The Maccabees have today (June 23) shared the songs they’re rehearsing for their summer 2026 setlist.
The band will kick off their tour next month in London, before dates across the UK follow “These are very likely to be the only indoor Maccabees shows of the year,” they told fans on social media at the time. “We have great memories of both venues over the years and can’t wait to be back.”
The songs shared by the band today include a Jamie T collaboration with ‘Sticks N Stones’ that they’ve played together before, as well as what appears to be two new songs, ‘She’ and ‘Ballad Of So Long’.
Fans online have been excited about the prospect of both the Jamie T collaboration and new music, with one writing: “I think these are new songs? If so, Can’t wait!” Another added “Sticks N Stones – always love this.”
Responding to the set list as a whole, one fan wrote: “Can we have them all please?!” while another added: “perfection – dream set list”.
You can see the post, along with more fan reaction, below:
The band’s upcoming summer 2026 tour dates are below. Tickets are on sale now and available here.
The Maccabees’ 2026 tour dates are as follows:
JULY
9 – London, Alexandra Palace Park
11 – Cornwall, The Eden Sessions
23 – Bristol, Amphitheatre – Siren
24-26 – Abingdon, Truck Festival
25 – Brighton, On The Beach
31 – Leeds, Kirkstall Abbey
Speaking to NME ahead of their reunion shows, the band reflected on last year’s gigs together.
The band’s Orlando Weeks told us: “I loved it, it’s my favourite memories of playing with Maccs. I just thought it was a total pleasure, and I thought the shows were amazing – to see how much it seemed to matter to people.
“Even from a practical point of view, if you take away the emotional, sentimental goodness of it, we all know how to do it and we’ve been away for long enough that to redo it is so nice. It’s a shock at how natural it all feels, having had time away from it.”
Speaking about the prospect of new music, Weeks added: “I would say we’re slightly further on than just talking about it, but we’re not a long way on. I live in Lisbon, so it’s harder for me to just get in a room, but I think the fact that we’re doing these shows is a good opportunity to put a fire under us. We’ll see.”
The band also recently got involved with War Child’s Secret 7” record auction, with each artist involved giving one song to be pressed 100 times each on 7-inch vinyl in aid of War Child.
The Maccabees gave their 2009 track ‘No Kind Words’ to the initiative, with Weeks – also an artist and illustrator – saying the song fit with the art he’s been creating. “I’m still really obsessed with making these figures that I’ve been making,” he told us. “I did some stuff with So Young last year, and we made a book of them that we were selling for Doctors Without Borders.
“I’m still very enamoured with these figures, and ‘No Kind Words’ makes sense because, lyrically, it’s about a relationship or friendship falling apart, and with the figures, even if they’re on their own, there is a sense of a relationship or a backstory. So, I felt it made sense with what I wanted to do once we knew what the song was going to be.”
As well as ‘No Kind Words’ being pressed onto vinyl, Weeks also revealed he’d been working on a special print to be sold in aid of War Child that will feature these figures. “I’m trying to figure out how to use colour [in it] because I’m not very good at that,” he shared. “I want it to be eye-catching and attractive, and make people want it. It’s this thing of there being a motivation and reason and a wider cause – how do I make something that I want people to buy because that means the charity gets more money?”
Weeks has worked with War Child previously, having contributed artwork in the past as part of collaboration with friend and graphic designer Matt de Jong.
In other news, the band also recently played Harry Styles’ Meltdown festival.
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