American Football have announced tour dates in the UK, Europe and North America for 2026. Find all the details below.
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The US band will hit the road in the US in May, with dates scheduled in Denver, Boise, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as a slot at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party.
From there, they’ll head to Europe for headline performances in Milan, Stuttgart, Cologne, Brussels and Amsterdam in June. The group are then set to round off the month with two UK shows, held at Leeds’ O2 Academy (June 26) and London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum (27).
In July, American Football will head back to North America for further gigs in the US and Canada. This second leg includes stops in New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Toronto, Nashville, Chicago and Minneapolis.
The band have teamed up with PLUS1 to donate $1/£1/€1 from every ticket sold across the tour to Safe Passage International and The Illinois Coalition for Immigration & Refugee Rights – both of which defend immigrant rights, and support deportees, migrants and refugees.
It comes amid ongoing protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in particular, their killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (February 6). You’ll be able to buy yours here (UK), here (North America) and here (Europe). Artist pre-sale and VIP upgrades go live at the same time tomorrow (Wednesday February 4).
American Football’s 2026 tour dates are:
MAY
15 – Summit Music Hall, Denver, CO
17 – Kilby Block Party, Salt Lake City, UT
18 – Treefort Music Hall, Boise, ID
19 – Moore Theater, Seattle, WA
20 – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
22 – Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
23 – The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
24 – The Observatory North Park, San Diego, CA
JUNE
19 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
20 – Im Wizeman, Stuttgart, Germany
21 – Die Kantine, Cologne, Germany
23 – La Madeleine, Brussels, Belgium
24 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
26 – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
27 – O2 Kentish Forum, London, UK
JULY
8 – Royale, Boston, MA
9 – Brooklyn Paramount, New York, NY
10 – Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
11 – 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
14 – The National, Richmond, VA
15 – Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
16 – Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
AUGUST
7 – House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
8 – The Concert Hall, Toronto, ON
9 – Roxian Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
10 – Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
12 – Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN
13 – Deluxe at Old National Centre, Indianapolis, IN
14 – The Salt Shed, Chicago, IL
15 – Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
16 – First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
American Football toured last year to mark the 25th anniversary of their 1999 debut album, ‘LP1’, following some celebratory shows in 2024. The UK leg featured a date at the Roundhouse in Camden Town, London, and a slot at Manchester’s Outbreak Fest.
Speaking to NME in 2024, frontman Mike Kinsella reflected on major younger artists like Hayley Williams and Matty Healy being fans of American Football.
“I mean, I don’t know if we’re like a nostalgia band. In my mind we’re not, ’cause I know how hard I’m working to write new stuff all the time and try new things,” he said. “But I’m not sure if people are coming to the shows because they’re like, ‘Oh, I used to love this band’, or if we’re a contemporary band that people still enjoy.”
Credit: Alexa Viscius
Kinsella continued: “It’s all great, it’s all cool. We never expected it when we put the record out. But to my ego, it’s almost a challenge: how do I make it abundantly clear that if you like that, we’re even better now?”
He went on to say that there was “a fine balance” between these feelings at the anniversary gigs. “It’s a weird year for me, I’ve played a couple bad shows where it’s absolutely my fault and I’ve kind of mentally melted down,” Kinsella told NME.
“Not in a dramatic way but just in a way of, ‘What are we doing here? Am I just this, like, performing monkey?’ But when it’s taken away from me, when we haven’t done it in a month and a half, I can’t wait to do it again. I appreciate that anybody still cares about something that happened so long ago, and any chance I get to keep playing music and hang out with my friends – it’s like going to a high school reunion every show.”
American Football’s latest album, ‘LP3’, arrived in 2019. They shared a new original song called ‘Rare Symmetry’ in 2021, along with a cover of Mazzy Star’s classic track ‘Fade Into You’.
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