pop groups is coming to the UK in June. Expect a blow-out: TWICE’s two tour dates at London’s O2 Arena are the final stops on a vast world tour.

Dates: June 3-4 2026

Location: London

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The UK has changed quite a bit since Take That’s The Circus Live tour in 2009, but the group itself has also changed a fair amount. These days Take That are just a trio of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, with Jason Orange having left in 2014. But that isn’t stopping them from bringing The Circus back to UK stadiums in 2026 – numbers-wise, this is almost certainly Britain’s biggest tour of the year.

Dates: May 29-July 1 2026

Locations: Southampton, Coventry, Sunderland, Glasgow, Cardiff, Manchester and London

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🎪 Everything you need to know about Take That’s 2025 shows.

The Gallagher brothers’s reunion tour was arguably the biggest music story of 2025, yet before the tour was even done there were rumours of more shows in 2026. Summer dates at Newcastle’s St James’ Park, Glasgow’s Hampden Park, Manchester’s Etihad Stadium and the mighty Knebworth House were supposedly leaked. That said, the band also said that ‘there will now be a pause for a period of reflection’. Mysterious, eh?

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