Robbie Williams has announced an intimate Manchester show as part of BRITs Week 2026. Find all the details below.
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The singer will take to the stage at the city’s Aviva Studios on Friday February 27 to perform tracks from his debut album ‘Life Thru A Lens’ and his new Number One record ‘BRITPOP’. Support comes from The Lottery Winners.
As with the other BRITs Week dates, all proceeds from the gig will go towards War Child’s essential work providing aid, education, specialist mental health support and more for youth affected by conflict.
Tickets for Williams’ show go on general sale at 10am GMT this Friday – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can sign up for the War Child pre-sale here before 5pm GMT today (Wednesday February 11). The pre-sale is set to go live at 10am GMT tomorrow (Thursday February 12).
BRITs Week 2026 tickets are available via a £10 prize draw, too. Visit here to enter.
The other confirmed artists for this year’s BRITs Week include Olivia Dean, Spiritualized, The K’s, Fatboy Slim, Lambrini Girls, Myles Smith and BRITs Critics’ Choice award winner Jacob Alon.
Delivered by DHL, the annual live series takes place in the run-up to the BRIT Awards, and sees huge names play small one-off shows to help raise funds and awareness for War Child charity.
The BRITs 2026 take place at Manchester’s Co-op Live on Saturday February 28. Check out the full list of nominees here.
Williams’ BRITs Week date will follow his intimate ‘Long 90s’ UK tour, which wrapped up earlier this week. The brief run of dates saw the pop star perform ‘Life Thru A Lens’ and ‘BRITPOP’ in full. At the Liverpool show, he reunited onstage with his former songwriting partner Guy Chambers.
The singer had announced the ‘Long 90s’ trek during a tiny gig at London’s Dingwalls in October, billed as his smallest-ever ticketed headline show.
Last month, Williams broke The Beatles’ record for the most UK Number One albums with ‘BRITPOP’. It marked the 16th chart-topper of his solo career.
“This is unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable,” he told BBC News. “I’ve always said my success has been the equivalent of stretching an elastic band from Stoke-on-Trent to the Moon. Well, I reckon the elastic band just got longer, and now it’s orbiting Venus.”
He added: “It’s just sensational what has happened. I feel like the Forrest Gump of pop.”
The singer had previously admitted that the prospect of dethroning the Fab Four was something that he wanted “more than anything in my career right now”.
In a three-star review of ‘BRITPOP’, NME described the album as “a love letter to the ’90s and a bid to live forever”.
“He’s standing firm. Rather than neck a BuzzBall on a Lime Bike and do his take on ‘Brat’, Robbie knows his game and has done a record for himself,” it added. “An album to be remembered for? Probably not, but it’s bold, it’s a laugh, and he’s done it his way. That’s what makes him Robbie. For that alone, he’ll live forever.”
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