







CONCERTS & TOURS
Your A-Z guide of concerts happening this month…
The mighty Airbourne are back in the game and returning to UK shores next year with the GUTSY UK tour.
Alter Bridge announce their 2026 European headline ‘What Lies Within’ tour
Catch Ashnikko on her Smoochies tour in Feb 2026
Swedish heavy metal band AVATAR have announced upcoming gigs in London, Manchester and Bristol in February 2026.
Boyband supergroup Boyzlife, comprising Boyzone’s Keith Duffy and Westlife’s Brian McFadden, celebrate the iconic hits from both defining 90s/00s groups with a headline tour for 2026.
The historic annual awards ceremony moves up North
Indie pop-rock mixer Cavetown is heading across the UK in March 2026
Dave announces The Boy Who Played the Harp Tour will head to the UK in March 2026.
With the announcement of his upcoming album Who Is the Sky?, the legendary David Byrne will also return to the road with a brand new live show, with UK gigs announced for 2026.
Deftones announce UK tour dates for February 2026, plus a headline slot at All Points East presents Outbreak.
Following the release of his new album Live Laugh Love, and music videos for album tracks “Tourmaline” and “CRISCO,” Earl Sweatshirt announces the 3LWorldTour.
Echo & The Bunnymen announce a UK tour for March 2026.
Fatboy Slim is heading on tour around the UK this winter & in early 2026!
Franz Ferdinand have announced a UK tour for Feb 2026!
One of pop’s most exciting new voices, Freya Skye, has announced her first ever UK tour this March.
Alongside the release of recent single ‘People Need People’, Good Neighbours have announced their biggest UK tour to date in support of debut album, Blue Sky Mentality.
grandson announces 2026 UK tour to celebrate the release of his new album
Emo band Hot Mulligan return with a headline tour in Mar 2026, plus special guests Delta Sleep.
Jack Savoretti announces extensive UK tour in support of brand new album, We Will Always Be The Way We Were
James Arthur has announced a UK tour for Feb 2026 as part of ‘The Pisces World Tour’.
Damn Good Time World Tour with special guest Ashley Cooke
Kaiser Chiefs have extended their Employment celebrations with a new run of 2026 dates due to phenomenal demand.
Multi-Platinum global pop superstar Kesha has announced the UK/EU leg of her milestone headline tour – the biggest of her already extraordinary career & marking her first headline live run in the UK and Europe in over a decade.
GRAMMY®-winning, LA-based Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Laufey announces UK arena shows in 2026
Less Than Jake have announced their ‘Winter Circus’ UK tour for March 2026
Lily Allen huge UK tour in summer 2026
Lorna Shore announce massive UK tour for 2026
Don’t miss alt-pop duo Magdalena Bay when they embark on the Imaginal Mystery Tour early next year.
Maxïmo Park celebrating 20 years since their debut album with a UK tour in Feb 2026
Brit Award and GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi-platinum global pop phenomenon – and star of smash UK television show The Piano – MIKA will launch his biggest headline tour yet across Europe in 2026, in support of his forthcoming new album.
Pennsylvania metalcore band Motionless in White set to return to the UK February 2026.
Nashville in Concert: The Encore Tour will head to the UK next year and will feature stars Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio who will take the stage to perform classic songs from the series as well as their own original material.
Of Monsters and Men are heading out on a UK tour in February 2026
Bastille & The Wombats are performing at Palace Bowl Presents 2026.
Transcendent singer, songwriter, and subversive performance artist, Poppy, brings the Constantly Nowhere tour across the UK next year.
Coinciding with the release of her brand-new single ‘WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!’, RAYE has announced a massive tour with UK arena dates confirmed in February 2026 – with special guests ABSOLUTELY and AMMA.
LA guitar band, Rocket are heading on tour around the UK in Feb 2026
Rockin’1000 is coming to Manchester in 2026!
Scouting For Girls are heading to venues across the UK next March, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their platinum selling album ‘Everybody Wants to Be on TV’.
Rap-punk duo Sleaford Mods have announced a UK headline tour for early 2026
Sombr has announced a string of dates for March 2026
Legendary British band Suede return with the Antidepressants UK Tour in early 2026 in celebration of their tenth studio album of the same name
UK metal powerhouse Sylosis will be unleashing their most ambitious outing yet; a huge headline tour, hitting major venues across the UK in early 2026.
Takedown Festival returns to Portsmouth Guildhall in April with a stellar line up featuring some of the best in rock and metal music
The Beaches announce UK tour for Feb 2026
THE FEELING: 20th ANNIVERSARY OF ‘12 STOPS AND HOME’ tour heads to the UK in March 2026
The Lilacs are heading on tour around the UK at the start of 2026
Marking the 15th anniversary of their iconic debut album ‘What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?’, The Vaccines return with a UK tour in March 2026
Country singer Tyler Childers has announced upcoming UK 2026 gigs.
Comedy
Great last minute comedy tickets in the next 30 days.
Alasdair Beckett-King is the crumbliest comedian in the game: a multi-award-winning stand-up comic and (occasionally) an internet sensation.
Join Ali Woods, viral comedy sensation and star of Comedy Central and Stand Up Sketch Show, after his last sell-out UK tour, for his brand-new stand-up comedy show.
Following a sell-out 2024/2025 national run, Andy Zaltzman – host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, statistician on Test Match Special, and champion of Taskmaster series 18 – extends his hit tour into 2026. Andy assesses the state of renowned planet Earth, its under-pressure current in-house millennium, and its most famous and controversial species –the human race.
Following three sell-out shows, Chloe Petts (Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You) returns with a brand-new tour, and she’s delving where she’s never delved before: this is a show about sex. The problem is that she blushes every time she says that word.
Hot on the heels of his fourth sold-out UK tour, the nation’s favourite clairvoyant medium Clinton Baptiste is back with a new live show for 2026 and beyond.
In 2004, Eric Rushton was cast in his primary school Nativity. Despite absolutely smashing it, he immediately retired from being a child actor. Now he’s found the correct antidepressants to give showbusiness another go. Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2025, winner of the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year.
Foil Arms and Hog are back with their brand-new show, Skittish. A mix of sketch comedy, audience participation and improvisation. With over one billion views you may know the lads from their online videos, but their live show is where they’re at their best.
“The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill” (Guardian). Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore has written too many jokes again.
As seen on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Cats Does Countdown. As heard on The Dave Berry Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio, The News Quiz, Just A Minute, and his own Radio 4 series Glenn Moore’s Almanac.
Hannah East brings brand-new Express Yourself to the stage – a hilarious deep dive into the highs and lows of parenting.
Join BAFTA-Winning Comedian and Star of Britain’s Got Talent, Live at the Apollo and Coronation Street Jack Carroll, as he expertly examines subjects that can make us feel awkward, within the safe confines of his northern charm.
Jimeoin brings his not-to-be-missed, hilarious evening of live comedy to venues across the UK with new show Pandemonium!
Tilting at Windmills is the brand-new stand-up show from Taskmaster alumni and double Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner, John Kearns. Seen bewildered on Taskmaster (Channel 4), terrified on Live at the Apollo (BBC), getting through Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky), and implicating others on his Sky stand-up special The Varnishing Days.
Judi Love is back with a brand-new show packed with home truths about the hustle of juggling parenting, work, and everyday life.
Coming off the back of his sold out Don’t Listen To Me UK tour, Kane brings you his brand-new show Crowd Work King. One hour of purely unscripted, unplanned comedy; all based around audience participation.
Kyla Cobbler is one of the fastest-rising names in comedy. In her debut show Gone Rogue, Kyla covers everything from the chaos of Barcelona dating life to navigating a friend crush and the power plays of a barbeque.
After a sell out show in London last October, Maddie Grace Jepson is hitting the road with her brand-new, (reworked) one-woman show, Maddie Grace Jepson Live, a brilliantly unhinged mix of comedy, chaos, and confession. From her everyday escapades to her rise as a viral sensation, Maddie shares the pivotal moments, personal stories, and questionable decisions that shaped her along the way.
Maria’s late-night appearances include The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Tonight Show. Her interview series What’s Your Ailment? deals with the various mental struggles of celebrities and is available on the Topic streaming service. Her Audible Original You Are (A Comedy) Special is a semi-mock instructional book for both standup and life.
James and Clair Buckley are taking their sofa chats on the road! Expect the same brutally honest, wildly funny take on family life, marriage, parenting and everything in between – with all the glorious oversharing and banter that’s made them a viral sensation.
Pierre Novellie is known for his award-winning comedy/observations as seen on The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, the hit podcast BudPod with Phil Wang and The Now Show on Radio 4.
He can’t stress enough that he thinks these thoughts are normal and reasonable – it’s you people that don’t make sense. He is the normal one, definitely, but that does raise an important question:
Why are you laughing?
As seen on Netflix and heard on BBC Radio 4, Randy Feltface has written and performed a dozen solo stand-up comedy shows, released eight comedy specials, sold out around the world and been nominated for Best Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He made his US television debut on NBC’s Bring The Funny and his comedy specials have become pirated YouTube sensations.
CODA is a funny, heartwarming show all about the brilliant things that happen when you grow up in a house where sign language is the first language used – don’t miss Ray Bradshaw’s newest show.
Multi-award winning comedian Rhod Gilbert brings a brand-new live tour to the stage
Saaniya Abbas takes audiences on her most personal and side-splitting journey yet. After a hugely successful and critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe debut, she’s now bringing Hellarious across the country on her first UK tour. With sharp insights and her signature feline mischief, Saaniya dives into the cultural taboos of divorce, the absurdity of internet fame, and her playful take on the concept of hell itself.
Hot off acclaimed runs in Edinburgh, London, New York, and across North America, and as seen on Late Night with Seth Meyers, join Sam Morrison for the remarkable true story he never wanted to happen.
Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with a brand-new show. His first and (hopefully, for the love of all things good) only show post-divorce.
Join Serena Terry, creator of online sensation Mammy Banter, on her biggest UK & Ireland stand up tour to date.
Don’t miss one of the fastest rising comedians Stuart Mitchell on a brand new tour, coming to stages near you.
Max Balegde and George Clark are set to hit the road in 2026 with The Useless Hotline Live Tour, as they search for a new hire on their second UK tour.
Following last year’s sellout world tour, Troy Hawke is back to his globe sweeping in 2026 with new show ‘Never Stop, Never Change!’
From bullied kid to breakout comic, Edd Hedges brings his darkly hilarious true crime story to the stage in Wisecrack, a genre defying live comedy tour hosted by crime producer Jodi Tovay.
THINGS TO DO
Fun for everyone this month!
The critically acclaimed OVO by Cirque du Soleil returns to the Royal Albert Hall in January 2026. An exhilarating experience for the whole family, the classic is back and better than ever!
Diversity is set to take to the road on a major new tour of the UK and Ireland in spring 2026.
Award winning wildlife photographer and filmmaker Gordon Buchanan will hit the road in 2025 with his biggest ever live tour.
Step inside your favourite Pixar stories!
Join one of Britain’s best known actors and presenter Nigel Havers, as he takes you on a thoroughly entertaining trot through five decades in showbiz.
Enjoy immersive theatre in this theme park style town. Phantom Peak combines experiential, dining and live gameplay all in one never-ending world.
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is waltzing its way into arenas across the UK this January and February, helping us to start 2026 in spectacular style.
The world-renowned Harlem Globetrotters will return to the United Kingdom in early 2026 as part of their global centennial celebrations
SPORTS
Great last minute sport tickets.
LexisNexis Dragons franchise is Wales’s only semi-professional netball team competing in the Netball Super League, and has been part of the Netball Super League since its inception.
The 2026 Lloyds National Track Championships will be making its return to the home of cycling in Manchester’s National Cycling Centre from Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 February.
Don’t miss Sheffield Steelers play the Champions Hockey League.
The world-renowned Harlem Globetrotters will return to the United Kingdom in early 2026 as part of their global centennial celebrations
Last minute theatre tickets
Showing this month!
Visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge, A Little Life), who reunites with Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Network) alongside Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths, The Amen Corner), Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You, Death of England: Delroy), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon) and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake).
Already Perfect is a searing and uplifting new musical by Tony Award winner Levi Kreis. As his Broadway show is about to be filmed for the archives, Levi unravels in his dressing room, ready to end it all. At once brutally honest and defiantly hopeful, Already Perfect asks what it takes to make peace with your story. With humour, music, and unflinching truth, it lands on a radical simplicity: there is nothing to prove.
An opulent tribute to the timeless beauty of ballet, uniting the world’s most luminous stars from its grandest stages to mark the event’s 20th anniversary.
The critically acclaimed OVO by Cirque du Soleil returns to the Royal Albert Hall in January 2026. An exhilarating experience for the whole family, the classic is back and better than ever!
This spectacular production of Mozart’s comedy masterpiece Così fan tutte is simply not to be missed. Hold on tight, as we transport you to Coney Island, complete with fairground rides, sensational circus acts and romantic rollercoasters.
From Oscar award-winning writer Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Dune ) and Olivier Award-winning Director Thea Sharrock (Equus – West End/Broadway, After the Dance, The Bodyguard) comes the world premiere of High Noon, starring Tony and Emmy award-winner Billy Crudup (The Morning Show, The Coast of Utopia) and Olivier award-winner Denise Gough (Andor, People, Places & Things).
All aboard the good ship HMS Pinafore. Featuring some of the most popular operetta music in the world, this hilarious revival of one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best loved operas is sure to have you rolling in the aisles.
Witness the incredible untold life story and music of multi-platinum selling, 10-time GRAMMY® winner and global icon, Chaka Khan! With 22 albums, 25 chart-topping hits, 70 million records sold and a career spanning five decades, Chaka Khan has shaped the sound of generations. Now, her story explodes onto the stage in a dazzling world premiere musical.
The electric untold story of the women who invented rock ‘n’ roll. Featuring live musicians accompanying Olivier Award-winning West End star Beverley Knight as Rosetta Tharpe and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu as Marie Knight.
Witness one of the world’s greatest entertainers in the Tony Award-winning MJ The Musical.
A provocative take on capitalism and moral decay, this unique opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht blends jazz, cabaret, and classical music. It features the famed ‘Alabama Song’, which was later recorded by artists including The Doors and David Bowie. A stylish, satirical masterpiece.
This hysterical, laugh-out-loud Tony Award-winning musical follows two Mormon missionaries as they travel to a remote Ugandan village in an attempt to convert the inhabitants to their religion – with hilarious results.
Join Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Fenchurch and the most unlikely crew in the history of galactic adventure as you escape the destruction of Earth with seconds to spare and begin a search for answers to the mystery of Life, the Universe and Everything. This inventive take on Douglas Adams’ classic draws from the best examples of immersive, musical theatre, dance and magic.
The first major London revival of Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of The Producers transfers to the Garrick Theatre this Autumn following a sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s darkly comic psychological drama Woman in Mind, alongside multi award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan.
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