Enter Shikari have shared details of their biggest ever UK and European arena tour, and a new run of Australian tour dates.
The St Albans rock band will kick off their new dates on November 3 at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, and the run of shows include further dates in Munich, Brussels, Tilburg and more throughout the month. It also includes their biggest ever German headline show, which will be held at Düsseldorf’s Mitsubishi Halle, and welcome 7,500 fans.
UK dates commence later in the month with a show at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham on November 13. This is followed by gigs in Cardiff and Hull, as well as their first ever show in Glasgow and biggest venue to date in Manchester. The run ends with two back-to-back stops at London’s Alexandra Palace on November 20 and 21.
“November will bring our biggest arena tour ever. With a completely new show. I cannot say much yet but I can tell you now it will be our most thrilling,” said frontman Rou Reynolds. “To get to play Ally Pally two nights in a row is going to be something of a fantasy. I bloody love that building and we will make sure we have the variety and theatrics to do the place justice.
“The tour also includes our biggest ever Belgian show, and first ever German headline arena show, which we’re all buzzing for.”
The band will be joined by Holding Absence and The Callous Daoboys as support for both the EU and UK leg, and every ticket sold for the band’s UK dates will include a £1 donation to the Music Venue Trust, supporting grassroots music venues under threat of closure in the UK.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday (January 30), and pre-sale options start tomorrow (Wednesday January 28) at 10am. Visit here for UK tickets and here for international tickets.
Enter Shikari UK and European 2026 tour dates are:
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3 – Hamberg, Sporthalle
4 – Munich, Zenith
5 – Leipzig, Haus Auensee
6 – Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Hall
7 – Berlin, Columbiahalle
10 – Brussels, Forest National
11 – Tilberg, 013
13 – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
14 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
15 – Hull, Connexin Live
18 – Glasgow, Hydro
19 – Manchester, Co-op Live
20 – London, Alexandra Palace
21 – London, Alexandra Palace
Before the shows in Europe and the UK kick off in November, Enter Shikari will also play a handful of gigs in Australia earlier this year.
These feature shows in Newcastle, Frankson and Fremantle, as well as Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane amongst others, and Grandson will join them as special guests throughout. Visit here for tickets to Australian shows.
Enter Shikari Australian 2026 tour dates are:
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14 – Metropolis, Fremantle, WA
16 – Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide, SA
17 – Forum, Melbourne, VIC
19 – Pier Bandroom, Frankston, VIC
21 – King St Bandroom, Newcastle, NSW
22 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW
23 – The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD
24 – Blackflag Brewing, Coolum, QLD
For Enter Shikari, the £1 ticket levy to support the UK’s grassroots scene is nothing new. The band were one of the first to have a portion of their profits donated to the local music industry back when they announced their 2024 tour.
It sees £1 from every ticket sold going to the Music Venue Trust, which helps to support both local venues and emerging artists around the country. Artists who have followed in Shikari’s footsteps with the levy include Katy Perry, Sam Fender and Coldplay.
“We’re happy to once again be supporting the Music Venue Trust with donations from our ticket sales,” Reynolds continued. “We will always support and fight for grassroots venues. They mean so much to us not just because we wouldn’t have made it to where we are now without them, but because they are the great bastions of community and creativity, without which, UK culture would decay dramatically. And we’d all be left drowning in the most mind-numbing corporate pop music and pointless, AI-produced drivel.”
The new tour dates mark the first arena tour from the band since their ‘A Kiss For The Whole World Tour’ in 2024, which celebrated their album of the same name that landed them their first ever UK Number One album in the Official Charts.
Reynolds caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2025, and spoke to us about why it is vital for Enter Shikari to keep using their platform to speak out in support of Palestine, as well as plans for new music, and the momentum behind the ticket levy to support grassroots venues.
Opening up about plans for new music to follow up ‘A Kiss For The Whole World’ the frontman said he had been back in the studio, but that wasn’t to indicate that a new album was around the corner.
“It is a very slow process, this one. There are all sorts of life stuff happening too – some exciting, and some difficult – but we’re still working on it and don’t want to rush it,” he said. “We’re seven albums deep, so there’s no reason for us to throw out another. We’d much rather think, ‘OK, how can we make the eighth album interesting and exciting for us?’
“We never want to just replicate the same vibes or same musical alleys that we’ve gone down before… But we have got some stuff brewing for sure.”
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