The xx have announced extra Mexico City comeback gigs due to “incredible demand” – see all the details below.
Earlier this week, the trio announced that their first show together since 2018 would be at the Pepsi Center WTC in the Mexican capital on April 4, with festival appearances at Coachella and Primavera Sound already confirmed for the summer.
“This is the start of a next chapter together, and there’s no better place to return than in front of our Mexican fans,” they said on Tuesday (February 24). “We’ve always felt a deep connection to Mexico – the warmth, the openness, the energy from the crowd.”
That gig promptly sold out, as did a second show on April 5, and now the band have confirmed that they will play a third show on April 3.
“Mexico City, we’re blown away,” they wrote on Facebook. “Due to incredible demand, we’ve added a third show on April 3rd at Pepsi Center WTC.”
Tickets for the April 3 show are on sale now and you can find yours here.
Last March, the band were seen in the studio together, following Jamie xx saying in 2024 that the trio were “having a good time” working on new material. After the Coachella line-up announcement in September last year, they shared some further rehearsal footage.
At last year’s LIDO Festival, which Jamie xx headlined, he reunited onstage with bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim.
Since their most recent album, 2017’s ‘I See You’, each of the three members have focused on their solo projects. Romy released her debut album ‘Mid Air’ as Romy in 2023, which she’s followed with a run of singles, while Oliver Sim dropped his first solo LP, ‘Hideous Bastard‘, the previous year, before putting out two singles last year.
Jamie xx’s second solo album, ‘In Waves’, came out in 2024, and featured his bandmates on the song ‘Waited All Night’.
Speaking to NME about new music from The xx at the BRIT Awards 2024, Romy revealed: “We’re just keeping it really open and we’re up for trying new things, but it sounds like us. That’s all I can say right now.”
‘I See You’ was released in January 2017 and became their second Number One album in the UK, also hitting Number Two in the US. NME gave the album a four-star review, writing: “the highlight is Romy’s pensive, vulnerable ballad ‘Performance’. “I’ll put on a performance/I’ll put on a brave face,” she confesses, accompanied by a single, guitar and scurrying violins. ‘I See You’ is not simply an album then, but a moment of realisation. The moment where The xx stop glancing shyly at their reflection and confront themselves in the mirror. What they discover is infectious.”
In November, meanwhile, they shared a deluxe version of their debut album, ‘xx’. They’re also involved in Rough Trade’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the iconic record store and label sharing a series of 50 essential albums spanning the five decades, including one of The xx’s releases.
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