Kasabian announce 2026 ‘Nothing Better Than This’ UK arena tour with The Vaccines

Kasabian have announced a 2026 UK arena tour, with support from The Vaccines – check out the full list of dates and ticket details below.

READ MORE: Serge Pizzorno on being fuelled by “imposter syndrome” and why new album ‘Act III’ is “all that’s great about Kasabian”

The Leicester band will hit the road in December for the five-date ‘Nothing Better Than This’ arena tour, kicking off at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on December 11.

From there, the run will continue with shows at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, Cardiff’s Utilita Arena and London’s The O2, before wrapping up at Manchester’s Co-op Live on December 19.

The dates come fresh from Kasabian’s sold-out headline show at Finsbury Park last weekend, where they played to a crowd of 45,000, their biggest London crowd to date.

Artist pre-sale tickets for the arena tour will go on sale at 9am on Wednesday (July 15), before general sale begins at the same time on Friday (July 17). Find tickets here.

Kasabian will play:

DECEMBER
11 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
13 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
16 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
18 – London, The O2
19 – Manchester, Co-op Live

Before the arena tour, Kasabian are set for a packed summer of festival appearances across the UK and Europe, including Boardmasters, Victorious Festival and Mad Cool. They will also headline the first ever Thursday night main stage slot at Leeds Festival in August.

The tour takes its name from ‘Nothing Better Than This’, a track on the band’s upcoming ninth studio album ‘Act III’, which is now set for release on September 4 after being delayed from its original July date.

Speaking to NME about the track earlier this year, Serge Pizzorno said: “I just wanted to make something with that gnarly bass and you’d instantly know in four seconds, ‘That sounds like Kasabian’. I saw this meme of four upside-down bats that looked like goths dancing in a club. I wanted to make a song that they could dance to, so it’s got a weird goth edge to it.”

He also described ‘Act III’ as “all that’s great about Kasabian”, adding: “It’s got Kasabian DNA running through it. It’s all the things that we’ve done in the past.”

The album was produced by Pizzorno and Mark Ralph at The Sergery and Club Ralph, and follows 2022’s ‘The Alchemist’s Euphoria’ and 2024’s ‘Happenings’. Pizzorno previously told NME that the new record was driven by the same energy the band were aiming to bring to their summer shows.

“We’re rehearsing already,” he said. “It’s great and the set is just full-on relentless. We’re so excited. We’re reimagining the songs and it’s an eras-defining set with songs passing through from the start, a few little surprises and some mad bits that people will recognise.

“We’re just going to give the people what they want; that’s the story of this summer. It’s an excuse to go insane.”

Last month, Kasabian shared the G-Funk-inspired single ‘Superpowers’ and announced that ‘Act III’ had been delayed for “a few final adjustments”.

“We couldn’t send it out into the world without getting everything just right, albums are forever,” the band wrote at the time. “Trust us, it’ll be worth the wait.”

Pizzorno also spoke to NME about stepping up as the band’s frontman after the departure of Tom Meighan in 2020, saying he had learned to use “imposter syndrome” to his advantage.

“This is a whole new thing for me,” he said. “I’ve always written everything myself and I’ve had to learn how to be a frontman, and learn quick. It’s not like I’ve had time! I’ve been put at the front of a massive band but I’ve kind of embraced that.”

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