Franz Ferdinand announce 2026 UK and European tour
Franz Ferdinand have shared particulars of a brand new tour, set to happen throughout the UK and Europe subsequent 12 months. Discover out extra under.
The information of the brand new tour dates come because the band are set to carry out on the 2025 version of Glastonbury subsequent week, and can be acting at an enormous variety of different festivals later this summer time – together with Valley Of The Arts, Tramlines, Truck, Y Not, Boardmasters and AMA Music Competition.
It additionally is available in celebration of the band dropping their critically acclaimed seventh studio album ‘The Human Concern’ in January.
The brand new run of exhibits will kick off in Dundee on February 24, with a gap night time on the LiveHouse venue, from there, it’ll proceed later that month with additional stops in Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle.
Going into March, extra UK exhibits embody exhibits in Nottingham, Norwich, Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Portsmouth, earlier than that leg of dates wraps up with a present at London’s Brixton Academy on March 11.
Eight gigs throughout Europe are deliberate for afterwards, together with exhibits in Vienna and Munich within the the rest of March, adopted by dates in Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Tilburg, Luxembourg and Frankfurt in April.
Tickets are on sale now and accessible here (UK) and here (worldwide). Take a look at a brand new checklist of exhibits under.
The newly introduced Franz Ferdinand UK and Europe 2026 tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
24 – LiveHouse, Dundee
25 – O2 Academy, Leeds
27 – Academy, Manchester
2 – NX, Newcastle
MARCH
2 – Rock Metropolis, Nottingham
3 – UEA, Norwich
4 – Dome, Brighton
6 – O2 Institute, Birmingham
7 – Beacon, Bristol
8 – Nice Corridor, Cardiff
10 – Guildhall, Portsmouth
11 – Brixton Academy, London
29 – Gasometer, Vienna
31 – Zenith, Muncih
APRIL
1 – Tempodrom, Berlin
3 – Forest Nationwide, Brussels
4 – Palladium, Cologne
8 – 013 Pompodium, Tilburg
10 – Rockhal Field, Luxembourg
11 – Jahrhunderhalle, Frankfurt
Earlier this 12 months, the band’s newest album was given a glowing four-star evaluate from NME with Andrew Trendell writing: “It’s a love letter to the concept of this band. Nonetheless shamelessly livin’ it up, with an eyebrow cocked and excessive kicks galore, ‘The Human Concern’ is – as promised – Franz-y as fuck. You do you, hun; you do it so nicely.”
Earlier than then, frontman Alex Kapranos spoke to NME concerning the newfound wave of consideration and reward the band are getting lately. “In fact issues go out and in of vogue, don’t they? In the intervening time there appears to be a starvation for a very good band that may play; which have a rawness and complexity to them,” he stated. “It’s the human power that you just solely get from a set of individuals standing on stage and exchanging that between them.”
“A variety of nice stuff has occurred in pop during the last 10 or 15 years or so, however it’s getting a bit stale. Persons are feeling that. I really feel there’s a real want for the rawness and the depth you may solely get from a band.”
For his or her slot at Glastonbury this month, the band can be acting on The Different Stage on Friday (June 27) between 17:15 and 18:15. Their set will comply with on from Moist Leg’s efficiency at 15:45, and are available earlier than Gracie Abrams, who will take to the stage at 18:45.