Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’ tour will be the UK’s best major live music show in 2026 – here’s why

2025 was the year of Lily Allen’s monumental return. It had been seven years since the British icon had released any music, but then in October she dropped West End Girl – one of the year’s defining albums. That’s why we at Time Out have crowned the upcoming ‘Lily Allen Performs West End Girl tour’ the music event that we’re most looking forward to in 2026. 

The pop star will begin her tour in March with a sold-out run of intimate shows at theatres and concert halls across the UK, where she’ll perform the album in its entirety. She’ll start at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall and stop off at the likes of Manchester’s Aviva Studios, Newcastle’s City Hall and Cardiff’s New Theatre. Then, she’ll round things off with three nights at the grand London Palladium. 

But the tour doesn’t stop there. There was phenomenal demand for those tickets, so Lily treated us to even more dates. She’ll will head to North America in April and headline London’s Mighty Hoopla festival in May, before returning to the UK in June to play eight much larger arena shows. Astonishingly, it’ll mark the first time that she plays London’s O2 Arena as a headlining act. 

West End Girl was one of Time Out’s top albums of last year. Contributing writer Alex Sims called it a ‘musical triumph’ that ‘reveals the brutal unraveling of her relationship and the messy, excruciating reality of a toxic open marriage gone wrong’. So, we can’t wait to hear it front to back IRL.  

We got a taste of what the album will sound like in person when she performed ‘Pussy Palace’ (also one of Time Out’s favourite songs of the year), ‘Tennis’ and ‘Just Enough’ for the very first time at a Chanel party on January 9. While the first set of gigs are completely sold out, tickets are still available for Lily’s arena shows in June. You can find them over on Ticketmaster. 

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