Right.

Who gave England permission to announce this many gigs?

Because the calendar is becoming absolutely ridiculous. 🤘🔥

Welcome to The Riff Report England Gigs & Tours Tracker — our rolling guide to rock, metal, punk, alternative, indie and generally guitar-shaped mayhem happening across England.

We’re talking:

Spiritbox. I Prevail. Papa Roach. Korn. Enter Shikari. Shinedown. The Pretty Reckless. Placebo. Royal Blood. The Darkness. Electric Callboy. Five Finger Death Punch. Megadeth. Weezer. Black Veil Brides. Manic Street Preachers. Suede.

And that barely gets us started.

From enormous arena shows in London, Manchester and Birmingham to legendary rooms in Nottingham, Leeds, Bristol, Newcastle, Southampton, Wolverhampton and beyond, England’s live calendar is already looking dangerous for anyone trying to maintain a sensible bank balance.

This is a living gig tracker, covering major confirmed rock, metal and alternative dates currently on our radar. Grassroots shows and new tour announcements appear constantly, so expect this beast to keep growing.

Right.

Open the calendar. Warn the bank account.

Let’s go.

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🍂 September 2026

September comes flying straight out of the pit.

💀 Monday 14 September

Spiritbox

Spiritbox + JINJER + Dying Wish
📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Spiritbox’s first UK arena headline run brings one absolutely filthy support bill with it.

JINJER.

Dying Wish.

Spiritbox.

On a Monday.

Good luck functioning normally at work on Tuesday.

🔥 Wednesday 16 September

Spiritbox

📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

The Tsunami Sea tour rolls into Manchester’s enormous Co-op Live.

🤘 Saturday 19 September

Spiritbox

📍 OVO Arena Wembley – London

The English leg culminates with Spiritbox invading Wembley alongside JINJER and Dying Wish.

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💥 Saturday 19 September

I Prevail

I Prevail + Polaris + GORE.
📍 O2 Academy – Leeds

One arena-metalcore tour finishes and another one basically kicks the door down.

I Prevail bring the Violent Nature Tour to England with a proper collection of breakdown merchants.

🔥 Tuesday 22 September

I Prevail
📍 O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester

💀 Friday 25 September

I Prevail
📍 Alexandra Palace – London

Ally Pally filled with modern metalcore?

Yes, that’ll do nicely.

🤘 Saturday 26 September

I Prevail
📍 O2 Academy – Birmingham

🤘 Sunday 27 September

I Prevail
📍 O2 Academy – Birmingham

Birmingham gets two nights because apparently one wasn’t enough.

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🔥 Sunday 20 September

A Skylit Drive + Vampires Everywhere
📍 The 1865 – Southampton

A proper throwback for anyone whose teenage wardrobe contained enough black clothing to legally qualify as a blackout curtain.

🎸 Saturday 26 September

Good Kid
📍 Roundhouse – London

Indie-rock energy, pop-punk attitude and one of London’s best-loved venues.

🎸 From Monday 28 September

Don Broco – Nightmare Tripping Tour

Don Broco begin another UK run stretching into October.

If you’ve seen Don Broco live before, you’ll already know that describing one of their crowds as “energetic” is like describing Motörhead as “a little noisy”.

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🎃 October 2026

October is where things become properly silly.

💀 Friday 9 October

Fear Factory

📍 The 1865 – Southampton

Industrial metal pioneers Fear Factory bring the Cybernetic Domination Tour to Southampton.

Mechanical riffs.

Double kicks.

Neck problems.

Beautiful.

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🤘 Saturday 10 October

The Amity Affliction

The Amity Affliction + Silent Planet + Varials + Orthodox
📍 O2 Ritz – Manchester

That support bill alone could flatten a medium-sized building.

🔥 Sunday 11 October

The Amity Affliction
📍 O2 Forum Kentish Town – London

💀 Tuesday 13 October

The Amity Affliction
📍 O2 Academy – Bristol

The House Of Cards run brings three nights of breakdown-heavy carnage across England.

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🎸 Saturday 10 October

Rockin’1000

📍 AO Arena – Manchester

Fancy seeing a rock band containing hundreds of musicians playing simultaneously?

Of course you do.

Rockin’1000 brings its enormous communal rock spectacle to Manchester with hundreds of singers, guitarists, bassists, drummers and musicians performing rock classics together.

Someone somewhere is definitely turning an amplifier up to eleven.

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🎸 October

The Reytons

South Yorkshire’s own DIY success story heads around the country during October, including a monster headline show at Alexandra Palace.

From independent releases to Ally Pally.

That’s how you bloody do it.

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🐉 Friday 30 October

Manic Street Preachers + Suede

📍 First Direct Arena – Leeds

Yes, our Welsh boys are crossing the border.

And they’re bringing Suede.

Two of Britain’s defining alternative-rock bands share the stage for what should be one seriously nostalgic arena run.

🎸 Saturday 31 October

Manic Street Preachers + Suede
📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

Halloween in Manchester with the Manics and Suede?

We’ll take it.

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🔥 November 2026

November appears to have looked at every other month and said:

“Hold my pint.”

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💀 Papa Roach – Rise Of The Roach Tour

Thursday 5 November

Papa Roach + LANDMVRKS + Sleep Theory
📍 Utilita Arena – Birmingham

Friday 6 November

Papa Roach + LANDMVRKS + Sleep Theory
📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

Sunday 8 November

Papa Roach + LANDMVRKS + Sleep Theory
📍 The O2 – London

Papa Roach continue their remarkable ability to make an entire arena collectively lose its mind when those opening notes to Last Resort arrive.

And with LANDMVRKS and Sleep Theory along for the ride?

That’s one hell of a package.

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🎸 Manic Street Preachers + Suede

Friday 6 November

📍 The O2 – London

Saturday 7 November

📍 Utilita Arena – Birmingham

Wednesday 11 November

📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Thursday 12 November

📍 Bournemouth International Centre – Bournemouth

Welsh alternative-rock royalty and Britpop icons sharing stages across England.

We’re expecting choruses.

We’re expecting nostalgia.

We’re expecting at least one bloke in the crowd telling everybody he saw both bands before they were famous.

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🤘 Enter Shikari – LOSE YOUR SELF Tour

Friday 13 November

📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Sunday 15 November

📍 Connexin Live – Hull

Thursday 19 November

📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

Friday 20 November

📍 Alexandra Palace – London

Saturday 21 November

📍 Alexandra Palace – London

Support: Holding Absence + The Callous Daoboys

Now that’s a tour.

Enter Shikari transforming Ally Pally into a gigantic bouncing mass of humanity for two nights sounds exactly as sensible as you’d imagine.

Which is why we’re completely here for it.

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🔥 Shinedown – Dance, Kid, Dance Act II

Shinedown + Coheed And Cambria + Those Damn Crows

Saturday 14 November

📍 bp pulse LIVE – Birmingham

Tuesday 17 November

📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Thursday 19 November

📍 London

Friday 20 November

📍 AO Arena – Manchester

Read that bill again.

Shinedown. Coheed And Cambria. Those Damn Crows.

That’s basically an entire mini-festival arriving indoors.

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🎸 Royal Blood

Tuesday 24 November

📍 The Prospect Building – Bristol

Wednesday 25 November

📍 O2 City Hall – Newcastle

Two blokes.

Bass.

Drums.

Enough noise to convince you there must secretly be another seven musicians hiding behind the amplifiers.

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🖤 The Pretty Reckless – Dear God Tour

The Pretty Reckless + YONAKA + The Cruel Knives

Thursday 26 November

📍 The Prospect Building – Bristol

Friday 27 November

📍 Civic Hall – Wolverhampton

Sunday 29 November

📍 O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester

Taylor Momsen and The Pretty Reckless return with the Dear God Tour, backed by one of the strongest rock support packages of the winter.

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🖤 Saturday 28 November

Placebo – 30th Anniversary Tour

📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Three decades of Placebo.

Yes.

We are all ancient now.

Moving swiftly on.

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🎄 December 2026

Christmas shopping?

Sorry.

Spent it all on gig tickets.

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🖤 Tuesday 1 December

The Pretty Reckless

The Pretty Reckless + YONAKA + The Cruel Knives
📍 O2 Academy Brixton – London

The Dear God tour reaches Brixton for one enormous London night.

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🎸 Thursday 3 December

Royal Blood

📍 Olympia – London

Royal Blood’s winter headline run reaches Olympia.

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🖤 Friday 4 December

Placebo

📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

🖤 Saturday 5 December

Placebo

📍 OVO Arena Wembley – London

Placebo celebrate 30 years with a tour concentrating heavily on material from Placebo and Without You I’m Nothing.

Anyone who spent the late ’90s wearing eyeliner and staring dramatically at ceilings has been summoned.

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💀 Polyphia – December 2026

Polyphia + Perturbator + RJ Pasin

Friday 11 December

📍 O2 Academy – Birmingham

Saturday 12 December

📍 Manchester Academy – Manchester

Tuesday 15 December

📍 O2 Academy – Leeds

Wednesday 16 December

📍 O2 Academy Brixton – London

For anyone who likes guitars being played in ways that make ordinary humans question whether they’ve been practising incorrectly for their entire lives.

Polyphia are back.

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✨ The Darkness

Saturday 12 December

📍 Utilita Arena – Birmingham

Tuesday 15 December

📍 Brighton Centre – Brighton

Wednesday 16 December

📍 The O2 – London

Big riffs.

Big choruses.

Ridiculous falsetto.

Probably several costumes that would cause problems going through airport security.

The Darkness at Christmas just feels right.

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🤘 2027 – England Is Already Looking Ridiculous

You know how January is supposed to be quiet?

Apparently nobody told the touring industry.

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❄️ January 2027

🖤 Black Veil Brides – Vindicatour

Sunday 10 January

📍 O2 City Hall – Newcastle

Monday 11 January

📍 O2 Academy – Leeds

Tuesday 12 January

📍 The Prospect Building – Bristol

Thursday 14 January

📍 O2 Academy – Birmingham

Friday 15 January

📍 O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester

Saturday 16 January

📍 O2 Academy Brixton – London

Black Veil Brides basically perform a grand tour of England in a week.

Goth eyeliner stocks may become dangerously low.

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💀 Five Finger Death Punch – 20th Anniversary Tour

Five Finger Death Punch + Lamb Of God + Bleed From Within

Stop.

Read that again.

Saturday 16 January

📍 AO Arena – Manchester

Friday 22 January

📍 bp pulse LIVE – Birmingham

Saturday 23 January

📍 The O2 – London

Five Finger Death Punch. Lamb Of God. Bleed From Within.

That is less a concert and more a controlled demolition exercise.

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⚡ Electric Callboy – TANZNEID World Tour

Saturday 23 January

📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

Sunday 24 January

📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Tuesday 26 January

📍 Bournemouth International Centre – Bournemouth

Metalcore.

Techno.

Confetti.

Dance routines.

Breakdowns.

Absolutely no dignity whatsoever.

Electric Callboy are back.

And we wouldn’t want them any other way.

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💀 February 2027

Friday 5 February

Theory Of A Deadman

📍 Rock City – Nottingham

The Canadian rockers bring The Barricade Tour to the legendary Nottingham venue.

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🌧️ March 2027

March has one tour that immediately jumps off the page.

💀 MEGADETH

Breakout: Hibernation Of The Nations Europe Tour

Megadeth + Black Label Society + Testament

That isn’t a support bill.

That’s a metal history lesson.

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Thursday 11 March

📍 OVO Arena Wembley – London

Friday 12 March

📍 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

Saturday 13 March

📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

Thursday 18 March

📍 bp pulse LIVE – Birmingham

Friday 19 March

📍 First Direct Arena – Leeds

Megadeth.

Zakk Wylde.

Testament.

Five English arena dates.

There will be enough riffs generated during this tour to power the National Grid.

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🔥 March 2027

Sleeping With Sirens

The An Ending In Itself Tour arrives in the UK with Arm’s Length and Like Roses joining the run.

Emo fringe owners assemble.

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🥁 March 2027

Rush

Rush return to UK stages during March 2027 for their first tour in more than a decade, celebrating their music while paying tribute to the legacy of Neil Peart.

There are certain tours you know people will be talking about for years.

This already feels like one of them.

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🌼 April & May 2027

🎸 Supergrass

Friday 30 April

📍 O2 Academy – Leeds

Saturday 1 May

📍 Manchester Academy – Manchester

Sunday 2 May

📍 Manchester Academy – Manchester

Tuesday 4 May

📍 Rock City – Nottingham

Wednesday 5 May

📍 O2 Academy – Birmingham

Friday 7 May

📍 O2 Forum Kentish Town – London

Supergrass doing proper venue dates around England?

Lovely stuff.

Alright is going to trigger some absolutely heroic dad dancing.

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🎸 Weezer – The Gathering World Tour

With Taking Back Sunday

Right.

Now you’re just showing off.

Friday 14 May

📍 Utilita Arena – Newcastle

Saturday 15 May

📍 Co-op Live – Manchester

Monday 17 May

📍 First Direct Arena – Leeds

Friday 21 May

📍 Utilita Arena – Birmingham

Saturday 22 May

📍 Alexandra Palace – London

Weezer and Taking Back Sunday together is basically someone turning a 2000s alternative-rock playlist into an arena tour.

We’re not complaining.

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☀️ June 2027

🤘 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2027

📍 Donington Park – Derbyshire
📅 June 2027

The sacred ground calls again.

Donington.

Camping chairs.

Questionable breakfasts.

Band shirts.

Dust.

Mud.

The smell of somebody cooking bacon at 7am.

And enough riffs to shake the East Midlands.

Download Festival returns to Donington in June 2027, with camping activity beginning from 9 June and the main festival weekend running around the traditional mid-June slot.

For rock and metal fans, Donington remains pilgrimage territory.

See you in the village.

Probably carrying a crate.

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🏟️ England’s Rock & Metal Map Is Massive

One thing becomes obvious when you look through the calendar:

This isn’t just London.

Yes, London gets an absurd number of tours.

But England’s rock and metal circuit stretches everywhere.

We’ve got major shows happening in:

• London
• Manchester
• Birmingham
• Nottingham
• Leeds
• Newcastle
• Bristol
• Southampton
• Bournemouth
• Brighton
• Wolverhampton
• Hull
• Derbyshire
• And plenty more

Some nights involve 20,000 people inside an arena.

Others involve 200 people inside a room with a ceiling approximately six inches above the drummer’s head.

Both matter.

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🍺 Support The Grassroots

As always, The Riff Report will shout about the enormous tours.

They’re massive.

They’re exciting.

They’re spectacular.

But England’s grassroots circuit is where rock music actually breathes.

Venues such as Rock City, Thekla, The 1865, The Joiners, O2 Academy venues, independent clubs, pubs and hundreds of smaller rooms provide the stages where tomorrow’s festival bands are learning how to become terrifyingly good.

Go and see the band you’ve never heard of.

Watch the support act.

Buy the shirt.

Buy physical music.

Grab a pint if you fancy one.

Tell your mates.

Post about them.

That little bit of support matters far more than people sometimes realise.

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📣 Got An English Gig We’ve Missed?

This page is designed to grow.

Tours are announced constantly and grassroots calendars can change virtually every day.

So if you’re a:

• Band
• Artist
• Venue
• Promoter
• PR company
• Record label
• Festival organiser
• Photographer
• Or an eagle-eyed gig addict

…and you’ve spotted an English rock, metal, punk or alternative show that belongs here, give The Riff Report a shout.

Unsigned and grassroots bands are especially welcome.

You don’t need an arena.

You don’t need pyro.

You don’t need 500,000 Spotify listeners.

If you’re making good noise, we’re interested.

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⚠️ Check Before Travelling

As always, gig information can change.

Dates move.

Venues change.

Support acts disappear.

Extra dates get announced.

Tours occasionally get postponed.

Always check with the official artist, promoter, ticket provider or venue before booking expensive travel or setting off.

Because arriving in Manchester with three mates, a hotel reservation and no gig would be what professionals call:

A bit of a bugger.

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🤘 England Is Going To Be Loud

From Spiritbox kicking off autumn 2026 to Megadeth steamrolling through March and Download returning to Donington next summer, the English rock and metal calendar is absolutely stacked.

And we’re nowhere near finished yet.

More tours will come.

More bands will announce dates.

More festivals will drop line-ups.

More support acts will suddenly make an already good ticket completely irresistible.

And naturally…

We’ll probably buy far too many tickets.

Again.

So gather the gig crew.

Check the trains.

Charge the phone.

Pack the earplugs.

Protect the bank balance as best you can.

And we’ll see you down the front.

KEEP LIVE MUSIC LOUD. 🤘🔥

The Riff Report

Rock. Metal. Festivals. Gigs. Chaos.

Proudly independent. Proudly Welsh. Always loud. 🐉