Yard Act have announced a brief UK tour for 2026. Find all the details below.
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The band will take to the stage for a homecoming gig at the O2 Academy in Leeds on November 6, before playing the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on November 13. They’ll then head to the O2 Academy Brixton in London on November 26.
These three dates are set to follow Yard Act’s performance at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival in Manchester this Friday (March 27).
Tickets for the new tour go on general sale at 10am GMT on Friday – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access an artist pre-sale at the same time tomorrow (Wednesday March 25) – sign up here.
According to a press release, Yard Act have completed “a lengthy stint in the studio”, with news about their upcoming third album expected soon.
They’ll also make stops at Primavera Sound Barcelona and Porto, the Czech Republic’s Rock For People, Belgium’s Rock Werchter, and the Netherlands’ Best Kept Secret Festival this summer.
Yard Act last played in the UK when they supported The Hives on tour late last year. Before that, they played a one-off headline show at Blackpool Tower in the spring.
In 2024, they hosted a big hometown gig at Leeds’ Millennium Square. The group’s second album, ‘Where’s My Utopia?’, had arrived earlier that year.
NME gave the record a four-star review, saying that it “marks an outlandish yet assertive second chapter for Yard Act, going toe-to-toe with the peculiar world that we find ourselves in”.
Yard Acts 2026 UK headline dates are:
NOVEMBER
6 – O2 Academy, Leeds
13 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
26 – O2 Academy, Brixton
Yard Act’s 2024 UK and European tour featured a show at the Eventim Apollo in London. In a four-star review of that performance, NME praised the band’s “showmanship for a boisterous tour finale”.
Speaking to NME about ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ in October 2023, frontman James Smith explained that it was “about hope and perseverance”.
“A lot of what we’ve always done has been rooted in where society is at and a comment on the times, but it’s more universal,” he added. “Human beings have always been driven by our ambitions.
“In a world where there’s currently supermarkets where you can get food from and houses you can live in, once we’ve got the basics covered our minds aspire for other things our minds think are important because we’re not content in just being animals.”
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